Routledge Handbook of Autocratization in South Asia (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Widmalm, Sten

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This handbook offers a comprehensive analysis of the processes and actors contributing to autocratization in South Asia. It provides an enhanced understanding of the interconnectedness of the different states in the region, and how that may be related to autocratization.

The book analyzes issues of state power, the support for political parties, questions relating to economic actors and sustainable economic development, the role of civil society, questions of equality and political culture, political mobilization, the role of education and the media, as well as topical issues such as the Covid pandemic, environmental issues, migration, and military and international security. Structured in five sections, contributions by international experts describe and explain outcomes at the national level in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The final section analyzes conditions for democracy and autocratization and how they are affected by the interplay of political forces at the international level in this region.

• India - building an ethnic state?



• Pakistan - the decline of civil liberties



• Bangladesh - towards one-party rule



• Sri Lanka - the resilience of the ethnic state



• How to comprehend autocratization in South Asia - three broad perspectives

This innovative handbook is the first to describe and to explain ongoing trends of autocratization in South Asia, demonstrating that drivers of political change also work across boundaries. It is an important reference work for students and researchers of South Asian Studies, Asian Studies, Area Studies and Political Science.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 398
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000486605
• Artikelnr.: 63134719

Autorenporträt

Sten Widmalm is Professor in Political Science at the Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden. He has carried out extensive research on crisis management, political tolerance, democracy and conflicts in a global comparative perspective. His recent publications include Political Tolerance in the Global South - Images from India, Pakistan and Uganda (Routledge, 2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Autocratization in South Asia
1. Autocratization in South Asia, Sandra Grahn, Staffan I. Lindberg and
Sten Widmalm
Part 1 India - Building an ethnic state?
2. Neo-Authoritarianism in India under Narendra Modi: Growing Force or
Critical Discourse?, Devin K. Joshi
3. Prefiguring Alternatives to Autocratization: Democratic Dissent in
Contemporary India, Amrita Basu
4. Autocratization in Kashmir, umit Ganguly
5. Re-positing Gender in the New Nationalist Paradigm, Dinoo Anna Mathew
6. Autocratic environmental governance in India, Anwesha Dutta and Kenneth
Bo Nielsen
7. Living Dangerously: The Heartland Heralds the New Communal-Authoritarian
Model of Indian Democracy, Zoya Hasan
8. Hindu Nationalist Statecraft and Modi's Authoritarian Populism, Kenneth
Bo Nielsen and Alf Gunvald Nilsen
9. India's inexorable path to autocratization: Looking beyond Modi and the
populist lens, Soundarya Chidambaram
10. The Social Roots of the Authoritarian Turn in India, Patrick Heller
11. From Hindu Rashtra to Hindu Raj? A de facto or a de jure Ethnic
Democracy?, Christophe Jaffrelot
Part 2 Pakistan - The decline of civil liberties
12. Pakistan's Hybrid Regime: Growing Democratization, or Increased
Authoritarianism?, Ian Talbot
13. Religious clientelism and democratic choice: Clients of God, Aiysha
Varraich
14. Digital Autocratization of Pakistan, Rizvan Saeed
15. A Supreme Court or a Constitutional Jirga?, Moeen Chema
16. Autocratization and Religious Minorities in Pakistan, Ahmad Salim and
Rizvan Saeed
17. CPEC, Governance, and China's Belt and Road in South Asia: The Path of
Most Resistance?, Marc Lanteigne
Part 3 Bangladesh - Towards one-party rule
18. Bangladesh: In Pursuit of a One-Party State?, Ali Riaz
19. The Decline of Democratic Governance: Protests at the Phulbari and
Rampal Coal Mine, Shelley Feldman
20. Disaster governance and autocratic legitimation in Bangladesh: Aiding
autocratization?, Maren Aase
21. Islamist extremism in Bangladesh: A pretext for autocratization,
Asheque Haque
22. Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh: The making of a strongman regime, Arild
Engelsen Ruud
23. Local Government Institutions under Authoritarian Rule in Bangladesh,
Serdar Yilmaz and Syed Khaled Ahsan
Part 4 Sri Lanka - The resilience of the ethnic state
24. Ethnoreligious Nationalism and Autocratization in Sri Lanka, Neil
DeVotta
25. Autocratization, Buddhist nationalist extremism and the Muslim minority
in Sri Lanka, Farah Mihlar
26. Global Worker Protests and Tools of Autocratization in Sri Lanka:
Rendering them Silent, Sandya Hewamanne
27. Militarization and impunity in Sri Lanka, Øivind Fuglerud
Part 5 How to comprehend autocratization in South Asia - Three broad
perspectives
28. Autocratization and regime convergence in South Asia - An undetermined
path, Sten Widmalm
29. Gravitational pull of authoritarian China in South Asia?, Johan
Lagerkvist
30. Autocratization as an Ideological Project: Carl Schmitt's
Anti-Liberalism in South Asia, David G. Lewis