The Politics of Collective Advocacy in India : Tools and Traps
Nandini Deo, Duncan McDuie-Ra
India’s vibrant civil society sector has become a powerful symbol of political participation in the country. It comprises a wealth of media organizations, caste and religion based associations, farmers groups, labor unions, social service organizations, and an almost limitless number of development organizations. Given this vibrancy, it is difficult to grasp the characteristics of civil society at the transnational or even the national level. Delving beneath the progressive surface to the local level, one finds a murky and multifaceted world of competing interests, compromises, uneasy alliances and erratic victories. The Politics of Collective Advocacy in Indiacritically examines the enormous gap between the ways collective action in India is studied and the ways it operates on the ground. It identifies what influences the relative success or failure of different movements; the tools activists use to overcome obstacles; the traps that derail efforts to frame, politicize, and act on certain issues and assumptions about particular forms of action. The authors synthesize the experiences of a number of organizations and movements to identify the most effective tools that civil society actors at all levels can use to achieve positive social change.
年:
2011
出版:
1
出版社:
Lynne Rienner Publishers
语言:
english
页:
197
ISBN 10:
1565493680
ISBN 13:
9781565493681
文件:
PDF, 1.85 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2011