When Students Protest

Universities in the Global South

Judith Bessant, Analicia Mejia Mesinas, Sarah Pickard

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2021
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781786611840
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Civics & Citizenship
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Student political action has been a major and recurring feature of politics across the globe through the past century. Students have been involved in a full range of public issues, from anti-colonial movements, anti-war campaigns, civil rights and pro-democracy movements to campaigns against neoliberal policies, austerity, racism, misogyny and calls for climate change action. Yet student actions are frequently dismissed by political elites and others as 'adolescent mischief' or manipulation of young people by duplicitous adults. This occurs even as many working in governments, traditional media and educational organisations attempt to suppress student movements. Much of mainstream scholarly work has also deemed student politics as undeserving of intellectual attention. These three edited volumes of books help set the record straight.

Written by scholars and activists from around the world, When Students Protest: Universities in the Global South is the second in a three-volume study that explores university student politics in the global south. The authors document and analyse how generations of university and college students in the Global South responded to issues such as problems in their own universities as well as standing up against violent military dictatorships, human rights abuses, oppressive poverty, foreign interference and the effects of neoliberal austerity regimes. Contributors to this this volume also reveal repeated moves by states and institutions to stigmatise and suppress student political action while highlighting how those students developed new kinds of political action further demonstrating why this rich and complex global phenomena is worthy of more attention.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Student Protest in the Global South: Introductory Essay
• 2 Breaking Routines toward Conservatism? The 2013 Protests in Brazil
• 3 The Student Movement in Chile: Normalizing Protest and Opening Up Political Space
• 4 Defending Education: Student Resistance to the Educational National Assessment System in Chile
• 5 Student Political Action and Activism in Contemporary Nigeria
• 6 (No) Right to Protest? Student Activism at Public Universities in India in the Modi Era
• 7 “They’ve Completely Criminalized Us”: Interrogating Student Activism in the Tamil Diaspora
• 8 #yosoy132: Indignation, Information, and Pro-Democracy Activism in Mexico, 2011–2012
• Index
• About the Contributors