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What is ‘New Social Movement (NSM)’? Explain the main challenges of the NSM in the developing countries.

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  • Politics of Representation and Participation

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A New Social Movement (NSM) is a sustained, loosely networked collective challenge organised around identity, values and quality of life rather than class, aiming to change social norms and culture as much as state policy. The term emerged in Western Europe after 1968 for feminist, ecological, peace, student and sexual-minority mobilisations that classical Marxism could…

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