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- English
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About this book
This volume attempts to show the emerging contours of 'transformative action' in social movements across South Asia. It argues that these contours have been shaped by contestations over questions of equity, justice and well-being on the one hand, and the nature and scope of new and classical social movements on the other. This is manifest in diverse modes through people's struggles, protest and dissent.
The authors examine a variety of themes that have determined the course of the politics of transformative struggles. They critique neoliberalism, 'primitive' accumulation, money, class inequalities, as well as aspects of capitalālabour conflict. They highlight the contributions of movements by women, dalit and marginalized communities; peace movements; and environmental and agrarian struggles. The volume also appraises the role of internet in grassroots mobilizations and that of civil society networks in the making of participatory democracy. It further argues that the predicaments of cultural, ethnic, national, regional, and linguistic identities are not divorced from capitalālabour conflicts.
The book will serve as essential reading for students and scholars of sociology, social movements, politics, gender and feminist studies, labour studies, and the informed general reader.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The Emerging Contours of a Transformative Act
- 1. New Anti-Capitalist Movements: Beyond the Questions of Taking Power
- 2. From the Working-Class Movement to the New Social Movements
- 3. Some Intellectual Genealogies for the Concept of Everyday Resistance
- 4. Carnival of Money: Politics of Dissent in an Era of Globalizing Finance
- 5. Globalization and New Politics of Micro-Movements
- 6. Neoliberalism and Primitive Accumulation in India: The Need to Go Beyond Capital
- 7. What is āNewā in the New Social Movements? Rethinking Some Old Categories
- 8. Anti-Statism and Difference Feminism in International Social Movements
- 9. Deep Currents Rising: Some Notes on the Global Challenge to Capitalism
- 10. Social Movements, Autonomy and Hope: Notes on the Zapatistasā Revolution
- 11. The Privatization of Public Interest: Theorizing NGO Discourse in a Neoliberal Era
- 12. Other Worlds are (Already) Possible: Self-Organization, Complexity and Post-Capitalist Cultures
- 13. New Social Movements: The Role of Legal Opportunity
- 14. Language of Political Socialization: Language of Resistance
- 15. Reshaping Social Movement Media for a New Millennium
- About the Editors
- Notes on Contributors
- Index