Social Movements in the Global South: Dispossession, Development and Resistance (Rethinking International Development series)

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-- 1. Social Movements And/in The Postcolonial: Dispossession, Development And Resistance In The Global South / Sara C. Motta And Alf Gunvald Nilsen -- Part I. Struggles Against Dispossion: Social Movements And The State In The Global South: 2. Labour Protest And Hegemony In Egypt And The Arabian Peninsula / John Chalcraft; 3. Choice From No Choice: Rights For The Left? The State, Law And The Struggle Against Prepayment Water Meters In South Africa / Jackie Dugard; 4. Neoliberalism And Counter-hegemony In The Global South: Reimagining The State / Mark Boden; 5. 'not Suspended In Mid-air': Critical Reflections On Subaltern Encounters With The Indian State / Alf Gunvald Nilsen -- Part Ii. Epistemologies Of Resisteance: 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 / Sandra Maria Gadelha De Carvalho And José Ernandi Mendes; 7. Generating Theory In The Bhopal Survivors' Movement / Suroopa Mukherjee, Eurig Scandrett, Tarunima Sen And Dharmesh Shah; 8. Notes Towards Prefigurative Epistemologies / Sara C. Motta; 9. Beyond Differences? Exploring Methodological Dilemmas Of Activist Research In The Global South / Birke Otto And Philipp Terhorst -- Part Iii. Against Neoliberalism And Beyond Developmentalism? Social Movements And The Postcolonial Development Project : 10. Three Actors, Two Geographies, One Philosophy: The Straightjacket Of Social Movements / Radha D'souza; 11. Fueling The Flames Of Dignity: From Rupture To Revolution In Argentina / Marina Sitrin. Edited By Sara C. Motta, Alf Gunvald Nilsen. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 8 Notes on Contributors......Page 9 1 Social Movements and/in the Postcolonial: Dispossession, Development and Resistance in the Global South......Page 14 Part I: Struggles Against Dispossession: Social Movements and the State in the Global South......Page 46 2 Labour Protest and Hegemony in Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula......Page 48 3 Choice From No Choice; Rights for the Left? The State, Law and the Struggle Against Prepayment Water Meters in South Africa......Page 72 4 Neoliberalism and Counter-Hegemony in the Global South: Reimagining the State......Page 96 5 ‘Not Suspended in Mid-Air’: Critical Reflections on Subaltern Encounters with the Indian State......Page 117 Part II: Epistemologies of Resistance: Social Movements, Collective Learning and the Politics of Knowledge......Page 142 6 The University and the Landless Movement in Brazil: The Experience of Collective Knowledge Construction through Educational Projects in Rural Areas......Page 144 7 Generating Theory in the Bhopal Survivors’ Movement......Page 163 8 Notes Towards Prefigurative Epistemologies......Page 191 9 Beyond Differences? Exploring Methodological Dilemmas of Activist Research in the Global South......Page 213 Part III: Against Neoliberalism and Beyond Developmentalism? Social Movements and the Postcolonial Development Project......Page 238 10 Three Actors, Two Geographies, One Philosophy: The Straightjacket of Social Movements......Page 240 11 Fuelling the Flames of Dignity: From Rupture to Revolution in Argentina......Page 263 Index......Page 288 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. 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. 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