Overview
- Emphasisese the difficulties of political mobilisation
- Grounds social movements and local mobilisation in the language of rights and justice claims-making
- Bridges the literature on contentious politics, the politics of social justice, and everyday politics of resistance
Part of the book series: Development, Justice and Citizenship (SIID)
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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.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Demanding Justice in The Global South
Book Subtitle: Claiming Rights
Editors: Jean Grugel, Jewellord Nem Singh, Lorenza Fontana, Anders Uhlin
Series Title: Development, Justice and Citizenship
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-38821-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38820-5Published: 19 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81755-2Published: 07 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-38821-2Published: 10 December 2016
Series ISSN: 2946-3599
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3602
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 210
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Communication, Political Sociology, Discourse Analysis, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights