Undervalued Dissent

Author : Manjusha Nair
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438462479

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Undervalued Dissent by Manjusha Nair Pdf

Uses two case studies to demonstrate how neoliberal reforms in India have de-democratized labor politics. Honorable Mention, 2018 Global Division Book Award presented by the Global Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems Historically, the Indian state has not offered welfare and social rights to all of its citizens, yet a remarkable characteristic of its polity has been the ability of citizens to dissent in a democratic way. In Undervalued Dissent, Manjusha Nair argues that this democratic space has been vanishing slowly. Based on extensive fieldwork in Chhattisgarh, a regional state in central India, this book examines two different informal workers’ movements. Informal workers are not part of organized labor unions and make up eighty-five percent of the Indian workforce. The first movement started in 1977 and was a success, while the other movement began in 1989 and still continues today, without success. The workers in both movements had similar backgrounds, skills, demands, and strategies. Nair maintains that the first movement succeeded because the workers contended within a labor regime that allowed space for democratic dissent, and the second movement failed because they contested within a widely altered labor regime following neoliberal reforms, where these spaces of democratic dissent were preempted. The key difference between the two regimes, Nair suggests, is not in the withdrawal of a prolabor state from its protective and regulatory role, as has been argued by many, but rather in the rise of a new kind of state that became functionally decentralized, economically predatory, and politically communalized. These changes, Nair concludes, successfully de-democratized labor politics in India. Manjusha Nair is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore.

Author : Rina Agarwala,Jennifer Jihye Chun
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781787693692

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Gendering Struggles Against Informal and Precarious Work by Rina Agarwala,Jennifer Jihye Chun Pdf

This volume examines how gender shapes the varying and intersecting dynamics of informal/precarious worker struggles in two gender-typed sectors - domestic work and construction. Drawing upon cases across the global North and South, it explores how gender is intertwined into collective organizing efforts, why gender is addressed and to what end.

Author : Glenn W. Muschert,Kristen M. Budd,Heather Dillaway,David C. Lane,Manjusha Nair,Jason A. Smith
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447367413

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Global Agenda for Social Justice 2 by Glenn W. Muschert,Kristen M. Budd,Heather Dillaway,David C. Lane,Manjusha Nair,Jason A. Smith Pdf

The Global Agenda for Social Justice provides accessible insights into some of the world’s most pressing social problems and proposes practicable international public policy responses to those problems. Written by a highly respected team of authors brought together by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), chapters examine topics such as education, violence, discrimination, substance abuse, public health, and environment. The volume provides recommendations for action by governing officials, policy makers, and the public around key issues of social justice. The book will be of interest to scholars, practitioners, advocates, journalists, and students interested in public sociology, the study of social problems, and the pursuit of social justice.

Author : Laura A. Henry,Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197530252

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Bringing Global Governance Home by Laura A. Henry,Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom Pdf

The world's problems--climate change, epidemics, and the actions of multinational corporations--are increasingly global in scale and beyond the ability of any single state to manage. Since the end of the Cold War, states and civil society actors have worked together through global governance initiatives to address these challenges collectively. While global governance, by definition, is initiated at the international level, the effects of global governance occur at the domestic level and implementation depends upon the actions of domestic actors. NGOs act as "mediators" between global and domestic political arenas, translating and adapting global norms for audiences at home. Yet the role of domestic NGOs in global governance has been neglected relatively in previous research. Bringing Global Governance Home examines how NGO engagement at the global level shapes domestic governance around climate change, corporate social responsibility, HIV/AIDS, and sustainable forestry. It does so by comparing domestic reception of global standards and practices in the BRICS states (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). These newly emerging global powers, representing a range of regime types, aspire to become global policy makers rather than mere policy takers and have banded together through periodic summits to devise alternative approaches to economic development and global challenges. Nevertheless, these countries still engage the world primarily through existing global governance institutions that they did not create themselves. Ultimately, this book explores the interplay of international and domestic factors that allow domestically-rooted NGOs to participate globally, and the extent to which that participation shapes their ability to mediate and promote global governance perspectives within the borders of their own countries with varying regimes and state-society relations.

Author : Smitha Radhakrishnan,Gowri Vijayakumar
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030970307

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Sociology of South Asia by Smitha Radhakrishnan,Gowri Vijayakumar Pdf

This edited volume moves the study of South Asia to the center of sociological analysis, bringing together recent scholarship across sites in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Pakistan, as well as in Ethiopia and the USA. This book situates the project of decolonizing the discipline within a rich transnational intellectual legacy and reveals how South Asia offers a uniquely generative site from which to rethink sociological practice. Recognizing local and global influences at their specific sites, the contributing authors highlight the historical ravages of colonialism and imperialism, modernization projects of the postcolonial era, and the kaleidoscopic ways in which gender, caste, class, and sexuality structure everyday life under neoliberalism today. The sociology of South Asia centers the voices and experiences of those marginalized by local and global systems of power in order to produce knowledge that advances interconnected projects of liberation.

Author : John Harriss,Craig Jeffrey,Trent Brown
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509539727

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India by John Harriss,Craig Jeffrey,Trent Brown Pdf

India has been catapulted to the centre of world attention. Its rapidly growing economy, new geo-political confidence, and global cultural influence have ensured that people across the world recognise India as one of the main sites of social dynamism in the early twenty-first century. In this book, research leaders John Harriss, Craig Jeffrey and Trent Brown explore in depth the economic, social, and political changes occurring in India today, and their implications for the people of India and the world. Each of the book’s fourteen chapters seeks to answer a key question: Is India’s democracy under threat? Can India’s Growth be sustained? How are youth changing India? Drawing on a wealth of scholarly and popular material as well as their own experience researching the country during this period of major transformation, the authors draw the reader into key debates about economic growth, poverty, environmental justice, the character of Indian democracy, rights and social movements, gender, caste, education, and foreign policy. India, they conclude, has undergone some extraordinary and positive changes since the early 1990s but deeply worrying threats remain: increasing authoritarianism, growing inequality, entrenched poverty, and environmental vulnerability. How India responds to these crucial challenges will shape the world’s largest democracy for years to come.

Author : Gabriel Abend
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780691247069

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Words and Distinctions for the Common Good by Gabriel Abend Pdf

How social scientists' disagreements about their key words and distinctions have been misconceived, and what to do about it Social scientists do research on a variety of topics—gender, capitalism, populism, and race and ethnicity, among others. They make descriptive and explanatory claims about empathy, intelligence, neoliberalism, and power. They advise policymakers on diversity, digitalization, work, and religion. And yet, as Gabriel Abend points out in this provocative book, they can’t agree on what these things are and how to identify them. How to tell if something is a religion or a cult or a sect? What is empathy? What makes this society a capitalist one? Disputes of this sort arise again and again in the social sciences. Abend argues that these disagreements have been doubly misconceived. First, they conflate two questions: how a social science community should use its most important words, and what distinctions it should accept and work with. Second, there’s no fact of the matter about either. Instead, they’re practical reason questions for a community, which aim at epistemically and morally good outcomes. Abend calls on social science communities to work together on their words, distinctions, and classifications. They must make collective decisions about the uses of words, the acceptability of distinctions, and the criteria for assessing both. These decisions aren’t up to individual scholars; the community gets the last word. According to Abend, the common good, justice, and equality should play a significant role in the logic of scientific research. Gabriel Abend is professor of sociology at University of Lucerne and the author of The Moral Background: An Inquiry into the History of Business Ethics (Princeton).

Author : Sanjoy Chakravorty,Amitendu Palit
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199097678

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Seeking Middle Ground by Sanjoy Chakravorty,Amitendu Palit Pdf

Land is a subject of great conflict and debate in India. Over the last decade, it has influenced electoral verdicts and political fortunes and remains one of the most persistent challenges facing the nation. This book argues that the focus on politics and land acquisition has deflected attention from the possibilities of market-oriented approaches that are becoming relevant because of booming, but diverse, land markets. It aims to nudge the discussion towards a better understanding of the complementary strengths of state- and market-led approaches to the many problems of land in rural and urban India. Featuring original essays from leading analysts, this book examines the agrarian crisis and urbanization, laws and policies, displacement and compensation, factories and housing, cooperation and conflict, and other vital issues affecting land at the regional and national level. These multiple lines of enquiry make this book a critical and objective commentary on contemporary India and its ongoing economic, socio-political, and legal struggles with land.

Author : Jonathan Parry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351362849

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Classes of Labour by Jonathan Parry Pdf

Classes of Labour: Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town is a classic in the social sciences. The rigour and richness of the ethnographic data of this book and its analysis is matched only by its literary style. This magnum opus of 732 pages, an outcome of fieldwork covering twenty-one years, complete with diagrams and photographs, reads like an epic novel, difficult to put down. Professor Jonathan Parry looks at a context in which the manual workforce is divided into distinct social classes, which have a clear sense of themselves as separate and interests that are sometimes opposed. The relationship between them may even be one of exploitation; and they are associated with different lifestyles and outlooks, kinship and marriage practices, and suicide patterns. A central concern is with the intersection between class, caste, gender and regional ethnicity, with how class trumps caste in most contexts and with how classes have become increasingly structured as the ‘structuration’ of castes has declined. The wider theoretical ambition is to specify the general conditions under which the so-called ‘working class’ has any realistic prospect of unity.

Author : Alf Gunvald Nilsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108496537

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Adivasis and the State by Alf Gunvald Nilsen Pdf

This work deciphers how subalternity is both constituted and contested through state-society relations in India's Bhil heartland. At the core of the book lies a concern with understanding the dialectics of power and resistance that give form and direction to the political economy of democracy and development in contemporary India.

Author : C. E. S. Franks
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015025161889

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Dissent and the State by C. E. S. Franks Pdf

The first collection of its kind, this book explores the challenges of governments to determine when to treat dissent as legitimate political behavior and when to regard it as a threat to idividuals and society.

Author : Irving Howe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000424478

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Twenty-Five Years of Dissent by Irving Howe Pdf

This book, first published in 1979, is a representative sample of some of the best articles that have appeared in DISSENT, the American democratic socialist quarterly. They provide a two-sided view of political and social action with the democratic society of the USA.

Author : Michael Freeden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134521463

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Reassessing Political Ideologies by Michael Freeden Pdf

This book is a high-level examination of each of the major ideologies that have shaped political thinking, action and conflict. Each chapter provides a critical overview of the current state of the major ideologies and a retrospective assessment of the strengths, weaknesses, developments and transformations of these ideologies over the past century. The volume poses a strong challenge to those who have loudly proclaimed the "end of ideology", by demonstrating that it is impossible to understand current political developments without an appreciation of their ideological context. It features internationally respected contributors who are authorities in their fields, and will be an invaluable resource for both students and specialists in areas including Politics and International Relations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1190 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:19426218

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The Church Eclectic by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Kaplan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773550704

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Why Dissent Matters by William Kaplan Pdf

An inquiry into dissent and how it might save the world.