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Citizenship Utopias in the Global South

The Emergent Forms of Activism in an Era of Disillusionment

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvHenri Onodera,Martta Kaskinen,Eija Ranta

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Citizenship Utopias in the Global South is an edited collection of empirical research that explores emergent forms of activism in Africa, Asia, and Latin America in times of multiple crises. At the intersection of hope and disillusionment, the diverse and thought-provoking chapters investigate emerging forms of activism in the Global South – including youth activisms, anti-racism struggles, feminist initiatives, online dissent, and Indigenous movements.In the 2020s, many parts of the world are witnessing contradictory processes of popular claims to rights, livelihoods, and social justice, and subsequent forms of populist authoritarianism and the securitization of civil society. Previously hopeful calls for dignity, democracy, and social justice – through protesting, strikes, civil society campaigns, legal reforms, and elections, for example – have been met with disdain and civic disengagement. This book investigates the re-imagination and pursuit of citizen activism in such times of popular disillusionment. It explores citizenship utopias as social imaginaries that are enacted and that articulate an ideal social order or democratic polity with ideal forms of experiencing citizenship. Its chapters interrogate conventional approaches to citizenship by introducing a nuanced and empirically grounded exploration of the complex ways in which people experience, negotiate, and engage in the societal changes that they aspire towards. The examination of citizenship utopias outlines contemporary signals for transformative futures and their possibilities.The book undertakes a fresh effort at contributing to the shifting terrain of critical development studies, political anthropology, political sociology, and decolonising scholarship by engaging in discussions about citizenship, activism, disillusionment, and future societal alternatives in times of multiple global challenges.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-05-22
Mått156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt470 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Studies in Political Sociology
Antal sidor234
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032458335

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Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
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Politisk aktivism inom Samhälle och politik

1. Citizenship utopias in the Global South: Emerging activisms, re-imagining citizenshipsPART I: Activism in times of disillusionment2. Activist contestations in contemporary socio-political change making in Kenya3. Disavowing politics: An alternative way of doing politics for young Algerians4. Communication in coronavirus crisis: A case study of communication practices of activists in Johannesburg in the COVID-19 pandemic5. The Chilean awakening in a global decade of social movementsPART II: Decolonising the state6. Everyday citizenship and decolonising utopias in Cotacachi county, Ecuador7. Black feminist and anti-racist activism: Past and present of struggles for racial justice in Cuba8. Higher education under neoliberalism: A perspective from South African student activists9. Fighting for racial equality: Hope, disillusionment, and perseverance in post-revolutionary TunisiaPART III: Re-imagining citizenships 10. Governing through corruption: Young men, the state, and citizenship in interior Tunisia11. Imaginaries of social change in Algeria: Nonviolent acts of citizenship of the autonomous trade union activists12. “Carrot and stick”: Cooperative citizenship and the pedagogic state in Vietnam13. Hindu nationalism or collaborative social justice? The role of queer communities in furthering democracy in India14. Afterword: Citizenship Utopias in an Age of Polycrises?

Citizenship Utopias in the Global South offers a timely and engaging work that combines critique with action. This compelling volume that models transnational scholarship, portrays how citizen activists from Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia imagine, reinvent, and challenge reactionary and unjust forms of power. Through “imaginative forms of creative activism” they strive to overcome the disillusionment of contemporary politics. Chapters on digital communications, new youth movements, anti-corruption campaigns, anti-racism, non-violent strategies, to name a few, convey how people join forces to forge alternative futures grounded in dignity and justice. A valuable addition to the work on new youth movements, political change, and alternative activism in the Global South.Linda Herrera, Professor of Education Policy, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA In the era of post-pandemic dystopias, this book offers a myriad of citizens’ utopias emerging from the Global South. It collects the voices of young feminists, ecologists, anti-racists, pacifists, queer individuals, students, and trade unionists from a dozen countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, who engage to build micro-utopian communities from below. Lessons for a period of old fears and new hopes. Carles Feixa, Professor of Social Anthropology, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain