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By Lisa Thompson,Chris Tapscott,Professor Chris Tapscott,Eghosa E. Osaghae,Arilson Favareto,Ranjita Mohanty,Laurence Edward Piper,Simeen Mahmud,Linda Waldman,Lyla Mehta,Angela Alonso,Carlos Cortez Ruiz

Debates over social hobbies have suffered from a predominate specialise in North the US and western Europe, usually neglecting the importance of collective motion within the international South. Citizenship and Social routine seeks to partly redress this imbalance with case stories from Brazil, India, Bangladesh, Mexico, South Africa and Nigeria.

This quantity issues to the advanced relationships that impression mobilization and social activities within the South, suggesting that past theories have underplayed the impact of country strength and elite dominance within the govt and in NGOs.

As the participants to this ebook essentially convey, realizing the function of the country relating to social routine is necessary to picking whilst collective motion can fulfil the promise of bringing the rights of the marginalized to the fore.

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Citizenship and Social Movements: Perspectives from the Global South (Claiming Citizenship) by Lisa Thompson,Chris Tapscott,Professor Chris Tapscott,Eghosa E. Osaghae,Arilson Favareto,Ranjita Mohanty,Laurence Edward Piper,Simeen Mahmud,Linda Waldman,Lyla Mehta,Angela Alonso,Carlos Cortez Ruiz


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