TY - BOOK AU - Thompson,Lisa AU - Tapscott,Chris TI - Citizenship and social movements: perspectives from the global South T2 - Claiming citizenship SN - 184813388X AV - HM881 C581 2010 PY - 2010/// CY - London, New York, New York PB - Zed, Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan KW - Social movements KW - Citizenship KW - Soziale Bewegung KW - Protest KW - Entwicklungsländer KW - Schwellenländer N1 - Introduction: mobilization and social movements in the south--the challenges of inclusive governance / Lisa Thompson and Chris Tapscott -- Social movements and rights claims: the case of action groups in the Niger Delta / Echosa E. Osaghae -- Why do garment workers in Bangladesh fail to mobilize? / Simeen Mahmud -- Mobilization through litigation: claiming health rights on asbestos issues in South Africa / Nardi Simpson and Linda Waldman -- Water and rights: state management in South Africa and India / Lyla Mehta, Lisa Thompson and Ndodana Nleya -- Environmental activism in Brazil: the rise of a social movement / Angela Alonso, Valeriano Costa and Débora Maciel -- The struggle towards rights and communitarian citizenship: the Zapatista movement in Mexico / Carlos Cortez Ruiz -- Participation, inclusion and development under conditions of social mobilization / Vera Schattan Coelho and Arilson Favareto -- Popular mobilization, party dominance and participatory governance in South Africa / Laurence Piper and Lubna Nadvi -- Contesting development, reinventing democracy grassroots social movements in India / Rajita Mohanty -- Social mobilization in Cape Town: a tale of two communities / Chris Tapscott; HKBU library; YT2025 M09 N2 - This authoritative title redresses the predominantly Northern/Western bias in social movement literature with case study material from movements for change in Brazil, India, Bangladesh, Mexico, South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria ER -