Demanding Justice in The Global South

Claiming Rights
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-81755-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 210 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 301 g

Reihe: Development, Justice and Citizenship

The politics of claiming rights and strategies of mobilisation exhibited by marginalised social groups lie at the heart of this volume. Theoretically, the authors aims to foster a holistic and multi-faceted understanding of how social and economic justice is claimed, either through formal, corporatist or organised mechanisms, or through ad hoc, informal, or individualised practices, as well as the implications of these distinctive activist strategies. The collection emphasises both the difficulties of political mobilisation and the distinctive methods employed by various social groups across a variety of contexts to respond and overcome these challenges. Crucially, the authors’ approach involves a conceptualisation of social movements and local mobilisation in terms of the language of rights and justice claims-making through more organised as well as everyday political practices. In so doing, the book bridges the literature on contentious politics, the politics of claimingsocial justice, and everyday politics of resistance.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grugel, Jean

Uhlin, Anders

Nem Singh, Jewellord

Fontana, Lorenza

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Kommunikation und Partizipation
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Analysing Justice Claims in the Global South.- Chapter 2: Struggles Against the High Cost of Living in Burkina Faso.- Chapter 3-. Demanding Rights in Company-Community Resource Extraction Conflicts: examining the cases of POSCO and Vedanta in Odisha, India.- Chapter 4: Mega Dams and Resistance: The case of the Three Gorges Dam, China.- Chapter 5: 'We are the engine of the enterprise, and yet we are like it's illegitimate children': The Contract Workers' Movement in Chile and its claim for equal labour rights.- Chapter 6: Situating women's rights in everyday life: The EMPOWER Women's Human Rights Report.- Chapter 7: Transnationalising Dissidence: Arab activists in Occupy Oakland.- Chapter 8: Claiming Justice in the Global South.

Über Autor(innen)

Jean Grugel holds a Chair in Global Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the Faculty of Social Sciences, the Open University, UK.

Jewellord Nem Singh holds a Research Fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and is currently based at the University of Tokyo, Japan.

Lorenza B. Fontana is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, USA.

Anders Uhlin is Professor of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden.