Organizing equality : dispatches from a global struggle / edited by Alison Hearn [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hearn, Alison, editor.

Series:

McGill-Queen's studies in protest, power, and resistance.

McGill-Queen's Studies in Protest, Power, and Resistance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Equality--Case studies.

Equality.

Social movements--Case studies.

Social movements.

Genre:

Case studies.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]

Summary:

Organizing Equality engages activist and scholarly debates about the organization of social and economic equality movements around the globe. The collection highlights a myriad of issues, approaches, and experiences, forging a link between critical scholarly studies and artistic works that offer more personal and hands-on perspectives.

Contents:

Cover

ORGANIZING EQUALITY

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Organizing Equality: Crises, Contexts,and Possibilities

PART ONE | GLOBAL FORCES AND NATIONAL TRADITIONS

1: How Do We Create a People? Rethinking Resistance, Solidarity, and Transformation in the European South

2: Class versus Caste: The Conundrum of Dalit Politics and the Communist Movement in India (1926-2016)

3: Community Resistance to Mining in the Lower Aguán Valley: The Struggle for Land and the Roots of Inequality, Violence,and Repression in Honduras

PART TWO | RESISTING WORK AND DEBT

4: Against Debt's Digital Empire: Exploring the Connections between Race, Technology, and Global Financial Regimes

5: Into the Weeds: Political Organizing as Theory

6: Organizing Dark Matter: W.A.G.E. as Alternative Worker Organization

PART THREE | AFFECTIVE STRATEGIES AND HEALING JUSTICE

7: Rising from Survival to Social Justice: Converging Media and Social Movements in India

8: Beyond the Pavement

9: The Immaterial Commons: Sustaining Intersectional Horizontalism through Affective Digital Labour

10: Indigenization: Carrying Indigenous Knowledge into the Academy

PART FOUR | REASON AND PASSION - FINAL REFLECTIONS

11: Reducing Inequality: An Essential Step for Development and Well-Being

Dear Fetid Mass (On Diversity)

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780228012900

0228012902

9780228012894

0228012899

OCLC:

1313643286