Democratizing Development: Struggles for Rights and Social Justice in India - Hardcover

Mohanty, Ranjita

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9352807278 ISBN 13: 9789352807277

Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

Since its inception, the Indian model of development has the twin objectives of economic development and social justice woven together. This has shaped both policy and popular aspiration in post-Independence India. In this context, Democratizing Development: Struggles for Rights and Social Justice in India explores and analyses how development gets vitiated by multiple powers and subverts the democratic ideals of participation, equality, inclusion, redistribution and equity, and how the poor and socially marginalized struggle to make development democratic. Examining development through the lens of the most marginalized, the book shows the democratic potential of development as well as the result of its absence.

The book contains empirically drawn cases and supplements these with theoretical and analytical arguments. It contributes to contemporary debates in social science such as democracy, social justice, civil society, social mobilization, social inclusion, redistribution and participatory governance.

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About the Author

Ranjita Mohanty is a social scientist based in Delhi. She has been working for past 20 years with a cross-section of institutions that include universities, research organizations, grassroots groups, bilateral and multilateral organizations, thus combining research with policy and practice. Her research covers a wide range―development, social policy, participation, social exclusion and inclusion, civil society, citizen action, and rights and entitlements.

Ranjita Mohanty has a PhD from the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Dr Mohanty has held several positions including Fulbright Senior Research Fellow, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA; Visiting Fellow, University of Western Cape, Bellville, Cape Town, South Africa. She has coedited two books, Does Civil Society Matter? Governance in Contemporary India and Participatory Citizenship: Issues of Identity, Exclusion, Inclusion, both published by SAGE.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9352807278
• ISBN 13: 9789352807277
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 212