How Social Movements Imagine
Anthropology of Protest and the Newer Social Movements in India and South Africa
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How Social Movements Imagine
Anthropology of Protest and the Newer Social Movements in India and South Africa
About This Book
This book examines how micro contextual issues inspire collective social action forms against everyday situations of crises and crimes through an inter-disciplinary, ethnographic, and comparative research conducted among Bishnois and Indian South Africans.
Exploring the role of the publics that practise and mobilise their social movement imaginations, the work delves into peoples' ability to move beyond their immediate contexts and politicise multiple social spaces and discursive spheres around them to project their causes. Mapping an anti-poaching movement spearheaded by the Bishnois of Western Rajasthan in India and an anti-substance abuse movement led by the historical Indian diaspora of South Africa, the author argues that such contemporary forms of organised social action replete with alternative frames, symbols, and repertoires possess key requisites to be understood as the 'Newer Social Movements' of the Global South.
The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of social and protest movements, migration and diaspora studies, political science, social anthropology, and ethnography.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction and Chapterisation
- 2 âMicro Social Movementsâ (MSMs) as âNewerâ Social Movements of the South and the Mobilisation of a Shared Imagination
- 3 The Anthropology of Protest: Of Layered Discursiveness and Twin Imaginations
- 4 Anti-Poaching Movement of the BTF in Western Rajasthan: A Layered Discursive Formation
- 5 Anti-Substance Abuse Movement of the ADF in Durban: A Layered Discursive Formation
- 6 Summaries and a Comparative Analysis of Two Micro Social Movements (MSMs)
- References
- Annex-I: The Indian Wildlife Protection Act, 1972: An Overview Related to This Study
- Annex-II: Anti-Substance Abuse Laws and Use of Drugs in SA: An Overview Related to This Study
- Index