TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gellner,David N.
TI  - Varieties of activist experience: civil society in South Asia 
T2  - Governance, conflict, and civic action series
SN  - 9788132105954
AV  - JQ98.A91 V37 2010eb
U1  - 322.40954 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New Delhi, India, Thousand Oaks, Calif.
PB  - SAGE Publications
KW  - Political participation
KW  - South Asia
KW  - Civil society
KW  - Political activists
KW  - Participation politique
KW  - Asie méridionale
KW  - Société civile
KW  - Activistes
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Political Process
KW  - Political Advocacy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2011
N2  - 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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