Protest and Social Movements in the Developing World  

Co-publication with Other Foreign Publishers

Edward Elgar

In this insightful book, the contributors focus on the impact of contextual factors on social movements in the developing world, pushing major existing theories beyond their traditional focus. With wide coverage of the developing world, leading academics explore a variety of forms and mechanisms of social movement. They present discussions on resource and institutional endowment for mobilization in Colombia and Thailand, and explore the structure behind political opportunities in Argentina, China and South Africa. The history and reality of identity-making in India, Mexico and Nigeria are also examined. Presenting novel analytical frameworks to study social movements in developing countries, this book will be warmly welcomed by academics and researchers with an interest in sociology, development and political science. It will also strongly appeal to social movement activists. ‘Protest and Social Movements in the Developing World is aimed at scholars and social movement activists. Its innovative framework brings a fresh angle to the academic debate on social movements, whilst its meticulous empirical detail will appeal to those involved in a wide variety of social movements. In this sense, Protest and Social Movements in the Developing World will enjoy a warm reception amongst its target audience. . . A useful book for those already well versed in this field.’ – World Entrepreneurship Society ‘Shinichi Shigetomi and Kumiko Makino have produced an important book, global in scope and incisive in its analysis of social movements in different parts of the world. It will be a major resource for scholars everywhere.’ – James Midgley, University of California, Berkeley, US

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■ Protest and Social Movements in the Developing World
■ Edited by SHIGETOMI Shinichi and MAKINO Kumiko
■ £65.00
■ 246pp
■ 2009
■ ISBN978-1-84844-362-4

CONTENTS
Preface

1. Rethinking Theories on Social Movements and Development
Shinichi Shigetomi

PART I: RESOURCE AND INSTITUTIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR MOBILIZATION

2. Community-based Local Development and the Peace nitiative of the PDPMM in Colombia: Resource Mobilization under Extreme Conditions
Noriko Hataya

3. Institutional Readiness and Resource Dependence of Social Movements: The Case of Provincial Development Forums in Thailand
Shinichi Shigetomi

PART II: STRUCTURE BEHIND POLITICAL OPPORTUNITIES

4. Strategies for Fragmentary Opportunities and Limited Resources: The Environmental Protest Movement under Communist China in Transition
Kenji Otsuka

5. Institutional Conditions for Social Movements to Engage in Formal Politics: The Case of AIDS Activism in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Kumiko Makino

6. Rethinking Political Opportunity Structure in the Argentine Unemployed and Poor People’s Movement
Koichi Usami

PART III: HISTORY AND REALITY FOR FRAME- AND IDENTITY-MAKING

7. Dynamics of Ideal Values and Social Movement in a Corporatist State: Mexican Indigenous Peoples’ Movements and a Village’s Challenge
Akio Yonemura

8. Competition and Framing in the Women’s Movement in India
Mayumi Murayama

9. Opposition Movements and the Youth in Nigeria’s Oil-Producing Area: An Inquiry into Framing
Katsuya Mochizuki

PART IV: CONCLUSION

10. Resources, Organizations and Institutions: Intermediaries for Social Movements in Development Context
Kumiko Makino and Shinichi Shigetomi

Index