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Informationen zum Autor Raka Ray is associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Mary Fainsod Katzenstein is professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University. Klappentext Social movements have played a vital role in Indian politics since well before the inception of India as a new nation in 1947. During the Nehruvian era, poverty alleviation was a foundational standard against which policy proposals and political claims were measured; at this time, movement activism was directly accountable to this state discourse. In the first volume to focus on poverty and class in its analysis of social movements, a group of leading India scholars shows how social movements have had to change because poverty reduction no longer serves its earlier role as a political template. With distinctive chapters on gender, lower castes, environment, the Hindu Right, Kerala, labor, farmers, and biotechnology, Social Movements in India will be attractive to students and researchers in many different disciplines. Zusammenfassung Focusing on poverty and class in its analysis of social movements! this work shows how social movements have had to change because poverty reduction did not serve its role as a political template. It includes chapters on gender! lower castes! environment! the Hindu Right! Kerala! labor! farmers! and biotechnology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: In the Beginning, There Was the Nehruvian State Chapter 1: From Class Compromise to Class Accommodation: Labor's Incorporation into the Indian Political Economy Chapter 2: Problems of Social Power and the Discourses of the Hindu Right Chapter 3: Reinventing Public Power in the Age of Globalization: The Transformation of Movement Politics in Kerala Chapter 4: Feminism, Poverty, and the Emergent Social Order Chapter 5: Who Are The Country's Poor? Social Movement Politics and Dalit Poverty Chapter 6: Red in Tooth and Claw? Looking for Class in Struggles over Nature Chapter 7: Farmer's Movements and the Debate on Poverty and Economic Reforms in India Chapter 8: Miracle Seeds, Suicide Seeds, and the Poor: GMOs, NGOs, Farmers and the State Chapter 9: Strong States, Strong NGOs ...
