Most post-conflict reconciliatory exercises make it incumbent upon survivors to forgive, and seek closure as a demonstration of ‘moving on’. Various anthropologists have criticized reconciliation related forms ‘alternative justice’ extensively but within the framework maintaining social bonds rule law. In this introduction, I reflect critically on interdisciplinary scholarship reconciliation, a...

Neoliberalism is a notoriously contested term, and even among those who principally subscribe to it, which mostly its critics, fierce debates persist over nature, how study it properly—and whether still the appropriate conceptual armament understand contemporary world an arguably emerging “post-neoliberalism” (Davies & Gane, 2021). Not only controversial neoliberalism should be defined—a govern...

How are unions responding to change? Are they renewing? Drawing on the CRIMT International Colloquium on Union Renewal, this introductory paper presents the overarching themes in this special thematic issue of Labor Studies Journal. After a synoptic overview of the range of cases and methodological issues highlighted by the papers, three sets of issues are presented: the need to enhance basic u...

This paper examines one of the less-discussed modes of anti-globalization, relocalization or local autonomy. It describes a range of autonomous movements, summarizes their political economic ideas, and discusses some common social critiques raised in regard to local autonomy. Apologists for the costly side effects of the globalization process argue that integration into the global economy bring...