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Social Movements and Protests Against Neoliberal Politics in the Global South
Social Movements and Protests Against Neoliberal Politics in the Global South
Abstract Submissions Closed
Wednesday, 24 February 2021: 10:45-12:15
Location:
RC47 Social Classes and Social Movements (host committee)
Language: English
Session Type: Oral
In many parts of the global South, the 2008 global financial crisis provided an acceleration of ongoing contentious politics. Yet discussions of the so-called post-2010 ‘global’ protest wave have largely excluded the experiences of the south or sought to analyze the experiences of the south in comparative perspective. Nearly a decade after the self-immolation of Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi, an event on African soil, that provided the impetus for protests that would inspire the ‘Arab Spring’ and beyond many other protests against neoliberal capitalism, it is time to reflect on the nature of collective action in disruptive times. This panel seeks contributions that consider transnational networks and resistances against neoliberal politics in the global South. It seeks to answer: How are politics against neoliberalism embedded in social movement practice and politics? To what extent are social movements drawing on repertoires of past collective action, global waves of resistances or developing new ones? How do activists in the global South adopt, reject or reinterpret transnational waves of resistances? How to they affect local activism? Therefore, we want to address the connections, disconnections and interrelations of collective actions, their genealogy, their transnational interlinkages and local adaptations or ambiguity between neoliberal politics and collective action.
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