Social movements in the global south
Subtitle: dispossession, development and resistance
By: edited by Sara C. Motta, Alf Gunvald Nilsen
Series: Rethinking international development series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780230243491
Subjects: Social movements; Neoliberalism
Description: "Popular struggles in the global south suggest the need for the development of new and politically enabling categories of analysis, and new ways of understanding contemporary social movements. This book shows how social movements in Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East politicize development in an age of neoliberal hegemony"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: PART I: STRUGGLES OVER DISPOSSESSION: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND THE STATE IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH; title: Labour Protest and Hegemony in Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula; J.Chalcraft; title: Choice from No Choice; Rights for the Left? The State, Law and the Struggle against Prepayment Water Meters in South Africa; J.Dugard; title: Neo-Liberalism and Counter-Hegemony in the Global South: Re-Imagining the State; M.Boden; title: 'Not Suspended in Mid-Air': Critical Reflections on Subaltern Encounters with the Indian State; A.G.Nilsen; title: PART II: EPISTEMOLOGIES OF RESISTANCE: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, COLLECTIVE LEARNING, AND THE POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE; title: The University and the Landless Movement in Brazil: The Experience of Collective Knowledge Construction through Educational Projects in Rural Areas; S.M.Gadelha de Carvalho &J.Ernandi Mendes; title: Generating Theory in the Bhopal Survivors' Movement; S.Mukherjee, E.Scandrett, T. Sen &D.Shah; title: Notes Towards Prefigurative Epistemologies; S.C.Motta; title: Beyond Differences? Exploring Methodological Dilemmas of Activist Research in the Global South; B.Otto&P.Terhorst; title: PART III: AGAINST NEOLIBERALISM AND BEYOND DEVELOPMENTALISM? SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND THE POSTCOLONIAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT; title: Three Actors, Two Geographies, One Philosophy: The Straightjacket of Social Movements; R.D'Souza; title: Fueling the Flames of Dignity: From Rupture To Revolution In Argentina; M.Sitrin.