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Seeing the State

Governance and Governmentality in India

Stuart Corbridge author Glyn Williams author Manoj Srivastava author René Véron author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:22nd Sep '05

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The book focuses on the relationship between the poor and the state in India.

How do poor people in India understand and make use of the state in their daily lives? The authors consider key debates in development studies on participation and good governance to answer these questions. They study the extent to which poorer people can engage the political process as citizens.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.

ISBN: 9780521542555

Dimensions: 229mm x 153mm x 20mm

Weight: 539g

334 pages