Social Movements in the Global South: Dispossession, Development and Resistance

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Social Movements and/in the Postcolonial: Dispossession, Development and Resistance in the Global South....Pages 1-31
Front Matter....Pages 33-33
Labour Protest and Hegemony in Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula....Pages 35-58
Choice From No Choice; Rights for the Left? The State, Law and the Struggle Against Prepayment Water Meters in South Africa....Pages 59-82
Neoliberalism and Counter-Hegemony in the Global South: Reimagining the State....Pages 83-103
‘Not Suspended in Mid-Air’: Critical Reflections on Subaltern Encounters with the Indian State....Pages 104-127
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
The University and the Landless Movement in Brazil: The Experience of Collective Knowledge Construction through Educational Projects in Rural Areas....Pages 131-149
Generating Theory in the Bhopal Survivors’ Movement....Pages 150-177
Notes Towards Prefigurative Epistemologies....Pages 178-199
Beyond Differences? Exploring Methodological Dilemmas of Activist Research in the Global South....Pages 200-223
Front Matter....Pages 225-225
Three Actors, Two Geographies, One Philosophy: The Straightjacket of Social Movements....Pages 227-249
Fuelling the Flames of Dignity: From Rupture to Revolution in Argentina....Pages 250-274
Back Matter....Pages 275-278