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dispossession, development and resistance

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Social movements in the global south

dispossession, development and resistance

"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"--

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Palgrave Macmillan
Language
English
Pages
278

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Cover of: Social Movements in the Global South
Social Movements in the Global South
2011, Palgrave Macmillan
in English
Cover of: Social movements in the global south
Social movements in the global south: dispossession, development and resistance
2011, Palgrave Macmillan
in English

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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note:
PART I: STRUGGLES OVER DISPOSSESSION: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND THE STATE IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
Labour Protest and Hegemony in Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula; J.Chalcraft
Choice from No Choice; Rights for the Left? The State, Law and the Struggle against Prepayment Water Meters in South Africa; J.Dugard
Neo-Liberalism and Counter-Hegemony in the Global South: Re-Imagining the State; M.Boden
'Not Suspended in Mid-Air': Critical Reflections on Subaltern Encounters with the Indian State; A.G.Nilsen
PART II: EPISTEMOLOGIES OF RESISTANCE: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, COLLECTIVE LEARNING, AND THE POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE
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
Generating Theory in the Bhopal Survivors' Movement; S.Mukherjee, E.Scandrett, T. Sen &D.Shah
Notes Towards Prefigurative Epistemologies; S.C.Motta
Beyond Differences? Exploring Methodological Dilemmas of Activist Research in the Global South; B.Otto&P.Terhorst
PART III: AGAINST NEOLIBERALISM AND BEYOND DEVELOPMENTALISM? SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND THE POSTCOLONIAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
Three Actors, Two Geographies, One Philosophy: The Straightjacket of Social Movements; R.D'Souza
Fueling the Flames of Dignity: From Rupture To Revolution In Argentina; M.Sitrin.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York
Series
Rethinking international development series

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
303.48/4091724
Library of Congress
HN980 .S587 2011, JZ2-6530HD87-HD87.55

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 278 p. :
Number of pages
278

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24917474M
Internet Archive
socialmovementsg00nils
ISBN 13
9780230243491
LCCN
2011001650
OCLC/WorldCat
670481161

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