1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787624003321

Autore

Rāẏa Daẏābatī

Titolo

Rural politics in India : political stratification and governance in West Bengal / / Dayabati Roy [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2014

ISBN

1-139-89354-8

1-107-50128-8

1-107-51428-2

1-107-50398-1

1-107-51705-2

1-107-50665-4

1-107-32631-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 279 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

320.8/4095414

Soggetti

Rural development - India - West Bengal

West Bengal (India) Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Land, development and politics in West Bengal -- Kalipur and Kadampur : changing landscape of two villages in West Bengal -- Seeing the state and governance in the grassroots -- Party and politics at the margin -- A narrative of peasant resistance : land, party and the state -- Caste and power in rural context -- Women and caste : in struggle and in governance.

Sommario/riassunto

This book discusses the forms and dynamics of political processes in rural India with a special emphasis on West Bengal, the nation's fourth-most populous state. West Bengal's political distinction stems from its long legacy of a Left-led coalition government for more than thirty years and its land reform initiatives. The book closely looks at how people from different castes, religions, and genders represent themselves in local governments, political parties, and in the social movements in West Bengal. At the same time it addresses some important questions: Is there any new pattern of politics emerging at the margins? How does this pattern of politics correspond with the



current discourse of governance? Using ethnographic techniques, it claims to chart new territories by not only examining how rural people see the state, but also conceiving the context by comparing the available theoretical frameworks put forward to explain the political dynamics of rural India.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910954449903321

Autore

Gidlow Liette Patricia

Titolo

The big vote : gender, consumer culture, and the politics of exclusion, 1890s-1920s / / Liette Gidlow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, c2004

ISBN

0-8018-9901-X

Edizione

[Johns Hopkins Paperbacks ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Collana

Reconfiguring American political history

Disciplina

324.973/0915

Soggetti

Political participation - United States

Voting - United States

Women - Political activity - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : making dominance -- "Civic slackers" and "poll dodgers" : nonvoting and the construction of discursive dominance -- "A whole fleet of campaigns" : the get-out-the-vote campaigns in overview -- "Vote as you please, but vote!" : the leadership of the get-out-the-vote campaigns -- "Good for at least 100 votes" : the get-out-the-vote campaigns at the local level -- The expert citizen : civic education and the remaking of civic hierarchies -- The methods of Wrigley and Barnum : the get-out-the-vote campaigns and the commodification of political culture -- Conclusion : the new regime.

Sommario/riassunto

In the end, the Get-Out-the Vote campaigns shed light not only on the problem of voter turnout in the 1920s, but on some of the problems that hamper the practice of full democracy even today.