Seeing the State
Governance and Governmentality in India
Part of Contemporary South Asia
- Authors:
- Stuart Corbridge, London School of Economics and Political Science
- Glyn Williams, King's College London
- Manoj Srivastava, London School of Economics and Political Science
- René Véron, University of Guelph, Ontario
- Date Published: October 2005
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- isbn: 9780511128530
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Poor people confront the state on an everyday basis all over the world. But how do they see the state, and how are these engagements conducted? This book considers the Indian case where people's accounts, in particular in the countryside, are shaped by a series of encounters that are staged at the local level, and which are also informed by ideas that are circulated by the government and the broader development community. Drawing extensively on fieldwork conducted in eastern India and their broad range of expertise, the authors review a series of key debates in development studies on participation, good governance, and the structuring of political society. They do so with particular reference to the Employment Assurance Scheme and primary education provision. Seeing the State engages with the work of James Scott, James Ferguson and Partha Chatterjee, and offers a new interpretation of the formation of citizenship in South Asia.
Read more- The book engages major debates on poverty, politics and governance
- Focuses on South Asia, but looks broadly and analytically across a range of disciplines, including development studies, sociology, anthropology and history
- Engagingly written by four of the leading figures in their fields for students, scholars and professionals
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- Date Published: October 2005
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9780511128530
- contains: 16 tables
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Part I. The State and the Poor:
1. Seeing the state
2. Technologies of rule and the war on poverty
Part II. The Everyday State and Society:
3. Meeting the state
4. Participation
5. Governance
6. Political society
Part III. The Poor and the State:
7. Protesting the state
8. Postcolonialism, development studies and spaces of empowerment
9. Postscript: development ethics and the ethics of critique.
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