In comparison to other social groups, India's rural poor - and particularly Adivasis and Dalits - have seen little benefit from the country's economic growth over the last three decades. Though economists and statisticians are able to model the form and extent of this inequality…
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This book uses eclectic, triangulated methods to explore the socio-economics of waste and of the commodity chains involved in recycling. Known as ‘unorganised’ in India, this part of the informal economy is anything but that. In developing theoretical ideas about poverty, agen…
This book documents & analyses the various facets of labouring lives at different levels of the value chain in the waste scavenging & plastic recycling sector. It links the economic social, & political factors that structure the well-being agency, & activities of actors operatin…
This book documents & analyses the various facets of labouring lives at different levels of the value chain in the waste scavenging & plastic recycling sector. It links the economic social, & political factors that structure the well-being agency, & activities of actors operatin…
Poverty and poverty eradication was the predominant paradigm within which India's 20th century science policy was constructed. Yet, when we think of science in India today, this earlier priority of poverty eradication is now hard to find. What accounts for this? This volume asks…
"Social movements have played a vital role in Indian politics since well before the inception of India as a new nation in 1947. During the Nehruvian era, poverty alleviation was a foundational standard against which policy proposals and political claims were measured; at this ti…
"Social movements have played a vital role in Indian politics since well before the inception of India as a new nation in 1947. During the Nehruvian era, poverty alleviation was a foundational standard against which policy proposals and political claims were measured; at this ti…
"Social movements have played a vital role in Indian politics since well before the inception of India as a new nation in 1947. During the Nehruvian era, poverty alleviation was a foundational standard against which policy proposals and political claims were measured; at this ti…
In this essay, Rajni Kothari explores the meanings of poverty in its economic, social and political aspects and analyzes the role the state and the market play, both nationally and internationally, in the deepening of poverty.
