Social change, resistance and social practices [electronic resource] / edited by Richard A. Dello Buono and David Fasenfest.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dello Buono, Richard Alan.

Fasenfest, David.

Series:

Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 19.

Studies in critical social sciences, 1573-4234 ; v. 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change.

Social movements.

Emigration and immigration.

Transnationalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This collection of works by critical sociologists of various nationalities focuses on cutting-edge approaches to conflict-driven social change. By emphasizing the role played by contemporary social movements such as environmentalists, migrant organizations, world social forum activists and others, these studies grapple with diverse forms of organized resistance in the 21st century. From homeless peoples displaced by Hurricane Katrina to young Muslim women refusing to shun their veils in French schools, the logic of a new generation of protest is deciphered with an eye to learning from as well as informing new social forces demanding progressive change. The result is an affirmation of the continuing relevance of critical sociology in analyzing key social contradictions in the United States, Mexico, and beyond"--P. [4] of cover.

Contents:

Writing the relationship of resistance and social change / R.A. Dello Buono

Environmentalism and the family of anti-systemic movements : toward a global movement of movements? / Matheu Kaneshiro and Kirk Lawrence

New Orleans and the dialectics of post-Katrina reconstruction / A. Kathryn Stout

The social forum process and the praxis of race, class, gender and sexualities / Rose Brewer

A bunch of criminals? : analyzing political armed violence as a social production process / Simon Sottsas

Fifteen years of NAFTA : the impact on rural Mexico / Irma Lorena Acosta Reveles

Power and resistance in post-NAFTA Mexico : transformational and system-stabilizing NGOs / Krista Brumley

As neoliberal crises persist, indigenous-led movements resist : examining the current social and political-economic conjuncture in southern Mexico / Molly Talcott

The production of the "illegal subject" / Nicole Trujillo-Pagan

Migration, transnationalism and post-modernity / Alejandro I. Canales and Israel Montiel Armas

The global structuring of gender, race, and class : conceptual sites of its dynamics and resistance in the Philippine experience / Ligaya Lindio-McGovern

Dismantling the defensive wall of the colonized : the veil and the French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools / Mohammad A. Chaichian.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-245) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-282-95128-9

9786612951282

90-474-4422-1

OCLC:

701103556

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004179936.i-270 DOI