Politics of the poor: negotiating democracy in contemporary India

This book challenges the ongoing scholarly debates on poor people's negotiations with democracy. It demonstrates the varied ways in which the poor engage with their elected representatives, political mediators and dominant classes in order to advance their claims. Roy explains the variations by...

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1. Verfasser: Roy, Indrajit (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2018
Schriftenreihe:South Asia in the social sciences
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Zusammenfassung:This book challenges the ongoing scholarly debates on poor people's negotiations with democracy. It demonstrates the varied ways in which the poor engage with their elected representatives, political mediators and dominant classes in order to advance their claims. Roy explains the variations by directing attention to the dynamic interaction between the opportunity structures available to the poor and the social relations of power in which they are embedded. He analyses these intersections as 'political spaces' which both enable and constrain popular practices. Through examination of the 'political spaces' available to the poor in four different localities, Roy outlines a new analytic framework to understanding poor people's politics. Based on these observations, the book makes a strong case for an approach to democracy that appreciates people's ambivalences towards democracy. Roy urges researchers of democracy to step beyond either enthusiastic narratives - the inevitability of democracy or apocalyptic accounts of democracy's impending death
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Introduction : against false binaries -- Poverty, democracy and political spaces -- From clientelism to citizenship? : the politics of supplications -- From moral vocabularies to languages of stateness? : the politics of applications -- From backwardness to improvement? : the politics of disputation -- From tradition to modernity? : the politics of identification -- Conclusion
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xix, 521 Seiten)
ISBN:9781316338070
DOI:10.1017/9781316338070

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