Navigating Social Exclusion and Inclusion in Contemporary India and Beyond

Structures, Agents, Practices

Edited by Uwe Skoda, Kenneth Bo Nielsen, Marianne Qvortrup Fibiger

Publication date:

01 June 2013

Publisher

Anthem Press

Dimensions:

229x153mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780857283221

‘Navigating Social Exclusion and Inclusion in Contemporary India and Beyond’ contains a collection of lucid, empirically grounded articles that explore and analyse the structures, agents and practices of social inclusion and exclusion in contemporary India and beyond. The volume combines a broad range of approaches to challenge narrow conceptualisations of social inclusion and exclusion in terms of singular factors such as caste, policy or the economy. This collaborative endeavour and cross-disciplinary approach, which brings together younger and more established scholars, facilitates a deeper understanding of complex social and political processes in contemporary India.

Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; 1. Introduction: Navigating Exclusion, Engineering Inclusion – Uwe Skoda and Kenneth Bo Nielsen; PART I: SPACES AND VALUES: 2. Cosmopolitanism or Iatrogenesis? Reflections on Religious Plurality, Censorship and Disciplinary Orientations – Kathinka Frøystad; 3. Dependent Husbands: Reflections on Marginal Masculinities – Radhika Chopra; 4. Exclusion and Inclusion: Navigation Strategies among Hindus in the Diaspora – A Case Study from Denmark – Marianne Qvortrup Fibiger; PART II: COMMUNITIES AND POLITICS: 5. In Search of Development: Muslims and Electoral Politics in an Indian State – Kenneth Bo Nielsen; 6. Exclusion as Common Denominator: Investigating ‘Dalit-hood’ – Guro W. Samuelsen; 7. Inclusion of the Excluded Groups through Panchayati Raj: Electoral Democracy in Uttar Pradesh – Satendra Kumar; 8. Making Sikkim More Inclusive: An Insider’s View of the Role of Committees and Commissions – Tanka B. Subba; 9. Encountering ‘Inclusion’ and Exclusion in Postindustrial Mumbai: A Study of Muslim Ex-millworkers’ Occupational Choices – Sumeet Mhaskar; PART III: RESOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT: 10. Dams, Development and the Exclusion of Indigenous Groups: A Case from Odisha – Deepak Kumar Behera; 11. ‘Solutions Emerge When Everyone Works Together’: Experiences of Social Inclusion in Watershed Management Committees in Karnataka – Devanshu Chakravarti, Sarah Byrne and Jane Carter; 12. The Death of Shankar: Social Exclusion and Tuberculosis in a Poor Neighbourhood in Bhubaneswar, Odisha – Jens Seeberg

‘The genesis of the problem of exclusion and inclusion needs to be understood within a broad theoretical and conceptual framework, and with the help of empirical data. The essays in this book deal with this question. They explain with meticulous detail why we need to change our focus from state- and caste-centric discourses to a discourse that takes note of spaces, communities and resources. This volume presents an excellent collection of work.’ —Abhijit Dasgupta, Professor of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi