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The Anti-Politics Machine in India: State, Decentralization and Participatory Watershed Development(Anthem South Asian Studies)

The Anti-Politics Machine in India: State, Decentralization and Participatory Watershed Development(Anthem South Asian Studies)


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This book assesses the validity of 'anti-politics' critiques of development, first popularised by James Ferguson, in the peculiar context of India. It examines the new context provided by decentralization of state functioning where keeping politics out of development (development as the anti-politics machine) can no longer be taken for granted. The case of a highly technocratic state watershed development programme that also seeks to be participatory is used to illustrate the tensions between prescriptive development policy and a growing political democracy.

Table of Contents:
List of Tables and Maps; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Anti-Politics Machine in India; Chapter 1: The Idea of 'Anti-Politics'; Chapter 2: The Indian 'Anti-Politics Machine'; Chapter 3: The Anti-Politics Watershed Machine: The Making of Watershed Development in India; Chapter 4: Two Landscapes of Decentralization; Chapter 5: Depoliticizing Local Institutions? Panchayats and Watershed Committees; Chapter 6: The Dialectics of Consent in Participatory Practice; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index

About the Author :
Vasudha Chhotray is a lecturer in Development Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK.

Review :
'This is a fascinating account of how "development as anti-politics machine" actually plays out in practice... To weave this understanding through detailed empirical cases of actual development interventions and governance reforms, as based on a thorough primary research effort, is an admirable act of synthesis. Last but not least, the text is very well-written, with complex theoretical ideas, processes and events all clearly articulated.' --Samuel Hickey, Senior Lecturer, IDPM, University of Manchester 'This is an ambitious book that examines why the idea that development should be non-political continues to have a broad appeal, while tracking the political entanglements of development interventions through a comparative, empirical analysis. The focus on India's national development regime is a welcome balance to studies of transnational interventions.' --Tania Murray Li, Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Political-Economy and Culture of Asia-Pacific, University of Toronto 'Vasudha Chhotray has written an intelligent, incisive and sometimes witty account of the politics of anti-politics in contemporary India. Her important book shows us that bureaucratic development is never anti-political, however anodyne many of its formulations have become; rather, is political in particular ways and with important social consequences.' --Stuart Corbridge, Professor of Development Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780857287670
  • Publisher: Anthem Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Anthem Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 280
  • Series Title: Anthem South Asian Studies
  • Spine Width: 39 mm
  • Weight: 680 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0857287672
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2011
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 03
  • Series Title: Anthem South Asian Studies
  • Sub Title: State, Decentralization and Participatory Watershed Development
  • Width: 153 mm


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