Re-Interrogating Civil Society in South Asia

Critical Perspectives from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-367-75439-6
Verlag: Routledge India

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 503 g

This book offers an overview of the history and development of civil society in three major nations of South Asia – Pakistan, India and Bangladesh – from colonial times to the present. It examines the liberalization of civil society since the 1980s, the needs it created for civil action, the professionalization of civil society organizations, and the extent to which civil society may benefit society at large in the context of local, national and global transformations in the economy, political regime and ideology.

The reader will find new insights on the interaction between the liberalization of multifaceted civil societies in the three countries, presenting contrasts such as restrictions put on women’s organizations or labour unions and acceptance of religious organizations’ activities. The volume looks at forms of transfer of civil society models, representation and democratic legitimacy of civil society organizations such as nongovernmental organizations, government organized NGOs and faith-based organizations, along with the structuring of civil society through legal frames as well as female, religious, and ethnic mobilizations around language and literature. Using wide-ranging empirical data and theoretical analyses, it deals with civil society issues relating to human rights and political challenges, justice, inequality, empowerment, and the role of bureaucracy, women’s movements, and ethnic and linguistic minorities. It also presents early responses to the Covid-19 crisis in 2020 which created significant pressure on the states and on civil society.

This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of political studies, development studies, sociology, public policy and governance, law and human rights, as also to professionals in think tanks, civil society activists and NGOs.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Andersen, Peter B.

Mehdi, Rubya

Prakash, Amit

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Agrarsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Dissemination of Civil Society in South Asia: Introductory Considerations Part I: Multifaceted and Local Civil Societies in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh 2. Building Civil Society in Colonial India during the Long Nineteenth Century 3. Civil Society in India: What Is It and Where Is It Going? 4. Clearing Misconceptions about Civil Society in Pakistan 5. Civil Society, Human Rights and Political Antagonism in Bangladesh Part II: Civil Society’s Multiple Hues and Roles 6. Thieves and Khoji’s in a Non-State, Collectivist System of Justice under Transformation: An Example from a Village of Southern Punjab, Pakistan 7. Dilemmas Facing Civil Society Institutions in Pakistan: A Case for Organized Labour 8. Bureaucratic Empowerment as a Tool for Reproduction of Inequalities 9. Entertaining the Possibility of Society’s Radical Transformation: A Personal View of Women Front (1974–1976) 10. The Women’s Action Forum, Pakistan: Ideology and Functioning 11. Madrasas and Religious Maslaks as a Case of Skewed Civil Society in Pakistan 12. Striving for Space in Pakistan under COVID-19 Part III: Civil Mobilization among Ethnic and Linguistic Minorities 13. The Organization of the Writers’ Community as a Linguistic Minority: The Santal Tribe 14. Imagining Santal Rationality as Empowerment 15. Santals: Language, Lyricism, Emotions and Identity

Über Autor(innen)

Peter B. Andersen is Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Rubya Mehdi is Senior Researcher at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark and has been Visiting Professor at Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan.

Amit Prakash is Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.