Citizenship and social movements
Subtitle: perspectives from the global South
By: Lisa Thompson and Chris Tapscott, editors
Series: Claiming citizenship
Publisher: Zed; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781848133884; 9781848133891; 9781848133907
Subjects: Case studies; Citizenship; Social movements
Description: Debates over social movements have suffered from a predominate focus on North America and western Europe, often neglecting the significance of collective action in the global South. Citizenship and Social Movements seeks to partially redress this imbalance with case studies from Brazil, India, Bangladesh, Mexico, South Africa and Nigeria.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: mobilization and social movements in the south; title: the challenges of inclusive governance / Lisa Thompson and Chris Tapscott; title: Social movements and rights claims: the case of action groups in the Niger Delta / Echosa E. Osaghae; title: Why do garment workers in Bangladesh fail to mobilize? / Simeen Mahmud; title: Mobilization through litigation: claiming health rights on asbestos issues in South Africa / Nardi Simpson and Linda Waldman; title: Water and rights: state management in South Africa and India / Lyla Mehta, Lisa Thompson and Ndodana Nleya; title: Environmental activism in Brazil: the rise of a social movement / Angela Alonso, Valeriano Costa and Débora Maciel; title: The struggle towards rights and communitarian citizenship: the Zapatista movement in Mexico / Carlos Cortez Ruiz; title: Participation, inclusion and development under conditions of social mobilization / Vera Schattan Coelho and Arilson Favareto; title: Popular mobilization, party dominance and participatory governance in South Africa / Laurence Piper and Lubna Nadvi; title: Contesting development, reinventing democracy grassroots social movements in India / Rajita Mohanty; title: Social mobilization in Cape Town: a tale of two communities / Chris Tapscott.