Dynamics of Dissent: Theorizing Movements for Inclusive Futures [Hardcover]

This book analyses dissent and its manifestations in movements of social and political transformation across communities and cultures. It shows how these movements create ruptures in the structures of power, and social hierarchy; expressed through songs, slogans, poetry and performances. The chapters in the book explore these sites of transgression and the imprint they leave on culture, politics, beliefs and the collective society  via music and poetry as in the Bhakti movement or through feministic theories born in post-World War Europe. It also explores how these dynamic movements generate alternate spaces within which the self, identity and collective purpose take new forms and find new meanings as they travel.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars of the humanities, literature, history, sociology, politics and culture studies.

List of Contributors. Preface. Acknowledgements. 1 Introduction: the Dynamics of Dissent: Theorising movements for inclusive futures John Clammer, Meera Chakravorty, Marcus Bussey and Tanmayee Banerjee 2 Conversations Across Abstractions: A Silent Movement by the Poet- Wayfarers Meera Chakravorty 3 What knowledge is this that an old woman understands better than a learned man?: Hacking special knowledge in late medieval Europe, a provocation Francesca Bussey 4 Feministic theory and practice in Sweden and its impact on families, the labour market and legislation Christina Zaar 5 Kabir Suman: The Child and Father of Movements Tanmayee Banerjee 6 Lotus and Labrys: The role and legacy of two young womens movements in Wellington, New Zealand at the end of the millennium Penny Ehrhardt 7 Perspectives on Japl³!