Contents Preface vii Notes on Contributors viii 1 Social Movements and/in the Postcolonial: Dispossession, Development and Resistance in the Global South 1 Sara C. Motta and Alf Gunvald Nilsen Part I Struggles Against Dispossession: Social Movements and the State in the Global South 2 Labour Protest and Hegemony in Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula 35 John Chalcraft 3 Choice From No Choice; Rights for the Left? The State, Law and the Struggle Against Prepayment Water Meters in South Africa 59 Jackie Dugard 4 Neoliberalism and Counter-Hegemony in the Global South: Reimagining the State 83 Mark Boden 5 ‘Not Suspended in Mid-Air’: Critical Reflections on Subaltern Encounters with the Indian State 104 Alf Gunvald Nilsen Part II Epistemologies of Resistance: Social Movements, Collective Learning and the Politics of Knowledge 6 The University and the Landless Movement in Brazil: The Experience of Collective Knowledge Construction through Educational Projects in Rural Areas 131 Sandra Maria Gadelha de Carvalho and José Ernandi Mendes 7 Generating Theory in the Bhopal Survivors’ Movement 150 Suroopa Mukherjee, Eurig Scandrett, Tarunima Sen and Dharmesh Shah v PROOF