Varieties of activist experience: civil society in South Asia
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Delhi, India SAGE Publications 2010
Schriftenreihe:Governance, conflict and civic action series v. 3
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 -- Introduction: Making Civil Society in South Asia; 2 -- The Biography of a Magar Communist; 3 -- Creating 'Civilized' Communists; 4 -- Youth and Political Engagement in Sri Lanka; 5 -- Can Women be Mobilized to Participate in Indian Local Politics?; 6 -- Surveying Activists in Nepal; 7 -- Disciplined Activists, Unruly Brokers? Exploring the Boundaries between Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs), Donors, and the State in Bangladesh; 8 -- Activists and Development in Nepal; 9 -- From Big Game to Biodiversity; 10 -- Civil Society and its Fragments
This book examines in rich detail the lives, struggles, and strategies of South Asian activists seeking to advance various political, social, and environmental causes. Through a series of case studies from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka on activists' efforts, it elucidates how they mediate between different spheres that are often (and sometimes legally) kept apart: the political and the legal, the economic and the political, the local and the international. The uniqueness of this book lies in its treatment of 'civil society' as a process brought into being by the actions of specific i
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 291 pages)
ISBN:8132104501
8132105958
9788132104506
9788132105954

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