
Social Movements
Concepts, Experiences and Concerns
Biswajit Ghosh(Editor)
SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 26. February 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
452 pages
978-93-5328-739-9 (ISBN)
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
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
Reviews / Votes
Most updated work on social movements. -covers all forms of social movements with engaging discussions and most recent evidences and examples of movements from across the world. -- Dr Saheed Meo * Department of Sociology, Maulana Azad National Urdu University *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 184 mm
Weight
861 gr
ISBN-13
978-93-5328-739-9 (9789353287399)
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Person
Professor Biswajit Ghosh is the senior-most Professor of Sociology at the University of Burdwan, Bardhaman, and has been teaching sociology since 1986. He did his Master's from the University of Calcutta, Kolkata, and MPhil and PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. He has been associated with different universities and institutions of West Bengal and Northeast as an external expert. He has authored 93 articles, modules and reviews in reputed national and international journals and written three major policy documents of UNICEF, Government of West Bengal and Save the Children and has edited volumes entitled Interrogating Development: Discourses on Development in India Today (2012) and Pariveshvidya (2012). He has carried out three major research projects along with two other minor projects. He has also worked as a module coordinator of UGC e-Pathshala course for research methodology and social movement papers in sociology. He is an active member of the managing committee of the Indian Sociological Society and is currently acting as the vice-president of the Sociological Association of West Bengal.
Content
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
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