1st Edition

How Social Movements Imagine Anthropology of Protest and the Newer Social Movements in India and South Africa

By Bobby Luthra Sinha Copyright 2025
312 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

312 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

312 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

This book examines how micro contextual issues inspire collective social action forms against everyday situations of crises and crimes through an inter-disciplinary, ethnographic, and comparative research conducted among Bishnois and Indian South Africans. Exploring the role of the publics that practise and mobilise their social movement imaginations, the work delves into peoples’ ability to... Read more

1. Introduction and Chapterisation 2. ‘Micro Social Movements’ (MSMs) As ‘Newer’ Social Movements of the South and the Mobilisation of a Shared Imagination 3. The Anthropology of Protest: Of Layered Discursiveness and Twin Imaginations  4. Anti-Poaching Movement of the BTF in Western Rajasthan: A Layered Discursive Formation 5. Anti-Substance Abuse Movement of the ADF In Durban: A Layered Discursive Formation 6. Summaries and a Comparative Analysis of Two Micro Social Movements (MSMs)

Biography

Bobby Luthra Sinha holds a PhD in Social Anthropology and Political Science from the University of Basel Switzerland and a Post-Doc from the University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. An independent author, lead researcher, editor, and advisor to several research bodies, NGOs, and multi-media outlets, she is the Deputy Director of the Centre for Asian, African and Latin American Studies (CAALAS) at the ISS, Delhi, and Co-Chair of the Migration Commission for the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnographic Sciences (IUAES).

Luthra Sinha undertakes research and advocacy work on the issue of environmental and human rights of tribals, women, migrants, and diasporas with a strong focus on SDGs and community resilience. Her ethnographic documentaries and research on the Bishnois of Western Rajasthan in India are available at:

https://www.sahapedia.org/bishnois-of-western-rajasthan-culture-of-nature-conservation