Papers by Amiya Kumar Das
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc eBooks, 2022
Grassroots Democracy and Governance in India, 2022
Grassroots Democracy and Governance in India, 2022
Grassroots Democracy and Governance in India, 2022
Grassroots Democracy and Governance in India, 2022
Indigeneity, Citizenship and the State
Indigeneity, Citizenship and the State
International journal of care and caring, Jan 27, 2023
JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK & SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, 2022
AbstractThe study explores the conditions of dumpsite waste pickers during the Covid-19 lockdown ... more AbstractThe study explores the conditions of dumpsite waste pickers during the Covid-19 lockdown in Guwahati city of the state of Assam. It analyses the hiatus in livelihood and economic activities which resulted in experiencing mental fatigue and unexpected idleness among the waste pickers. This paper addresses the mental health concerns of the waste pickers that could not subside due to their inability to counteract or settle the crisis. The findings reveal that the lack of engagement in waste picking at the dumpsite and being away from the work of waste segregation led to mental distress and enhanced the marginalized emotions among the waste pickers. Towards the end, the study emphasizes the need for a participatory action-oriented approach to support vulnerable groups like waste pickers.
Grassroots Democracy and Governance in India
Book Review , 2016
Book Reviews students and scholars of social movements, politics, gender and feminist studies, la... more Book Reviews students and scholars of social movements, politics, gender and feminist studies, labour studies and policy makers as well as general readers.
Culture and Politics in South Asia Performative Communication, 2018
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2018 selection and e... more Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2018 selection and editorial matter, Dev Nath Pathak and Sasanka Perera; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Dev Nath Pathak and Sasanka Perera to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.
State Vs Society in northeast India: History, Politics and the Everyday , 2021
Social Hegemony in Contemporary India Edited by R., 2021
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Papers by Amiya Kumar Das
Encountering Deceptions of Development(s):
Exploring the Practices and Knowledge in Central Eurasia
NB: Our definition of Central Eurasia includes a variety of regions from the Caucasus to India, see http://cesww.fas.harvard.edu/ces_definition.html
Editors
Amiya Kumar Das, Tezpur University, India
Abel Polese, Dublin City University and Tallinn University
Anna Romanowicz, Jagiellonian University Poland
Rationale
Development, or better a normative understanding of what development should be, has been uncritically considered as a panacea for a range of social and political problems throughout the world. Critical views, often grounded on empirical studies showing the limits of this approach (Escobar 1994), have shifted attention towards resistances and counter-narratives from both the Global South and the Global North, which pose a series of challenges to traditional understandings of development.
Persuasive neoliberal agendas have shifted attention away from the social responsibility of the state, with citizens left to struggle to cope despite or beyond the state (Polese et al 2017). This proposed volume comes in response to the above tendency. We invite contributors to explore local knowledge in development practice and to examine how it encounters hegemonic notions of development and the developmental paradigm.
With this book, we seek to understand both formal and informal approaches to produce nuanced knowledge that can help develop critical ideas on how to better engage with development practice in various areas of the world, especially in the Global South. We expect, with this proposed volume, to foster a dialogue on development ideas and practice encountered by various communities in the global south. Contributions may also delve into issues pertaining to people in their everyday lives in encountering with the promise and deception of development in the developing world.
We welcome case-study informed chapters fostering the understanding of issues including (but not limited to):
Contemporary Development discourse in southern countries
Resistance and alternatives to developmental projects and planning
Challenges to Neoliberal Regimes and Policies
Countering the state through informal governance
Limits to urbanism and planned cities
Ecological and environmental critiques of Development
Epistemological and ontological critiques of Developmentalism
Politics of Poverty, Hunger and (De)Growth
Performative development in the socio-cultural sphere
If interested, please send an abstract by the 5th of March 2019 to [email protected]; [email protected]
Selected authors will be notified by the beginning of April. First drafts are due by the 31st of August, 2019
‘OP 068. Encountering Deceptions of Development(s): Exploring the Practices and Knowledge in the Global South’
to be held at the 18th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, Brazil, on 16-20 July 2018.
Abstract submission: http://www.inscricoes.iuaes2018.org/trabalho/view?ID_TRABALHO=375
Deadline: 28 February 2018
Since long development, or better a normative understanding of what development should be, has been uncritically considered as panacea to all sorts of social and political problem in various parts of the world. Critical views, often grounded on empirical studies showing the limits of this approach (Escobar 1994), have shifted attention on the fact that resistances and counter narratives, from the Global South as well as from the Western world itself, feed a series of challenges to the initially understanding of development.
In particular, a possible effect of neoliberal persuasive agendas has been to shift attention away from the social responsibility of the state and citizens have to struggle to find a way to survive despite of beyond the state (Polese et al 2017). This panel comes in response to the above tendency and we invite contributors to explore the local knowledge in development practice and to examine how it encounters the hegemonic notion of developmental paradigm.
With this panel we seek to understand various formal and informal approaches to produce nuanced knowledge that can help develop critical ideas on how to better engage with development practice in various areas of the world. We expect, with this panel, to foster a dialogue on the development ideas and practice encountered by various communities in the global south. This would also delve into issues pertaining to people in their everyday life in the developing world.
Neighbourhoods in Urban India: In Between Home and the City offers an understanding of neighbourhoods as changing socio-spatial units in their specific regional settings by underlining the way value regimes (religiosity and subjectivities) give neighbourhoods their social meanings and stereotypes. It unpacks discourses and knowledge practices, such as planning, architecture and urban discourses of governance. It further discloses the linkages and disjunctures between the social practices of neighbourhoods and the language, logic and experiences of dwelling, housing, urban planning and governance, and focuses on the particularities and heterogeneities of neighbourhoods and neighbourliness.