Marxism and Social Movements
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 Hogsbjerg 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