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The condition of marginalization that characterizes certain social groups is one of the main constraints for their active participation in social and political life as well as for their possibility to claim rights. Yet, across different countries and continents, marginal groups do mobilize. This book is about the politics of claiming rights and the strategies of mobilization by marginalized social groups. It brings together debates on contentious politics, rights framing and claiming, and the everyday politics of resistance to open up new questions about why and how some social groups are able to mobilize and achieve impacts despite the structural constraints in which they operate. It focuses on how politically marginalized groups organize themselves, their goals, and the conditions that make social and political mobilization possible. In brief, it explores agency in very challenging circumstances.
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Grugel, J., Singh, J.N., Fontana, L.B., Uhlin, A. (2017). Analysing Justice Claims in the Global South. In: Grugel, J., Nem Singh, J., Fontana, L., Uhlin, A. (eds) Demanding Justice in The Global South. Development, Justice and Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-38821-2_1
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