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DYNAMICS OF DISSENT This book analyses dissent and its manifestations in movements of social and political transformation across communities and cultures. It shows how these movements create ruptures in the structures of power, and social hierarchy; expressed through songs, slogans, poetry and performances. The chapters in the book explore these sites of transgression and the imprint they leave on culture, politics, beliefs and the collective society – via music and poetry as in the Bhakti movement or through feministic theories born in post–World War Europe. It also explores how these dynamic movements generate alternate spaces within which the self, identity and collective purpose take new forms and find new meanings as they travel. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of the humanities, literature, history, sociology, politics and culture studies. John Clammer is Professor of Sociology, O.P. Jindal Global University. He was formerly Professor of Development Sociology, Adviser to the Rector and Director of International Courses at the United Nations University, Tokyo. His most recent book is the volume Cultural Rights and Justice (2019). Meera Chakravorty is Research Faculty in the Department of Cultural Studies, Jain University, Bangalore. She has translated some award-winning literary works of renowned authors published by the Sahitya Akademi. Her most recent translated work Vachana is about the poetry of the marginalised and Other. Marcus Bussey is a cultural theorist and futurist at the University of Sunshine Coast, Australia. He has co-edited and co-authored Alternative Educational Futures (2008) and Futures Thinking for Social Foresight (2005), among others. His book of poetry, Clare and Francis (2012) was translated into Bengali by Meera Chakravorty. His latest poetry book The Next Big Thing (2019) has now been released. Tanmayee Banerjee is an independent researcher and the youngest editor of this volume. She is an artist and performer trained in Indian Classical Music. DYNAMICS OF DISSENT Theorizing Movements for Inclusive Futures Edited by John Clammer, Meera Chakravorty, Marcus Bussey and Tanmayee Banerjee First published 2020 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2020 selection and editorial matter John Clammer, Meera Chakravorty, Marcus Bussey and Tanmayee Banerjee; individual chapters, the contributors The right of John Clammer, Meera Chakravorty, Marcus Bussey and Tanmayee Banerjee to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN: 978-1-138-60396-7 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-367-27322-4 (pbk) ISBN: 978-0-429-29047-3 (ebk) Typeset in Bembo by Apex CoVantage, LLC To those who have laid down their lives for justice and those who continue to struggle against injustice CONTENTS Notes on contributors ix Preface xi Acknowledgements xiii 1 Introduction: the dynamics of dissent: theorizing movements for inclusive futures 1 John Clammer, Meera Chakravorty, Marcus Bussey and Tanmayee Banerjee 2 Conversations across abstractions: a silent movement by the poet-wayfarers 11 Meera Chakravorty 3 “What knowledge is this that an old woman understands better than a learned man?”: Hacking special knowledge in late medieval Europe, a provocation 25 Francesca Bussey 4 Feministic theory and practice in Sweden and its impact on families, the labour market and legislation 42 Christina Zaar 5 Kabir Suman: the child and father of movements 53 Tanmayee Banerjee viii Contents 6 Lotus and labrys: the role and legacy of a Buddhist young women’s movement and the young lesbian feminist movement in Wellington, New Zealand at the end of the millennium 66 Penny Ehrhardt 7 Perspectives on Japan’s anti-nuclear movements: the effectiveness of social movements? 88 Naoko Kumagai and John Clammer 8 Ressentiment as false transcendence: how transformative dissenting political and social movements can create inclusivity 105 Nikolai Blaskow 9 Song of the sawngs: transformation of a cultural protest and the role of nationalist politics 125 Rajat Kanti Sur 10 ‘We shall rise’: intimate theory and embodied dissent 137 Marcus Bussey 11 Women in Black: a women’s peace movement 154 Susan Finch 12 Afterword: inclusive futures and dissenting visions 169 Meera Chakravorty Index 172 CONTRIBUTORS Tanmayee Banerjee taught English in Christ College, Bangalore. She is an artist and performer trained in Indian Classical Music. Currently, she is an independent researcher and the youngest editor of this volume. Nikolai Blaskow is currently halfway through his PhD with Bangor University Wales, UK. The title of his thesis is ‘The Fall Guy or A Stillborn Prophet? Dionysus and the Crucified Girard contra Nietzsche on ressentiment: towards a Christology without enemies’. Francesca Bussey is a lecturer in teaching and learning in higher education at Deakin University. She specializes in digital technology and learning. Her back- ground in medieval history, and particularly women’s religious history, have dovetailed with a focus on transformational moments and movements and the intersection of these with epistemologies of learning. Marcus Bussey is a cultural theorist and futurist at the University of Sunshine Coast. Marcus has co-edited Alternative Educational Futures (2008); Neohumanist Educational Futures (2008) and Tantric Women Tell their Tales (2007). He co-authored Futures Thinking for Social Foresight (2005) with Richard Slaughter. His book of poetry Clare and Francis appeared in 2012 and was translated into Bengali by Meera Chakravorty in 2017. His book of poetry The Next Big Thing (2019) has just been released. Meera Chakravorty is a Research Faculty in the Department of Cultural Studies, Jain University, Bangalore. She has been a member of the Karnataka State Women’s Commission, Bangalore and of the Tagore Chair Committee chaired by Dr U.R.
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