Development, Democracy and the State

Critiquing the Kerala Model of Development
Herausgeber: Raman, K. Ravi

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Produktbeschreibung

The Indian state of Kerala is known for its high social model of development and social democratic governance. This book presents the most comprehensive analysis of the Kerala Model of Social Development to date. The model has often been identified as one worth emulating because it is seen to have taken the state to the zenith of human development and democratic governance. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the book sheds new light on the paradoxes of the Indian state and its model of economic development. The book provides a consolidated exploration and critique of the Kerala model, which usually has been portrayed as linear with the grand narrative of progress, development and democracy. Chapters discuss the past and present dimensions of the Kerala experience from a historical and political-economic perspective, thus providing a fresh understanding of the emerging concerns in the state and the construction of an ethically viable development agenda, eschewing the scourge of social inequity. A significant contribution to the literature on development, democracy and the state, it analyses the complex interconnectedness of the various political-economic and socio-cultural domains involved in these experiences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9780415549172
• ISBN-10: 0415549175
• Artikelnr.: 29921589

Autorenporträt

K. Ravi Raman was a Hallsworth Research Fellow (2005-8) in the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester and is currently a Research Associate in the Department of Development Studies, SOAS, London. He is the author of Global Capital and Peripheral Labour (2010) and co-editor of Corporate Social Responsibility, forthcoming.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Kerala Model: Situating the Critique K. Ravi Raman Part 1:
Historical Perspectives: Caste, Religion and Development 2. Caste, Public
Action and the Kerala Model K.T. Rammohan 3 'Community' as De-Imagining
Nation: Relocating the Ezhava Movement in Kerala J. Reghu 4. Negotiating
the Hindu State and Nationalism: Travails in the Making of a Community
M.M. Khan Part 2: Contemporary Political Economy 5. Freedom, Economic
Reform and the Kerala 'Model' M.A. Oommen 6. On the Periphery: Muslims and
the Kerala Model M. Kabir 7. Learning to Learn: Dalit Education in Kerala
Roshni Padmanabhan 8. Thinking through CT Scanners: The Value(s) of Imaging
Technologies in Kerala Caroline Wilson 9. Asian Development Bank,
Conditionalities and the Social Democratic Governance: Kerala Model under
Pressure? K. Ravi Raman 10. The Conjuncture of 'Late Socialism' in Kerala:
A Critique of the Narrative of Social Democracy Nissim Mannathukkaren Part
3: Gender, Space and Identities 11. Empowerment or Politicization? The
Limits of Gender Inclusiveness of Kerala's Political Decentralization J.
Devika and Binitha V. Thampi 12. The Institutionalization of Dowry in
Kerala: Feminine Identity, Conjugal Patronage and Development Praveena
Kodoth 13. 'Caring' Cosmopolitans and Global Migration: Plus ça Change?
Shoba Arun Part 4: New Social Movements: Political and Cultural
Perspectives 14. Adivasi Workers' Struggles and the Kerala Model:
Interpreting the Past, Confronting the Present Luisa Steur 15. Social
Space, Civil Society and Transformative Politics of New Social Movements in
Kerala T.T. Sreekumar and Govindan Parayil