ISBN:
9781848443624
,
9781848449404
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 246 p)
,
ill., maps
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Protest and Social Movements in the Developing World
DDC:
303.484091724
Keywords:
Social problems
;
Social movements
Abstract:
Focuses on the impact of contextual factors on social movements in the developing world. This work presents discussions on resource and institutional endowment for mobilization in Colombia and Thailand, and explores the structure behind political opportunities in Argentina, China and South Africa
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Preface; 1. Rethinking theories on social movements and development; PART I Resource and Institutional Endowment for Mobilization; 2. Community-based local development and the peace initiative of the PDPMM in Colombia: resource mobilization under extreme conditions; 3. Institutional readiness and resource dependence of social movements: the case of provincial development forums in Thailand; PART II Structure behind Political Opportunities
Description / Table of Contents:
4. Strategies for fragmentary opportunities and limited resources: the environmental protest movement under communist China in transition5. Institutional conditions for social movements to engage in formal politics: the case of AIDS activism in post-apartheid South Africa; 6. Rethinking political opportunity structure in the Argentine unemployed and poor people's movement; 7. Dynamics of ideal values and social movement in a corporatist state: Mexican indigenous peoples' movements and a village's challenge; 8. Competition and framing in the women's movement in India
Description / Table of Contents:
9. Opposition movements and the youth1 in Nigeria's oil-producing area: an inquiry into framingPART IV Conclusion; 10. Resources, organizations and institutions: intermediaries for social movements in the development context; Index
Note:
"Institute of Developing Economies (IDE), JETRO
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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