Research, Political Engagement and Dispossession - Indigenous, Peasant and Urban Poor Activisms in the Americas and Asia

This collection considers academic research engagements with indigenous, small peasant, urban poor and labour social activism against colonial capitalist dispossession and exploitation in Asia and the Americas.Bringing together contributors from a range of different disciplines, demonstrates how research done for and with these struggles against dispossession by mining, agribusiness plantations, conversation schemes, land-forest grabs, water projects, industrial disasters and the exploitation of workers and forced migrants, can make productive contributions towards advancing their social and political prospects.>

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• Authors: Steven Jordan, Dip Kapoor, Dip Jordan Kapoor
• Assisted by: Steven Jordan (Editor), Jordan Steven (Editor), Dip Kapoor (Editor), Kapoor Dip (Editor)
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781786994417
• ISBN: 978-1-78699-441-7
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Poverty & unemployment, Colonialism & imperialism, Indigenous Peoples, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Colonialism and imperialism, The Americas, Development Studies, Sociology and anthropology, Poverty and precarity, Research methods: general, For higher / tertiary / university education, Political activism / Political engagement, For undergraduate education and equivalents, For graduate / post-graduate and equivalents