Civil Society in South Asia (Hardcover)

Are new ideas needed to disentangle the uses and abuses of the idea of civil society both in South Asia and beyond? This book seeks to explore this question by reviewing the debate on civil society mainly in India but also in Pakistan. Civil society is a term that has a rich history in European political and social thought since the 17th century. Yet it has also become shorthand either for groups who place themselves in opposition to state elites or for non- governmental organizations that initiate, often in partnership with international agencies, programmes of economic and social development that to a greater or lesser extent are distanced from the state. The purpose of this collection of essays, initially presented at a seminar in 2018 in Hyderabad in South India, is to explore these disconnects and to see if concepts of civil society can be developed that go with the grain of South Asia's political and historical experience. Some of the chapters in this edited volume focus specifically on theoretical dimensions, while others take case studies from India and Pakistan. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Civil Society.

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2022
First published:	2023
Editors:	David Taylor • Hee-won Kim
Dimensions:	246 x 174mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	104
ISBN-13:	978-1-03-232898-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies > General
LSN:	1-03-232898-3
Barcode:	9781032328980

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