Social Movements in India: Poverty, Power, and PoliticsRaka Ray, Mary Fainsod Katzenstein Rowman & Littlefield, 2005 - 311 pagine Social movements have played a vital role in Indian politics since well before the inception of India as a new nation in 1947. During the Nehruvian era, from Independence to Nehru's death in 1964, poverty alleviation was a foundational standard against which policy proposals and political claims were measured; at this time, movement activism was directly accountable to this state discourse. However, the role of social movements in India has shifted during the last several decades to accompany a changed political focus--from state to market and from reigning ideologies of secularism to credos of religious nationalism. In the first volume to focus on poverty and class in its analysis of social movements, a group of leading India scholars shows how social movements have had to change because poverty reduction no longer serves its earlier role as a political template. Nonetheless, particular sectors of social movement politics remain the holding vessels for India's egalitarian conscience. With distinctive chapters on gender, lower castes, environment, the Hindu Right, Kerala, labor, farmers, and biotechnology, Social Movements in India will be attractive to students and researchers in many different disciplines. Contributions by: Amita Baviskar, Anuradha Chakravarty, Vivek Chibber, Gopal Guru, Patrick Heller, Ron Herring, Mary John, Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, Neema Kudva, Gail Omvedt, Raka Ray, and Tanika Sarkar. |
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Pagina 4
... dominant societal interests as the decisive issue determining social outcomes . Thus , Pranab Bardhan , for example , argues that compromises and conflicts among dominant interests such as industrial capitalists , rich farmers , and ...
... dominant societal interests as the decisive issue determining social outcomes . Thus , Pranab Bardhan , for example , argues that compromises and conflicts among dominant interests such as industrial capitalists , rich farmers , and ...
Pagina 7
... dominant social script . The Directive Principles of State policy held out a promise that the state would attempt to maintain a minimum standard of living for all its citi- zens . Indeed , as Rajni Kothari has argued , poverty removal ...
... dominant social script . The Directive Principles of State policy held out a promise that the state would attempt to maintain a minimum standard of living for all its citi- zens . Indeed , as Rajni Kothari has argued , poverty removal ...
Pagina 8
... dominant discourse , that resisted dis- cussion of rights and poverty , and countered it with unity of blood and the importance of the non - material was the early ideology of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ( RSS ) , as Tanika Sarkar ...
... dominant discourse , that resisted dis- cussion of rights and poverty , and countered it with unity of blood and the importance of the non - material was the early ideology of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ( RSS ) , as Tanika Sarkar ...
Pagina 9
... dominant voices . Precipi- tated by the 1991 foreign - exchange crisis , Indian trade and industrial policies shifted quite dramatically from state - led to market - driven capitalist growth . Key changes include reduction of ...
... dominant voices . Precipi- tated by the 1991 foreign - exchange crisis , Indian trade and industrial policies shifted quite dramatically from state - led to market - driven capitalist growth . Key changes include reduction of ...
Pagina 11
... dominant thrust of the environmental movement in India focuses on ques- tions of production and distribution within human society . " 43 The concern in India , Guha maintains , is with " the use of the environment and who should benefit ...
... dominant thrust of the environmental movement in India focuses on ques- tions of production and distribution within human society . " 43 The concern in India , Guha maintains , is with " the use of the environment and who should benefit ...
Sommario
From Class Compromise to Class Accommodation Labors Incorporation into the Indian Political Economy | 32 |
Problems of Social Power and the Discourses of the Hindu Right | 62 |
Reinventing Public Power in the Age of Globalization Decentralization and the Transformation of Movement Politics in Kerala | 79 |
Feminism Poverty and the Emergent Social Order | 107 |
Who Are the Countrys Poor? Social Movement Politics and Dalit Poverty | 135 |
Red in Tooth and Claw? Looking for Class in Struggles over Nature | 161 |
Farmers Movements and the Debate on Poverty and Economic Reforms in India | 179 |
Miracle Seeds Suicide Seeds and the Poor GMOs NGOs Farmers and the State | 203 |
Strong States Strong NGOs | 233 |
Archival Abbreviations | 267 |
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About the Contributors | 309 |
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Pagina 28 - Our economic programme must therefore be based on a human outlook and must not sacrifice man to money. If an industry cannot be run without starving its workers then the industry must close down. If the workers on the land have not enough to eat then the intermediaries who deprive them of their full share must go.
Pagina 30 - I suggest that the emergent possibilities made it imperative to include the term 'consent', even as its scope was 39Cited in Radha Kumar, The History of Doing: An Illustrated Account of Movements for Womens' Rights and Feminism in India, 1800-1990 (Delhi: Kali for Women, 1993), pp.