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Demanding Justice in The Global South

Claiming Rights

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Editors:
  1. Jean Grugel

    1. University of York, United Kingdom

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  2. Jewellord Nem Singh

    1. Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

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  3. Lorenza Fontana

    1. Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University, United Kingdom

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  4. Anders Uhlin

    1. Department of Political Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

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  • 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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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Analysing Justice Claims in the Global South

    • Jean Grugel, Jewellord Nem Singh, Lorenza B. Fontana, Anders Uhlin
    Pages 1-19

  3. Struggles Against the High Cost of Living in Burkina Faso

    • Bettina Engels
    Pages 21-41

  4. Demanding Rights in Company-Community Resource Extraction Conflicts: Examining the Cases of Vedanta and POSCO in Odisha, India

    • Kate Macdonald, Shelley Marshall, Samantha Balaton-Chrimes
    Pages 43-67

  5. Mega Dams and Resistance: The Case of the Three Gorges Dam, China

    • Brooke Wilmsen, Michael Webber
    Pages 69-98

  6. ‘We Are the Engine of the Enterprise, and Yet, We Are Like Its Illegitimate Children’: The Contract Workers’ Movement in Chile and Its Claims for Equal Labour Rights

    • Sofia Donoso
    Pages 99-127

  7. Situating Women’s Rights in Everyday Life: The EMPOWER Women’s Human Rights Report

    • Juanita Elias
    Pages 129-150

  8. Transnationalising Dissidence Beyond the Global South: Arab Activists in Occupy Oakland

    • Tamirace Fakhoury*
    Pages 151-176

  9. Claiming Justice in the Global South

    • Anders Uhlin, Jewellord Nem Singh, Jean Grugel, Lorenza B. Fontana
    Pages 177-194

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 195-210
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of York, United Kingdom

    Jean Grugel

  • Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Jewellord Nem Singh

  • Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University, United Kingdom

    Lorenza Fontana

  • Department of Political Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

    Anders Uhlin

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.

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