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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      03 August 2019
      04 October 2017
      ISBN:
      9781316338070
      9781107117181
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316338070
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.82kg, 538 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, South Asian Government, Politics and Policy, Asian Studies, Political Sociology, Politics and International Relations, Sociology
      Series:
      South Asia in the Social Sciences (4)
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, South Asian Government, Politics and Policy, Asian Studies, Political Sociology, Politics and International Relations, Sociology
    Series:
    South Asia in the Social Sciences (4)
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    This book challenges the ongoing scholarly debates on poor people's negotiations with democracy. It demonstrates the varied ways in which the poor engage with their elected representatives, political mediators and dominant classes in order to advance their claims. Roy explains the variations by directing attention to the dynamic interaction between the opportunity structures available to the poor and the social relations of power in which they are embedded. He analyses these intersections as 'political spaces' which both enable and constrain popular practices. Through examination of the 'political spaces' available to the poor in four different localities, Roy outlines a new analytic framework to understanding poor people's politics. Based on these observations, the book makes a strong case for an approach to democracy that appreciates people's ambivalences towards democracy. Roy urges researchers of democracy to step beyond either enthusiastic narratives - the inevitability of democracy or apocalyptic accounts of democracy's impending death.

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