Demanding Justice in The Global South

Claiming Rights

AvJean Grugel,Jewellord Nem Singh

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

Del i serien Development, Justice and Citizenship

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Beskrivning

The politics of claiming rights and strategies of mobilisation exhibited by marginalised social groups lie at the heart of this volume. In so doing, the book bridges the literature on contentious politics, the politics of claimingsocial justice, and everyday politics of resistance.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-07-07
Mått:148 x 210 x 13 mm
Vikt:301 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Development, Justice and Citizenship
Antal sidor:210
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319817552

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Mer om författaren

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.

Innehållsförteckning

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.