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" Varieties of activist experience : "
edited by David N. Gellner.
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BL
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955235
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b709605
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Varieties of activist experience : : civil society in South Asia /\ edited by David N. Gellner.
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| Publication Statement
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New Delhi, India ;Thousand Oaks, Calif. :: SAGE Publications,, 2010.
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Governance, conflict, and civic action series ;; v. 3
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1 online resource (viii, 291 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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8132105958
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: 9788132105954
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8132104501
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9788132104506
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Cover; Contents; Preface; 1 -- Introduction: Making Civil Society in South Asia; 2 -- The Biography of a Magar Communist; 3 -- Creating 'Civilized' Communists; 4 -- Youth and Political Engagement in Sri Lanka; 5 -- Can Women be Mobilized to Participate in Indian Local Politics?; 6 -- Surveying Activists in Nepal; 7 -- Disciplined Activists, Unruly Brokers? Exploring the Boundaries between Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs), Donors, and the State in Bangladesh; 8 -- Activists and Development in Nepal; 9 -- From Big Game to Biodiversity; 10 -- Civil Society and its Fragments.
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This book examines in rich detail the lives, struggles, and strategies of South Asian activists seeking to advance various political, social, and environmental causes. Through a series of case studies from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka on activists' efforts, it elucidates how they mediate between different spheres that are often (and sometimes legally) kept apart: the political and the legal, the economic and the political, the local and the international. The uniqueness of this book lies in its treatment of 'civil society' as a process brought into being by the actions of specific i.
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Civil society-- South Asia.
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Political activists-- South Asia.
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Political participation-- South Asia.
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Civil society.
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Political activists.
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Political participation.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Process-- Political Advocacy.
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Politics and government.
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South Asia, Politics and government.
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South Asia.
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322.40954
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JQ98.A91V37 2010eb
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Gellner, David N.
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