Contradictions of Democracy, Development and Inequality

A Case of India
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-29188-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Identity politics has widened representation for the marginalised groups in democracies, while neoliberalism has deepened inequality. This volume finds answers to the paradox of widening representation and worsening inequality especially in India exploring the themes of development and identity in recent times.

Inspired by Ceasar Basu’s works as a political thinker and teacher, this volume weaves in economic concerns with the socio-cultural aspects of identity and contends that representation is not sufficient. Further, it highlights the importance of reinstating redistribution to serve both democracy and development. It looks at neoliberal policies and how they maximise negative liberty by focussing on the individual thereby obliterating the question of the social location of individuals. The contributors to this volume investigate these issues through the lens of religion, gender, caste, and raise interdisciplinary questions concerning ecological conditions of labour, the institution of democracy and capitalist regimes, linkages among multiple sectors of the Indian economy, devaluation of women’s work in the care economy, material distribution of resources, and liberty and civil rights. This book creates a much-needed conversation between the study of development through the economic perspective and the cultural or political sociology perspective.
It will be of interest to students and researchers of politics especially identity politics, economics, sociology and social justice, development studies, and social geography.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Das Gupta, Sejuti

Chakraborty, Shouvik

Banerjee, Taposik

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface - Caesar Basu, Recognition or Redistribution? Dynamics of the National Question: A Preliminary Exploration PART I: Democracy 1. Democracy and Development: From an Economic Perspective 2. Politico-Ethical Debates & Organisational Identity of Civil Rights Groups in India 3. Neoliberalism and Shifting Idea of Liberty: A Case of Mask-Wearing in USA PART II: Development and Inequality 4. The Political Economy of Social Reproduction and Capital Accumulation in Post-Independent India 5. Right to Water, Privatisation and the Issue of Efficiency 6. Precarity and Neoliberalism: The Social in Times of Coronavirus 7. Constraints on Labour Income and the Need for Fiscal Support: Rethinking Development Policies during Globalisation Period 8. The Informal Sector in India: Neo-dualism and Dual Policy Response PART III: Agriculture and Sustainability 9. Rethinking the Agrarian Crisis: The ‘Surplus Population’ and Capital Accumulation 10. Livestock Patterns, Climate Change and its Impact on Livelihood: An Analysis of Coastal Rural India 11. The Changes in Proportion of Agricultural Main Workers between 2001 and 2011: Some Paradoxical Results 12. Disaster Relief and Distributive Justice PART IV: Identity 13. No Country for Muslims? Interrogating Educational and Employment Outcomes of Muslims in post-Sachar India 14. Prejudice and Politics in India: Understanding the Origins 15. Identity, Indigeneity and ‘Hindutva’ Politics in Assam: Adivasi’s Quest for ST Status16. Public Health Policy, Practice, and the Gendering of Care: The Case of Community Health Workers in India

Über Autor(innen)

Sejuti Das Gupta is an Associate professor at the Michigan State University, USA. She has also taught at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India. Her research is interdisciplinary and based on primary data and aims to contribute towards combining theory and practice for a better understanding in social science. Her most recent publication is called, Class, Politics and Agrarian Policies in Post-liberalisation India (2024).

Shouvik Chakraborty is an Assistant Research Professor at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. He specializes in environmental and energy economics, climate finance, job creation, and macroeconomics and is committed to addressing the urgent challenges posed by climate change. His recent research projects include analyzing the employment effects of President Biden's initiatives in green energy, manufacturing, and infrastructure in the United States.

Taposik Banerjee teaches Economics at the School of Liberal Studies, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi, India. His research interests include social choice, law and economics and network theory. His recently published work is ‘Characterization of a k-th best element rationalizable choice function with full domain’, in the journal, Theory and Decision.