Social change, resistance and social practices

"This collection of works by critical sociologists of various nationalities focuses on cutting-edge approaches to conflict-driven social change. By emphasizing the role played by contemporary social movements such as environmentalists, migrant organizations, world social forum activists and oth...

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Dello Buono, Richard Alan, Fasenfest, David
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, c2010.
Series:Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 19.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Writing the relationship of resistance and social change / R.A. Dello Buono
  • Environmentalism and the family of anti-systemic movements : toward a global movement of movements? / Matheu Kaneshiro and Kirk Lawrence
  • New Orleans and the dialectics of post-Katrina reconstruction / A. Kathryn Stout
  • The social forum process and the praxis of race, class, gender and sexualities / Rose Brewer
  • A bunch of criminals? : analyzing political armed violence as a social production process / Simon Sottsas
  • Fifteen years of NAFTA : the impact on rural Mexico / Irma Lorena Acosta Reveles
  • Power and resistance in post-NAFTA Mexico : transformational and system-stabilizing NGOs / Krista Brumley
  • As neoliberal crises persist, indigenous-led movements resist : examining the current social and political-economic conjuncture in southern Mexico / Molly Talcott
  • The production of the "illegal subject" / Nicole Trujillo-Pagan
  • Migration, transnationalism and post-modernity / Alejandro I. Canales and Israel Montiel Armas
  • The global structuring of gender, race, and class : conceptual sites of its dynamics and resistance in the Philippine experience / Ligaya Lindio-McGovern
  • Dismantling the defensive wall of the colonized : the veil and the French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools / Mohammad A. Chaichian.