Dispossession and Resistance in India Quotes

“The conflictual processes through which needs and capacities and the social organization of these develop constitute the kernel of the following definition of social movements: a social movement is the organization of multiple forms of mate- rially grounded and locally generated skilled activity around a rationality expressed and organized by (would-be) hegemonic actors, and against the hege- monic projects articulated by other such actors to change or maintain a dominant structure of entrenched needs and capacities and the social formation in which it inheres, in part or in whole16 – for example, when India’s new social movements and postcolonial elites struggle over the direction and meaning of development”
― Alf Gunvald Nilsen, Dispossession and Resistance in India: The River and the Rage