People's rights : social movements and the state in the third world

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People's rights : social movements and the state in the third world

editors, Manoranjan Mohanty, Partha Nath Mukherji, with Olle Törnquist

Sage Publications, 1998

  • : India-hb
  • : US-hb

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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People's Rights presents Third World social movements as democratic assertions that challenge the dominant political theory of capitalist globalization. Case studies from Asia (including India, Indonesia and Philippines) and Africa (including Nigeria) of successful and unsuccessful movements demonstrate that the rights sought are not the individualist rights of the West but the minimal political conditions of human existence, which always involve a struggle against class exploitation and social oppression.

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Introduction: Towards a Creative Theory of Social Transformation - Manoranjan Mohanty PART ONE: CIVIL SOCIETY, STATE AND NATION The Assertion of Civil Society against the State - Neera Chandhoke The Case of the Post-Colonial World The Liberation of Civil Society - Bj[um]orn Beckman Neo-Liberal Ideology and Political Theory in an African Context Social Movements in Creative Society - Manoranjan Mohanty Of Autonomy and Interconnection Africa - Mahmood Mamdani Democratic Theory and Democratic Struggles Nationalism, Nation-Building and the State in India - Partha Nath Mukherji Class, Ethnicity and Autonomy Movements in India - Sucha Singh Gill The Nature and Structure of Ethnic Conflict and Separatism in South Asia - Ishtiaq Ahmed PART TWO: PEOPLE'S MOVEMENTS Popular Movements and Politics of Democratization - Olle T[um]ornquist The Philippine Experience in Comparative Perspective Peasants, Dalits and Women - Gail Omvedt Democracy and India's New Social Movements Farmers' Movements and Cultural Politics in India - Staffan Lindberg Peasant Social Structure, Politics and Democratization in Nigeria - Abdul Raufu Mustapha The Story of Agrarian Struggles and Land Reforms in Bengal and West Bengal - Nripen Bandyopadhyaya The Working Class Movement in India - Sharit K Bhowmik Trade Unions and the State PART THREE: HUMAN RIGHTS The State and Human Rights Movements in India - Upendra Baxi Civil Liberties Movement and the State in India - G Haragopal and K Balagopal The State and the Civil Liberties Movement in Nigeria - Adebayo O Olukoshi Depoliticisation of Civil Society - Arief Budiman Social Movements and the Corporatist State in Indonesia Micro-Struggles, NGOs and the State - Harsh Sethi

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