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Organizing EqualityDispatches from a Global Struggle |
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Scholars, activists, and artists report back from the front lines of the global struggle for social and economic equality.
Struggles for equality happen in all corners of the world. While social and economic justice movements are specific to their different national contexts, identities, and forms of oppression, collaboration and coalition building are required if we are to attain sustainable equality and healing justice.
Organizing Equality engages activist and scholarly debates about the organization of social and economic equality movements around the globe. The collection covers a myriad of issues, approaches, and experiences, forging a link between critical scholarly studies and journalistic and artistic works that offer more personal and hands-on perspectives. Moving from a broad discussion of resistance and solidarity, contributors examine case studies in their specific national contexts, such as movement building in Greece, caste politics in India, land struggles in Guatemala, student debt resistance movements in the United States, and the fight to indigenize higher education in Canada.
Organizing Equality encourages understanding and collaboration between opposing views as a means of discovering new practices of seeing, learning, organizing, and being together in our movements for equality.
Organizing Equality engages activist and scholarly debates about the organization of social and economic equality movements around the globe. The collection covers a myriad of issues, approaches, and experiences, forging a link between critical scholarly studies and journalistic and artistic works that offer more personal and hands-on perspectives. Moving from a broad discussion of resistance and solidarity, contributors examine case studies in their specific national contexts, such as movement building in Greece, caste politics in India, land struggles in Guatemala, student debt resistance movements in the United States, and the fight to indigenize higher education in Canada.
Organizing Equality encourages understanding and collaboration between opposing views as a means of discovering new practices of seeing, learning, organizing, and being together in our movements for equality.
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Part of the McGill-Queen's Studies in Protest, Power, and Resistance (number 3 in series)
272 Pages, 6 x 9
1 photo, 1 table
ISBN 9780228011965
August 2022
Formats: Cloth, Paperback, eBook
“Organizing Equality is an excellent, multi-faceted, and very timely collection of essays. It brings together different theoretical perspectives, empirical sociological work, and case studies in interesting and illuminating ways that address the challenges of organizing for social justice and equality within academia and in society more broadly.” Terry Maley, York University
Alison Hearn is associate professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario.
James Compton is associate professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario.
Nick Dyer-Witheford is professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario.
Amanda F. Grzyb is associate professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario.
James Compton is associate professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario.
Nick Dyer-Witheford is professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario.
Amanda F. Grzyb is associate professor in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario.
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Organizing Equality: Crises, Contexts, and Possibilities 3
Alison Hearn, James Compton, Nick Dyer-Witheford,and Amanda Grzyb
Part one | Global Forces and National Traditions
1 How Do We Create a People? Rethinking Resistance, Solidarity, and Transformation in the European South 29
Panagiotis Sotiris
2 Class versus Caste: The Conundrum of Dalit Politics and theCommunist Movement in India (1926-2016) 54
Debayudh Chatterjee
3 Community Resistance to Mining in the Lower Aguán Valley: The Struggle for Land and the Roots of Inequality, Violence, and Repression in Honduras 72
Bernie Hammond, Michael Berghoef, Giada Ferrucci, Amanda Grzyb, Dimitri Lascaris, and Ainhoa Montoya
Part two | Resisting Work and Debt
4 Against Debt’s Digital Empire: Exploring the Connections between Race, Technology, and Global Financial Regimes 99
Max Haiven, Enda Brophy, and Benjamin Anderson
5 Into the Weeds: Political Organizing as Theory 126
Ann Larson
6 Organizing Dark Matter: W.A.G.E. as Alternative Worker Organization 139
Greig de Peuter
Part three | Affective Strategies and Healing Justice
7 Rising from Survival to Social Justice: Converging Media and Social Movements in India 171
Kiran Prasad
8 Beyond the Pavement 191
Lynx Sainte-Marie
9 The Immaterial Commons: Sustaining Intersectional Horizontalism through Affective Digital Labour 198
Sandra Jeppesen, Jaina Kelly, and the Media Action Research Group (marg)
10 Indigenization: Carrying Indigenous Knowledge into the Academy 218
David Newhouse
Part four | Reason and Passion - Final Reflections
11 Reducing Inequality: An Essential Step for Development and Well-Being 233
Kate Pickett
Dear Fetid Mass (On Diversity) 241
David James Hudson and Lisa Baird
Contributors 245
Index 251
Introduction: Organizing Equality: Crises, Contexts, and Possibilities 3
Alison Hearn, James Compton, Nick Dyer-Witheford,and Amanda Grzyb
Part one | Global Forces and National Traditions
1 How Do We Create a People? Rethinking Resistance, Solidarity, and Transformation in the European South 29
Panagiotis Sotiris
2 Class versus Caste: The Conundrum of Dalit Politics and theCommunist Movement in India (1926-2016) 54
Debayudh Chatterjee
3 Community Resistance to Mining in the Lower Aguán Valley: The Struggle for Land and the Roots of Inequality, Violence, and Repression in Honduras 72
Bernie Hammond, Michael Berghoef, Giada Ferrucci, Amanda Grzyb, Dimitri Lascaris, and Ainhoa Montoya
Part two | Resisting Work and Debt
4 Against Debt’s Digital Empire: Exploring the Connections between Race, Technology, and Global Financial Regimes 99
Max Haiven, Enda Brophy, and Benjamin Anderson
5 Into the Weeds: Political Organizing as Theory 126
Ann Larson
6 Organizing Dark Matter: W.A.G.E. as Alternative Worker Organization 139
Greig de Peuter
Part three | Affective Strategies and Healing Justice
7 Rising from Survival to Social Justice: Converging Media and Social Movements in India 171
Kiran Prasad
8 Beyond the Pavement 191
Lynx Sainte-Marie
9 The Immaterial Commons: Sustaining Intersectional Horizontalism through Affective Digital Labour 198
Sandra Jeppesen, Jaina Kelly, and the Media Action Research Group (marg)
10 Indigenization: Carrying Indigenous Knowledge into the Academy 218
David Newhouse
Part four | Reason and Passion - Final Reflections
11 Reducing Inequality: An Essential Step for Development and Well-Being 233
Kate Pickett
Dear Fetid Mass (On Diversity) 241
David James Hudson and Lisa Baird
Contributors 245
Index 251
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