Social Movements Media And Civil Society In Contemporary India

Author : Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha,Manas Dutta,Tirthankar Ghosh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030940409

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Social Movements, Media and Civil Society in Contemporary India by Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha,Manas Dutta,Tirthankar Ghosh Pdf

This book examines instances of transformative dissent, turning points or shifts in popular mobilisation patterns in contemporary India, while adopting a historical approach and analysing past events. Exploring the different continuities and discontinuities in mobilising patterns and dissident agency in India, the authors present a heterogeneous insurrectional pattern that pivoted around issues of caste, class, religion, land reform, labour, taxation and territorial control, with anti-colonialism movements becoming prominent in the first half of the twentieth century. The authors move beyond this to explore more recent templates of mobilisation which surfaced towards the end of the twentieth century, during India’s liberalisation period. With growing marketisation and technological advancement, unprecedented changes in social relations, growing economic opportunities and cultural transfusion taking place, the country became a ‘New India’ - one which aspired to be a global player in the wider technological public sphere. Tracing the historical trajectories of social movements in India, this book examines recent trends in digitised dissidence and explores new frontiers of protests, providing fresh insights for those researching the history of social movements, South Asian and Indian history and postcolonial studies.

Author : Krishna Menon,Ranjana Subberwal
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9353283213

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Social Movements in Contemporary India by Krishna Menon,Ranjana Subberwal Pdf

An interdisciplinary text that offers a comprehensive understanding of social movements, their cause, course and effects in modern-day India. Contemporary India is experiencing widespread changes and developments in its society, polity and economy, resulting in a variety of social movements in recent years. This textbook offers an understanding of these movements, issues and discourses around them, and relates them to the wider society and resultant changes occurring within it. With a specific focus on India, the book delves into the concept and definition of social movements from different perspectives and offers a critical insight into the fundamental and ongoing debates and treatises around these movements. It covers discussion on a wide range of movements varying in locus and spatial spread—from environmental movements to disability, queer and women’s rights movements as well as those by civil society, farmers, and marginalized sections of the society. Key Features: • Adopts an interdisciplinary approach to serve students of sociology, political science, history and other related disciplines • Provides a detailed treatment of civil society movements along with highlights on some landmark mobilizations • Draws on latest research and empirical studies; content aided by boxed features, review exercises and extensive referencing

Author : T K Oommen
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0761998284

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Nation, Civil Society and Social Movements by T K Oommen Pdf

This book is a collection of 12 essays on three interrelated themes of Nation, Civil Society and Social Movements organized in three parts each having four chapters.

Author : Rajendra Singh
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110350720

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Social Movements, Old and New by Rajendra Singh Pdf

"This book is both about social movements and collective actions, and about the discipline of sociology and prevailing concepts of Indian society. Presenting a post-modernist critique of the study of social movements, Professor Rajendra Singh maintains that it is these movements which truly represent the contemporary nature of Indian society. He thus challenges the dominant view that these struggles are expressions of disruption and a breakdown of the established social order. The author goes on to argue for the need for a post-sociology, based on broader perspectives drawn from all the social science disciplines, to fully grasp the realities of present-day Indian society."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Biswajit Ghosh
Publisher : Sage Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9353287391

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Social Movements by Biswajit Ghosh Pdf

A comprehensive textbook that deals with the issue of social movements from both theoretical and contextual points of view and analyses major cognitive concerns of social movements across disciplines. In contemporary times, social movements are a matter of everyday discourse among researchers, teachers, planners and politicians, administrators and law-enforcing machineries, social activists and common people alike. The book begins by locating social movements within broad and contemporary social processes. It explains the meaning, basic features, origins and types, and the basic perspectives of social movements. It goes on to deal with the major experiences of nine social movements in India, namely, peasant, tribal, Naxalite, Dalit, working class, women, ethnic, student and youth, and environmental movements. The book also analyses the role of information technology, media, civil society, NGOs and the middle class in the spread and continuation of such movements. The experiences of queer, new religious, and anti-systemic and anti-displacement movements would also help readers understand how globalization has offered new avenues of protest to diverse sections of the population. Key Features: - Analyses the major theoretical concerns of social movements and uses them to analyse specific social movements in India and other parts of the globe - Provides the genealogy, growth and impact of prominent social movements in India and abroad - Includes pedagogically rich content, which closely follows UGC course curriculum guidelines for the subject

Author : Oommen T. K.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:748208814

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Nation, Civil Society and Social Movements by Oommen T. K. Pdf

Author : Nandini Deo,Duncan McDuie-Ra
Publisher : Kumarian Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781565493278

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The Politics of Collective Advocacy in India by Nandini Deo,Duncan McDuie-Ra Pdf

India’s vibrant civil society sector has become a powerful symbol of political participation in the country. It comprises a wealth of media organizations, caste and religion based associations, farmers groups, labor unions, social service organizations, and an almost limitless number of development organizations. Given this vibrancy, it is difficult to grasp the characteristics of civil society at the transnational or even the national level. Delving beneath the progressive surface to the local level, one finds a murky and multifaceted world of competing interests, compromises, uneasy alliances and erratic victories. The Politics of Collective Advocacy in India critically examines the enormous gap between the ways collective action in India is studied and the ways it operates on the ground. It identifies what influences the relative success or failure of different movements; the tools activists use to overcome obstacles; the traps that derail efforts to frame, politicize, and act on certain issues and assumptions about particular forms of action. The authors synthesize the experiences of a number of organizations and movements to identify the most effective tools that civil society actors at all levels can use to achieve positive social change.

Author : Savyasaachi,Ravi Kumar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317342052

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Social Movements by Savyasaachi,Ravi Kumar Pdf

This volume attempts to show the emerging contours of ‘transformative action’ in social movements across South Asia. It argues that these contours have been shaped by contestations over questions of equity, justice and well-being on the one hand, and the nature and scope of new and classical social movements on the other. This is manifest in diverse modes through people’s struggles, protest and dissent. The authors examine a variety of themes that have determined the course of the politics of transformative struggles. They critique neoliberalism, ‘primitive’ accumulation, money, class inequalities, as well as aspects of capital–labour conflict. They highlight the contributions of movements by women, dalit and marginalized communities; peace movements; and environmental and agrarian struggles. The volume also appraises the role of internet in grassroots mobilizations and that of civil society networks in the making of participatory democracy. It further argues that the predicaments of cultural, ethnic, national, regional, and linguistic identities are not divorced from capital–labour conflicts. The book will serve as essential reading for students and scholars of sociology, social movements, politics, gender and feminist studies, labour studies, and the informed general reader.

Author : Ajay Gudavarthy
Publisher : Sage Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9353289556

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Politics of Post-Civil Society by Ajay Gudavarthy Pdf

Civil Society has emerged as one of the most celebrated concept of the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries. It offers practices that are the means and certain normative ideals that are the ends to be achieved for the preservation of democracy and expansion of the process of democratization. When available practices fail, reasons have been sought in the ideals being too lofty, and when the ideals looked minimalist, the blame has been shifted to the nature of practices being free-floating and bereft of definitive borders. Politics of Post-Civil Society is an attempt to map the discourse and politics of contemporary political movements in India that have been negotiating with the hegemonic effects born out of the insidious co-habitation of political principles and practices in the domain referred to as the civil society. In course of constructing the political landscape of these movements, the book foregrounds the various strategies through which they are pushing and nudging towards a new politics of post-civil society.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8183249698

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State, Civil Society and Social Movements in Northeast India by Anonim Pdf

Author : N. Jayaram
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 076193376X

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On Civil Society by N. Jayaram Pdf

Although the concept of civil society is in wide circulation today, there is no consensus among scholars on its definition and attributes. Nevertheless, those who use it agree that it refers to an important reality: that civil society is fundamental to democratic governance. If in political science the civil society discourse was occasioned by a re-thinking on the nature of the state and the dynamics of democracy in India, in sociology the context for the discourse was provided by the plethora of social movements and the role of NGOs in socioeconomic development. In the 13 chapters in this book, well-known scholars elucidate in detail a variety of themes relating to civil society. They delineate the `cultural' and `power' perspectives on civil society, analyze the relationship between `civil society' and `good society, and examine the nature of civil society and its relation to specific institutions or processes, such as farmers' agitations; natural resource management; identity politics; fundamentalism; religion, caste and language; and civil society, the state, and democracy.

Author : Kenneth Bo Nielsen,Alf Gunvald Nilsen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137591333

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Social Movements and the State in India by Kenneth Bo Nielsen,Alf Gunvald Nilsen Pdf

Questions of the extent to which social movements are capable of deepening democracy in India lie at the heart of this book. In particular, the authors ask how such movements can enhance the political capacities of subaltern groups and thereby enable them to contest and challenge marginality, stigma, and exploitation. The work addresses these questions through detailed empirical analyses of contemporary fields of protest in Indian society – ranging from gender and caste to class and rights-based legislation. Drawing on the original research of a variety of emerging and established international scholars, the volume contributes to an engaged dialogue on the prospects for democratizing Indian democracy in a context where neoliberal reforms fuel a contradictory process of uneven development.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:743399613

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Averting the Apocalypse by Anonim Pdf

DIVThere are two Indias: the caste and class elite who hold all power and make up 10 to 15 percent of the population, and everyone else. Averting the Apocalypse is about everyone else. Arthur Bonner, a former New York Times reporter with long experience as a foreign correspondent in Asia, conducted interviews over many months while traveling almost 20,000 miles within India seeking out the underclass and social activists who together are beginning to mobilize for social change at the bottom of Indian society. Working in areas torn by violence, Bonner offers a terrifyingly accurate portrait of a society bloodied by decades of unequal social structure and the absence of a civil society and political mechanism capable of responding to the exploitation of the poor and weak. Bonner finds that India & rsquo;s inability or refusal to address its debilitating social structure may be the precursor to an apocalyptic social upheaval unless heed is paid to the social movements that his first-hand investigation reveals./div

Author : Raka Ray,Mary Fainsod Katzenstein
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0742538435

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Social Movements in India by Raka Ray,Mary Fainsod Katzenstein Pdf

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, 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. 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. 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.

Author : Debal K. Singha Roy,Debal K Singharoy
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015052547661

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Social Development and the Empowerment of Marginalised Groups by Debal K. Singha Roy,Debal K Singharoy Pdf

Bringing together original contributions from scholars, researchers and social activists, this volume explores the initiatives, strategies and potential obstacles in the way of the social development and empowerment of the marginalised in the current scenario. The contributors contend that there is the need for an alternative model for sustainable, self-reliant and participatory development and formation of a new collective identity through civil society and social movements. To illustrate these possibilities, the contributors present various success stories including panchayati raj institutions, worker’s cooperatives, women’s participation in decision-making processes, and education through the open learning system.