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Democratizing Development: Struggles for Rights and Social Justice in India

 
Ranjita Mohanty (Author)
Synopsis

Since its inception, the Indian model of development has the twin objectives of economic development and social justice woven together. This has shaped both policy and popular aspiration in post-Independence India. In this context, Democratizing Development: Struggles for Rights and Social Justice in India explores and analyses how development gets vitiated by multiple powers and subverts the democratic ideals of participation, equality, inclusion, redistribution and equity, and how the poor and socially marginalized struggle to make development democratic. Examining development through the lens of the most marginalized, the book shows the democratic potential of development as well as the result of its absence.

The book contains empirically drawn cases and supplements these with theoretical and analytical arguments. It contributes to contemporary debates in social science such as democracy, social justice, civil society, social mobilization, social inclusion, redistribution and participatory governance.

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction: Democratizing Development: Issues and Actors.

2. Contesting Development, Reimagining Democracy: Grassroots Social Movements. 3. National Rural Employment Guarantee Act: Access and Inclusion in Development. 4. Participatory Governance: The Paradoxes of Development and Democracy. 5. Joint Forest Management: The Making and Unmaking of Participation. 6. The Kol Resistance: Tribal Mobilization for Land Rights.7. Collective Economies of the Poor: The Ethics of Equity. 8. Conclusions: Development as Democracy. Index.

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About the author

Ranjita Mohanty

Ranjita Mohanty has a doctorate in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi in 1996. Beginning with her doctorate research which Beginning with her doctorate research which looked at the local struggle against development such a big dams, she has been exploring various dimensions of collective action relating to natural resource management and issues relating to people's participation in development. This has helped her understand and analyse the issues pertaining to development planning and policy, problems of displacement, loss of survival resources of the poor, issues of ownership and control of poor people over the resources on which they survive, coming together of people for their common interest, and the complex and changing relationship between civil society and the state. In her work she has strived to bring theory and practice closer to each other so that reflection and action can influence social transformation. She is currently working with the Society for Participatory Research in Asia, New Delhi.

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Bibliographic information

Title Democratizing Development: Struggles for Rights and Social Justice in India
Format Hardcover
Date published: 20.07.2018
Edition 1st ed.
Language: English
isbn 9789352807277
length 212p.