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Since its Independence in 1971, Bangladesh has made remarkable
progress in terms of reducing poverty levels, achieving high levels
of economic growth over a sustained period of time, and meeting its
Millennium Development Goals (MDG) targets set by the United
Nations. With some justification, Bangladesh is considered an
international development success story, and the country appears to
be well on track to meet its policy target of becoming a
middle-income country by 2021, the same year the country will
celebrate 50 years of Independence. This book explores the central
issue of Bangladeshi politics: the weakness of governance. The
coexistence of a poor governance track record and a relatively
strong socioeconomic performance makes Bangladesh an intriguing
case which throws up exciting and relevant conceptual and policy
challenges. Structured in four sections - Political Settlement,
Elites and Deep Structures; Democracy, Citizenship and Values;
Civil Society, Local Context and Political Change; Informality and
Accountability - the book identifies and engages with these
challenges. Chapters by experts in the field share a number of
conceptual and epistemological principles and offer a combination
of theoretical and empirical insights, and cover a good range of
contemporary issues and debate. Employing a structurally
determinist perspective, this book explains politics and society in
Bangladesh from a novel perspective. Academics in the field of
governance and politics in developing countries, with a focus on
South Asia and Bangladesh will welcome its publication.
Since its Independence in 1971, Bangladesh has made remarkable
progress in terms of reducing poverty levels, achieving high levels
of economic growth over a sustained period of time, and meeting its
Millennium Development Goals (MDG) targets set by the United
Nations. With some justification, Bangladesh is considered an
international development success story, and the country appears to
be well on track to meet its policy target of becoming a
middle-income country by 2021, the same year the country will
celebrate 50 years of Independence. This book explores the central
issue of Bangladeshi politics: the weakness of governance. The
coexistence of a poor governance track record and a relatively
strong socioeconomic performance makes Bangladesh an intriguing
case which throws up exciting and relevant conceptual and policy
challenges. Structured in four sections - Political Settlement,
Elites and Deep Structures; Democracy, Citizenship and Values;
Civil Society, Local Context and Political Change; Informality and
Accountability - the book identifies and engages with these
challenges. Chapters by experts in the field share a number of
conceptual and epistemological principles and offer a combination
of theoretical and empirical insights, and cover a good range of
contemporary issues and debate. Employing a structurally
determinist perspective, this book explains politics and society in
Bangladesh from a novel perspective. Academics in the field of
governance and politics in developing countries, with a focus on
South Asia and Bangladesh will welcome its publication.
Created in 2000 following a long-standing regional movement,
Jharkhand-the land of forests-represents an important experiment in
regional autonomy and self-determination for indigenous communities
in a postcolonial democracy. Over two decades, Jharkhand has
experienced a volatile political environment as competing political
groups have mobilised indigenous subaltern communities for
different ends. In Reclaiming Indigeneity and Democracy in India's
Jharkhand, Ipshita Basu contributes to scholarship on critical
social justice and indigeneity by highlighting 'relations of
justification' as a central feature of group-based claims-making
for social groups identifying with indigeneity in diverse ways.
Specifically, the book focuses on reclaiming political recognition
for Adivasis within the contemporary dynamics of majoritarian
populism and the market economy. Uniting perspectives from
philosophy (social justice), politics (democracy and public
reasoning), and culture studies (identity), and based on
ethnographic and archival research, the author indicates that when
'relations' are at the epicentre of claims-making, expressive
attachments determine political activism over the instrumental
choices that groups are compelled to make in the context of large
power differentials. This book is a timely account of indigenous
politics and is an attempt to foreground the complex 'political
nature' of social justice claims-making in a democracy such as
India.
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