Social Movements in the Global South Dispossession, Development and

Popular struggles in the global south suggest the need for the development of new and politically enabling categories of analysis, and new ways of understanding contemporary social movements. This book shows how social movements in Africa, South Asia, Lat

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Rethinking International Development Series Series Editors: Andy Sumner, Fellow of the Vulnerability and Poverty Research Team, Institute of Development Studies, UK. Ray Kiely, Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London, UK. Palgrave Macmillan is delighted to announce a new series dedicated to publishing cuttingedge titles that focus on the broad area of ‘development’. The core aims of the series are to present critical work that: – – – –

is cross disciplinary; challenges orthodoxies; reconciles theoretical depth with empirical research; explores the frontiers of development studies in terms of ‘development’ in both North and South and global inter-connectedness; – reflects on claims to knowledge and intervening in other peoples’ lives. Titles include: Simon Feeny and Matthew Clarke THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS AND BEYOND International Assistance to the Asia-Pacific Niamh Gaynor TRANSFORMING PARTICIPATION? The Politics of Development in Malawi and Ireland Sue Kenny and Matthew Clarke (editors) CHALLENGING CAPACITY BUILDING Comparative Perspectives Sara C. Motta and Alf Gunvald Nilsen (editors) SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH Dispossession, Development and Resistance Eric Rugraff, Diego Sánchez-Ancochea, Andy Sumner (editors) TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS AND DEVELOPMENT POLICY Critical Perspectives Jens Stilhoff Sörensen (editor) CHALLENGING THE AID PARADIGM Western Currents and Asian Alternatives Andy Sumner and Meera Tiwari AFTER 2015: INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY AT A CROSSROADS

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Social Movements in the Global South Dispossession, Development and Resistance Edited by

Sara C. Motta Lecturer in Politics and Political Economy, University of Nottingham, UK

Alf Gunvald Nilsen Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Bergen, Norway

Introduction, selection and editorial matter © Sara C. Motta and Alf Gunvald Nilsen 2011 Individual chapters © contributors 2011 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2011 978-0-230-24349-1 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6-10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liab