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Reinventing Revolution

Author : Gail Omvedt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351551647
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Reinventing Revolution written by Gail Omvedt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study describes and analyses the new social movements that have arisen in India over the past two decades, in particular the anti-caste movement (of both the untouchables and the lower-middle castes), the women's liberation movement, the farmers' movement (centred on struggles arising out of their integration into a state-controlled capitalist market), and the environmental movements (opposition to destructive development, including resistance to big dam projects and the search for alternatives). Rooted in participant observation, it focuses on the ideologies and self-understanding of the movements themselves. The central themes of this book are the origin of movements in the socio-economic contradictions of post-independence India; their effect on political developments, in particular the disintegration of Congress hegemony; their relation to "traditional Marxist" theory and Communist practice; and their groping toward a synthesis of theory and practice that constitutes a new social vision distinct from traditional Marxism.

Reinventing Revolution

Author : Edward J Mccaughan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042996627X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Reinventing Revolution written by Edward J Mccaughan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on in-depth interviews with seventy-four intellectuals of the lefts in Cuba and Mexico, Reinventing Revolution explores the rapidly changing thinking of progressives on the big-and enduring-questions of democracy, economic alternatives, and national sovereignty. Offering a unique world-systems perspective on the sociology of intellectuals and

Reinventing Revolution

Author : Tim Jordan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reinventing Revolution written by Tim Jordan and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text discusses social movements and socialist politics. It looks at the changing face of socialist politics, examining the concepts of difference, value and emancipatory political processes.

Reinventing India

Author : Stuart Corbridge
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745666043
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Reinventing India written by Stuart Corbridge and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When India was invented as a "modern" country in the years after Independence in 1947 it styled itself as a secular, federal, democratic Republic committed to an ideology of development. Nehru's India never quite fulfilled this promise, but more recently his vision of India has been challenged by two "revolts of the elites": those of economic liberalization and Hindu nationalism. These revolts have been challenged, in turn, by various movements, including those of India's "Backward Classes". These movements have exploited the democratic spaces of India both to challenge for power and to contest prevailing accounts of politics, the state and modernity. Reinventing India offers an analytical account of the history of modern India and of its contemporary reinvention. Part One traces India's transformation under colonial rule, and the ideas and social forces which underlay the deliberations of the Constituent Assembly in 1946 to consider the shaping of the post-colonial state. Part Two then narrates the story of the making and unmaking of this modern India in the period from 1950 to the present day. It pays attention to both economic and political developments, and engages with the interpretations of India's recent history through key writers such as Francine Frankel, Sudipta Kaviraj and Partha Chatterjee. Part Three consists of chapters on the dialectics of economic reform, religion, the politics of Hindu nationalism, and on popular democracy. These chapters articulate a distinct position on the state and society in India at the end of the century, and they allow the authors to engage with the key debates which concern public intellectuals in contemporary India. Reinventing India is a lucid and eminently readable account of the transformations which are shaking India more than fifty years after Independence. It will be welcomed by all students of South Asia, and will be of interest to students of comparative politics and development studies.

New Critical Theory

Author : William S. Wilkerson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461610389
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book New Critical Theory written by William S. Wilkerson and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2001-11-19 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Critical Theory surveys contemporary leftist thought while introducing the tenets of this new form of critical theory. Beginning with an exploration of the relationship between Marxism, Habermas, and the politics of identity, William S. Wilkerson and Jeffrey R. Paris present a collection that critiques the globalization of capital. The development of personality appears as subject to socialized standards in an age of global capitalism. Only after scrutinizing the effects of such a system can liberation be found. The essays within join Critical Theory with postmodern insights on language and subjectivity to provide a more comprehensive view of emancipatory social theory. Through this and other refelctions on critical race, gender, and queer theories, Wilkerson and Paris emerge with an encompassing volume defining New Critical Theory.

Understanding Community Media

Author : Kevin Howley
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412959055
Total Pages : 849 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Community Media written by Kevin Howley and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With original contributions from an international team of well-known experts, media activists, and promising young scholars, this comprehensive volume examines community media from theoretical, empirical, historical, and practitioner perspectives. Organized thematically, this collection explores the intersection between community media and issues of democratic theory and the public sphere, cultural politics and social movement theory, neoliberal communication policy and media reform efforts, as well as media activism and international solidarity building. Foregrounding the relationship between symbolic and material relations of power in an increasingly interdependent world, this collection examines the role of alternative, independent, and community-based media in the global struggle for communicative democracy. Understanding Community Media explores a wide range of media forms and practice. Each essay considers the particular and distinctive ways local populations make use of various technologies for purposes of community communication. Taken together, this distinctive collection provides an incisive and timely analysis of the relationship between media and society, technology and culture, and communication and community. * Features more than 35 original, cutting-edge essays * Provides a comprehensive overview of community media around the world including essays on women's video collectives in India, indigenous radio in Colombia, street newspapers in Canada, and independent media in Nigeria. * Makes a timely and important contribution to a burgeoning sub-field of media and cultural studies.

We Are the Crisis of Capital

Author : John Holloway
Publisher : PM Press
ISBN 13 : 1629633305
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book We Are the Crisis of Capital written by John Holloway and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Are the Crisis of Capital collects articles and excerpts written by radical academic, theorist, and activist John Holloway over a period of forty years. This collection asks, “Is there a way out?” How do we break capital, a form of social organisation that dehumanises us and threatens to annihilate us completely? How do we create a world based on the mutual recognition of human dignity? Holloway’s work answers loudly, “By screaming NO!” By thinking from our own anger and creativity. By trying to recover the “we” buried under the categories of capitalist thought. By opening those categories and discovering the antagonism they conceal and by discovering that behind the concepts of money, state, capital, crisis, and so on, there moves our resistance-and-rebellion. An approach sometimes referred to as Open Marxism, it is an attempt to rethink Marxism as daily struggle. The articles move forward, influenced by the German state derivation debates of the 1970s, by the CSE debates in Britain, and the group around the Edinburgh journal Common Sense, and then moving on to Mexico and the wonderful stimulus of the Zapatista uprising, and now the continuing whirl of discussion with colleagues and students in the Posgrado de Sociología of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla.

Social Movements in India

Author : Raka Ray
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461643414
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Social Movements in India written by Raka Ray and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2005-03-25 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social movements have played a vital role in Indian politics since well before the inception of India as a new nation in 1947. During the Nehruvian era, from Independence to Nehru's death in 1964, poverty alleviation was a foundational standard against which policy proposals and political claims were measured; at this time, movement activism was directly accountable to this state discourse. However, the role of social movements in India has shifted during the last several decades to accompany a changed political focus—from state to market and from reigning ideologies of secularism to credos of religious nationalism. In the first volume to focus on poverty and class in its analysis of social movements, a group of leading India scholars shows how social movements have had to change because poverty reduction no longer serves its earlier role as a political template. Nonetheless, particular sectors of social movement politics remain the holding vessels for India's egalitarian conscience. With distinctive chapters on gender, lower castes, environment, the Hindu Right, Kerala, labor, farmers, and biotechnology, Social Movements in India will be attractive to students and researchers in many different disciplines. Contributions by: Amita Baviskar, Anuradha Chakravarty, Vivek Chibber, Gopal Guru, Patrick Heller, Ron Herring, Mary John, Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, Neema Kudva, Gail Omvedt, Raka Ray, and Tanika Sarkar.

Muscular Nationalism

Author : Sikata Banerjee
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814789765
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Muscular Nationalism written by Sikata Banerjee and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concerned chiefly with views and events of the 19th and 20th centuries. Discusses deviations from a putative ideal of femininity characterised by chastity and inactivity.

Civil Society and Democratic Theory

Author : Gideon Baker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134524056
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Civil Society and Democratic Theory written by Gideon Baker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-27 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces radically alternative models of civil society that have been developed outside the liberal democratic frame of reference, models which suggest that civil society does offer new and non-statist democratic possibilities. Drawing on a wide range of civil society theory-practice from Eastern Europe and Latin America (including the Zapatistas in Mexico), and from visions of global civil society too, this book is uniquely positioned to consider the questions posed by these alternative voices for democratic theory and practice. * Are there alternatives to the liberal democratic vision of civil society? * Is a democracy located in civil society rather than the state either possible or desirable? * How and why has the concept of civil society come to be used so widely today? * Can global civil society further the struggle for democracy initiated by national civil societies?

Rethinking Latin America

Author : R. Munck
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137290765
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Latin America written by R. Munck and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a subtle but powerful reading of the shifting relationships between development, hegemony, and social transformation in post-independence Latin America, Ronaldo Munck argues that Latin American subaltern knowledge makes a genuine contribution to the current search for a social order which is sustainable and equitable.

Historical Dictionary of Marxism

Author : Elliott Johnson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442237988
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Marxism written by Elliott Johnson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Historical Dictionary of Marxism includes a chronology, introductory essay, and extensive bibliography. The dictionary provides over 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, political parties and movements, and major communist or ex-communist countries. This book is an excellent access point for students and researchers.

Global Geographies of Post-Socialist Transition

Author : Tassilo Herrschel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134356765
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Global Geographies of Post-Socialist Transition written by Tassilo Herrschel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the formal raising of the Iron Curtain, there has been much interest in post-socialism and the process of post-socialist transition. This timely book provides a systematic review and analysis of the process of ‘transition’. Herrschel: explores recent theories, concepts and debates on post-socialism and the notion of transition provides a systematic, topical account of post-socialist transitions around the world, as evidence by social, economic, and political processes examines case studies of post-socialist transition in east and Central Europe, the former Soviet Union, Asia and South-East Asia, and Africa and Latin America brings together theoretical and practical aspects by examining what lessons can be learned from recent experiences. Global Geographies of Post-Socialist Transition provides a truly global comparative account of the meaning and processes of post-socialist transition and will be an invaluable resource for all those interested in this area.

Toward a New Socialism

Author : Anatole Anton
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739118627
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book Toward a New Socialism written by Anatole Anton and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toward a New Socialism offers a critical analysis of capitalism's failings and the imminent need for socialism as an alternative form of government. This book demonstrates that capitalism is destructive and limiting to the many ongoing campaigns to increase freedom, equality, and security. Dr. Richard Schmitt joins with Dr. Anatole Anton to compile a volume of essays exploring the benefits and consequences of a socialist system as an avenue of increased human solidarity and ethical principle. The essays offer a new definition of socialism by investigating the theories and principles of socialism, its influence on social institutions, and its role in work dynamics. Raising important and unavoidable questions for contemporary society, Toward a New Socialism is a vital resource for scholars of political theory and the globalization movement, as well as a necessary read for every citizen under capitalism.

Between Rhetoric and Activism

Author : Susanne Kranz
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 364390648X
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Between Rhetoric and Activism written by Susanne Kranz and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2015 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this book is the All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA), within the larger context of contemporary Indian women's movements. AIDWA is assessed and analyzed as a left-oriented, party-affiliated, all-India women's organization. An examination of its administrative structure provides a basis from which to compare the various state-level approaches to activism. The book sheds light on the ongoing theoretical debates of Marxism and feminism and their compatibilities in their Indian-specific circumstances. Investigating the first 25 years of AIDWA's existence (1981-2006), the book looks at the explicit relationship between the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and AIDWA, and how both cooperate and define each other. (Series: Gender Discussion / Gender-Diskussion - Vol. 25) [Subject: Sociology, Politics, Women's Studies, Feminism, India Studies, History]

Contemporary Political Agency

Author : Bice Maiguashca
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135044325
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Political Agency written by Bice Maiguashca and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores and critically reflects on the theory and practice of political agency in contemporary global politics. In light of the changing relationship between the state, the market and the society, it seeks to map both theoretically and empirically contemporary forms of global political agency. This book reflects on the theory and practice of political agency in contemporary global politics. More specifically, it empirically analyses a range of different forms of political agency and explores their significance for understanding and enacting global politics. Reflecting the efforts of scholars from a variety of disciplines from political theory and Sociology to Geography and International Relations, it brings into conversation a wide spectrum of theoretical approaches including Marxism, feminism, post-structuralism and historical institutionalism. The contributors compare a range of forms of political agency; exploring their significance for the theory and practice of global politics; and reflect on the tensions and synergies generated by recent efforts to conceptualise them. Demonstrating an innovative and interdisciplinary approach Contemporary Political Agency will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, sociology, political economy and political theory.

Missing Links in Labour Geography

Author : Ann Cecilie Bergene
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317095553
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Missing Links in Labour Geography written by Ann Cecilie Bergene and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing a number of 'missing links' in the analysis of labour and its geographies, this volume examines how theoretical perspectives on both labour in general and the organizations of the labour movement in particular can be refined and redefined. Issues of agency, power and collective mobilizations are examined and illustrated via a wide range of case studies from the 'global north' and 'global south' in order to develop a better and fuller appreciation of labour market processes in developed and developing countries.