Cultural Politics and Resistance in the 21st Century

Community-Based Social Movements and Global Change in the Americas
2012. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-34004-6
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 195 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

By analyzing the cases present in this volume, the editors develop important steps towards a theory of social change that can adequately address the complex realities and intersectionality of identity (race, gender, class, sexuality, nationality) within and among these new movements.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dellacioppa, K.

Weber, C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Local Communities and Global Resistance: Social Change and Autonomy Struggles in the Americas; K.Dellacioppa  PART I: CULTURAL RESISTANCE AND IDENTITY  New Political Actors in Rural Mexico: The Challenges and Achievements of Indigeneosu and Peasant Women; A.H.Castillo  & G. E.Damian   The Rebel Girls of the Other Campaign: The EZLN and Teenage Activism in Mexico City; J.Taft  Zapatismo and Community-Based Social Change: Toward a Feminist Global Praxis?; M.Govea   La Otra Educación: Hip Hop, Zapatismo, and Popular Education; O.Marquez   PART II: POLITICAL RESISTANCE AND IDENTITY Maíz y País: Indigenous Mexican Struggles against Biotechnology in Agriculture; J.Rogers  Generating Hope, Creating Change,  Searching for Community: Stories of Resistance against Globalization at the U.S.-Mexico Border; M.Téllez   The Nonprofit Industrial Complex: Struggling for Social Movement Autonomy in a Global Port City; C.Weber   Present in the World Economy: The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (2006-2009); A.Drainville   Global Movements? Local Movements?; C.Weber

Über Autor(innen)

KARA DELLACIOPPA Professor of Sociology at California State University-Dominguez Hills, USA.
CLARE WEBER Chair of the Department of Sociology at California State University-Dominguez Hills, USA.