Bangalore Release of "The Movement of the Movements", edited by Jai Sen

Date: 20 April, 2018
Time: 2:30 - 5:00 pm
Venue: Ashirwad, 30, St Marks Road, Bangalore 560001. Map: https://tinyurl.com/yde7r65r


The Movements of Movements

 

 

was released in Banglaore on Friday, 20th April 2018 in an event organised by Environment Support Group 

 @ Ashirwad, 30, St. Mark's Road, Bangalore 560001.

 

The event witnessed an engrossing discussion led by a panel consisting of 

Madhu Bhushan, Independent Activist, Writer and Researcher.

Benny Kuruvilla, researcher on trade policy, corporate power and new politics at Transnational Institute.

Dr. Swetha Rao Dhananka, urban sociologist working with Environment Support Group

Jai Sen, editor of the volume, responded.

 

Jai Sen at book release

 

Editor of the Volume Jai Sen at the Book Release event

 

Panel at book release of Movement of Movements

Panel (L to R): Swetha Rao Dhananka, Benny Kuruvilla, Madhu Bhushan and Jai Sen

 

audience Movements of Movements book release

 

A section of the audience

 

Madhu Bhushan and Jai Sen

 

Madhu Bhushan and Jai Sen

 

Jai Sen Celebrating

Celebrating the Release of Volume 1 of "The Movements of Movements"

 

About the book:

Our world today is not only a world in crisis but also a world in profound movement, with increasingly large numbers of people joining or forming movements: local, national, transnational, and global. The dazzling diversity of ideas and experiences recorded in this collection capture something of the fluidity within campaigns for a more equitable planet. This book, taking internationalism seriously without tired dogmas, provides a bracing window into some of the central ideas to have emerged from within grassroots struggles from 2006 to 2010. The essays here cross borders to look at the politics of caste, class, gender, religion, and indigeneity, and move from the local to the global.

What Makes Us Move?, the first of two volumes, provides a background and foundation for understanding the extraordinary range of uprisings around the world: Tahrir Square in Egypt, Occupy in North America, the indignados in Spain, Gezi Park in Turkey, and many others. It draws on the rich reflection that took place following the huge wave of creative direct actions that had preceded it, from the 1990s through to the early 2000s, including the Zapatistas in Mexico, the Battle of Seattle in the United States, and the accompanying formations such as Peoples' Global Action and the World Social Forum.

Edited by Jai Sen, who has long occupied a central position in an international network of intellectuals and activists, this book will be useful to all who work for egalitarian social change-be they in universities, parties, trade unions, social movements, or religious organisations. 

 

The cost of the volume is Rs. 895/- (discounted price). Copies are available at ESG. 

More details about ESG visit: http://www.esgindia.org/about-us/what-you-can-do.html