The multiverse of democracy : essays in honour of Rajni Kothari
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The multiverse of democracy : essays in honour of Rajni Kothari
Sage, 1996
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-275)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The essays in this volume focus on the diversity, richness and internal contradictions of democracy in the late twentieth century with reference to India. Part One explores the relationship between the state, violence and the politics of development. Part Two examines the implications of culture, knowledge and democratic practice on the evolution of democratic politics both in the West and in the developing world.
Table of Contents
Introduction - D L Sheth and Ashis Nandy
PART ONE: GLOBALIZED DEMOCRACY: STATE, VIOLENCE AND THE POLITICS OF DEVELOPMENT
The Nature of the Modern State - Bhikhu Parekh
The Frankenstein State and Uneven Sovereignty - Ali A Mazrui
Democracy in the Third World - Samir Amin
Democracy and Development - Johan Galtung
The Gulf War and the Death of Democracy - Richard Falk
`The Last Hurrah' - Immanuel Wallerstein
Democracy and the Wages of War
PART TWO: THE POETICS OF DEMOCRACY: CULTURE, KNOWLEDGE AND DEMOCRACTIC PRACTICE
On The Spatio-Temporal Conditions of Democratic Practice - R B J Walker
The French Revolution Cannot Take Place for Women - Maria Mies
Post-Modernism and Democracy - Fred Dallmayr
Comments on Voegelin and Lefort
From Beyond the Ganges - W H Morris-Jones
A Letter from Jawaharlal Nehru
Post-Relativism in Emancipatory Thought - Thomas Pantham
Gandhi's Swaraj and Satyagraha
Political Regeneration in India - James Manor
Anthropology as Critical Self-Awareness - T N Madan
The Artificialistic Fallacy - Edward Goldsmith
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