
People's Rights
Social Movements and the State in the Third World
SAGE Publications Inc (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 24. February 1998
Book
Hardback
436 pages
978-0-7619-9212-7 (ISBN)
Description
People's Rights presents Third World social movements as democratic assertions that challenge the dominant political theory of capitalist globalization. Case studies from Asia (including India, Indonesia and Philippines) and Africa (including Nigeria) of successful and unsuccessful movements demonstrate that the rights sought are not the individualist rights of the West but the minimal political conditions of human existence, which always involve a struggle against class exploitation and social oppression.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Weight
619 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7619-9212-7 (9780761992127)
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Manoranjan Mohanty is a renowned political scientist and China scholar whose writings have focused on theoretical and empirical dimensions of social movements, human rights, the development experience and the regional role of India and China. As Vice-President of the Council for Social Development (CSD) and Editor of CSD's social science journal Social Change, published by SAGE, he brings a wealth of experience from both policy and practice perspectives. He is also Chairperson, Development Research Institute, Bhubaneswar, and Honorary Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS), Delhi. Until 2004, he was Director, Developing Countries Research Centre, and Professor of Political Science at University of Delhi where he taught until his retirement. Former Chairperson and Director of ICS and former Editor of China Report, he has been on visiting assignments in several universities and research institutes in India and abroad including University of California, Berkeley; Institute of Far Eastern Studies, Moscow, Oxford, Beijing, Copenhagen, Lagos; University of California, Santa Barbara; and the New School, New York. Professor Mohanty has been a part of the founding and evolution of ICS, the Developing Countries Research Centre at University of Delhi and Gabeshana Chakra and Development Research Institute in Odisha. He has also been closely involved with the People's Union for Democratic Rights, Delhi, and the Pakistan-India People's Forum for Democracy since their inception. He was part of the founding process of the Boao Forum for Asia in China and REGGEN, the Third-World sustainable development network in Brazil. His other contributions include 'China's Reforms: The Wuxi Story' in China after 1978: Craters in the Moon (2010), Ideology Matters: China from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping (2014), 'Political Discourse on Public Sector Reforms in India and China' in Public Sector Reforms in China (2014) and 'India, China and the Emerging Process of Building a Just World' in Building a Just World: Essays in Honour of Muchkund Dubey (2015).
Contact Prof Manoranjan Mohanty at:
University of Delhi and Council for Social Development, Delhi
Email: mm@csdindia.org; mmohantydu@gmail.com
Contact Prof Manoranjan Mohanty at:
University of Delhi and Council for Social Development, Delhi
Email: mm@csdindia.org; mmohantydu@gmail.com
Content
Introduction: Towards a Creative Theory of Social Transformation - Manoranjan Mohanty
PART ONE: CIVIL SOCIETY, STATE AND NATION
The Assertion of Civil Society against the State - Neera Chandhoke
The Case of the Post-Colonial World
The Liberation of Civil Society - Bj[um]orn Beckman
Neo-Liberal Ideology and Political Theory in an African Context
Social Movements in Creative Society - Manoranjan Mohanty
Of Autonomy and Interconnection
Africa - Mahmood Mamdani
Democratic Theory and Democratic Struggles
Nationalism, Nation-Building and the State in India - Partha Nath Mukherji
Class, Ethnicity and Autonomy Movements in India - Sucha Singh Gill
The Nature and Structure of Ethnic Conflict and Separatism in South Asia - Ishtiaq Ahmed
PART TWO: PEOPLE'S MOVEMENTS
Popular Movements and Politics of Democratization - Olle T[um]ornquist
The Philippine Experience in Comparative Perspective
Peasants, Dalits and Women - Gail Omvedt
Democracy and India's New Social Movements
Farmers' Movements and Cultural Politics in India - Staffan Lindberg
Peasant Social Structure, Politics and Democratization in Nigeria - Abdul Raufu Mustapha
The Story of Agrarian Struggles and Land Reforms in Bengal and West Bengal - Nripen Bandyopadhyaya
The Working Class Movement in India - Sharit K Bhowmik
Trade Unions and the State
PART THREE: HUMAN RIGHTS
The State and Human Rights Movements in India - Upendra Baxi
Civil Liberties Movement and the State in India - G Haragopal and K Balagopal
The State and the Civil Liberties Movement in Nigeria - Adebayo O Olukoshi
Depoliticisation of Civil Society - Arief Budiman
Social Movements and the Corporatist State in Indonesia
Micro-Struggles, NGOs and the State - Harsh Sethi
PART ONE: CIVIL SOCIETY, STATE AND NATION
The Assertion of Civil Society against the State - Neera Chandhoke
The Case of the Post-Colonial World
The Liberation of Civil Society - Bj[um]orn Beckman
Neo-Liberal Ideology and Political Theory in an African Context
Social Movements in Creative Society - Manoranjan Mohanty
Of Autonomy and Interconnection
Africa - Mahmood Mamdani
Democratic Theory and Democratic Struggles
Nationalism, Nation-Building and the State in India - Partha Nath Mukherji
Class, Ethnicity and Autonomy Movements in India - Sucha Singh Gill
The Nature and Structure of Ethnic Conflict and Separatism in South Asia - Ishtiaq Ahmed
PART TWO: PEOPLE'S MOVEMENTS
Popular Movements and Politics of Democratization - Olle T[um]ornquist
The Philippine Experience in Comparative Perspective
Peasants, Dalits and Women - Gail Omvedt
Democracy and India's New Social Movements
Farmers' Movements and Cultural Politics in India - Staffan Lindberg
Peasant Social Structure, Politics and Democratization in Nigeria - Abdul Raufu Mustapha
The Story of Agrarian Struggles and Land Reforms in Bengal and West Bengal - Nripen Bandyopadhyaya
The Working Class Movement in India - Sharit K Bhowmik
Trade Unions and the State
PART THREE: HUMAN RIGHTS
The State and Human Rights Movements in India - Upendra Baxi
Civil Liberties Movement and the State in India - G Haragopal and K Balagopal
The State and the Civil Liberties Movement in Nigeria - Adebayo O Olukoshi
Depoliticisation of Civil Society - Arief Budiman
Social Movements and the Corporatist State in Indonesia
Micro-Struggles, NGOs and the State - Harsh Sethi