Against the background of the global economic crisis
since 2007/2008 and increasing inequality across the world, we have experienced
widespread, large-scale industrial action throughout the Global South,
including in countries such as China, Brazil, India and South Africa, which had
been hailed as the new growth engines of the global political economy as part
of the so-called BRICS. In this blog post, I will introduce a new special issue
of the journal Globalizations, dedicated to unravelling the underlying
dynamics of these moments of contestation.