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Varieties of activist experience : civil society in South Asia / edited by David N. Gellner.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Governance, conflict and civic action series ; v. 3.
- Governance, conflict and civic action ; v. 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political participation--South Asia.
- Political participation.
- Civil society--South Asia.
- Civil society.
- Political activists--South Asia.
- Political activists.
- South Asia--Politics and government.
- South Asia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 291 p.) : ill.
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles : SAGE, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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
- Glossary and AbbreviationsAbout the Editor and Contributors; Name Index; Subject Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786612839689
- 9789385985812
- 9385985817
- 9788132112235
- 8132112237
- 9781282839687
- 1282839683
- 9788132105954
- 8132105958
- OCLC:
- 669513523
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