Fighting back against dispossession

See also China Labour Bulletins interactive strike map http://strikemap.clb.org.hk/strikes/en Web End =http://strikemap.clb. http://strikemap.clb.org.hk/strikes/en Web End =org.hk/strikes/en . & Dan Vesalainen Hirslund hirslund@hum.ku.dk 1 Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark http://crossmark.crossref.org/dialog/?doi=10.1007/s10624-016-9414-9&domain=pdf Web End = http://crossmark.crossref.org/dialog/?doi=10.1007/s10624-016-9414-9&domain=pdf Web End = http://crossmark.crossref.org/dialog/?doi=10.1007/s10624-016-9414-9&domain=pdf Web End = http://crossmark.crossref.org/dialog/?doi=10.1007/s10624-016-9414-9&domain=pdf Web End = http://crossmark.crossref.org/dialog/?doi=10.1007/s10624-016-9414-9&domain=pdf Web End = http://crossmark.crossref.org/dialog/?doi=10.1007/s10624-016-9414-9&domain=pdf Web End = Fighting back against dispossession 123 50 D. V. Hirslund markedly, if unevenly, across the entire Eurozone.2 Meanwhile, in South America where left-leaning governments for nearly two decades sought to erect bulwarks against aggressive resource extraction, the right is now again in ascendancy, boding ill for the regions ability to address widespread and systemic inequities. With a population of nearly 1.3 billion, the recent rise of the middle class to close to 300 million still leaves one billion individuals more or less exempted from the countrys rapid growth, with more than 20 % of the population below the governments poverty line. Focusing on subaltern politics, which the editors dene as the political activity of social groups who are adversely incorporated into determinate power relations, the book mobilizes the subaltern studies framework that emerged during the 1980s as a way to interrogate the lacking inclusion of Indias poor classes despite decades of post-colonial independence from the British (India gained independence in 1947). Almost all of these chapters are really brilliant pieces which, apart from being well-researched and well-written, manage to situate their particular case within the larger framework of hegemony and resistance laid out in the opening chapter. [...]from Menali Desai, we learn about how Dalit Muslim workers in Gujarat become partially coopted into a discourse on development by the ruling Hindu-right BJP despite the latters divisive communal politics (Gujarat was the center of violent anti-Muslim riots in 2002 while the BJP was in power), thereby bringing to light an el