Front Cover
About the Editors
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
1 Beyond Colonialism,
Development and
Globalization
Introduction
Beyond development and globalization: constructivism, post-development, postcolonial and subaltern studies and indigenous perspectives
The book: beyond development and globalization
References
Part I: Indigenous and Peasant Movement Perspectives
2 Subaltern Social Movements and Development in India
Introduction
Accelerated development and subaltern displacement, dispossession and assertions in India
Lok Adhikar Manch (LAM), Orissa and SSM post-mortems of development
SSM articulations and the prospects for radical political praxis
Concluding reflections
Note
References
3 Democratic Hopes,
Neoliberal Transnational
Government(re)ality
Introduction
Topographic power and transnational governmentality in Africa
Grounding the discussion: defending the salt flats of Songor
Being held in trust: a constitution for the people?
Notes
References
4 Indigenous Movement
Politics in Bolivia
Introduction
Contemporary Bolivia
Explaining the rise of the indigenous movement
Decolonization
Building a plurinational state
Conclusion
Notes
References
Part II Acting across Borders
5 What Are Peasants Saying
about Development?
Introduction
The cultural politics of radical social movements
Building unity within diversity
Food sovereignty: โfeeding the world and cooling the planetโ
Conclusion
Notes
References
6 Debunking the Productivist
Myth
Introduction
Productivism
Global assault on farmers
Pushing back: food sovereignty
Sustainable Uruguay
Conclusion
Notes
References
7 Neoliberal Immigration and
Temporary Foreign Worker
Programmes in a Time of
Economic Crisis
Introduction
Neoliberal immigration management
Canadaโs brand of global capitalism pushing people to migrate
Free trade, unfree labour
Resistance through crisis: local and global
Conclusion
References
8 Working for a Day Off
Introduction
Fighting for a day off
Links in different national contexts
Efficacy of transnational activism
Conclusion
Notes
References
9 The Alter-globalization
Movement: A New
Humanism?
Introduction
Basic conception of humanism
The WSF as a humanist movement: key features
The rigidity and contradictions in defining the actual role of an โopen spaceโ
The question of a political strategy
The resources problem
Conclusions
Notes
References
Part III Reflections on Critical
Knowledge, Culture and
Pedagogy
10 Liberating Development
from the Rule of an
Episteme
Introduction
Ruling culture
Counting the productivity of cultural work
Conclusion
Notes
References
11 Neoliberal Globalization as Settler Colonialism the Remix
Introduction
Mapping the neoliberal order
Indigenizing Harvey
Transformations: Red Pedagogies of self-determination
Notes
References
12 Globalization, Culture and
Development
Introduction
Conceptualizing and theorizing globalization: select pointers
Colonialism and the problematic globalizing and de-culturing of Africa
Globalization as counter-culture/development
Conclusion
References
13 Learning, Knowledge and Action in Social Movements
Introduction
Meaning in movements
Dilemmas of making theory into practice and bringing practice to bear on theory
Open space as a construct of collective praxis
An aspirational universe
Notes
References
14 Conclusion
Introduction
Critiques of domination in the continuum colonizationโdevelopmentโglobalization
Subalterity, local culture and rootedness
Collective identity, trans-local movements and scale of action
State, governmentality and citizenship
Knowledge, pedagogy and academia
An opening as synthesis
References
About the contributors
Index
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