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Roy Politics of the Poor
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-316-67434-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
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Negotiating Democracy in Contemporary India
E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten
Reihe: South Asia in the Social Sciences
ISBN: 978-1-316-67434-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Poor people are central to Indian politics. Public policy and political parties, and development plans and elected representatives derive their legitimacy in the name of the poor. A study of Indian politics challenges the widespread academic, policy and public assumption that poor people are excluded from politics. India's democracy provides the country's poor with unique opportunities for political engagement. They vote regularly. Does their regular electoral participation make their politics the same as everyone else's? Side by side, poor people also face vulnerable lives. Do their vulnerabilities render their politics different from those of others? Based on fieldwork in eastern India, this book argues that the poor neither acquiesce with the primacy of electoral institutions nor do they resist it. Rather, they negotiate with democracy. Their negotiations are varied, shaped as they are by the dynamic interaction of institutional opportunity and the social relations of power. The book situates detailed observations from eastern India in conversation with the analytic debates on clientelism and citizenship, moral vocabularies and languages of stateness, preservation and improvement, and tradition and modernity. Through these analytic interventions, Roy elaborates a new framework with which to analyse poor people's multifaceted negotiations with democracy.
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Introduction; 1. The perspectives of the study; 2. Institutional opportunity structures; 3. Social relations of power; 4. From clientelism to citizenship; 5. From moral vocabularies to languages of stateness; 6. From backwardness to improvements; 7. From tradition to modernity; Conclusion.