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Informationen zum Autor Ajay Gudavarthy is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Political Studies of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has been a visiting fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a Charles Wallace Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Klappentext This volume critically unpacks the concept of 'political society', formulated as a response to the idea of civil society in a postcolonial context. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Why Interrogate Political Society? - Ajay Gudavarthy; Part I: Political Society and Protest Politics; 2. Political Society in a Capitalist World - Swagato Sarkar; 3. Antinomies of Political Society - Implications of Uncivil Development - Ajay Gudavarthy and G. Vijay; 4. Civil Society and the Urban Poor - Supriya RoyChowdhury; 5. Contentious Politics and Civil Society in Varanasi - Jolie M. F. Wood; 6. The Politics of a Political Society - Ranabir Samaddar; Part II: Political Society, Middlemen and Mobility; 7. The Pyraveekar: The 'Fixer' in Rural India - G. Ram Reddy and G. Haragopal; 8. Politics of Middlemen and Political Society - Stuart Corbridge, Glyn Williams, Manoj Srivastava and René Véron; 9. Widows' Organizations in Kerala State, India: Seeking Citizenship amidst the Decline of Political Society - J. Devika and A. K. Rajasree; Part III: Civil Society and/or Political Society; 10. Clubbing Together: Village Clubs, Local NGOs and the Mediations of Political Society - Tom Harrison; 11. Civic Anxieties and Dalit Democratic Culture: Balmikis in Delhi - Omar Kutty; 12. The Habits of the Political Heart: Recovering Politics from Governmentality - Aparna Sundar and Nandini Sundar; 13. Civil Society in the East and Some Dark Thoughts about the Prospects of Political Society - Sanjeeb Mukherjee; Part IV: Rejoinder; 14. The Debate over Political Society - Partha Chatterjee
