Answer:
Issue-specific
Movements:
(i) They achieve a single objective
within a limited time frame.
(ii) There is clear leadership.
(iii) They have some organisation.
(iv) Their active life is usually short.
Generic Movements:
(i) These movements are of long-term
duration.
(ii) They have independent leadership.
(iii) There is no single organisation
that controls or guides such movements.
(iv) Example: Environmental movement or the Women's movement.
Issue-specific Movement: The Narmada Bachao Andolan In India, Narmada
Bachao Andolan is a good example of this kind of movement.
(i) The movement started with the
specific issue of the people displaced by the creation of Sardar Sarovar Dam on
the Narmada river.
(ii) Its objective was to stop the dam from being constructed.
(iii) Gradually, it became a wider movement that
questioned all such big dams and the model of development that required such
dams.
(iv) Movements of this kind tend to have a clear
leadership and some organisation. But their active life is usually short.
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