Social movements and the state in India : deepening democracy? /: deepening democracy?. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kenneth Bo Nielsen, Alf Gunvald Nilsen, editors.
• Editors: Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Nilsen, Alf Gunvald
• Contents: 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 legislation in practice: 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.
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 322.4/4/0954; 320; Political science; Social movements -- Political aspects -- India; Democracy -- Social aspects -- India; Social stratification -- India; Caste -- Political aspects -- India; Neoliberalism -- India; Feminism -- India; Democracy; Political communication; Political sociology; Economic development; Social change; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy; Caste -- Political aspects; Democracy -- Social aspects; Feminism; Neoliberalism; Politics and government; Social conditions; Social movements -- Political aspects; Social stratification; Political Science -- General; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Political science & theory; Politics & government; Sociology; Social issues & processes; Development studies; Political Science -- Political Ideologies -- Democracy; Political structures: democracy; India -- Social conditions -- 21st century; India -- Politics and government -- 21st century; India; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137591333; 1137591331
• Related ISBNs: 9781137591326; 1137591323
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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