Exploring Social Movements

This book introduces the readers to the dynamics of various kinds of social movements. It examines how social movements have become an instrument of social change including assertion of identity and protest against marginalization.

Autorentext

Biswajit Ghosh has recently retired as the Vice Chancellor of The University of Burdwan, West Bengal. Being a Professor of Sociology, he taught, supervised, and conducted research on certain emergent issues of the discipline of Sociology for 37 years. He studied in The University of Calcutta and Jawaharlal Nehru University. He also served as a Visiting Faculty in many universities. He has authored 107 articles, including reviews, e-contents, and study modules, and written three major policy documents of UNICEF, Govt. of West Bengal, and Save the Children. He has edited/written the following five books: Social Movement: Concepts, Issues and Experiences from India (2020), Methodology of Research in Sociology (2018, Inflibnet e-book), Social Movements (2018, Inflibnet e-book), Interrogating Development: Discourses on Development in India Today (2012), and Pariveshvidya (2012, The University of Burdwan). He was a Module Coordinator of UGC E-Pathshala e-content on Research Methodology and Social Movement Courses in Sociology. He is in the editorial board of many reputed journals.

Inhalt

List of Boxes vii

List of Tables ix

List of Figures x

List of Contributors xi

Preface and Acknowledgements xv

PART I

Social Movements: Conceptual Dimensions 1

1 Understanding Social Movements: Conceptual and Theoretical Issues 3

BISWAJIT GHOSH AND RABINDRA GARADA

2 Typology of Social Movements 31

JYOTIPRASAD CHATTERJEE

3 Intrinsic Dynamics of State, Market, and Social Movements 57

SUBHASIS BANDYOPADHYAY

4 Social Change through Social Movements: Role of Leadership and Ideology 75

SWATAHSIDDHA SARKAR

5 Kernel of Social and Protest Movements in Liberal Democracy 95

RABINDRA GARADA

PART II

Social Movements in India 119

6 From Peasant to Farmers' Movement: The Changing Agrarian Dynamics in India 121

JYOTIPRASAD CHATTERJEE

7 Tribal Movements in Colonial and Post-Colonial India 148

CHANDAN KUMAR SHARMA AND BHASWATI BORGOHAIN

8 Movements of Radical Marxists: From Naxalism to Maoism 173

BISWAJIT GHOSH

9 Dalit Movements: Typologies and Trajectories 194

VIVEK KUMAR

10 Movements of Organised and Unorganised Labour 215

BISWAJIT GHOSH AND TANIMA CHOUDHURI

11 A Trajectory of Women's Movement in India 238

RITU SEN CHAUDHURI

12 Ethnic Movements 261

BISWAJIT GHOSH

13 Intractable Conflicts: Environmental Struggles in Neoliberal India 285

SHOMA CHOUDHURY LAHIRI

PART III

Globalisation and Social Movements 305

14 Globalisation, Technology, Media, and Social Movements 307

STHITAPRAGYAN RAY AND NEHA OJHA

15 Genealogies of Queer Activism Around the Globe 326

BANHISHIKHA GHOSH

16 Rise of New Religious Movements in the Global Scenario 349

RAJEEV DUBEY

17 Anti-systemic Movements from Global to Local: Concepts, Frameworks, and Practice 367

SUMIT SAURABH SRIVASTAVA

18 Displacement, Development, and Movements: Contemporary Concerns 386

PANKAJ KUMAR

19 Anti-globalisation Movements 407

SHWETA SHUKLA

Index 431