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Social movements : an anthropological reader / edited by June Nash.

Contributor(s): Series: Blackwell readers in anthropology ; 7Publication details: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., c2005.Edition: 1st editionDescription: xiv, 344 p. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 1405101083 (alk. paper)
  • 1405101091 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.484 22 SOC
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Contents

1. 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)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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