Democratic Transformation and the Vernacular Public Arena in India

ISBN-13: 9780815384076 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 222 str.

Taberez Ahmed Neyazi; Akio Tanabe; Shinya Ishizaka

Opis

This book analyses the unprecedented, democratic transformation which is currently taking place in India, by employing a new analytical framework of the "vernacular public arena" where negotiations, dialogues, debates and contestations occur among "vernacular publics." This reflects the profound changes in Indian democracy as diverse social groups, including dalits, adivasis and Other Backward Classes; minorities, women; individuals from rural areas, towns, and cities; the poor and the new middle classes – the "vernacular publics" – participate in new ways in India’s public life.Contributors demonstrate that the participation of vernacular publics has resulted in the broadening of Indian democracy itself which focuses on the ways of governance, improving people’s lives, life chances, and living environments.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: The Vernacular Public Arena and Democratic Transformation in India 2. Politics of Relations and the Emergence of Vernacular Public Arena: Global Networks of Development and Livelihood in Odisha 3. Social Politics: Youth Vernacular Action in the Indian Himalayas 4. Empowering the Vernacular Publics: Civil Society and Democratic Participation in Rajasthan 5. News Media and Political Participation: Re-evaluating Democratic Deepening in India 6. Jan Andolans and Alternate Politics in India: Symbiotic Interactions, Vernacular Publics and News Media in Jan Lokpal Andolan 7. Ways of Democracy: Making Politics Work for the Urban Poor 8. Re-evaluating the Chipko (Forest Protection) Movement: The Emergence of Vernacular Publics in the Uttarakhand 9. Grassroots and Vernacular Articulations: Politics and Popular Democracy in Uttar Pradesh Villages 10. Caste and Vernacular Politics in Tamil Nadu, South India 11. Against the Public Sphere: The Morals of Disclosure and the "Vernacular Public Sphere" in Rural Rajasthan 12. Communal Riots and States: A Comparative Study of Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh