Re-framing Democracy and Agency in India

Interrogating Political Society
Herausgeber: Gudavarthy, Ajay

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume critically unpacks the concept of 'political society', formulated as a response to the idea of civil society in a postcolonial context.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9780857283504
• ISBN-10: 0857283502
• Artikelnr.: 35108824

Autorenporträt

Ajay Gudavarthy is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Political Studies of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has been a visiting fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a Charles Wallace Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Why Interrogate Political Society? - Ajay Gudavarthy; Part
I: Political Society and Protest Politics; 2. Political Society in a
Capitalist World - Swagato Sarkar; 3. Antinomies of Political Society -
Implications of Uncivil Development - Ajay Gudavarthy and G. Vijay; 4.
Civil Society and the Urban Poor - Supriya RoyChowdhury; 5. Contentious
Politics and Civil Society in Varanasi - Jolie M. F. Wood; 6. The Politics
of a Political Society - Ranabir Samaddar; Part II: Political Society,
Middlemen and Mobility; 7. The Pyraveekar: The 'Fixer' in Rural India - G.
Ram Reddy and G. Haragopal; 8. Politics of Middlemen and Political Society
- Stuart Corbridge, Glyn Williams, Manoj Srivastava and René Véron; 9.
Widows' Organizations in Kerala State, India: Seeking Citizenship amidst
the Decline of Political Society - J. Devika and A. K. Rajasree; Part III:
Civil Society and/or Political Society; 10. Clubbing Together: Village
Clubs, Local NGOs and the Mediations of Political Society - Tom Harrison;
11. Civic Anxieties and Dalit Democratic Culture: Balmikis in Delhi - Omar
Kutty; 12. The Habits of the Political Heart: Recovering Politics from
Governmentality - Aparna Sundar and Nandini Sundar; 13. Civil Society in
the East and Some Dark Thoughts about the Prospects of Political Society -
Sanjeeb Mukherjee; Part IV: Rejoinder; 14. The Debate over Political
Society - Partha Chatterjee