{"product_id":"urban-revolt-state-power-and-the-rise-of-peoples-movements-in-the-global-south-paperback","title":"Urban Revolt: State Power and the Rise of People's Movements in the Global South - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTrevor Ngwane\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eImmanuel Ness\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eLuke Sinwell\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe urban poor and working class now make up the majority of the world's population and this segment is growing dramatically as the global population expands to 10 billion by mid-century. Much of the population growth results from the displacement of rural peasants to the urban cores, resulting in the vast expansion of mega-cities with 10 to 20 million people in the global South. The proliferation of informal settlements and slums particularly in the global south have created the conditions in which urban areas have become the principal sites of social upheaval as people seek to improve their living conditions. Drawing from case studies in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, the various chapters in this book map and analyze the ways in which the majority of the world exists and struggles in the contemporary urban context. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAdvancing beyond a liberal perspective, the book unpacks the ways in which Urban Social Movements (USMs) in the global south have challenged or transformed how the city is organized and the possibilities that they have created for a revolutionary alternative to the capitalist hegemonic framework.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrevor Ngwane: Trevor Ngwane is a scholar activist who has over the years devoted as much time to academic work as to community and political activism. He studied at the University of Fort Hare during the apartheid days for four years and did not graduate due to various \"student disturbances\". He obtained his BA (Sociology and Psychology) degree through the\u003cbr\u003eUniversity of South Africa and his BA Honours (Sociology) at the University of the Witwatersrand and PhD at the University of Johannesburg (2016) For two decades he has been active in the trade unions, social movements and political organisations as an organiser and militant, a period that spanned the transition from apartheid to a democratic society. He was also involved in the international movement for social and economic justice and was active for several years in the African Social Forum, a component of the World Social Forum. In 2011 he obtained his MA at the University of KwaZulu-Natal's School of Development Studies and is currently reading for a PhD at the University of Johannesburg where he is attached to the Research Chair for Social Change in which he is a researcher in the Rebellion of the Poor protest monitoring and database compilation project. Ngwane is currently active in the Socialist Group, Democratic Left Front and United Front, organisations that seek a pro-working class pro-poor future for South Africa and the world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eImmanuel Ness: Immanuel Ness, PhD, is professor of political science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. His research focuses on working class mobilization, Global South workers, migration, resistance and social movements. Ness is author of \u003ci\u003eSouthern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class\u003c\/i\u003e (Pluto, 2015); \u003ci\u003eGuest Workers and Resistance to US Corporate Despotism\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Illinois 2011) and \u003ci\u003eImmigrants, Unions, and the U.S. Labor Market \u003c\/i\u003e(Temple University Press 2005). He is General Editor with Peter Bellwood of \u003ci\u003eEncyclopedia of Global Human Migration\u003c\/i\u003e, 5 volumes (2013). He is finishing a book on migration and inequality in the Global South. Ness is editor of \u003ci\u003eNew Forms of Worker Organization\u003c\/i\u003e (Oakland: PM Press) and co-editor with Dario Azzellini of \u003ci\u003eOurs to Master and to Own: Worker Control from the Commune to the Present\u003c\/i\u003e (Haymarket 2011). He is editor of the peer-review quarterly journal, \u003ci\u003eWorking USA: The Journal of Labor and Society\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLuke Sinwell: Luke Sinwell, Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa, PhD, is currently a Senior Researcher with the South African Research Chair in Social Change, University of Johannesburg. His research interests include the politics and conceptualisation of participatory development and governance, social movements and housing struggles, direct action as a method to transform power relations, ethnographic research methods and action research. Luke is the author of several chapters in books and has published in a range of academic journals. He is a co-author of \u003ci\u003eMarikana: A View from the Mountain and a Case to Answer \u003c\/i\u003e(Jacana 2012, Bookmarks and Ohio University Press 2013) and the co-editor of \u003ci\u003eContesting Transformation: Popular Resistance in Twenty-First Century South Africa\u003c\/i\u003e (Pluto Press 2012).\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 222\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 06, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770765050144,"sku":"9781608467136","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a6fea4b4464ad3812af35baf58586634.webp?v=1780377959","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/urban-revolt-state-power-and-the-rise-of-peoples-movements-in-the-global-south-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}