Understanding Southern Social Movements (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Fadaee, Simin

• Format: PDF

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 eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317484097
• Artikelnr.: 44777782

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