Jointly Present
Social Movements, Conflict and Change
Professor Partha Nath Mukherji
Chair: A/P Syed Farid Alatas (Sociology)
All are Welcome
Date: Thursday, 25 November 2010
Time: 3:30pm – 5pm
Venue: Sociology Seminar Room (AS1 #02-12)
Abstract:
Like many major sociological/social science concepts, social movement suffers from a high degree of Eurocentrism. Conceptualised around the elements of a new political form that emerged in the late eighteenth century Europe, it is claimed, its like did not exist in any part of the world earlier. Until around 1970 social movements had been associated with the socialist party and trade union movements which sought to further class struggle within each state against the bourgeoisie. National movements were differentiated from social movements as struggles for the creation of national states. ‘New’ social movements surfaced as social cleavages of the post-industrial society addressing other problems of identity and environment. The paper argues for a more encompassing theoretical orientation that is unencumbered by Eurocentric historicity. Social movements, it is argued, must be related with social conflict and change within an integrated theoretical framework such that its applicability to different contexts with their historical specificities is possible.
About the Speaker:
Professor Partha Nath Mukherji, is former Ford Professor S.K Dey Chair, ISS, New Delhi and held many other positions including Director (Vice Chancellor) of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai; Director, Council for Social Development, New Delhi; Senior Fellow at Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi; and President of the Indian Sociological Society. Professor Mukherji has taught sociology at Patna University, the Delhi School of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and the Indian Statistical Institute (Kolkata and Delhi). His main areas of interest are social movements and social change, research methodology, democratic decentralisation, and the nation-state. Among his publications are Indigeneity and Universality in Social Science: a South Asian Response (ed., with Chandan Sengupta) (Sage, 2004); People’s Rights: Social Movements and the State in the Third World (with Manoranjan Mohanty and Olle Törnquist) (Sage, 1998). He lives in Gurgaon, Haryana, India.
Convenors:
A/P Rahul Mukherji (South Asian Studies) 6516-8582
Dr Daniel Goh (Sociology) 6516-5080
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May 10, 2011 at 1:30 am
Singapore
The history of the present world is actually as written by the Europeans. Asians are the third world they are the first world etc.
I guess over a period of time this will turn around. Already Asian cultures are slowly creeping into the west. Ancient Asian knowledges like Yoga, Qi Gong are slowly but steadily making a presence in the West