| Description |
1 online resource (291 p.) |
| Series |
Rethinking International Development series |
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Rethinking International Development series
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| Note |
Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Preface; Notes on Contributors; 1 Social Movements and/in the Postcolonial: Dispossession, Development and Resistance in the Global South; Part I: Struggles Against Dispossession: Social Movements and the State in the Global South; 2 Labour Protest and Hegemony in Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula; 3 Choice From No Choice; Rights for the Left? The State, Law and the Struggle Against Prepayment Water Meters in South Africa; 4 Neoliberalism and Counter-Hegemony in the Global South: Reimagining the State |
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5 'Not Suspended in Mid-Air': Critical Reflections on Subaltern Encounters with the Indian StatePart II: Epistemologies of Resistance: Social Movements, Collective Learning and the Politics of Knowledge; 6 The University and the Landless Movement in Brazil: The Experience of Collective Knowledge Construction through Educational Projects in Rural Areas; 7 Generating Theory in the Bhopal Survivors' Movement; 8 Notes Towards Prefigurative Epistemologies; 9 Beyond Differences? Exploring Methodological Dilemmas of Activist Research in the Global South |
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Part III: Against Neoliberalism and Beyond Developmentalism? Social Movements and the Postcolonial Development Project10 Three Actors, Two Geographies, One Philosophy: The Straightjacket of Social Movements; 11 Fuelling the Flames of Dignity: From Rupture to Revolution in Argentina; Index |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subject |
Neoliberalism -- Developing countries. |
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Social movements -- Developing countries. |
| Added Author |
Nilsen, Alf Gunvald.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Motta, Sara C. Social Movements in the Global South : Dispossession, Development and Resistance Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan,c2011 9780230243491 |
| ISBN |
9780230302044 66 (NL) |
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