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Hailing the State : Indian Democracy between Elections /
"In Hailing the State, Lisa Mitchell explores the methods of collective assembly that people in India use to hold elected officials and government administrators accountable, demand inclusion in decision making, and stage informal referendums. Mitchell traces the colonial and postcolonial linea...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2023.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Hailing the state : collective assembly, democracy and representation
- Sit-in demonstrations and hunger strikes : from Dharna as door-sitting to Dharna Chowk
- Seeking audience : refusals to listen, "style," and the politics of recognition
- Collective assembly and the "roar of the people" : corporeal forms of "making known" and the deliberative turn
- The general strike : collective action at the other end of the commodity chain
- Alarm chain pulling : the criminal and the political in the writing of history
- Rail and road blockades : illiberal or participatory democracy?
- Rallies, processions, and yātrās : ticketless travel and the journey to "political arrival"
- Of human chains and Guinness records : attention, recognition, and the fate of democracy amidst changing mediascapes.