Have Southern social movements achieved power and voice? Whom do they represent? : Grin Verlag : 9783668638082 : 366863808X : 19 Feb 2018 : Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Politics - International Politics - General and Theories, grade: 1, Oxford University, language: English, abstract: What do the Ghanaian Convention People's Party, the Narmada Bachao Andolan, and the Occupy movement have in common? Answer: they all are (Southern) social movements inhabiting and representing the subaltern. What is more, they are indicative of how the dynamics in which such social movements are embedded and to which they respond have changed and of the subsequent transformative impact that has had on counter-hegemonic social action and representation. In this paper, I will first delineate three waves of Southern social movements, namely national liberation, anti-developmentalist, and anti-neoliberal movements, trace their dialectic interlinkages, and address their differentiated levels of succe