Social Change, Resistance, and Social Practices

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Summary

From post-Katrina struggles to Muslim women refusing to unveil, the logic of a new generation of protest is emerging

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Notes on Contributors	p. viii
Writing the Relationship of Resistance and Social Change	p. 1
Social Movement for Change
Environmentalism and the Family of Anti-Systemic Movements: Toward a Global Movement of Movements?	p. 13
New Orleans and the Dialectics of Post-Katrina Reconstruction	p. 35
The Social Forum Process and the Praxis of Race, Class, Gender and Sexualities	p. 57
A Bunch of Criminals? Analyzing Political Armed Violence as a Social Production Process	p. 73
Contradictions and Resistance in Mexico
Fifteen Years of NAFTA: The Impact on Rural Mexico	p. 93
Power and Resistance in Post-NAFTA Mexico: Transformational and System-Stabilizing NGOs	p. 105
As Neoliberal Crises Persist, Indigenous-Led Movements Resist: Examining the Current Social and Political-Economic Conjuncture in Southern Mexico	p. 131
Migrants as Social Change Agents
The Production of the "Illegal Subject"	p. 151
Migration, Transnationalism and Post-Modernity	p. 173
The Global Structuring of Gender, Race, and Class: Conceptual Sites of its Dynamics and Resistance in the Philippine Experience	p. 191
Dismantling the Defensive Wall of the Colonized: The Veil and the French Law on Secularity and Conspicuous Religious Symbols in Schools	p. 207
References	p. 225
Name Index	p. 247
Subject Index	p. 252
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