Author: Tommaso Vitale Date: To: ML movimenti Bicocca Subject: [movimenti.bicocca] Fwd: Book notice: Social Movements in the
Global South. Dispossession, Development and Resistance
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> Da: Laurence Cox <Laurence.Cox@???>
> Data: 31 marzo 2011 18:56:14 GMT+02:00
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> Oggetto: Book notice: Social Movements in the Global South.
> Dispossession, Development and Resistance
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> Social Movements in the Global South. Dispossession, Development and
> Resistance
> Edited by Sara C. Motta and Alf Gunvald Nilsen
> Palgrave Macmillan "Rethinking international development" series
>
> The popular classes of the global South are up in arms. From Soweto
> to Buenos Aires to Bhopal, social movements are making demands for
> social justice and human dignity against the multiple processes of
> dispossession that are the hallmark of neoliberalism. Through
> practices of resistance, these movements transform the direction and
> meaning of postcolonial development. Popular struggles in the global
> South suggest the need for the development of new and politically
> enabling categories of analysis as well as new ways of understanding
> contemporary social movements in the global South. This book brings
> together theoretically informed and empirically grounded
> contributions that interrogate the ways in which social movements in
> Africa, South Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East politicize
> development in an age of neoliberal hegemony.
>
> Contents
> 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
>
>
> Authors
> SARA C. MOTTA Lecturer in Latin American and Comparative Politics at
> the School of Politics and International Relations, University of
> Nottingham, UK. Her research focus is the politics of subaltern
> resistance, with particular reference to Latin America.
>
> ALF GUNVALD NILSEN Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of
> Sociology, University of Bergen, Norway. His work revolves around
> social movement theory and research, critical development research,
> and Marxist approaches to capitalist development.
>
>
> Sample chapter
> Social movements and / in the postcolonial: dispossession,
> development and resistance in the global South; Sara C. Motta & Alf
> Gunvald Nilsen
> http://www.palgrave.com/PDFs/9780230243491.Pdf >
> Department of Sociology
> National University of Ireland Maynooth
> Co. Kildare, Republic of Ireland
>
> Interface: a journal for and about social movements < http://www.interfacejournal.net > >
> MA in community education, equality and social activism < http://ceesa-ma.blogspot.com > >
>
> Ireland's new religious movements book < http://nrmireland.blogspot.com/2011/02/irelands-new-religious-movements-book.html > >
> Beyond the crisis: global justice, equality, social movements
> seminar < http://ceesa-ma.blogspot.com/2011/03/beyond-crisis-global-justice-equality.html > >
>
> "...cercare e saper riconoscere chi e cosa, in mezzo all'inferno,
> non e' inferno, e farlo durare, e dargli spazio."
