1st Edition

Social Movements Transformative Shifts and Turning Points

Edited By Savyasaachi, Ravi Kumar Copyright 2014
    388 Pages
    by Routledge India

    388 Pages
    by Routledge India

    This volume attempts to show the emerging contours oftransformative 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 divers

    Acknowledgements. Introduction: Emerging Contours of a Transformative Act Savyasaachi and Ravi Kumar 1. New Anti-Capitalist Movements: Beyond the Questions of Taking Power John Holloway 2. From the Working-Class Movement to the New Social Movements Gunnar Olofsson 3. Some Intellectual Genealogies for the Concept of Everyday Resistance K. Sivaramakrishnan 4. Carnival of Money: Politics of Dissent in an Era of Globalizing Finance Marieke de Goede 5. Globalization and New Politics of Micro-Movements D. L. Sheth 6. Neoliberalism and Primitive Accumulation in India: The Need to Go Beyond Capital Pratyush Chandra and Deepankar Basu 7. What is New in the New Social Movements Maitrayee Chaudhuri 8. Anti-Statism and Difference Feminism in International Social Movements Jane Mansbridge 9. Deep Currents Rising: Some Notes on the Global Challenge to Capitalism Harry Cleaver 10. Social Movements, Autonomy and Hope: Notes on the Zapatistas Revolution Ana Cecilia Dinerstein 11. The Privatization of Public Interest: Theorizing NGO Discourse in a Neoliberal Era Sangeeta Kamat 12. Other Worlds are (Already) Possible: Self-Organization, Complexity and Post-Capitalist Cultures Arturo Escobar 13. New Social Movements: The Role of Legal Opportunity Christopher J. Hilson 14. Language of Political Socialization: Language of Resistance Janette Habashi 15. Reshaping Social Movement Media for a New Millennium Chris Atton. About the Editors. Notes on Contributors. Index

    Biography

    Savyasaachi is Professor, Department of Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.

    Ravi Kumar is Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, South Asian University, New Delhi.