Ranabir Samaddar

Ideas and Frameworks of Governing India (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This and its companion volume, Neo-liberal Strategies of Governing India, tell the story of governance of Independent India. This volume studies: ideas and issues at the core of governance in post-colonial India; state formation and institutions; the asymmetrical nature of our anti-colonial foundations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317208815
• Artikelnr.: 45099913

Autorenporträt

Ranabir Samaddar is the Distinguished Chair in Migration and Forced Migration Studies at Calcutta Research Group, India. Among foremost critical theorists, he has worked extensively on issues of forced migration, dialogue, nationalism and post-colonial statehood in South Asia, and new regimes of technological restructuring and labour control. His significant interventions on justice, rights, peace, nation-state and critical post-colonial thought include The Politics of Dialogue (2004), The Materiality of Politics (2007), and The Emergence of the Political Subject (2009). His co-authored work Beyond Kolkata: Rajarhat and the Dystopia of Urban Imagination (2013) examines new town and accumulation in the context of urban postcolonial capitalism. His co-edited volumes include Political Transition and Development Imperatives in India (2012), New Subjects and New Governance in India (2012) and Conflict, Power, and the Landscape of Constitutionalism (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements.Preface. Part I. Ideals of Governance 1. Radicalism,
Violence, and the Task of Governing 2. Crisis in the Nationalist Ideal of
Self-Governance 3. The Power of the Aesthetic and a Different Style of
Governing the Self 4. Another Idea of Democratic Governance 5. Citizen as a
Problem Figure for Governance 6. The Religious Nature of Our Ways of
Governing Part II. Law and Regulations as the Framework of Governance 7.
Rule of Law in a Society of Unrest 8. Riot, Police, and the City 9. Two
Constitutional Tasks of Setting up a State and a Government 10. Legitimacy
of the Constitution as a Living Document Bibliography