Interrogating Development

Insights from the Margins
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-806641-5
Verlag: Hurst & Co.

Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 221 mm, Gewicht: 558 g

Unique perspective on modernism in India and the West
Significant contribution to Dalit/culture studies
Interdisciplinary scope
Eminent contributors include Ashis Nandy, Stephen Marglin, and Gail Omvedt

This collection presents a new perspective on the role of culture in shaping the ambivalent attitude towards economic development of many marginalized people. The strength of this volume lies in how the essays provide examples from both within India and without, to illuminate old Dalit/Savarna and also Hindu/Muslim dynamics specific to India. The volume clearly defines how asymmetrical complementary relationships between Dalits and Savarnas are being replaced by short-term contractual labour relations that no longer involve long-term intergenerational reciprocal obligations.

The essays draw attention to the non-modern, non-Western agents that have rendered invisible the dynamics of cyclicity, bio-cultural regeneration, and social and ecological reproduction (SER). What the volume achieves is an understanding of the specifics of Western modernism and modernism in India. Also, through specific examples in India, the US, and elsewhere, it clarifies some of the profound differences between modern, capitalist processes of marginalization as well as non-modern ones.

Zielgruppe

The book will be of considerable interest to scholars and students of development studies, sociology, economics, and culture studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Apffel-Marglin, Frederique

Apffel-Marglin, Frédérique

Kumar, Sanjay

Mishra, Arvind

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, Frédérique Apffel-Marglin;
PART I: MARGIN/CENTER DYNAMICS, Introduction to Part I, Frédérique Apffel-Marglin;
1.: Cultural Perspectives on Sustainable Rural Livelihoods: Situating Cultural Practices of the Marginal Communities In India, Rahul Ghai and Sanjay Kumar;
2.: Humiliation: Politics and Cultural Psychology of the Limits of Human Degradation, Ashis Nandy;
3.: Pollution, Subsistence, Sustainability in USA Nationalism: The Symbolic Construction of 'Appalachia' as America's 'trash' People, Betsy Taylor;
4.: Livelihoods and Cultural Codes: Pork and Pigs in Indian Culture, Maren Bellwinkel-Schempp; PART II: CULTURAL PRACTICES, Introduction to PART II, Frédérique Apffel-Marglin;
5.: The Potential of Fair Trade for Bio-Cultural Regeneration: The Case of the Oro Verde cooperative in Peru, Frédérique Apffel-Marglin;
6.: Representation, Resistance, and Identity: The Musahards of the Middle Gangetic Plain, Sanjay Kumar, Arvind Mishra, Badri Narayan, and Rafiul Ahmed;
7.: Seeking Begumpura: Radical Bhakti and Dalit Social Movements, Gail Omvedt;
8.: Qissa Mir-e-Alam: Experiences of reinvigorating sufiyana qalam tradition with marginalized musicians, Rahul Ghai;
PART III: QUESTIONING THE CAPABILITY APPROACH, Introduction to Part III, Frédérique Apffel-Marglin;
9.: Culture Matters in the Knowledge Economy, Linda Tuhiwai Smith;
10.: How can the Capability Approach be used to Serve Marginalized Communities at the Grassroots Level?, Ingrid Robeyns;
11.: Language Disadvantage and Capability Deprivation of Tribal Mother Tongue Speakers, Ajit Mohanty;
12.: . From Imperialism to Globalization by Way of Development, Stephen Marglin.

Über Autor(innen)

edited by Frédérique Apffel-Marglin, Professor, Dept of Anthropology at Smith College, USA, edited by Sanjay Kumar, Secretary, Deshkal Society, and edited by Arvind Mishra, Assistant Professor, Zakir Hussain Centre for Educational Studies, School of Social Sciences, JNU

Contributors:
Rafiul Ahmed is Research Associate at Deshkal, Delhi; Rahul Ghai is a development facilitator and researcher, Delhi; Sanjay Kumar is a Scholar activist and Secretary, Deshkal Society, Delhi; Frédérique Apffel-Marglin is Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology at Smith College, MA, USA; Stephen A. Marglin is Walter S Barker Chair, Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; Arvind Kumar Mishra is Assistant Professor, Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; Ajit K. Mohanty is Professor, Zakir Hussain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi;; Ashis Nandy is Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi; Badri Narayan is Associate Professor, G.B. Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad; Gail Omvedt is scholar-activist and Senior Fellow, Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla; Herbert Reid is Professor in Political Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA; Ingrid Robeyns is Professor in Practical Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands;; Maren Bellwinkel-Schempp is Senior Research Fellow, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Stuttgart, Germany; Linda Tuhiwai Smith is Professor and Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand; Betsy Taylor is Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.