The book investigates global crises at the nexus between social movements and crisis management. It produces grounded accounts of movement and management in today's state of permanent crisis, while opening up new theoretical perspectives on current social life.

This book was published as a special issue of Globalizations.

1. Introduction: Crisis, Movement and Management in Contemporary Globalisations James Goodman and Jonathan Paul Marshall Section 1 - Management 2. The Hydra Paradox: Global Disaster Management in a World of Crises Bob Hodge 3. Communication Failure and the Financial Crisis Jonathan Paul Marshall 4. The Rigidity Trap in Global Resilience: Neoliberalisation Through Principles, Standards, and Benchmarks Peter Rogers 5. 'Who is Grace?': Affect, Work, and Gender in Bangalore Call Centres Devleena Ghosh 6. The 'Green Economy': Class Hegemony and Counter-Hegemony James Goodman and Ariel Salleh Section 2 - Movement 7. Occupy Cosmopolitanism: Ideological Transversalization in the Age of Global Economic Uncertainties S. A. Hamed Hosseini 8. Crisis Is Where We Live: Environmental Justice for the Anthropocene Donna Houston 9. Global Justice Organising in Australia: Crisis and Realignment after 9/11 Elizabeth Humphrys 10. Reinscribing the City: Art, Occupation and Citizen Journalism in Hong Kong Francesca da Rimini 11. Religious Globalisms in the Post-Secular Age Erin K. Wilson and Manfred B. Steger

James Goodman researches social movements and globalization with a focus on global justice and climate change. He is coauthor of Justice Globalism: Ideology, Crises, Policy (Sage 2013) Disorder and the Disinformation Society, and Climate Upsurge: An Ethnography of Climate Movement Politics (both Routledge 2013).

Jonathan Paul Marshall is an anthropologist who primarily focuses on issues of technology, society and disorder. He is author of Living on Cybermind: Categories, Communication and Control (Peter Lang) and co-author of Disorder and the Disinformation Society (Routledge 2013).