From 'People' to 'Citizen': Democracy's Must Take Road

ISBN-13: 9780815373070 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 206 str.

Dipankar Gupta

Opis

The book brings together social theory with policy practice to enlarge our understanding of democracy. It focuses on the specific concerns of ‘citizenship’ where individuals have equal & quality access to health, education and urban services. The emphasis is on empowering ‘citizens’ as a common category & not ‘people’ of any specific community/ class. Differences between citizens are not denied, in fact encouraged, but only after achieving a basic unity first. This book argues that the call of citizenship not only advances democracy, but social science as well.

Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Spis treści

1. Being a Citizen: From Passions to Fraternity 2. From Nationalism to Citizenship: Majority Concessions and Democratic Consensus 3. Planning for the Poor: Limits of the Targeted Approach 4. Threshold Markers: Citizens or Beneficiaries 5. Skilling Citizens: Raising the Human Resource Base 6. Beyond Interest Enclave Politics: Civic Consumerism and Citizenship Aspirations 7. Space and Non Space in City Master Plans: Urban Utilities and Citizen Membership 8. Civil Society and Democracy: Bringing back the Citizen 9. Social Science and Democracy: An Elective Affinity 10. Citizenship as a Social Relation: A Critique of Multiple Modernity

O autorze

Dipankar Gupta is one of India’s leading sociologists and public intellectuals. He is a former Professor of Sociology, at The Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi and Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He was also the Leverhulme Professor in London School of Economics, and Fulbright Professor in the University of Massachusetts.