Marxism and Social Movements

Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-21175-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 46, 476 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 885 g

Reihe: Historical Materialism Book Series

Marxism and Social Movements is the first sustained engagement between social movement theory and Marxist approaches to collective action. The chapters collected here, by leading figures in both fields, discuss the potential for a Marxist theory of social movements; explore the developmental processes and political tensions within movements; set the question in a long historical perspective; and analyse contemporary movements against neo-liberalism and austerity.

Exploring struggles on six continents over 150 years, this collection shows the power of Marxist analysis in relation not only to class politics, labour movements and revolutions but also anti-colonial and anti-racist struggles, community activism and environmental justice, indigenous struggles and anti-austerity protest. It sets a new agenda both for Marxist theory and for movement research.

Contributors include: Paul Blackledge, Marc Blecher, Patrick Bond,Chik Collins, Ralph Darlington, Neil Davidson, Ashwin Desai, Jeff Goodwin, Chris Hesketh, Gabriel Hetland, Elizabeth Humphrys, Christian Høgsbjerg, David McNally, Trevor Ngwane, Heike Schaumberg and Hira Singh.

Zielgruppe

Researchers and postgraduates studying social movements or Marxism within sociology, history, anthropology and political science, as well as social movement activists and laypeople interested in popular politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Barker, Colin

Cox, Laurence

Krinsky, John

Nilsen, Alf Gunvald

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Marxism and Social Movements: An Introduction, Colin Barker, Laurence Cox, John Krinsky and Alf Gunvald Nilsen

PART 1: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS

Marxism and Social Movements

1. Class-Struggle and Social Movements, Colin Barker
2. What Would a Marxist Theory of Social Movements Look Like?, Alf Gunvald Nilsen and Laurence Cox

Social-Movements Studies and its Discontents

3. The Strange Disappearance of Capitalism from Social-Movement Studies, Gabriel Hetland and Jeff Goodwin
4. Marxism and the Politics of Possibility: Beyond Academic Boundaries, John Krinsky

PART 2: HOW SOCIAL MOVEMENTS WORK

Developmental Perspectives on Social Movements

1. Eppur Si Muove: Thinking ‘The Social Movement’, Laurence Cox
2. Class-Formation and the Labour-Movement in Revolutionary China, Marc Blecher
3. Contesting the Postcolonial Development-Project: A Marxist Perspective on Popular Resistance in the Narmada Valley, Alf Gunvald Nilsen

The Politics of Social Movements

4. The Marxist Rank-And-File/Bureaucracy Analysis of Trade-Unionism: Some Implications for the Study of Social-Movement Organisations, Ralph Darlington
5. Defending Place, Remaking Space: Social Movements in Oaxaca and Chiapas, Chris Hesketh
6. Uneven and Combined Marxism within South Africa’s Urban Social Movements, Patrick Bond, Ashwin Desai and Trevor Ngwane

PART 3: SEEING THE BIGGER PICTURE

Comparative-Historical Perspective

1. Thinking About (New) Social Movements: Some Insights from the British Marxist Historians, Paul Blackledge
2. Right-Wing Social Movements: The Political Indeterminacy Of Mass Mobilisation, Neil Davidson
3. Class, Caste, Colonial Rule, And Resistance: The Revolt of 1857 In India, Hira Singh
4. The Black International as Social-Movement Wave: C.L.R. James’s History of Pan-African Revolt, Christian Høgsbjerg

Social Movements against Neoliberalism

5. Language, Marxism and the Grasping of Policy-Agendas: Neoliberalism and Political Voice in Scotland’s Poorest Communities, Chik Collins
6. Organic Intellectuals in the Australian Global-Justice Movement: The Weight of 9/11, Elizabeth Humphrys
7. ‘Disorganisation’ as Social-Movement Tactic: Reappropriating Politics During the Crisis of Neoliberal Capitalism, Heike Schaumberg
8. ‘Unity of The Diverse’: Working-Class Formations and Popular Uprisings From Cochabamba to Cairo, David McNally

References

Über Autor(innen)

Colin Barker is honorary lecturer in sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University. He co-organizes the annual international conferences on Alternative Futures and Popular Protest. He has published many books and articles on social movements and revolutions and is an active socialist.

Laurence Cox, Ph.D. (1999, Trinity College Dublin), co-directs the MA in Community Education, Equality and Social Activism at Maynooth. He co-edits the social movement journal Interface and has also published Understanding European Movements (Routledge, 2013, with Cristina Flesher Fominaya).

John Krinsky, Ph.D. (2002, Columbia University), is associate professor of political science at The City College of New York. He co-edits the journal Social Movement Studies, and published Free Labor: Workfare and the Contested Language of Neoliberalism (Chicago 2007).

Alf Gunvald Nilsen, Ph.D. (2006, Bergen) is associate professor of sociology at the University of Bergen. He co-edits the journal Interface and has published widely on social movements. He is the author of Dispossession and Resistance in India (Routledge, 2010).