Locational Politics of Land

2019 ◽  
pp. 158-176
Author(s):  
Sai Balakrishnan
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Private Capital ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Politics Of Recognition ◽  
New Politics ◽  
New Towns ◽  
Property Control ◽  
Economic Zones

This chapter focuses on the locational aspect of the new wave of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in post-liberalization India. It argues that unlike the earlier Nehruvian era steel towns which aimed at locating new towns in economically backward regions of the country, the promoters of the new SEZs, and more broadly post-liberalization urban enclaved developments, are attracted to former agrarian regions that benefited from prior pre-liberalization investment. These regions have prior market linkages that are desirable to the new private capital; the agricultural land in these regions is also owned by organized agrarian constituencies belonging to regional dominant castes. As policymakers, search for new decentralized and market-oriented means for the transfer of land from agrarian constituencies to urban promoters and developers, the re-allocation of property control is erupting into volatile land-based social conflicts. By focusing on the case of the Khed SEZ in the Pune district in western Maharashtra, this chapter traces a form of ‘antagonistic cooperation’ where historically adversarial groups—firms and agrarian landowners, agrarian propertied classes and Adivasi labourers—come together briefly for a new experiment in land assembly for an SEZ. As productive agricultural land is transformed into new urban enclaves, the Khed Adivasis experience Janus-faced social change, where the locational politics of the new SEZ both generates a new politics of recognition but also exposes them to the new uncertainties of a market economy.

Chouftouhonna Festival: Feminist and Queer Artivism as Transformative Agency for a New Politics of Recognition in Post-revolutionary Tunisia

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-230
Author(s):  
Sara Borrillo
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Sexual Rights ◽  
Political Strategy ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Sexual Diversity ◽  
Politics Of Recognition ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Politics ◽  
Multiple Dimensions

Abstract In Tunisia, like in other MENA countries, feminism has opened the door to activism advocating for individual liberties and sexual rights. After the 2010-2011 revolution, a new wave of political activism has relied on new forms of cultural and creative practice to reconfigure the public space. This paper utilises ethnographic fieldwork to investigate the experience of the Chouftouhonna Feminist International Art Festival in Tunis as an example of ‘artivism’ – i.e. artistic activism – grounded in secular feminism and advancing LGBTQ+ claims. The first section of this paper explores the multiple ‘dimensions of subversion’ of the Festival. The second section aims to demonstrate why Chouftouhonna’s experience can be analysed as part of a political strategy contributing to a new imagination for a substantive egalitarian citizenship, through both ‘affirmative and transformative remedies to social injustice’. Because the Festival is meant as an expression of ‘transformative agency’, its founders and organizers strive for a new politics of recognition for women and sexual diversity in post-revolutionary Tunisia.

New Novel, New Wave, New Politics: Fiction and the Representation of History in Postwar France

1997 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Naomi Greene ◽  
Lynn A. Higgins
Keyword(s):  
New Wave ◽  
New Politics ◽  
New Novel

Introduction: Youth Studies in Latin America—On Social Actors, Public Policies and New Citizenships

Young ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 329-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Oliart ◽  
Carles Feixa
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Social Policies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Disadvantaged Youth ◽  
Social Commentary ◽  
Politics Of Recognition ◽  
Youth Studies ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
New Politics

Youth Studies in Latin America is a field that combines different traditions and approaches developed throughout almost a century. These traditions can be roughly grouped as political and social commentary and analysis, the development of ‘expert’ knowledge to inform the design of social policies or interventions on the situation of vulnerable and disadvantaged youth and critical/cultural studies in search of new social arrangements, where new politics of recognition, dialogue, democracy and citizenship can take place. We present this text as a wider context for the articles that comprise this special issue on youth studies with contributions from Argentina, Chile, Colombia and México.

Architecture of Apocalypse, City of Lights

2019 ◽  
pp. 127-162
Author(s):  
Marion Schmid
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Population Growth ◽  
Urban Change ◽  
New Wave ◽  
New Towns ◽  
Post War ◽  
Historic City ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Housing Estates

The inception of the New Wave coincided with a profound mutation of the French urban fabric: parts of historic city centers were razed in post-war modernisation schemes, while 'new towns' were planned outside major cities to relieve the pressure of population growth. This chapter analyses New Wave filmmakers' diverse engagement with architecture - old and new - and urban change in both fictional and documentary genres. Themes for discussion include New Wave directors' ambivalent representation of the new forms of architectural modernity that emerged in France in the 1950s and 60s; their interrogation of the living conditions on modern housing estates; and their examination of the relationship between the built environment, affect, and memory. The chapter also considers the movement's fascination with the tactile textures and surfaces of the city.

Market Economy, Social Change, and Educational Inequality

2018 ◽  
pp. 20-44
Author(s):  
Shibao Guo ◽  
Yan Guo ◽  
Allan Luke ◽  
Karen Dooley ◽  
Guanglun Michael Mu
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Educational Inequality

Digital Entrepreneurial Charity, Solidarity, and Social Change

2019 ◽  
pp. 921-942
Author(s):  
José Manuel Saiz-Alvarez ◽  
Jorge Colvin-Díez ◽  
Jorge Hernando Cuñado
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Digital Space ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Intensive Use ◽  
Peer Lending ◽  
Use Of Internet ◽  
The Impact

Microcredit has been studied from many perspectives. In this work, the authors analyze KIVA, the most important Person-to-Person microfinance organization from the viewpoint of social change, and they consider how it has impacted on the nascent of a new wave of entrepreneurs known as digital entrepreneurial charity. Applied to KIVA, the authors analyze the impact of the digital space and its Internet-based Peer-to-Peer Lending to create social change in the poor, while alleviating the poverty thanks to solidarity and charity. This work concludes affirming that banking the poor and education, with the intensive use of Internet-based devices, is the best way to alleviate poverty in the digital and globalized economic world. Finally, after their last research, the authors found some critics about Kiva and microcredits which might be interesting to be considered and these have been analyzed at the end of this work.

Digital Entrepreneurial Charity and Solidarity for Social Change

2020 ◽  
pp. 495-514
Author(s):  
José Manuel Saiz-Alvarez ◽  
Jorge Colvin-Díez
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Digital Space ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Intensive Use ◽  
Peer Lending ◽  
Use Of Internet ◽  
The Impact

Microcredit has been studied from many perspectives. In this chapter, we analyze KIVA, the most important Person-to-Person microfinance organization from the perspective of social change, and we study how it has impacted on the nascent of a new wave of entrepreneurs known as digital entrepreneurial charity. Applied to KIVA, we analyze the impact of the digital space and its Internet-based Peer-to-Peer Lending to create social change in the poor, while alleviating the poverty thanks to solidarity and charity. This work concludes affirming that banking the poor and education, with the intensive use of Internet-based devices, is the best way to alleviate poverty in our digital and globalized economic world.

Democracy and Recognition

2018 ◽  
pp. 79-106
Author(s):  
Craig Browne ◽  
Andrew P. Lynch
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Recent Analysis ◽  
Alexis De Tocqueville ◽  
Politics Of Identity ◽  
Politics Of Recognition ◽  
New Politics ◽  
Equal Respect ◽  
Nancy Fraser

This chapter focuses on Taylor’s account of the politics of recognition and the broad debates that his essay on multiculturalism stimulated. Taylor was responding to the new politics of identity and the contestation over the implications of cultural diversity, especially in multicultural societies like Canada and Australia. Taylor is shown to bring his own theoretical framework to bear on these topics and to emphasize the cultural underpinnings of identity politics in the values of equal respect and equal dignity. Taylor’s highlighting the broad background experiences of democratic forms of social association is somewhat similar, we argue, to that of Alexis de Tocqueville on democracy and democratisation. Taylor’s reworking of aspects of Tocqueville’s diagnoses of modern society’s potential for ‘democratic despotism’ and the paradoxes of individualism are evaluated. Whilst acknowledging the significance of Taylor’s contributions to theories of recognition and democracy, the critical responses to Taylor’s accounts are outlined and his conceptions are compared with later discussions of these themes, particularly those by Nancy Fraser and Axel Honneth. Taylor’s updating of his perspective on recognition and recent analysis of current tendencies for ‘democratic exclusion’ and their remedies are assessed.

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