Understanding Southern Social Movements

Herausgeber: Fadaee, Simin

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection analyses recent events and developments in Southern social movements, introducing well-researched case studies from fifteen countries of the global South. Arranged in two parts, the volume examines firstly movements which focus on rights and quality of life issues, and secondly the post-2011 wave of uprisings which started with Tunisian and Egyptian movements.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781138898004
• ISBN-10: 1138898007
• Artikelnr.: 43674976

Autorenporträt

Simin Fadaee is Assistant Professor of Society and Transformation in Asia and Africa at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Introduction: genesis of Social Movement Theory and Southern
Movements Part I: The 'New' Social Movements of the South 1. Rethinking
Southern Environmentalism: Iranian Environmental Movement and its Premises
2. Claiming 'Ecological Property Rights': Movements against Hydropower
Projects in Maharashtra (India), 1960-2004 3. The Feminist Movement and
Counter Movement in Morocco 4. Being In-Between: The Women's Rights
Movement in Kenya 5. The Technocratic Turn of the Mexican Human Rights
Movement: From the Administration of Justice to the Management of Suffering
6. Gender and Sexual Diversity Organizing in Africa Part II: The 'New' Wave
of Southern Movements 7. Fooled by the Folol?: How Antagonisms and
Misrecognitions within Social Currents Stunted the Egyptian Revolution 8.
Social Movements, Rebels and Free-riders: The Yemeni Uprising of 2011 9.
Reading Gezi Protests as a "moment" 10. The Long June: 2013 mobilizations
and the future of social movements in Brazil 11. The Student Movement in
Chile and the Neo Liberal Agenda in Crisis 12. Social Movements, State
Power and Party Networks in the Kingdom of Thailand