Nielsen, Kenneth Bo
Social Movements and the State in India
1. Social Movements, State Formation and Democracy in India: An Introduction
Alf Gunvald Nilsen, Kenneth Bo Nielsen
2. The Slow-Motion Counterrevolution: Developmental Contradictions and the Emergence of Neoliberalism
Radhika Desai
3. The Politics of Caste and the Deepening of India’s Democracy: The Case of the Backward Caste Movement in Bihar
Jeffrey Witsoe
4. Transnational Dalit Feminists In Between the Indian State, the UN and the Global Justice Movement
Eva-Maria Hardtmann
5. Feminist Efforts to Democratize Democracy: Insights from Four Decades of Activism in India
Manisha Desai
6. Women Workers, Collective Action and the “Right to Work” in Madhya Pradesh
Nandini Nayak
7. Turbid Transparency: Retelling the Story of the Right to Information Act in India
Prashant Sharma
8. Rights-Based Legislation in Practice: A View from Southern Orissa
Minati Dash
9. Re-making Labour in India: State Policy, Corporate Power and Labour Movement Mobilisation
Michael Gillan
10. Blind Alleys and Red Herrings? Social Movements, the State, Class Alliances and Pro-Labouring Class Strategy
Jonathan Pattenden
11. Disappearing Landlords and the Unmaking of Revolution: Maoist Mobilization, the State and Agrarian Change in Northern Telangana
Jostein Jakobsen
12. Conclusion
Kenneth Bo Nilsen, Alf Gunvald Nielsen
Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Democracy, Political Communication, Asian Politics, Political Sociology, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Development and Social Change
- Editor
- Nielsen, Kenneth Bo
- Nilsen, Alf Gunvald
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2016
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Rethinking International Development series
- Page amount
- 13 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137591333
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-137-59132-6