Varieties of activist experience : civil society in South Asia / edited by David N. Gellner.

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Gellner, David N

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Governance, conflict and civic action series ; v. 3.Publication details: New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 291 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9788132105954
8132105958

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Varieties of activist experience.DDC classification:

322.40954 22

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JQ98.A91 V37 2010eb

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Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 -- Introduction: Making Civil Society in South Asia; 2 -- The Biography of a Magar Communist; 3 -- Creating 'Civilized' Communists; 4 -- Youth and Political Engagement in Sri Lanka; 5 -- Can Women be Mobilized to Participate in Indian Local Politics?; 6 -- Surveying Activists in Nepal; 7 -- Disciplined Activists, Unruly Brokers? Exploring the Boundaries between Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs), Donors, and the State in Bangladesh; 8 -- Activists and Development in Nepal; 9 -- From Big Game to Biodiversity; 10 -- Civil Society and its Fragments.

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Summary: This book examines in rich detail the lives, struggles, and strategies of South Asian activists seeking to advance various political, social, and environmental causes. Through a series of case studies from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka on activists' efforts, it elucidates how they mediate between different spheres that are often (and sometimes legally) kept apart: the political and the legal, the economic and the political, the local and the international. The uniqueness of this book lies in its treatment of 'civil society' as a process brought into being by the actions of specific i.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book examines in rich detail the lives, struggles, and strategies of South Asian activists seeking to advance various political, social, and environmental causes. Through a series of case studies from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka on activists' efforts, it elucidates how they mediate between different spheres that are often (and sometimes legally) kept apart: the political and the legal, the economic and the political, the local and the international. The uniqueness of this book lies in its treatment of 'civil society' as a process brought into being by the actions of specific i.

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