<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">CONTACT:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Zed Books, The Foundry, 17 Oval Way, London SE11 5RR Tel: 020 3752 5833</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Email: </span><a href="mailto:sales@zedbooks.net" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">sales@zedbooks.net</a><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">******************</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">*Beyond Colonialism, Development and Globalization**</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">*/*Social Movements and Critical Perspectives*/</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Edited by Dominique Caouette and Dip Kapoor</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Development studies is in a state of flux. A new generation of scholars</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">has come to reject what was once regarded as accepted wisdom, and</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">increasingly regard development and globalization as part of a continuum</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">with colonialism, premised on the same reductionist assumption that</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">progress and growth are objective facts that can be fostered, measured,</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">assessed and controlled. Drawing on a variety of theoretical</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">perspectives and approaches, this book explores the ways in which social</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">movements in the Global South are rejecting Western-centric notions of</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">development and modernization, as well as creating their own</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">alternatives. By assessing development theories from the perspective of</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">subaltern groups and movements, the contributors posit a new notion of</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">development ‘from below’, one in which these movements provide new ways</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">of imagining social transformation, and a way out of the ‘developmental</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">dead end’ that has so far characterized post-development approaches.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Beyond Colonialism, Development and Globalization therefore represents a</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">radical break with the prevailing narrative of modernization, and points</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">to a bold new direction for development studies.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">*Reviews*</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">‘A brilliant book that brings together fascinating studies on a range of</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">key social movements. It will be extremely useful to academics and</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">activists worldwide.’ ~ Saturino Borras, International Institute of</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Social Studies, The Hague</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">‘The poor, excluded, and outcast who are the supposed beneficiaries of</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">development have rarely been afford the chance to have their voices</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">heard, let alone valued, in shaping what development means. The</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">anthology of experiences in this collection is a powerful corrective to</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">this lacuna. A moving and inspiring book which demands to be read.’ ~</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Jim Crowther, University of Edinburgh</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">‘Caouette and Kapoor have assembled a rich set of case studies of</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">socio-cultural struggles in the global South. This book offers a</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">significant new perspective on the generation of alternative knowledges</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">in local encounters of global processes.’ ~ Philip McMichael, Cornell</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">University</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">‘Centres Indigenous critiques to inject new urgency into debates over</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">development and globalization, as resurgent social movements question</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">modernity itself. Places the current day struggles of the South firmly</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">in a decolonizing frame.’ ~ Clare Land, author of Decolonizing Solidarity</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">‘This excellent volume discusses and debunks dominant discourses of</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">"development" from a southern, subaltern and decolonising perspective.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">This is a much needed book – emancipatory in conception,</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">grassroots-oriented, inspiring and revealing!’ ~ Peter Mayo, author of</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Politics of Indignation</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">*Table of Contents*</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">1. Beyond Colonialism, Development and Globalization: Social Movements</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">and Critical Perspectives by Dominique Caouette & Dip Kapoor</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">/*Part I: Indigenous and Peasant Movement Perspectives*/</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">2. Subaltern Social Movement Post-Mortems of Development in India: Rural</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Dispossession, Trans-local Activism and Subaltern Re-visitations by Dip</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Kapoor</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">3. Democratic Hopes, Neoliberal Transnational Government(re)ality:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Grounded Social Movements and the Defence of Communal Natural Resources</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">in Ghana by Jonathan Langdon</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">4. Indigenous Movement Politics in Bolivia: Forging New Citizens of a</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Plurinational and Decolonized State by Stéphanie Rousseau</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">/*Part II: Acting across Borders*/</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">5. What are Peasants Saying about Development? La Vía Campesina and Food</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Sovereignty by Annette Aurélie Desmarais</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">6. Debunking the Productivist Myth: Food Sovereignty Movements by Eric</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">G. Chaurette & Beatriz Oliver</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">7. Neoliberal Immigration and Temporary Foreign Worker Programs in a</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Time of Economic Crisis: Local/Global Struggles by Aziz Choudry</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">8. Working for a Day Off: Advocating for the Rights of Migrant Women in</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Southeast Asia by Michele Ford & Lenore Lyons</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">9. The Alter-globalization Movement: A New Humanism? The Case of the</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">World Social Forum by Kléber Ghimire</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">/*Part III: Reflections on Critical Knowledge, Culture and Pedagogy*/</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">10. Liberating Development from the Rule of an Episteme by Dia da Costa</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">11. Neoliberal Globalization as the Settler Colonialism the Remix:</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Centring Indigenous Resistance and Resurgence by Sandy Grande & Naadli</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">(Todd Ormiston)</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">12. Globalization, Culture and Development: Perspectives on Africa by</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Ali A. Abdi</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">13. Learning, Knowledge and Action in Social Movements by Brian K. Murphy</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">14. 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