Social Movements and the State in India Deepening Democracy? /

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Awdur Corfforaethol: SpringerLink (Online service)
Awduron Eraill: Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (Golygydd), Nilsen, Alf Gunvald (Golygydd)
Crynodeb:XIII, 297 p. 2 illus.
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Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Rhifyn:1st ed. 2016.
Cyfres:Rethinking International Development series,
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Mynediad Ar-lein:https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59133-3
Fformat: Electronig Llyfr
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • 1. Social Movements, State Formation and Democracy in India: An Introduction; Alf Gunvald Nilsen and Kenneth Bo Nielsen
  • 2. The Slow-Motion Counterrevolution: Developmental Contradictions and the Emergence of Neoliberalism; Radhika Desai
  • 3. The Politics of Caste and the Deepening of India’s Democracy: The Case of the Backward Caste Movement in Bihar; Jeffrey Witsoe
  • 4. Transnational Dalit Feminists in-between the Indian State, the UN and the Global Justice Movement; Eva-Maria Hardtmann
  • 5. Feminist Efforts to Democratize Democracy: Insights from Four Decades of Activism in India; Manisha Desai
  • 6. Women Workers, Collective Action and the “Right to Work’ in Madhya Pradesh; Nandini Nayak
  • 7. Turbid Transparency: Retelling the Story of the Right to Information Act in India; Prashant Sharma
  • 8. Rights based laws in practise: A view from Southern Orissa; Minati Dash
  • 9. Re-making Labour in India: State Policy, Corporate Power and Labour Movement Mobilization; Michael Gillan
  • 10. Blind Alleys and Red Herrings? Social Movements, the State, Class Alliances and Pro-Labouring Class Strategy; Jonathan Pattenden
  • 11. Disappearing Landlords and the Unmaking of Revolution: Maoist Mobilization, the State and Agrarian Change in northern Telangana; Jostein Jakobsen
  • 12. Conclusion; Kenneth Bo Nielsen and Alf Gunvald Nilsen.