Author : Vasudha Chhotray
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,60 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0857287672
This book assesses the validity of 'anti-politics' critiques of development, first popularised by James Ferguson, in the peculiar context of India. It examines the extent to which it is possible to keep politics out of a highly technocratic state watershed development programme that also seeks to be participatory.
Author : CHHOTRAY
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 39,36 MB
Release : 2012-10-15
Category :
ISBN : 9789380601410
Author : Vasudha Chhotray
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,79 MB
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0857288415
This book assesses the validity of ‘anti-politics’ critiques of development, first popularised by James Ferguson, in the peculiar context of India. It examines the new context provided by decentralization of state functioning where keeping politics out of development (development as the anti-politics machine) can no longer be taken for granted. The case of a highly technocratic state watershed development programme that also seeks to be participatory is used to illustrate the tensions between prescriptive development policy and a growing political democracy.
Author : Tobias Haller
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,42 MB
Release : 2021-01-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3039438395
This Special Issue contributes to the debate on land grabbing as commons grabbing with a special focus on how the development of state institutions (formal laws and regulations for agrarian development and compensations) and voluntary corporate social responsibility (CRS) initiatives have enabled the grabbing process. It also looks at how these institutions and CSR programs are used as development strategies of states and companies to legitimate their investments. This Special Issue includes case studies from Kenya, Morocco, Tanzania, Cambodia, Bolivia and Ecuador analysing how these strategies are embedded into neo-liberal ideologies of economic development. We propose looking at James Ferguson’s notion of the Anti-Politics Machine (1990) that served to uncover the hidden political basis of state-driven development strategies. We think it is of interest to test the approach for analysing development discourses and CSR-policies in agrarian investments. We argue based on a New Institutional Political Ecology (NIPE) approach that these legitimize the institutional change from common to state and private property of land and land related common pool resources which is the basis of commons grabbing that also grabbed the capacity for resilience of local people.
Author : Govind Gopakumar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 10,57 MB
Release : 2011-09-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1136637451
This book is a unique study of the politics of water supply infrastructures in three metropolitan cities in contemporary India – Bangalore, Chennai and Kochi. It examines the process of change in water supply infrastructure initiated by notable Public Private Partnership’s efforts in these three cities to reveal the complexity of state-society relations in India at multiple levels – at the state, city and neighbourhood levels.
Author : John Harriss
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,89 MB
Release : 2002-07-01
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 1843310481
'Depoliticizing Development' explores the meaning of social capital.
Author : Pinaki Chakraborty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 14,10 MB
Release : 2016-03-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1316673952
This book is an analytical examination of financing and public service delivery challenges in a decentralized framework. It also provides critical insights into the effectiveness of public expenditure, through benefit incidence analysis of education and healthcare services in India. The benefits of decentralization always come with conflicts and trade-offs. By unpacking the process of decentralization, the authors identify that 'unfunded mandates', arising from the asymmetry between finances and functions at local levels, are a major challenge. The analysis is carried out by distilling the existing studies in this area, and through an empirical investigation of public finance data at different public sector levels in India, as well as in some selected developing countries. Using the household survey statistics of consumption expenditure, an analysis of utilization or benefit incidence of public spending on social sectors in India is achieved, covering education and health sectors. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author : Rajesh Venugopal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 42,82 MB
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108428797
Examines the relationship between the ethnic conflict and economic development in modern Sri Lanka.
Author : Susan Bayly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 32,6 MB
Release : 2001-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521798426
The phenomenon of caste has probably aroused more controversy than any other aspect of Indian life and thought. Susan Bayly's cogent and sophisticated analysis explores the emergence of the ideas, experiences and practices which gave rise to the so-called 'caste society' from the pre-colonial period to the end of the twentieth century. Using an historical and anthropological approach, she frames her analysis within the context of India's dynamic economic and social order, interpreting caste not as an essence of Indian culture and civilization, but rather as a contingent and variable response to the changes that occurred in the subcontinent's political landscape through the colonial conquest. The idea of caste in relation to Western and Indian 'orientalist' thought is also explored.
Author : Bidyut Chakrabarty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 30,95 MB
Release : 2008-05-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134132689
Focusing on politics and society in India, this book explores new areas enmeshed in the complex social, economic and political processes in the country. Linking the structural characteristics with the broader sociological context, the book emphasizes the strong influence of sociological issues on politics, such as social milieu shaping and the articulation of the political in day-to-day events. Political events are connected with the ever-changing social, economic and political processes in order to provide an analytical framework to explain ‘peculiarities’ of Indian politics. Bidyut Chakrabarty argues that three major ideological influences of colonialism, nationalism and democracy have provided the foundational values of Indian politics. Structured thematically and chronologically, this work is a useful resource for students of political science, sociology and South Asian studies.
