Full Description
A comprehensive textbook that deals with the issue of social movements from both theoretical and contextual points of view and analyses major cognitive concerns of social movements across disciplines.
In contemporary times, social movements are a matter of everyday discourse among researchers, teachers, planners and politicians, administrators and law-enforcing machineries, social activists and common people alike. The book begins by locating social movements within broad and contemporary social processes. It explains the meaning, basic features, origins and types, and the basic perspectives of social movements. It goes on to deal with the major experiences of nine social movements in India, namely, peasant, tribal, Naxalite, Dalit, working class, women, ethnic, student and youth, and environmental movements. The book also analyses the role of information technology, media, civil society, NGOs and the middle class in the spread and continuation of such movements. The experiences of queer, new religious, and anti-systemic and anti-displacement movements would also help readers understand how globalization has offered new avenues of protest to diverse sections of the population.
Key Features:
• Analyses the major theoretical concerns of social movements and uses them to analyse specific social movements in India and other parts of the globe
• Provides the genealogy, growth and impact of prominent social movements in India and abroad
• Includes pedagogically rich content, which closely follows UGC course curriculum guidelines for the subject
Contents
Preface
Social Movements : Conceptual Dimensions
Concepts, Issues and Approaches to Social Movements - Biswajit Ghosh and Rabindra Garada
Social Movements and Their Types - Jyotiprasad Chatterjee
The Dynamic Triad: State, Market and Social Movement - Subhasis Bandyopadhyay
Social Change and Social Movements: Issues of Leadership and Ideology - Swatahsiddha Sarkar
Ebb and Flow of Social Movements in Liberal Democracy - Rabindra Garada
Social Movements in India
Peasant and Farmers' Movements - Jyotiprasad Chatterjee
Tribal Movements - Chandan Kumar Sharma and Bhaswati Borgohain
Naxalite and Maoist Movements - Biswajit Ghosh
Dalit Movements - Vivek Kumar
Working Class Movements - Biswajit Ghosh and Tanima Choudhuri
Women's Movement - Ritu Sen Chaudhuri
Ethnic Identity Movements - Biswajit Ghosh
Environmental Movements - Shoma Choudhury Lahiri
Student and Youth Movements - Anirban Banerjee
Globalisation and Social Movements
Globalization, Information Technology, Media and Social Movements - Sthitapragyan Ray
Democracy, Governance and Movement: Civil Society, NGOs and Middle Class - Binti Singh
Queer Movements - Banhishikha Ghosh
Globalization and New Religious Movements - Rajeev Dubey
Anti-systemic Social Movements: Arguments and Counter-arguments - Sumit Saurabh Srivastava
Social Movements against Displacements - Pankaj Kumar
Movements against Globalization - Shweta Shukla
Index
