Avdhesh kumar pandey (2 risultati)

Contents Preface 1 Political Participation for Dalits An Introduction 2 Socio Political Empowerment of scheduled castes through Panchayati Raj 3 The prospects of Dalit culture among the forms of social power 4 Dalit Assertion and democratic Transition 5 The emerging Dalit Theology 6 The Dalit Women?s Movement in India 7 Communalism Caste and Reservations 8 The Bahujan Samaj Party in North India No Longer Just a Dalit Party 9 Ethnic Mobilization towards Democracy and Autonomy 10 Opening spaces Power Participation and Plural Democracy at the World Social Forum 11 Politics and Mobilization of Lower Classes Bibliography IndexDalits in India officially termed scheduled castes form the largest discriminated community Their discrimination is based first on their descent or birth into specific untouchable castes and secondly on their traditional polluting work As a result although almost one in five Indians is a Dalit half of whom are women their political participation as a large minority community in India remains disproportionately low Looking specifically at Dalit Women the current Indian Lower House of Parliament has only 12 Dalit women MPs a mere 22 of Parliamentarians In its consideration of the Government of India?s report in 2007 the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination noted its concern over the under representation of Dalits in all levels of government 280 pp.…

Contents Preface 1 Power politics and global civil society 2 The changing Asian family as a site of sate politics 3 Nuclear disarmament civil society and democracy 4 Depoliticizing democracy 5 Civil society and the development of democracy 6 Civil society 7 Global economy local politics indigenous struggles civil society and democracy 8 The ambiguous role of civil society in deliberative democracy 9 Hegemony democracy agonism and journalism 10 Contentious politics local governance and the self 11 Local governance institutions economic diversification identity 12 Everyday makers and expert citizens building political not social capital Bibliography IndexAlthough there remains considerable dispute about Global Civil Society whom or what it includes whether it is international or truly global and how it is constituted there is no doubt that the agents actors organisations ad institutions of transnational social and economic exchange and action exist But what is GCS Is it a space or locus of sovereign agents or merely a structural effect Does it wield compulsory power or it is a mere epiphenomenona a reflection of the state system Is GCS as institutional phenomenon the result of the exercise of power by other actors or is it a productive phenomenon constituted by the social roles and relations growing out of cotemporary states and markets 264 pp.…