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Rising Powers, People Rising is a pathbreaking volume in which leading international scholars discuss the emerging political economy of development in the BRICS countries centred on neo-liberalization, precarity, and popular struggles.
List of contents
Introduction: Rising powers, people rising: neo-liberalization and its discontents in the BRICS countries
Alf Gunvald Nilsen and Karl von Holdt
1. China’s precariats
Ching Kwan Lee
2. Social mobilizations and the question of social justice in contemporary Russia
Karine Clement
3. Mapping movement landscapes in South Africa
Karl von Boldt and Prishani Naidoo
4. Uncovering a politics of livelihoods: analysing displacement and contention in contemporary India
Gayatri A. Menon and Aparna Sundar
5. A precarious hegemony: neoliberalism, social struggles, and the end of Lulismo in Brazil
Ruy Braga and Sean Purdy
6. Neo-development of underdevelopment: Brazil and the political economy of South American integration under the Workers’ Party
Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos
About the author
Alf Gunvald Nilsen is Professor of Sociology at the University of Pretoria. His research focuses on the political economy of democracy and development in the Global South. His most recent books are Adivasis and the State: Subalternity and Citizenship in India’s Bhil Heartland (2018) and Indian Democracy: Origins, Trajectories, Contestations (2019).
Karl von Holdt is Professor in the Society, Work and Politics Institute, University of the Witwatersrand. Publications include Transition from Below: Forging Trade Unionism and Workplace Change in South Africa; Conversations with Bourdieu: The Johannesburg Moment (with Michael Burawoy); and Beyond the Apartheid Workplace: Studies in Transition, co-edited with Edward Webster, as well as numerous articles. His research interests centre on movements, democracy, corruption, and violence.
Summary
Rising Powers, People Rising is a pathbreaking volume in which leading international scholars discuss the emerging political economy of development in the BRICS countries centred on neo-liberalization, precarity, and popular struggles.
