Format:
1 online resource (481 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9789004251434
Series Statement:
Historical Materialism Book Ser. v.46
Content:
Marxism and social movements connects these two leading perspectives on popular collective action in a collection of chapters by leading authors in the field discussing theoretical and practical aspects of struggles on six continents over the last 150 years.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Marxism and Social Movements: An Introduction -- Part One Theoretical Frameworks -- Marxism and Social Movements -- Class Struggle and Social Movements -- What Would a Marxist Theory of Social Movements Look Like? -- Social Movement Studies and Its Discontents -- The Strange Disappearance of Capitalism from Social Movement Studies -- Marxism and the Politics of Possibility: Beyond Academic Boundaries -- Part Two How Social Movements Work -- Developmental Perspectives on Social Movements -- Eppur Si Muove: Thinking 'the Social Movement' -- Class Formation and the Labour Movement in Revolutionary China -- Contesting the Postcolonial Development Project: A Marxist Perspective on Popular Resistance in the Narmada Valley -- The Politics of Social Movements -- The Marxist Rank-and-File/Bureaucracy Analysis of Trade Unionism: Some Implications for the Study of Social Movement Organisations -- Defending Place, Remaking Space: Social Movements in Oaxaca and Chiapas -- Uneven and Combined Marxism within South Africa's Urban Social Movements -- Part Three Seeing the Bigger Picture -- Comparative-Historical Perspectives -- Thinking About (New) Social Movements: Some Insights from the British Marxist Historians -- Right-Wing Social Movements: The Political Indeterminacy of Mass Mobilisation -- Class, Caste, Colonial Rule and Resistance: The Revolt of 1857 in India -- The Black International as Social Movement Wave: C.L.R. James's History of Pan-African Revolt -- Social Movements Against Neoliberalism -- Language, Marxism and the Grasping of Policy Agendas: Neoliberalism and Political Voice in Scotland's Poorest Communities -- Organic Intellectuals in the Australian Global Justice Movement: The Weight of 9/11 -- 'Disorganisation' as Social Movement Tactic: Reappropriating Politics during the Crisis of Neoliberal Capitalism.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004211759
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004211759
Language:
English
Keywords:
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