The public and the private : issues of democratic citizenship / edited by Gurpreet Mahajan in collaboration with Helmut Reifeld.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mahajan, Gurpreet.

Reifeld, Helmut.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy.

Democratization.

Individualism.

Communities.

Public interest.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Delhi : SAGE, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This title contains a collection of essays which take a critical look at diverse representations of public and private, the manner in which they reinforce each other and collectively impact upon democracy.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction - The Public and the Private: Two Modes of Enhancing Democratization; Part I: Conceptualizing the Public and the Private; 1 - The Public as a Social Category; 2 - The Domesticated Public: Tradition, Modernity and the Public/Private Divide; 3 - The Middle Classes as Public and Private: Culture, Gender and Modernization in 19th Century Europe; 4 - Of the Social Categories 'Private' and 'Public': Considerations of Cultural Context; 5 - From a 'Private' Public to a 'Public' Private Sphere: Old Delhi and the North Indian Muslims in Comparative Perspective

6 - The Struggle for Social Justice and the Expansion of the Public SpherePart II: Retrieving the Private; 7 - Law's Magic and Empire Revisited: Public Spaces and Private Lives-The Domain of the Law; 8 - Transcending Categories: The Private, the Public, and the Search for Home; 9 - Feminism and the Public-Private Distinction; 10 - Protecting Individual Rights as Safeguards of the Private Sphere: The German Setting from the Legal Point of View; 11 - Voluntary Action and Citizenship: Issues of Civil Rights; 12 - Public Ethics and Accountability

Part III: The Public in the Context of Globalization13 - Public Sector in a Market Economy; 14 - Privatization as Reform: Liberalization and Public Sector Enterprises in India; 15 - NGOs in the Era of Globalization: Reworking the State-Citizen Dialectic; 16 - Creating a Public: Reinventing Democratic Citizenship; About the Editors and Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786612425158

9788132112662

8132112660

9781282425156

1282425153

9788132103738

8132103734

OCLC:

551218847