Civil Society in South Asia

Herausgeber: Kim, Heewon; Taylor, David

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Produktbeschreibung

Are new ideas needed to disentangle the uses and abuses of the idea of civil society both in South Asia and beyond? This book seeks to explore this question by reviewing the debate on civil society mainly in India but also in Pakistan.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 114
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 219g
• ISBN-13: 9781032328997
• ISBN-10: 1032328991
• Artikelnr.: 70348072

Autorenporträt

David Taylor has worked at the School of Oriental and African Studies University of London and the Aga Khan University in Karachi and London. He is currently Dean of Humanities at the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh. Heewon Kim has her PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies University of London, where she was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. She is currently Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Aston University in the UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Civil Society in South Asia 1. Does a plural civil society
matter? Reflecting on the varieties of associational life in India 2.
Partha Chatterjee's concepts of civil society and 'uncivil' political
society: Is the distinction valid? 3. Civil society in Bengal: The
postcolonial conundrum 4. Catholics, caste and citizenship: Engagements in
civil society 5. Community organizations and educational development among
Muslims: Lessons from the 'Kerala Experience' 6. Building language,
building province: Civil society and ethnic nationalism in Pakistan