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Urban Revolt

State Power and the Rise of People's Movements in the Global South

Author: Immanuel Ness, Luke Sinwell and Trevor Nganwe  

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Reviews in Truthout, In These Times, Labor Notes, International Viewpoint, Historical Materialism, International Socialist Review, Jacobin, and other left-wing journals.Reviews in international relations and urban studies journals.Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the editors' and contributors' speaking engagements.

Through detailed case studies, Urban Revolt unravels the potential and limitations of urban social movements on an international level.

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Reviews in Truthout, In These Times, Labor Notes, International Viewpoint, Historical Materialism, International Socialist Review, Jacobin, and other left-wing journals.Reviews in international relations and urban studies journals.Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the editors' and contributors' speaking engagements.

Through detailed case studies, Urban Revolt unravels the potential and limitations of urban social movements on an international level.

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The urban poor and working class now make up the majority of the world’s population and this segment is growing dramatically as the global population expands to 10 billion by mid-century. Much of the population growth results from the displacement of rural peasants to the urban cores, resulting in the vast expansion of mega-cities with 10 to 20 million people in the global South. The proliferation of informal settlements and slums particularly in the global south have created the conditions in which urban areas have become the principal sites of social upheaval as people seek to improve their living conditions. Drawing from case studies in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, the various chapters in this book map and analyze the ways in which the majority of the world exists and struggles in the contemporary urban context.
Advancing beyond a liberal perspective, the book unpacks the ways in which Urban Social Movements (USMs) in the global south have challenged or transformed how the city is organized and the possibilities that they have created for a revolutionary alternative to the capitalist hegemonic framework.

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Critic Reviews

“"A superb addition to the literature on the contemporary global crisis and its micro manifestations." --Patrick Bond, BRICS: An Anticapitalist Critique "What emerges from this collection is a complex picture of resistance, which nevertheless provides nuanced hope for a universalist project of social transformation.... The result is often a refreshing and accessible journey into urban revolts that the reader may have less familiarity." --Leo Zeilig, Struggles Today: Social Movements Since Independence”

"A superb addition to the literature on the contemporary global crisis and its micro manifestations."—Patrick Bond, BRICS: An Anticapitalist Critique"What emerges from this collection is a complex picture of resistance, which nevertheless provides nuanced hope for a universalist project of social transformation.... The result is often a refreshing and accessible journey into urban revolts that the reader may have less familiarity."—Leo Zeilig, Struggles Today: Social Movements Since Independence“Read this to be inspired by stories of city-based resistance in some of the most difficult conditions possible.” –Socialist Review
"A superb addition to the literature on the contemporary global crisis and its micro manifestations."—Patrick Bond, BRICS: An Anticapitalist Critique"What emerges from this collection is a complex picture of resistance, which nevertheless provides nuanced hope for a universalist project of social transformation.... The result is often a refreshing and accessible journey into urban revolts that the reader may have less familiarity."—Leo Zeilig, Struggles Today: Social Movements Since Independence

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About the Author

Trevor Ngwane: Trevor Ngwane is a scholar activist who has over the years devoted as much time to academic work as to community and political activism. He studied at the University of Fort Hare during the apartheid days for four years and did not graduate due to various “student disturbances”. He obtained his BA (Sociology and Psychology) degree through theUniversity of South Africa and his BA Honours (Sociology) at the University of the Witwatersrand and PhD at the University of Johannesburg (2016) For two decades he has been active in the trade unions, social movements and political organisations as an organiser and militant, a period that spanned the transition from apartheid to a democratic society. He was also involved in the international movement for social and economic justice and was active for several years in the African Social Forum, a component of the World Social Forum. In 2011 he obtained his MA at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s School of Development Studies and is currently reading for a PhD at the University of Johannesburg where he is attached to the Research Chair for Social Change in which he is a researcher in the Rebellion of the Poor protest monitoring and database compilation project. Ngwane is currently active in the Socialist Group, Democratic Left Front and United Front, organisations that seek a pro-working class pro-poor future for South Africa and the world.Immanuel Ness: Immanuel Ness, PhD, is professor of political science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. His research focuses on working class mobilization, Global South workers, migration, resistance and social movements. Ness is author of Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class (Pluto, 2015); Guest Workers and Resistance to US Corporate Despotism (University of Illinois 2011) and Immigrants, Unions, and the U.S. Labor Market (Temple University Press 2005). He is General Editor with Peter Bellwood of Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, 5 volumes (2013). He is finishing a book on migration and inequality in the Global South. Ness is editor of New Forms of Worker Organization (Oakland: PM Press) and co-editor with Dario Azzellini of Ours to Master and to Own: Worker Control from the Commune to the Present (Haymarket 2011). He is editor of the peer-review quarterly journal, Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society.Luke Sinwell: Luke Sinwell, Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa, PhD, is currently a Senior Researcher with the South African Research Chair in Social Change, University of Johannesburg. His research interests include the politics and conceptualisation of participatory development and governance, social movements and housing struggles, direct action as a method to transform power relations, ethnographic research methods and action research. Luke is the author of several chapters in books and has published in a range of academic journals. He is a co-author of Marikana: A View from the Mountain and a Case to Answer (Jacana 2012, Bookmarks and Ohio University Press 2013) and the co-editor of Contesting Transformation: Popular Resistance in Twenty-First Century South Africa (Pluto Press 2012).

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The urban poor and working class now make up the majority of the world's population and this segment is growing dramatically as the global population expands to 10 billion by mid-century. Much of the population growth results from the displacement of rural peasants to the urban cores, resulting in the vast expansion of mega-cities with 10 to 20 million people in the global South. The proliferation of informal settlements and slums particularly in the global south have created the conditions in which urban areas have become the principal sites of social upheaval as people seek to improve their living conditions. Drawing from case studies in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, the various chapters in this book map and analyze the ways in which the majority of the world exists and struggles in the contemporary urban context. Advancing beyond a liberal perspective, the book unpacks the ways in which Urban Social Movements (USMs) in the global south have challenged or transformed how the city is organized and the possibilities that they have created for a revolutionary alternative to the capitalist hegemonic framework.

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Product Details

Publisher
Haymarket Books
Published
6th June 2017
Pages
320
ISBN
9781608467136

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