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020 _a9780199466276
082 _a303.4840954
_bHAR-S
100 _aHardtmann, Eva-Maria
245 _a South Asian activists in the global justice movement
260 _aNew Delhi
_bOxford University Press,
_c2017
300 _a xii, 248p.
504 _aIncludes reference, index, about the author
520 _aThis work is a well-researched study of the last decades of the networks in the Global Justice Movement (GJM) and World Social Forums. It offers a novel perspective on the traditions of protest, ethics, organizational forms, and visions among activists than is usually presented in the literature on GJM, which largely focuses on Latin America, the United States of America, and Europe. It is an ethnographically rooted account of the two conflicting discourses-one among activists in GJM and the other emanating from the World Bank-that have become intertwined locally within the same circle of activists. The author argues that local and transnational activist networks, no longer spatially and territorially limited, have become entangled with forces understood under the paradigms of 'neoliberalism', and relations among activists have changed in unexpected ways. Through a vivid description of transnational movements, this book aims to make evident the not-so-obvious yet intricate links between the World Bank, the United Nations, popular rock stars, and historical knowledge production among activists in South Asia and Japan in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
650 _aPolitical activities
_vSocial workers
_zSouth Asia
_zIndia
942 _2ddc
_cBK