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Social movements in the global south: dispossession, development and resistance/ edited by Sara C. Motta, Alf Gunvald Nilsen.

Contributor(s): Motta, Sara C., ed | Nilsen, Alf Gunvald, edMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011Description: xi, 278 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780230243491 (hardback)Subject(s): Social movements -- Developing countries | Neoliberalism -- Developing countriesDDC classification: 303.484091724

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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	303.484091724 MOT/S (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P22248

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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