TY - BOOK AU - Mota, Aurea AU - Peter Wagner TI - Collective action and political transformations : the entangled experiences in brazil, south africa and europe SN - 9781474442978 U1 - 320.981 PY - 2021/// CY - UK PB - Edinburgh University Press KW - Comparative government; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political ideologies / Democracy; Groupes de pression; N1 - First Published 2019; index N2 - Takes lessons from the Global South to explore the possibilities for positive political action worldwideCollective action in our current global situation is often associated with growing intolerance, xenophobia and exclusion, or it is regarded as incapable of making a real and positive difference in the lives of individuals. This book acknowledges the severe problems with effective and significant collective action, but it arrives at a more optimistic diagnosis of our time by rethinking the political from the angle of the experiences with progressive and conservative collective action in different parts of the globe ER -