Seeing the state : governance and governmentality in India /
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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| Series: | Contemporary South Asia (Cambridge, England) ;
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Seeing the state
- 2. Technologies of rule and the war on poverty
- 3. Meeting the state
- 4. Participation
- 5. Governance
- 6. Political society
- 7. Protesting the state
- 8. Post-colonialism, development studies and spaces of empowerment
- 9. Postscript : development ethics and the ethics of critique
- App. 1. Major national programmes and policies related to poverty alleviation, 1999
- App. 2. The 1999 general election in Hajipur.
