TY - BOOK ID - 46320326 TI - New Localism : Living in the Here and Now PY - 2019 SN - 3030215792 3030215784 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Anti-globalization movement. KW - Alternative globalization movement KW - Anti-capitalist movement KW - Anti-corporate movement KW - Fair trade movement KW - Global justice movement KW - Protest movements KW - Globalization KW - Political science KW - Geography. KW - Environmental sciences. KW - Political Philosophy. KW - Economic Geography. KW - Education, general. KW - Environment, general. KW - Environmental science KW - Science KW - Cosmography KW - Earth sciences KW - World history KW - Political philosophy KW - Philosophy. KW - Political philosophy. KW - Economic geography. KW - Education. KW - Environment. KW - Children KW - Education, Primitive KW - Education of children KW - Human resource development KW - Instruction KW - Pedagogy KW - Schooling KW - Students KW - Youth KW - Civilization KW - Learning and scholarship KW - Mental discipline KW - Schools KW - Teaching KW - Training KW - Geography, Economic KW - World economics KW - Geography KW - Commercial geography KW - Education KW - Balance of nature KW - Biology KW - Bionomics KW - Ecological processes KW - Ecological science KW - Ecological sciences KW - Environment KW - Environmental biology KW - Oecology KW - Environmental sciences KW - Population biology KW - Ecology KW - Environmental Sciences. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46320326 AB - This book examines “New Localism' – exploring how communities have turned towards more local concerns: my street, my town, my state, as an expression of dissatisfaction with globalization. It details the ideas that have created a political force that academics have often misunderstood and provides a template for further investigation with a strong focus on how to harness the motivations behind such changes for the benefit of individuals, communities and the more-than-human environment. The book discusses human progress, both individual and collective, in terms of the interactions of the local and the global, the specific and the universal, and the concrete and the abstract. It also considers how forms of social progress can be understood and reconfigured in the context of the rejection of certain aspects of liberal intelligentsia orthodoxy over recent years. Developing his arguments with specific reference to the evolving, political landscape, the author helps readers to understand major events such as the Trump presidency and the British vote to leave the EU from a fully semiotic perspective. He also explains how educational processes can use and respond to such events in ways that are locally grounded but nevertheless not at odds with more abstract formulations of progress such as sustainability and social justice. ER -