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Intractable Conflicts in Contemporary India: Narratives and Social Movements (Social Movements and Transformative Dissent) - Softcover

Book 2 of 3: Social Movements and Transformative Dissent
 
9780367734640: Intractable Conflicts in Contemporary India: Narratives and Social Movements (Social Movements and Transformative Dissent)
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ISBN 10: 0367734648 ISBN 13: 9780367734640
Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

This book attempts a representation of society in contemporary India through an ethnography woven around long-standing intractable conflicts ― of displacement and rehabilitation, patriarchy, insurgency and counter-insurgency operations, and climate change. Each chapter in this volume offers a critical transformative narrative in response to these conflicts. It asks how social justice and equality is to be constructed and provides a fresh perspective.

It is argued that social movements can no longer be concerned only with itemizing a checklist of demands; it is now necessary to be free of the hegemony of current frames, categories, concepts and principles, and to rethink the ‘promise’. The volume maintains that this effort to step out of the ‘endless waiting’ for delivery of a ‘promised value’ draws out the labour of transformative action. A valuable contribution to understanding social movements in India, this work challenges the established discourses around grassroots politics, progressive policies and legislations as well as radical mass movements.

The book will interest students and researchers of social movements, conflict and peace studies, sociology and social anthropology, political science and development studies. It will also be useful to those working in the areas of human rights, social exclusion and inclusive policies.

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About the Author

Savyasaachi is Professor at the Department of Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. He works in the fields of social theory and method, political ecology, indigenous sociology, social movements, and conservation architecture.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0367734648
ISBN 13 
9780367734640
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
248
Editor
Savyasaachi

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