Civil Society And Citizenship In India And Bangladesh

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789389812183

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Civil Society and Citizenship in India and Bangladesh by Anonim Pdf

'The sort of critical awareness necessary to actually enrich discussions of civil society, rather than contribute to its elusiveness, pervades through the book.' -Professor Vedi R. Hadiz, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, Australia '...introduces readers to the dynamics shaping the complex relationship between CSOs and the state in today's India and Bangladesh.' -Professor Sarah Ansari, Royal Holloway, University of London 'This volume should be a compulsory read for everyone who is interested in contemporary contests in the civil society space in South Asia...' -Professor Amit Prakash, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 'This edited anthology is a timely and an important contribution to the scholarship on civil society and citizenship, particularly in South Asia.' -Associate Professor Mohammad Salehin, Centre for Peace Studies, The Arctic University of Norway, Norway Civil Society and Citizenship in India and Bangladesh presents new multidisciplinary research, exploring the opportunities and challenges facing civil society in today's India and Bangladesh. It informs contemporary understanding of citizenship, gender rights and social identities and is published at a time of increased global uncertainties related to changing civic space, political tensions, a downturn in the world economy and the rise of populism. India and Bangladesh are key contexts, not the least because of rapid (and uneven) economic and social development but their contrasting experiences of democracy and discrimination and inequality faced by dierent groups and communities. This new multidisciplinary title presents new research findings that also contribute to theory-building on the form, functioning and democratic role of civil society in the 21st century.

Author : Peter B. Andersen,Rubya Mehdi,Amit Prakash
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000371635

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Re-Interrogating Civil Society in South Asia by Peter B. Andersen,Rubya Mehdi,Amit Prakash Pdf

This book offers an overview of the history and development of civil society in three major nations of South Asia – Pakistan, India and Bangladesh – from colonial times to the present. It examines the liberalization of civil society since the 1980s, the needs it created for civil action, the professionalization of civil society organizations, and the extent to which civil society may benefit society at large in the context of local, national and global transformations in the economy, political regime and ideology. The reader will find new insights on the interaction between the liberalization of multifaceted civil societies in the three countries, presenting contrasts such as restrictions put on women’s organizations or labour unions and acceptance of religious organizations’ activities. The volume looks at forms of transfer of civil society models, representation and democratic legitimacy of civil society organizations such as nongovernmental organizations, government organized NGOs and faith-based organizations, along with the structuring of civil society through legal frames as well as female, religious, and ethnic mobilizations around language and literature. Using wide-ranging empirical data and theoretical analyses, it deals with civil society issues relating to human rights and political challenges, justice, inequality, empowerment, and the role of bureaucracy, women’s movements, and ethnic and linguistic minorities. It also presents early responses to the Covid-19 crisis in 2020 which created significant pressure on the states and on civil society. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of political studies, development studies, sociology, public policy and governance, law and human rights, as also to professionals in think tanks, civil society activists and NGOs.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Bangladesh
ISBN : UOM:39015055511771

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Citizens and Governance, Civil Society in the New Millennium by Anonim Pdf

On various topics of relationship between state and its subjects.

Author : Richard Holloway
Publisher : University Press Limited
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015042002215

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Supporting Citizen's Initiatives by Richard Holloway Pdf

This book explains the role currently played by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Bangladesh and contains lessons for all those concerned with understanding the relationship between state and civil society organizations throughout the developing world.

Author : Bhargava R.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:748208816

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Civil Society, Public Sphere and Citizenship by Bhargava R. Pdf

Author : Lisa Thompson,Professor Chris Tapscott
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848136267

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Citizenship and Social Movements by Lisa Thompson,Professor Chris Tapscott Pdf

Debates over social movements have suffered from a predominate focus on North America and western Europe, often neglecting the significance of collective action in the global South. Citizenship and Social Movements seeks to partially redress this imbalance with case studies from Brazil, India, Bangladesh, Mexico, South Africa and Nigeria. This volume points to the complex relationships that influence mobilization and social movements in the South, suggesting that previous theories have underplayed the influence of state power and elite dominance in the government and in NGOs. As the contributors to this book clearly show, understanding the role of the state in relation to social movements is critical to determining when collective action can fulfil the promise of bringing the rights of the marginalized to the fore.

Author : Thomas Janoski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521635810

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Citizenship and Civil Society by Thomas Janoski Pdf

This book shows how legal, political, social, and participation rights are systematically related to liberties, claims and immunities.

Author : Rajeev Bhargava,Helmut Reifeld
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Citizenship
ISBN : 8178293099

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Civil Society, Public Sphere and Citizenship by Rajeev Bhargava,Helmut Reifeld Pdf

The Contributes To This Book Examine The Relationship Between State And Society In India, Discuss Ideas Of Citizenship, And Study The Broad Area Known As The Public Sphere.

Author : Rajeev Bhargava,Helmut Reifeld
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-05-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0761998322

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Civil Society, Public Sphere and Citizenship by Rajeev Bhargava,Helmut Reifeld Pdf

The original essays brought together in this volume examine the relationship between state and society in India, discuss ideas of citizenship, and study the broad area known as public sphere. The eminent scholars who have contributed to this volume provide numerous fresh insights into issues that have been the subject of extensive debate in recent years. The first book which deals simultaneously with civil society, the public sphere and citizenship in the contemporary context, it also provides a comparative perspective with the West.

Author : Dr Fahimul Quadir,Professor Yutaka Tsujinaka
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781472423337

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Civil Society in Asia by Dr Fahimul Quadir,Professor Yutaka Tsujinaka Pdf

Notwithstanding Bangladesh’s recent success in both creating a market friendly structure of economic governance and holding periodic elections, its political system continues to be marked by clientelism, rampant corruption and widespread violence. The country faces the major challenges of fostering a culture of democracy, human rights, and the rule of law as the politics of mutual distrust have re-emerged with renewed strength into a dysfunctional political landscape. This volume examines the failure of liberal democracy to take root and asks, despite the presence of a vibrant civil society, why is Bangladesh still struggling to institutionalize democracy? Providing much needed analytical context to explore the theoretical and empirical dimensions of the role of civil society in the democracy and development of Bangladesh, the volume brings together well established international authors to explore key ideas and debates from a wide range of disciplines. Through this the contributors raise intriguing questions about the prospects for liberal democracy and social development in a Muslim majority country.

Author : Partick Baert,Sokratis Koniordos,Giovanna Procacci,Carlo Ruzza
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135259723

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Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society by Partick Baert,Sokratis Koniordos,Giovanna Procacci,Carlo Ruzza Pdf

This book provides readers – students, researchers, academics, policy-makers, activists and interested non-specialists – with a sophisticated understanding of contemporary discussion, analysis and theorizing of issues pertaining to conflict, citizenship and civil society. It does so through thirteen pieces of most recent in-depth sociological research that delve on: challenges to citizenship, civil society and citizenship in early and late modernity, the reflexive imperative in transformations of civil society, social conflict challenges to social science approaches, methodology and explanatory power, gender, minorities-immigrants-refugees and the extension of citizenship, violence in modernity, the place of civil society for sociology, and postcolonialism, trauma, and civil society.

Author : Bettina von Lieres,L. Piper
Publisher : Springer
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137405319

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Mediated Citizenship by Bettina von Lieres,L. Piper Pdf

Drawing on case studies from the global South, this book explores the politics of mediated citizenship in which citizens are represented to the state through third party intermediaries. The studies show that mediation is both widely practiced and multi-directional and that it has an important role to play in deepening democracy in the global South.

Author : Debdatta Chowdhury
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315296791

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Identity and Experience at the India-Bangladesh Border by Debdatta Chowdhury Pdf

The effects of the partition of India in 1947 have been more far-reaching and complex than the existing partition narratives of violence and separation reveal. The immediacy of the movement of refugees between India and the newly-formed state of Pakistan overshadowed the actual effect of the drawing of the border between the two states. The book is an empirical study of border narratives across the India-Bangladesh border, specifically the West Bengal part of India’s border with Bangladesh. It tries to move away from the perpetrator state-victim civilian framework usually used in the studies of marginal people, and looks at the kind of agencies that the border people avail themselves of. Instead of looking at the border as the periphery, the book looks at it as the line of convergence and negotiations—the ‘centre of the people’ who survive it every day. It shows that various social, political and economic identities converge at the borderland and is modified in unique ways by the spatial specificity of the border—thus, forming a ‘border identity’ and a ‘border consciousness’. Common sense of the civilians and the state machinery (embodied in the border guards) collide, cooperate and effect each other at the borderlands to form this unique spatial consciousness. It is the everyday survival strategies of the border people which aptly reflects this consciousness rather than any universal border theory or state-centric discourses about the borders. A bottom-up approach is of utmost importance in order to understand how a spatially unique area binds diverse other identities into a larger spatial identity of a ‘border people’. The book’s relevance lies in its attempt to explore such everyday narratives across the Bengal border, while avoiding any major theorising project so as not to choke the potential of such experience-centred insights into the lives of a unique community of people. In that, it contributes towards a study of borders globally, providing potential approaches to understand border people worldwide. Based on detailed field research, this book brings a fresh approach to the study of this border. It will be of interest to researchers in the field of South Asian studies, citizenship, development, governance and border studies.

Author : John Keane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003-04-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 052189462X

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Global Civil Society? by John Keane Pdf

John Keane, a leading scholar of political theory, tracks the recent development of a big idea with fresh potency - global civil society. In this timely book, Keane explores the contradictory forces currently nurturing or threatening its growth, and he shows how talk of global civil society implies a political vision of a less violent world, founded on legally sanctioned power-sharing arrangements among different and intermingling forms of socio-economic life. Keane's reflections are pitted against the widespread feeling that the world is both too complex and too violent to deserve serious reflection. His account borrows from various scholarly disciplines, including political science and international relations, to challenge the silence and confusion within much of contemporary literature on globalisation and global governance. Against fears of terrorism, rising tides of xenophobia, and loose talk of 'anti-globalisation', the defence of global civil society mounted here implies the need for new democratic ways of living.

Author : Amartya Sen
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781906924393

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Peace and Democratic Society by Amartya Sen Pdf

Civil Paths to Peace contains the analyses and findings of the Commonwealth Commission on Respect and Understanding, established in response to the 2005 request of Commonwealth Head of Government for the Commonwealth Secretary-General to 'explore initiatives to promote mutual understanding and respect among all faiths and communities in the Commonwealth.' This report focuses particularly on the issues of terrorism, extremism, conflict and violence, which are much in ascendancy and afflict Commonwealth countries as well as the rest of the world. It argues that cultivating respect and understanding is both important in itself and consequential in reducing violence and terrorism. It further argues that cultivated violence is generated through fomenting disrespect and fostering confrontational misunderstandings. The report looks at the mechanisms through which violence is cultivated through advocacy and recruitment, and the pre-existing inequalities, deprivations and humiliations on which those advocacies draw. These diagnoses also clear the way for methods of countering disaffection and violence. In various chapters the different connections are explored and examined to yield general policy recommendations. Accepting diversity, respecting all human beings, and understanding the richness of perspectives that people have are of great relevance for all Commonwealth countries, and for its 1.8 billion people. They are also importance for the rest of the world. The civil paths to peace are presented here for use both inside the Commonwealth and beyond its boundaries. The Commonwealth has survived and flourished, despite the hostilities associated with past colonial history, through the use of a number of far-sighted guiding principles. The Commission argues that those principles have continuing relevance today for the future of the Commonwealth--and also for the world at large.