Drawing from the field of political sociology, geography, anthropology, and peace studies, Routledge explores how peasant communities in rural India form effective resistance movements against displacement, dislocation, and cultural destruction engendered by the development process. He shows how the Baloapal movement--resisting a missile base--and the Chipko movement--resisting a program of deforestation--offer rich lessons in development strategies, nonviolent sanctions, and grassroots social change. The sanctions chosen by the movements are shown to be of particular importance and to...
Drawing from the field of political sociology, geography, anthropology, and peace studies, Routledge explores how peasant communities in rural Indi...
This book provides a critical investigation of what has been termed the "global justice movement." Through a detailed study of a grassroots peasants network in Asia (Peoples Global Action), an international trade union network (the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mining and General Workers) and the Social Forum process, it analyzes some of the global justice movements component parts, operational networks and their respective dynamics, strategies and practices. Rather than being indicative of a coherent "movement," the authors argue that such forms of political agency contain...
This book provides a critical investigation of what has been termed the "global justice movement." Through a detailed study of a grassroots peasants n...
