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040 _aSDU
050 0 0 _aHM881
_bC581 2010
245 0 0 _aCitizenship and social movements :
_bperspectives from the global South /
_cLisa Thompson and Chris Tapscott, editors.
260 _aLondon ;
_aNew York :
_bZed ;
_aNew York :
_bDistributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan,
_c2010.
300 _axiv, 290 p.
490 0 _aClaiming citizenship
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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.
505 0 _aHKBU library
518 _aYT2025 M09
520 8 _aThis 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.
650 0 _aSocial movements
650 0 _aCitizenship
650 0 7 _aSoziale Bewegung
650 0 7 _aProtest
651 7 _aEntwicklungsländer
651 7 _aSchwellenländer
700 1 _aThompson, Lisa.
700 1 _aTapscott, Chris.
900 _a= C.1 SDU
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