Anti Politics Machine In India

Author : CHHOTRAY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9380601417

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Author : Vasudha Chhotray
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780857287670

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The Anti-politics Machine in India by Vasudha Chhotray Pdf

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 : Vasudha Chhotray
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857288417

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The Anti-Politics Machine in India by Vasudha Chhotray Pdf

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 : Julie Jenkins
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351352932

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The Anti-Politics Machine by Julie Jenkins Pdf

The Anti-Politics Machine (1990) examines how international development projects are conceived, researched, and put into practice. It also looks at what these projects actually achieve. Ferguson criticizes the idea of externally-directed ‘development’ and argues that the process doesn’t take proper account of the daily realities of the communities it is intended to benefit. Instead, they often prioritize technical solutions for addressing poverty and ignoring its social and political dimensions, so the structures that these projects put in place often have unintended consequences. Ferguson suggests that until the process becomes more reflective, development projects will continue to fail.

Author : Tobias Haller,Fabian Käser,Mariah Ngutu
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783039438396

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Does Commons Grabbing Lead to Resilience Grabbing? The Anti-Politics Machine of Neo-Liberal Development and Local Responses by Tobias Haller,Fabian Käser,Mariah Ngutu Pdf

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 : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136637452

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Transforming Urban Water Supplies in India by Govind Gopakumar Pdf

The absence of water supply infrastructure is a critical issue that affects the sustainability of cities in the developing world and the quality of life of millions of people living in these cities. Urban India has probably the largest concentration of people in the world lacking safe access to these infrastructures. 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. Using a comparative methodology, the book develops as understanding of the changes in the production of reform water policy in contemporary India and its reception at the sub-national (state) level. It goes on to examine the governance of regimes of water supply in Bangalore, Chennai and Kochi, and evaluates the role of the partnerships in reforming water supply. The book is a useful contribution to studies on Urban Development and South Asian Politics.

Author : Nick Clarke,Will Jennings,Jonathan Moss,Gerry Stoker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316516218

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The Good Politician by Nick Clarke,Will Jennings,Jonathan Moss,Gerry Stoker Pdf

Asks how and why anti-political sentiment has grown among British citizens over the last half-century.

Author : James Ferguson
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1990-06-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521373824

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The Anti-Politics Machine by James Ferguson Pdf

Attributes Canadian withdrawal from the Thaba-Tseka rural development project largely to problems accompanying the expansion of state power ("etatization"). Includes an introductory literature survey on development planning and evaluation in general.

Author : John Harriss
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 9781843310495

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Depoliticizing Development by John Harriss Pdf

The idea of social capital, meaning, most simply put, "social connections" was unheard of outside a small circle of sociologists until very recently. Now it is proclaimed by the World Bank to be the "missing link" in international development and it has become the subject of a flurry of books and research papers. This book explores the origins of the idea of social capital and its diverse meanings in the work of James Coleman, Pierre Bourdieu and of Robert Putnam, who is responsible, more than any other, through his work on Italy and the United States, for its extraordinary rise. John Harriss then asks why this notion should have taken off in the dramatic way that it has done and finds, in its uses by the World Bank the attempt systematically to obscure class relations and power. Social capital has thus come to play a significant part in "the anti-politics machine" that is constituted by the discourses of international development. This powerful and lucid critique will be of immense value to all those interested in development studies, including sociologists, economists, planners, NGOs and other activists.

Author : Prashant Jha
Publisher : Juggernaut Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09
Category : Elections
ISBN : 9789386228451

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How the BJP Wins by Prashant Jha Pdf

What's the secret of Modi's mass appeal? How does the RSS help at election time? Does communal incitement actually win votes? Why did Amit ShahÕs election maths fail him in Bihar? Prashant Jha answers these questions and more, dissecting the BJPÕs election machine with authority and insight

Author : Tarini Bedi
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438460321

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The Dashing Ladies of Shiv Sena by Tarini Bedi Pdf

Explores the activities and political personas of women activists in Shiv Sena, a militant Indian political party. Rich in detail, this book tells the stories of women of Shiv Sena (Shivaji’s Army), a militant political party in Western India. It provides insight into the political networks powered by lower-level women politicians in postcolonial, globalizing cities and on their margins. Based on more than ten years of in-depth ethnographic fieldwork with the women of Shiv Sena, the work shows how women political activists in urbanizing India conjure political authority through the inventive, dangerous, and transgressive political personas known as “dashing ladies.” Tarini Bedi develops a feminist theory of brokerage politics, arguing that political grids where women employ political, symbolic, and material resources through the political system may be seen as channels of what can be termed “political matronage.” Tarini Bedi is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Author : Catherine Dolan,Dinah Rajak
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785330728

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The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility by Catherine Dolan,Dinah Rajak Pdf

The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility explores the meanings, practices, and impact of corporate social and environmental responsibility across a range of transnational corporations and geographical locations (Bangladesh, Cameroon, Chile, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, India, Peru, South Africa, the UK, and the USA). The contributors examine the expectations, frictions and contradictions the CSR movement is generating and addressing key issues such as the introduction of new forms of management, control, and discipline through ethical and environmental governance or the extent to which corporate responsibility challenges existing patterns of inequality rather than generating new geographies of inclusion and exclusion.

Author : Nikhil Anand
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822373599

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Hydraulic City by Nikhil Anand Pdf

In Hydraulic City Nikhil Anand explores the politics of Mumbai's water infrastructure to demonstrate how citizenship emerges through the continuous efforts to control, maintain, and manage the city's water. Through extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Mumbai's settlements, Anand found that Mumbai's water flows, not through a static collection of pipes and valves, but through a dynamic infrastructure built on the relations between residents, plumbers, politicians, engineers, and the 3,000 miles of pipe that bind them. In addition to distributing water, the public water network often reinforces social identities and the exclusion of marginalized groups, as only those actively recognized by city agencies receive legitimate water services. This form of recognition—what Anand calls "hydraulic citizenship"—is incremental, intermittent, and reversible. It provides residents an important access point through which they can make demands on the state for other public services such as sanitation and education. Tying the ways Mumbai's poorer residents are seen by the state to their historic, political, and material relations with water pipes, the book highlights the critical role infrastructures play in consolidating civic and social belonging in the city.

Author : Mukul Sharma
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199091607

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Caste and nature by Mukul Sharma Pdf

Rarely do Indian environmental discourses examine nature through the lens of caste. Whereas nature is considered as universal and inherent, caste is understood as a constructed historical and social entity. Mukul Sharma shows how caste and nature are intimately connected. He compares Dalit meanings of environment to ideas and practices of neo-Brahmanism and certain mainstreams of environmental thought. Showing how Dalit experiences of environment are ridden with metaphors of pollution, impurity, and dirt, the author is able to bring forth new dimensions on both environment and Dalits, without valourizing the latter’s standpoint. Rather than looking for a coherent understanding of their ecology, the book explores the diverse and rich intellectual resources of Dalits, such as movements, songs, myths, memories, and metaphors around nature. These reveal their quest to define themselves in caste-ridden nature and building a form of environmentalism free from the burdens of caste. The Dalits also pose a critical challenge to Indian environmentalism, which has, until now, marginalized such linkages between caste and nature.

Author : Rajesh Venugopal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108428798

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Nationalism, Development and Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka by Rajesh Venugopal Pdf

Examines the relationship between the ethnic conflict and economic development in modern Sri Lanka.