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Social Movements: An Anthropological Reader

June Nash (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-0108-0
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360 pages
November 2004, Wiley-Blackwell
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Acknowledgments.

Notes on Contributors.

Introduction: Social Movements and Global Processes: June Nash (City University New York).

Part I: Fragmentation and the Recomposition of Civil Society.

2. When Networks Don’t Work: Marc Edelman (City University New York).

3. The State and the Right Wing: The Village Scout Movement in Thailand: Katherine A. Bowie (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

4. Gender, Citizenship, and the Politics of Identity: Lynn Stephen (University of Oregon).

5. Activism and Class Identity: The Saturn Auto Factory Case: Sharryn Kasmir (Hofstra University).

Part II: Secularization and Fundamentalist Reactions.

6. Print Islam: Media and Religious Revolution in Afghanistan: David B. Edwards (Williams College).

7. Local Islam Gone Global: The Roots of Religious Militancy in Egypt and its Transnational Transformation: James Toth (Northeastern University).

8. Nationalism and Militarism in West Papua: Institutional Power, Interpretive Practice, and the Pursuit of Christian Truth: Danilyn Rutherford (University of Chicago).

9. The Sarvodaya Movement’s Vision of Peace and a Dharmic Civil Society: George Bond (Northwestern University).

Part III: Deterritorialization and the Politics of Place.

10. Ethnic Resurgence: Autonomy Movements against Deterritorialization: June Nash (City University New York).

11. Resiliance of Nationalism in a Global Era: Megaprojects in Mexico’s South: Molly Doane (Marquette University).

12. The Politics of Place: Legislation, Civil Society and the ‘Restoration" of the Florida Everglades: Max Kirsch (Florida Atlantic University).

13. "Land, Water, and Truth": San Identity and Global Indigenism: Renée Sylvain (University of Guelph).

Part IV: Privatization, Individualization, and Global Cosmopolitanism.

14. The Fair Trade Movement: Changing the Rules of Trade with Global Partnership: Kimberly M. Grimes (University of Delaware).

15. "The Water is Ours, Carajo!": Deep Citizenship in Bolivia’s Water War: Robert Albro (Wheaton College).

16. From the Cosmopolitan to the Personal: Women’s Mobilization with Respect to HIV/AIDS: Ida Susser (City University of New York).

17. Political Organization among Indigenous Women of the Amazonia: Ligia Simonian (Federal University of Pará).

18. At Home in the World: Women’s Activism in Hyderabad, India: Deepa Reddy (University of Houston-Clear Lake).

Index

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