Dissenting Voices and Transformative Actions: Social Movements in a Globalizing World
Contents: Preface. Introduction. I. Social Movements and social transformation: Reflections on conceptual issues. 1. The Logic of the Alterglobal Movement/Benjamin Tejerina. 2. Counter-Globalist Movements and Post-Globalisms of the marginalized/James Goodman. 3. Global Justice as Identity: Mobilization for a Better world/Lauren Langman. 4. Globalization, social movements and social development: Emerging discourses/Gail Omvedt. 5. Social Movement, Conflict and Change: Towards a Theoretical Orientation/Partha Nath Mukherji. 6. Changing Trajectory of Social Movements in India: Towards a holistic analytical perspective/Debal K. Singha Roy. II. Social Movements, Globalization and transnational activisms. 7. Solidarity Across Borders: The Anti-Apartheid movement and global civil society/Hakan Thorn. 8. Hip Hop Movements: The Local Adaptation of a Global Culture/Daniel Kunzler. 9. Contesting Europe’s Borders: The self-organization of undocumented migrants in Borderlands/Helen Schwenken. 10. Social Movements and the Challenges of transnational coalition-building/Mark Herkenrath. 11. The Coalition of women for peace in Israeli society/Tova Benski. III. Globalization, Labour and Farmer’s Movements. 12. Trade Union Movement in India: A Critical View/Sharit K. Bhowmik. 13. Dynamics of Early Labour Mobilization: Bombay City, 1890-1919/Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay. 14. Farmers Against Globalizations: The role of Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha/M.N. Panini. IV. Globalization, State and New Identity. 15. Dynamic of Contention: Post- electoral Movement in Mexico/Sergio Tamayo. 16. Combating Historical Ethnic Stigmatization: BRASPOL in Brazil/Elzbieta Budakowska. 17. Students’ Protest and Activism in Sub-Sahara Africa/Leo Seilig. 18. Kshatriyahood to statehood: Voices of the Rajbansis of North Bengal/Swaraj Basu. V. Grassroot initiative in a globalized world. 19. Adivasi Sdocial Movement in Orissa: Development, marginalization and dispossession/Dip Kapoor and Tejwant Chana. 20. Mahila Panchayat: An Alternative Mode of Collective Action/Archana Prasad.
“The collection of essays examines the emerging patterns of social movements taking shape all over the world locally and also cutting across the geographical boundaries of the state and the nation globally. It not only critically analyses the conceptual underpinnings of the functional, symbolic interactional, Marxian, neo-Marxian, political process-resource mobilization, new social movement-identity, subaltern, Gandhian perspectives among others, but also delineates alternative viewpoints of social movement analysis. It focuses on the nature and forms of local resistance against global domination by pre-defined but rearticulated social categories like caste, race, tribe and ethnic groups and the emerging nature of the protest of women, farmers, students and migrants in a changing scenario citing social movements taking place in North and South America, Eastern and Western Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia.
Both in terms of intensive empiricism and theoretical depth it is a unique treasure of intellectual contribution on social movement studies. This collection would be of immense use to students, researchers, teachers of sociology, political science, economics, history, social psychology and development studies and also civil society activists, planners, executives and politicians dealing with the issues of social movement, conflicts, social developments, marginalization and social exclusion.” (jacket)
