Urban Revolt
State Power and the Rise of People's Movements in the Global South
Immanuel Ness author Luke Sinwell author Trevor Nganwe editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Haymarket Books
Published:18th May '17
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Through detailed case studies, Urban Revolt unravels the potential and limitations of urban social movements on an international level.How do individuals and organisations move beyond the boundaries of constitutional or legal constructs to challenge neoliberalism and capitalism? As major urban areas have become the principal sites of poor and working-class social upheaval in the early twenty-first century, the chapters in this book explore key cities in the Global South. Through detailed case studies, Urban Revolt unravels the potential and limitations of urban social movements on an international level.
"A superb addition to the literature on the contemporary global crisis and its micro manifestations." Patrick Bond, BRICS: An Anticapitalist Critique "What emerges from this collection is a complex picture of resistance, which nevertheless provides nuanced hope for a universalist project of social transformation.... The result is often a refreshing and accessible journey into urban revolts that the reader may have less familiarity." Leo Zeilig, Struggles Today: Social Movements Since Independence “Read this to be inspired by stories of city-based resistance in some of the most difficult conditions possible.” –Socialist Review
"A superb addition to the literature on the contemporary global crisis and its micro manifestations." —Patrick Bond, BRICS: An Anticapitalist Critique "What emerges from this collection is a complex picture of resistance, which nevertheless provides nuanced hope for a universalist project of social transformation.... The result is often a refreshing and accessible journey into urban revolts that the reader may have less familiarity." —Leo Zeilig, Struggles Today: Social Movements Since Independence
ISBN: 9781608467136
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320 pages