Author: Manoranjan Mohanty
Partha Nath Mukherji/Olle Tornquist
Editor(s): Mohanty / Mukherji / Tornquist
Publisher: Sage Publications
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 436
ISBN/UPC (if available): 817036664X
Description
The end of classical colonialism did not result in complete freedom for the peoples of the third world. New forms of Western domination emerged in many post-colonial states which became dependent on the first world for their very existence. This volume of original essays articulates the issues raised by these social movements as a democratic assertion of people's rights.
This led to the emergence of people’s movements which serve to articulate the aspirations of the disadvantaged and their resistance to various forms of oppression and domination.
The distinguished contributors challenge the dominant political theory of capitalist globalization and reaffirm some of the primary values of the anti-colonial struggle. Rather than locating rights in the individualist tradition of Western liberalism, they are seen as an affirmation of the political conditions of human existence involving a struggle against class exploitation and social oppression.
The case studies from Asia and Africa of both successful and unsuccessful movements illustrate the nature of the dilemmas faced by them while problematising the dichotomy between class politics and social movements. In the process, the contributors not only critique the dominant Western notions of rights, nationhood, civil society and citizenship but present original and alternative formulations in democratic theory transformation of the post-colonial state through liberation from new forms of bondage in order to affirm freedom and people’s rights and to crate amore decentralized, responsive and participatory state.
Designed as a major intervention in the ongoing debate concerning the nature of the state and of civil society in the contemporary world and resenting a creative theory of social transformation, this volume will attract a wide readership. It will interest, among other, political scientists, sociologists and students of social movements and social changes as also those involved in struggles for cultural rights, civil liberties and human rights.
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Towards a Creative Theory of Social Transformation
PART ONE: CIVIL SOCIETY, STATE AND NATION
The Assertion of Civil Society against the State:
The Case of the Post-colonial World
The Liberation of Civil Society: Neo-liberal
Ideology and Political Theory in an African Context
Social Movements in Creative Society:
Of Autonomy and Interconnection
Africa: Democratic Theory and Democratic Struggles
Nationalism, Nation-building and the State in India
Class, Ethnicity and Autonomy Movements in India
The Nature and Structure of Ethnic Conflict and Separatism in South Asia
PART TWO: PEOPLE’S MOVEMENTS
Popular Movements and Politics of Democratization:
The Philippine Experience in Comparative Perspective
Peasants, Dalits and Women:
Democracy and India’s New Social Movements
Farmers’ Movements and Cultural Politics in India
Peasant Social Structure, Politics and Democratisation in Nigeria
The Story of Agrarian Struggles and Land Reforms in Bengal and West Bengal
The Working-class Movements in India:
Trade Unions and the State
PART THREE: HUMAN RIGHTS
The State and Human Rights Movements in India
Civil Liberties Movement and the State in India
The State and the Civil Liberties Movements in Nigeria
Depoliticisation of Civil Society:
Social Movements and the Corporatist State in Indonesia
Micro-struggles, NGOs and the State
About the Editors
Notes on Contributors
Index