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"The world is currently witnessing the emergence of a new context for education, labor, and transformative social movements. Global flows of people, capital, and energy increasingly define the world we live in. The multinational corporation, with its pursuit of ever-cheaper sources of labor and materials and its disregard for human life, is the dominant form of economic organization, where capital can cross borders, but people can't. Affirmative action, democracy, and human rights are moving in from the margins to challenge capitalist priorities of "efficiency", i.e. exploitation. In some places, the representatives of popular movements are actually taking the reins of state power. Across the globe new progressive movements are emerging to bridge national identities and boundaries, in solidarity with transnational class, gender, and ethnic struggles"--

This study describes and analyses the new social movements that have arisen in India over the past two decades, in particular the anti-caste movement (of both the untouchables and the lower-middle castes), the women's liberation movement, the farmers' movement (centred on struggles arising out of their integration into a state-controlled capitalist market), and the environmental movements (opposition to destructive development, including resistance to big dam projects and the search for alternatives). Rooted in participant observation, it focuses on the ideologies and self-understanding of the movements themselves. The central themes of this book are the origin of movements in the socio-economic contradictions of post-independence India; their effect on political developments, in particular the disintegration of Congress hegemony; their relation to "traditional Marxist" theory and Communist practice; and their groping toward a synthesis of theory and practice that constitutes a new social vision distinct from traditional Marxism.

Inspired to contribute to the symbiotic relationship between the academic and activist worlds, Day has decided to pick up the pen instead of the Molotov cocktail. The result is this brilliant book. Ann Hansen: Ann was sentenced to life imprisonment for blowing up a cruise-missile component factory, and is the author of Direct Action: The Memoirs of an Urban Guerilla. Gramsci and the concept of hegemony cast a long shadow over radical political theory. Yet how far has this theory got us? Is it still central to feminism, anti-capitalism, anti-racism, anarchism, and other radical social movements today? Unlike previous revolutionary movements, Day argues, most contemporary radical social movements do not strive to take control of the state. Instead, they attempt to develop new forms of self-organisation that can run in parallel with -- or as alternatives to -- existing forms of social, political, and economic organization. This is to say that they follow a logic of affinity rather than one of hegemony. This book draws together a variety of different strands in political theory to weave together aninnovative new approach to politics today. Rigorous and wide-ranging, Day introduces and interrogates key concepts. From Hegel's concept of recognition, through theories of hegemony and affinity to Hardt and Negri's reflections on Empire, Day maps academia's theoretical and philosophical concerns onto today's politics of the street. Ideal for all students of political theory, Day's fresh approach combines Marxist, Anarchist and 'Post-structuralist theory to shed new light on the politics and practice of contemporary social' movements

Why organize? -- Labor revival: what would it take? -- The New Deal system: employer offensive, labor response -- Gender styles and union issues -- New tactics, community, and color -- Neoliberal globalization -- Code of conduct and living wage campaigns -- A new upsurge?

European social movements have been central to European history, politics, society and culture, and have had a global reach and impact. Yet they have rarely been taken on their own terms in the English-language literature, considered rather as counterpoints to the US experience. This has been exacerbated by the failure of Anglophone social movement theorists to pay attention to the substantial literatures in languages such as French, German, Spanish or Italian - and by the increasing global dominance of English in the production of news and other forms of media.This book sets

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I. A New View of Hate-Motivated Violence -- 1 Introduction -- The Social Problem of Hate-Motivated Violence -- Social Problems and Victimization -- Social Movements and Collective Action Frames -- New Institutionalism and the Diffusion of Cultural Forms -- Empirical Focus and Data Collection -- Method of Analysis -- Overview of the Book -- 2 New Discourse on Violence and the Production of Hate Crimes -- A History of Violence -- The Convergence of New Social Movements -- SMOs and Newfound Attention to an Old Problem -- The Politics of Violence and Attendant Legal Transformations -- The Extension of Victim Status to Multiple Constitutences -- II. Violence Against Gays and Lesbians -- 3 Discovering and Expanding the Domain -- Antigay and Lesbian Violence -- The Establishment of Gay- and Lesbian-Sponsored Antiviolence Projects -- Coalition-Building around Intolerance -- Discovering and Documenting Violence -- Publicizing and Epidemic of Antigay and Lesbian Violence -- Expanding the Domain of the Problem -- 4 Framing the Problem -- Data Collection and Beyond -- Crisis Intervention and Victim Assistance -- A New Form of Sexual Terrorism -- Educational Campaigns -- Street Patrols -- The Missing Gender -- Domain Expansion and Framing -- III. Violence Against Women -- 5 Contemporary Antiviolence Against Women Campaigns -- The Feminist Movement's Historic Focus on Violence -- Defining the Organizational Field -- State Coalitions -- National Organizations -- The Institutionalization of Structured Lines of Communication -- Setting the Stage for Innovation and Diffusion of Cultural Forms -- 6 Innovation and Diffusion of the Violence Against Women Act -- Innovation and Diffusion of Cultural Forms -- Violence Against Women, Feminism, and the Law