South Asian Activists in the Global Justice Movement

Eva-Maria Hardtmann

During the last decade a large number of volumes have been written about the Global Justice Movement and the Occupy movement. However, few of these have been based on fieldwork and even fewer focused on transnational activism in South Asia and Japan. This book aims to bridge this gap.
This volume contributes to the discussion about the Global Justice Movement and the World Social Forum process by providing ethnographical examples from South Asia and Japan.
It provides a unique perspective on traditions of protest, ethics, organizational forms and visions among activists than is usually presented in the literature on the Global Justice Movement, which to a large extent is focused on Latin America, the US and Europe.

South Asian Activists in the Global Justice Movement

Eva-Maria Hardtmann

Description

This work is a well-researched study of the last decades of the networks in the Global Justice Movement (GJM) and World Social Forums. It offers a novel perspective on the traditions of protest, ethics, organizational forms, and visions among activists than is usually presented in the literature on GJM, which largely focuses on Latin America, the United States of America, and Europe. It is an ethnographically rooted account of the two conflicting discourses-one among activists in GJM and the other emanating from the World Bank-that have become intertwined locally within the same circle of activists. The author argues that local and transnational activist networks, no longer spatially and territorially limited, have become entangled with forces understood under the paradigms of 'neoliberalism', and relations among activists have changed in unexpected ways. Through a vivid description of transnational movements, this book aims to make evident the not-so-obvious yet intricate links between the World Bank, the United Nations, popular rock stars, and historical knowledge production among activists in South Asia and Japan in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

South Asian Activists in the Global Justice Movement

Eva-Maria Hardtmann

Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
1: Introduction
2: The Global Justice Movement and Occupy: Ethics, Visions, and Networking Logics
3: The Logical Ethics of a âNeoliberal Bricolageâ: The World Bank, the UN, and the Rock Stars
4: Dalits and Burakumin: Knowledge Production in the Early Protest Movements
5: Dalits in the World Social Forums
6: South Asian Dalit Feminism: The Intricate Local Practices of Transnational Networking
7: Conclusion: Place Matters
References
Index
About the Author