Governance, Conflict and Development in South Asia

Perspectives from India, Nepal and Sri Lanka
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-93-5150-100-8
Verlag: SAGE Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 471 g

Reihe: Governance, Conflict and Civic Action

This volume examines how various forms of governance have emerged in South Asia after colonialism, and the developmental and conflict-related challenges the region faces. Drawing from the contexts of India, Sri Lanka and Nepal, it highlights the degree of institutionalization of democracy.

The book further points to the manner in which shortcomings in governmental arrangements intersect with the prevalence of conflict at the national as well as sub-national levels. It showcases that democratic and more authoritarian cultures have influenced developmental successes and failures, and reveals how (external) interventions and policy reforms in the name of development have led to diverse outcomes in different South Asian countries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hettige, Siri

Gerharz, Eva

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction: Governance, Development and Conflict in South Asia - Siri Hettige and Eva Gerharz
I: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON DEVELOPMENT AND GOVERNANCE
‘Participation’ and ‘Empowerment’ in the Development Discourse: Rethinking Key Concepts - Ravinder Kaur and Vinod K Jairath
The Idea of Development as Governance: India in the First Decade of Independence - Dilip M Menon
II: EXPERIENCING DEVELOPMENT AND CONFLICT AT NATIONAL LEVEL
Governance and Development in Post-Independence Sri Lanka - Siri Hettige
Rituals of Democracy and Development in Nepal - David N Gellner
III: GOVERNANCE, CONFLICT AND DEVELOPMENT: EXPERIENCE AT THE GRASSROOTS
Negotiating a Dual Governance System during the Conflict in Nepal - Natalie Hicks
Empowerment of Excluded Groups: Local Democracy and Social Change in Rural Odisha, Eastern India - B B Mohanty
Between Order and Chaos: Jaffna’s Local Images of Governance during Conflict - Eva Gerharz
IV: IDEAS AND INTERESTS IN GOVERNANCE AND DEVELOPMENT IN CONFLICT-RIDDEN SOCIETIES
Economic Growth to Conflict Mitigation: Changing Aid Strategies of Nepal’s Donors - Acharya Laxman
Good Governance and Development in a Shrinking Local Policy Space: GATS and Service Sector Reforms - Dileepa Witharana
Glossary
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hettige, Siri
Siri Hettige is Senior Professor of Sociology at the University of Colombo. He is former Head of Sociology, former Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the same University and former President of the Sri Lanka Sociological Association. His other current positions include Chairman, Social Science National Committee of the NSF, Sri Lanka, Adjunct Professor at RMIT University, Australia, and Adjunct Research Associate at Monash University, Australia. He has many publications to his credit on such diverse topics as social inequality, social protection, youth unrest, education and health policy, ethnic conflict and migration. These include a number of books, edited volumes and more than a hundred papers published in edited volumes and refereed journals. He has also served on a number of government commissions and committees as a member as well as an advisor over a period of 20 years. He has been a consultant to a number of international organizations such as the ILO, the World Bank and IOM.

Gerharz, Eva
Eva Gerharz is a Junior Professor of Sociology of Development and Internationalization at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. Formerly, she was a senior researcher at the Department of Social Anthropology at Bielefeld University, Germany. Her main research interests are empirically grounded perspectives on development sociology, activism and identity politics, diaspora and development, and transnational and translocal dynamics. She has conducted empirical fieldwork in South Asia since 1999, especially in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Her book The Politics of Reconstruction and Development in Sri Lanka will be published with Routledge. She has edited The Making of World Society: Perspectives from Transnational Research together with Remus Anghel Gabriel, Gilberto Rescher and Monika Salzbrunn (2008).