Movements of Movements

Description

Our world today is not only a world in crisis but also a world in profound movement, with increasingly large numbers of people joining or forming movements: local, national, transnational, and global. The dazzling diversity of ideas and experiences recorded in this collection capture something of the fluidity within campaigns for a more equitable planet. This book, taking internationalism seriously without tired dogmas, provides a bracing window into some of the central ideas to have emerged from within grassroots struggles from 2006 to 2010. The essays here cross borders to look at the politics of caste, class, gender, religion, and indigeneity, and move from the local to the global.

What Makes Us Move?, the first of two volumes, provides a background and foundation for understanding the extraordinary range of uprisings around the world: Tahrir Square in Egypt, Occupy in North America, the indignados in Spain, Gezi Park in Turkey, and many others. It draws on the rich reflection that took place following the huge wave of creative direct actions that had preceded it, from the 1990s through to the early 2000s, including the Zapatistas in Mexico, the Battle of Seattle in the United States, and the accompanying formations such as Peoples’ Global Action and the World Social Forum.

Edited by Jai Sen, who has long occupied a central position in an international network of intellectuals and activists, this book will be useful to all who work for egalitarian social change—be they in universities, parties, trade unions, social movements, or religious organisations.

Contributors include Taiaiake Alfred, Tariq Ali, Daniel Bensaid, Hee-Yeon Cho, Ashok Choudhary, Lee Cormie, Jeff Corntassel, Laurence Cox, Guillermo Delgado-P, Andre Drainville, David Featherstone, Christopher Gunderson, Emilie Hayes, Francois Houtart, Fouad Kalouche, Alex Khasnabish, Xochitl Leyva Solano, Roma Malik, David McNally, Roel Meijer, Eric Mielants, Peter North, Shailja Patel, Emir Sader, Andrea Smith, Anand Teltumbde, James Toth, Virginia Vargas, and Peter Waterman.

Sujets

• Labor relations
• JUSTICE
• Capitalism
• Activism
• Ecology

Informations

• Publié par: PM Press
• Date de parution: 01 septembre 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781629633206
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Praise
This collection offers a thought-provoking opportunity to parse multiplicities and recent directions in global justice organizing. Sen s framing in this book sets us up to take stock of two decades of social and political movement in terms of dynamic motion: Not only as strategy and organization, but as kinaesthetic experience, embodied transformation through space and time. The nuanced, critical emphases on indigeneity, spirituality, gender, and ecology, rich with specificity and insight, locate us unmistakably in our present moment with its lessons gleaned of recent history and praxis, even while bringing us full circle to the themes introduced an unbelievable twenty years ago. We shall not be moved. We shall move. We shall keep moving.
-Maia Ramnath, teacher, writer, activist, and dancer/aerialist; author of Decolonizing Anarchism
An important contribution to a developing internationalism that doesn t assume that the North Atlantic left has all the answers for the rest of the world and which recognizes that emancipatory ideas and practices are often forged from below. Refreshingly free of tired dogmas, non-sectarian, taking internationalism seriously, and reaching back to 1968, the book provides a bracing window into some of the central ideas to have emerged from within movements in the sequence of struggle that unfolded from 2006 to 2010. This book will be useful for activists and intellectuals in movement-be they in universities, parties, trade unions, social movements, or religious organisations-around the world.
-Richard Pithouse, researcher and lecturer in politics, Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Someone once suggested that movement cannot be thought, it has to be lived. In other words, social movements-the coming together in processes that build the power to bring about change-stem not from any kind of blueprint that can set out an ideal for the world we ought to live in, nor can there be a simple step-by-step guide on how to get there. At the same time, there can t be movement without a collective effort to understand the shared and embodied experiences that constitute it, along with the problems, concerns, and trajectories that arise in struggle. It s this kind of critical reflection that the authors assembled in this volume undertake, providing intelligent and engaged analyses that avoid any stifling dichotomies, whether between theory and practice, activism and academia, or indeed between thinking and feeling. Possible futures, right now in the making, become legible in how The Movements of Movements doesn t shy away from the complex and unsettling issues that shape our time, while thinking through struggles for social and ecological justice in the wider contexts of their past and present.
-Emma Dowling, Senior Researcher in Political Sociology at the Institute for Sociology, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany

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Editor: Jai Sen
Contributing Editor: Peter Waterman
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This book is dedicated to
Peter Waterman
(January 26 1936-June 17 2017)
Friend, comrade, compa ero, and fellow birthday bearer for the past thirty-five years;
labour internationalist, cyberian, feminist, and feisty and fearless, always.
And to his indomitable spirit and infectious humour-and to the optimism of his will.
May those live on forever!
JS
Contents
Acknowledgements and Credits
0 INVOCATIONS
What Moves Us
Shailja Patel
The Movements of Movements: An Introduction and an Exploration
Jai Sen
1 MOVEMENTSCAPES
From the Mountains of Chiapas to the Streets of Seattle: This Is What Democracy Looks Like
David McNally
Anti-Systemic Movements and Transformations of the World-System, 1968-1989
Fouad Kalouche and Eric Mielants
Beyond Altermondialisme : Anti-Capitalist Dialectic of Presence
Andr C Drainville
Storming Heaven: Where Has the Rage Gone?
Tariq Ali
Being Indigenous: Resurgences Against Contemporary Colonialism
Taiaiake Alfred and Jeff Corntassel
Indigenous Feminism and the Heteropatriarchal State
Andrea Smith
Geopolitics of Knowledge and the Neo-Zapatista Social Movement Networks
Xochitl Leyva Solano
2 THE MOVEMENTS OF MOVEMENTS: STRUGGLES FOR OTHER WORLDS
Dalits, Anti-Imperialist Consciousness, and the Annihilation of Caste
Anand Teltumbde
Rethinking Self-Determination: Lessons from the Indigenous-Rights Discourse
Jeff Corntassel
The Tapestry of Neo-Zapatismo: Origins and Development
Xochitl Leyva Solano and Christopher Gunderson
Ecological Justice and Forest Rights Movements in India: State and Militancy-New Challenges
Roma and Ashok Choudhary
Open Space in Movement: Reading Three Waves of Feminism
Emilie Hayes
International Feminisms: New Syntheses, New Directions
Virginia Vargas
Re-Creating the World: Communities of Faith in the Struggles for Other Possible Worlds
Lee Cormie
Mahmoud Mohamed Taha: Islamic Witness in the Contemporary World
Fran ois Houtart
Local Islam Gone Global: The Roots of Religious Militancy in Egypt and Its Transnational Transformation
James Toth
Fighting for Another World: Yusuf al- Uyairi and His Conceptualisation of Praxis and the Permanent Salafi Revolution
Roel Meijer
The Networked Internationalism of Labour s Others
Peter Waterman
From Anti-Imperialist to Anti-Empire: The Crystallisation of the Anti-Globalisation Movement in South Korea
Cho Hee-Yeon
The Weakest Link? Neoliberalism in Latin America
Emir Sader
The Return of Strategy
Daniel Bensa d
Localisation as Radical Praxis and the New Politics of Climate Change
Peter North and David Featherstone
Refounding Bolivia: Exploring the Possibility and Paradox of a Social Movements State
Guillermo Delgado-P
Forward Dreaming: Zapatismo and the Radical Imagination
Alex Khasnabish
Afterword: Learning to Be Loyal to Each Other: Conversations, Alliances, and Arguments in the Movements of Movements
Laurence Cox
Recommended Web Pages and Blogs
Notes on the Editors and Contributors
Index
Acknowledgements and Credits for The Movements of Movements, Part 1: What Makes Us Move?
Jai Sen
Content Editors
Beyond the features discussed in the Introduction, an important background feature of this book (and of all the books in the Challenging Empires series to which this book belongs) has again been the intensive and extensive background work that has gone into the preparation and finalisation of the essays we are publishing. The Content Editors for this book-and I as editor-have tried to work closely with our authors in helping them more fully develop and articulate their ideas, and I have therefore of course been very happy indeed that so many of our authors have appreciated this and said that they have rarely experienced this degree of attention. Most of the credit for this goes to our Content Editors, Parvati Sharma and Vipul Rikhi, and I warmly thank them for their contributions to making this book what it is.
Since this book is being published in two parts-see the Introduction-I here list acknowledgements and credits only for the material in Part 1. The chapters are listed here in alphabetical order by the author s surname:
Parvati Sharma, for:
James Toth-Local Islam Gone Global: The Roots of Religious Militancy in Egypt and its Transnational Transformation
Parvati Sharma and Jai Sen, for:
Daniel Bensa d-The Return of Strategy
Cho Hee-Yeon-From Anti-Imperialist to Anti-Empire: The Crystallisation of the Anti-Globalisation Movement in South Korea
Lee Cormie-Re-Creating the World: Communities of Faith in the Struggles for Other Possible Worlds
Jeff Corntassel-Rethinking Self-Determination: Lessons from the Indigenous-Rights Discourse
Guillermo Delgado-P-Refounding Bolivia: Exploring the Possibility and Paradox of a Social Movements State
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