Rising Powers, People Rising (eBook, ePUB)

Neoliberalization and its Discontents in the BRICS Countries
Redaktion: Nilsen, Alf Gunvald; Holdt, Karl von

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Rising Powers, People Rising is a pathbreaking volume in which leading international scholars discuss the emerging political economy of development in the BRICS countries centred on neo-liberalization, precarity, and popular struggles.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 126
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000376036
• Artikelnr.: 61089612

Autorenporträt

Alf Gunvald Nilsen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Pretoria. His research focuses on the political economy of democracy and development in the Global South. His most recent books are Adivasis and the State: Subalternity and Citizenship in India's Bhil Heartland (2018) and Indian Democracy: Origins, Trajectories, Contestations (2019).

Karl von Holdt is Professor in the Society, Work and Politics Institute, University of the Witwatersrand. Publications include Transition from Below: Forging Trade Unionism and Workplace Change in South Africa; Conversations with Bourdieu: The Johannesburg Moment (with Michael Burawoy); and Beyond the Apartheid Workplace: Studies in Transition, co-edited with Edward Webster, as well as numerous articles. His research interests centre on movements, democracy, corruption, and violence.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Rising powers, people rising: neo-liberalization and its discontents in the BRICS countries



Alf Gunvald Nilsen and Karl von Holdt



1. China's precariats



Ching Kwan Lee



2. Social mobilizations and the question of social justice in contemporary Russia



Karine Clement



3. Mapping movement landscapes in South Africa



Karl von Boldt and Prishani Naidoo



4. Uncovering a politics of livelihoods: analysing displacement and contention in contemporary India



Gayatri A. Menon and Aparna Sundar



5. A precarious hegemony: neoliberalism, social struggles, and the end of Lulismo in Brazil



Ruy Braga and Sean Purdy



6. Neo-development of underdevelopment: Brazil and the political economy of South American integration under the Workers' Party



Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos