Citizenship Utopias in the Global South: The Emergent Forms of Activism in an Era of Disillusionment (Routledge Studies in Political Sociology)

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 popu