Social Movements and Transformative Dissent
About the Book Series
The emergence of new forms of dissent, protest, resistance and political mobilizations in South Asia in recent times has rendered several analytical frameworks in social movement studies obsolete. The volumes in this series bring together perspectives from across the world, current debates, life, examples and works of activist thinkers associated with progressive social movements.
They discuss social movements in relation to globalization, neoliberalism, civil society, labour movements, democracy, technology, feminism, new media, and the role of state, economy, politics and market in the face of rapid social transformations. Dealing with questions of justice, equality and reciprocity, they aim to create synergies between critical thinking, transformative action and creativity.
Addressing the diversity of social movements from trans-disciplinary intersections, the series will appeal to students, scholars and interested readers.
Migrants, Mobile Lives and Dissent: Ethnographies from India
1st Edition
Edited
By Ritambhara Hebbar
February 17, 2026
In a world where people are predominantly on the move, mobility has not received as much attention as sedentism. Is it because mobility is a disavowal of a sedentary disposition? Or is it that, as social frontiers, mobile lives disrupt the linear narrative of social evolution and civilization ...
Dissent with Love: Ambiguity, Affect and Transformation in South Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Parul Bhandari
October 27, 2025
This book presents a unique rendering of love in South Asia by reading love through the specific lens of dissent. It presents multiple articulations of dissenting love in contemporary South Asia including negotiations with parents to assert choice of partner, migration, elopement, live-in ...
The Indian Farmers’ Protest of 2020–2021: Agrarian Crisis, Dissent and Identity
1st Edition
Edited
By Christine Moliner, David Singh
October 27, 2025
The Kisan Andolan or the Indian farmers’ protest of 2020–2021 is one of the longest and biggest (and victorious) social movements in the history of independent India. This book adopts a multidisciplinary approach to contextualise the movement in the long run. It engages with the historical, social ...
Narratives of Transformative Reconciliation: Exploring Contours of Happiness
1st Edition
Edited
By Gopi Devdutt Tripathy, Anurita Jalan
September 26, 2025
This book looks at ethnographies of survival, reconciliation, and resilience in communities and individuals. It interrogates the definition of happiness, hope and despair and explores how communities and individuals navigate life when besieged by trauma and the processes they must go through to ...
Gendered Transformative Initiatives in South Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Reema Bhatia
March 18, 2025
This volume discusses gendered transformative initiatives in South Asian feminism, discussing gender norms, labour and market participation by women, along with family planning, reproductive rights and initiatives for the social and financial empowerment of women in South Asia. Gender is a part of ...
Water Conflicts and Resistance: Issues and Challenges in South Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Venkatesh Dutta
September 25, 2023
This book presents a systematic study of transboundary, regional and local water conflicts and resistance across several river basins in South Asia. Addressing hydro-socio-economic aspects in competing water sharing and transfer agreements, as well as conflicting regimes of legal plurality, ...
Intractable Conflicts in Contemporary India: Narratives and Social Movements
1st Edition
Edited
By Savyasaachi
December 18, 2020
This book attempts a representation of society in contemporary India through an ethnography woven around long-standing intractable conflicts — of displacement and rehabilitation, patriarchy, insurgency and counter-insurgency operations, and climate change. Each chapter in this volume offers a ...
Social Movements: Transformative Shifts and Turning Points
1st Edition
Edited
By Savyasaachi, Ravi Kumar
June 13, 2019
This volume attempts to show the emerging contours oftransformative action in social movements across South Asia. It argues that these contours have been shaped by contestations over questions of equity, justice and well-being on the one hand, and the nature and scope of new and classical social ...