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Citizenship and National Identity
Ten scholarly essays examining the assumed relationships between national identity and citizenship in contemporary society. The discussions explores the fundamental flaws in fusing national identity with citizenship, maintaining that participation and entitlement in the political, economic, cultural and social spheres raise issues of citizenship which highlight the unequal status of the young, poor and women in the national identities of the US, the Middle East, Japan, Western Europe, and Latin America. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Nation, Civil Society and Social Movements
This book is a collection of 12 essays on three interrelated themes of Nation, Civil Society and Social Movements organized in three parts each having four chapters.
Protest and Change
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State and Society in India
An analysis of the nature of nation-building in India, this book states the need for language-based nation formation and cultural pluralism. The author asserts that nations should not be shaped on the basis of religion and that traditional and modern values should be reconciled slowly.
Classes, Citizenship and Inequality
Rejecting the obsolete methodology of comparisons between categories,
Crisis and Contention in Indian Society
Indian society is often described as one with ‘unity in diversity’ and as a composite culture. Since independence, India has also been termed ‘democratic’ and ‘secular’. However, the discernible cracks that have appeared in recent years in these conceptualisations have led to contentious debates about the very nature of Indian society. Focusing on different facets of this exacerbating crisis, this book analyses the various issues confronting India’s society and polity today which can assume crisis proportions if not tackled judiciously and expeditiously.
Indian Sociology
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Social Movements: Issues of identity
In the ongoing process of social transformation, new identities are often constructed, while existing identities may mutate or transform, and some might even be rendered obsolete. Social Movements I: Issues of Identity, part of the Oxford in India Readings in Sociology and Social Anthropology series, examines the phenomenon of social movements in India with respect to the construction and perception of identity. It brings together a selection of readings on movements related to religion and caste, as well as regionalism, and linguistic and tribal movements in India. It specifically addresses (a) the abbreviation and even abrogation of identities versus elaboration of identities; (b) the tens...
