Conceptualizing Resistance to Globalization

Abstract

Assessments of resistance to globalization are necessarily influenced by the manner in which one conceptualizes these processes. Too often, both terms are used promiscuously, the former as a buzzword or catchall and the latter in many different ways, sometimes as a synonym for challenges, protests, intransigence or even evasions. Hence, we seek to juxtapose alternative explanations of resistance and highlight the complexities of conceptualizing it.