Citizenship and social movements : perspectives from the global South /

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Debates over social movements have suffered from a predominate focus on North America and western Europe, often neglecting the significance of collective action in the global South. Citizenship and Social Movements seeks to partially redress this imbalance with case studies from Brazil, India, Bangl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Thompson, Lisa, Tapscott, Chris
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : New York : Zed ; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Colección:Claiming citizenship.
Temas:
Social movements > Case studies.
Citizenship > Case studies.
Mouvements sociaux > Études de cas.
Political activism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Citizenship.
Social movements.
Soziale Bewegung
Protest
Entwicklungsländer
Schwellenländer
Case studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • About the editors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and acronyms; Foreword; 1
  • Introduction: mobilization and social movements in the South
  • the challenges of inclusive governance; PART ONE
  • Socio-economic rights and social movements; 2
  • Social movements and rights claims: the case of action groups in the Niger Delta; 3
  • Why do garment workers in Bangladesh fail to mobilize?; 4
  • Mobilization through litigation: claiming health rights on asbestos issues in South Africa; PART TWO
  • Social movements and global development discourses.

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