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Social Movements in the Global South

Dispossession, Development and Resistance

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Sara C. Motta

    1. University of Nottingham, UK

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  2. Alf Gunvald Nilsen

    1. Department of Sociology, University of Bergen, Norway

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Part of the book series: Rethinking International Development series (RID)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Social Movements and/in the Postcolonial: Dispossession, Development and Resistance in the Global South

    1. Social Movements and/in the Postcolonial: Dispossession, Development and Resistance in the Global South

      • Sara C. Motta, Alf Gunvald Nilsen
      Pages 1-31

  4. Epistemologies of Resistance: Social Movements, Collective Learning and the Politics of Knowledge

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129
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    2. The University and the Landless Movement in Brazil: The Experience of Collective Knowledge Construction through Educational Projects in Rural Areas

      • Sandra Maria, Gadelha de Carvalho, José Ernandi Mendes
      Pages 131-149

    3. Generating Theory in the Bhopal Survivors’ Movement

      • Suroopa Mukherjee, Eurig Scandrett, Tarunima Sen, Dharmesh Shah
      Pages 150-177

    4. Notes Towards Prefigurative Epistemologies

      • Sara C. Motta
      Pages 178-199

    5. Beyond Differences? Exploring Methodological Dilemmas of Activist Research in the Global South

      • Birke Otto, Philipp Terhorst
      Pages 200-223

  5. Against Neoliberalism and Beyond Developmentalism? Social Movements and the Postcolonial Development Project

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 225-225
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    2. Three Actors, Two Geographies, One Philosophy: The Straightjacket of Social Movements

      • Radha D’Souza
      Pages 227-249

    3. Fuelling the Flames of Dignity: From Rupture to Revolution in Argentina

      • Marina Sitrin
      Pages 250-274

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 275-278
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About this book

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.

Reviews

'Ultimately, then, this book stands our as an important resource for movement-orientated scholars seeking to learn more about, and contribute to, struggles against the post-colonial, neoliberal TINA consensus.' - Social Movement Studies

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Nottingham, UK

    Sara C. Motta

  • Department of Sociology, University of Bergen, Norway

    Alf Gunvald Nilsen

About the editors

JOHN CHALCRAFT is Reader in the History and Politics of Empire/Imperialism in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. RADHA D'SOUZA is Reader in Law at the School of Law, University of Westminster in London, UK. JACKIE DUGARD is Executive Director of the Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI). SANDRA MARIA GADELHA DE CARVALHO is an Associate Professor at the State University of Ceará (UECE), Brazil. JOSÉ ERNANDI MENDES is an Associate Professor at the State University of Ceará (UECE), Brazil. SUROOPA MUKHERJEE teaches literature at Delhi University, India. BIRKE OTTO is a PhD student at the Essex Business School, University of Essex, UK. EURIG SCANDRETT is Lecturer in Sociology at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK. MARINA SITRIN is a PhD candidate in Global Sociology at Stony Brook University, USA. PHILIPP TERHORST is research-activist of transnational networks and local water movements.

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