Chapter
1 | Introduction: mobilization and social movements in the South – the challenges of inclusive governance
The structure of the book, key themes and issues
Mobilization and social movements in the North and South: analytical debates and comparative understandings
The transformative potential of social movements in the South
Globalization, marginalization and social movements
Who speaks for whom? Global social movements in the global political economy
Social movements in the North and South: towards more synthetic understandings
PART ONE | Socio-economic rights and social movements
2 | Social movements and rights claims: the case of action groups in the Niger Delta
Setting the framework: rights and social movements
The Niger Delta in perspective
Rights struggles and the emergence of social movements
The nature of social movements
The rights framework and the future
3 | Why do garment workers in Bangladesh fail to mobilize?
The institutional context and political opportunity structures
Garment manufacturing and the labour contract
Workers’ associations: framing the collective struggle
Workers’ mobilizations and struggles: horizontal participation
4 | Mobilization through litigation: claiming health rights on asbestos issues in South Africa
Litigation and social movements
Context and identity: Prieska and Griquatown
Legal compensation and dissatisfaction
PART TWO | Social movements and global development discourses
5 | Water and rights: state management in South Africa and India
The right to free basic water in South Africa: the ideal and the reality
Violations of rights in India’s Narmada Valley: state policies and community responses
The linkage between ‘bestowed’ rights and ‘claimed’ rights
6 | Environmental activism in Brazil: the rise of a social movement
Formation of environmental groups (1970–85)
The formation of the Brazilian environmental movement
7 | The struggle towards rights and communitarian citizenship: the Zapatista movement in Mexico
Crisis and social movements in Chiapas
Phases of the Zapatista movement
From the Zapatista movement to autonomous rebel government: characteristics, success and challenges
PART THREE | Mobilization, social movements and inclusive governance
8 | Participation, inclusion and development under conditions of social mobilization
About social participation and development
History, social mobilization and conflicts in the Vale do Ribeira
Participation, dams and development
9 | Popular mobilization, party dominance and participatory governance in South Africa
Theorizing state–society relations through invented and invited spaces
Invented spaces: the changing patterns of popular mobilization in South Africa
Invited spaces: ‘participatory governance’ and local government reform
Popular mobilization and ‘participatory governance’ in Msunduzi and eThekwini
Msunduzi 2001–06: the sleepy hollow
eThekwini 2001–06: the neoliberal battleground
10 | Contesting development, reinventing democracy: grassroots social movements in India
Development and dominance: birth of a people’s movement
The deepening democracy tasks the movements perform
11 | Social mobilization in Cape Town: a tale of two communities
The space economy of Cape Town
The Green Point Common Association
The Coalition for Langa Community Concerns
Citizenship and Social Movements
：Perspectives from the Global South
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