Intractable Conflicts in Contemporary India - Couverture souple

Livre 2 sur 3: Social Movements and Transformative Dissent
 
9780367734640: Intractable Conflicts in Contemporary India

Synopsis

This book attempts a representation of society in contemporary India through an ethnography woven around long-standing intractable conflicts -- of displacement and rehabilitation, patriarchy, insurgency and counter-insurgency operations, and climate change. Each chapter in this volume offers a critical transformative narrative in response to these conflicts. It asks how social justice and equality is to be constructed and provides a fresh perspective.

It is argued that social movements can no longer be concerned only with itemizing a checklist of demands; it is now necessary to be free of the hegemony of current frames, categories, concepts and principles, and to rethink the 'promise'. The volume maintains that this effort to step out of the 'endless waiting' for delivery of a 'promised value' draws out the labour of transformative action. A valuable contribution to understanding social movements in India, this work challenges the established discourses around grassroots politics, progressive policies and legislations as well as radical mass movements.

The book will interest students and researchers of social movements, conflict and peace studies, sociology and social anthropology, political science and development studies. It will also be useful to those working in the areas of human rights, social exclusion and inclusive policies.

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À propos de l?auteur

Savyasaachi is Professor at the Department of Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. He works in the fields of social theory and method, political ecology, indigenous sociology, social movements, and conservation architecture.

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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9781138632868: Intractable Conflicts in Contemporary India: Narratives and Social Movements

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1138632864 ISBN 13 :  9781138632868
Editeur : Routledge India, 2018
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