Neera Chandhoke
Biographic Data
| ID | 294028 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neera Chandhoke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neera |
| FAMILY NAME | Chandhoke |
| SIGNATURE | CHANDHOKE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delhi |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The complexities of the urban [the case of Delhi]
The city is seen as the domain of freedom and as the site for agency. I argue with reference to India that whereas planned urban spaces have been appropriated by the urban poor, and that the shanty town defines the modern city, we cannot make a case that the act realizes agency. Many of the people who appropriate space live in dismal conditions that encourage crime, many of them are under the control of urban criminal elements and many engage in …
The politics of poverty reduction in India: The UPA government, 2004 to 2014
In January 2020 Oxfam released a study in Davos ahead of the 50th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum. The study reported that the richest one per cent of the population in India owns more t
Nelson Mandela: Peace Through Reconciliation
Night March: Among India's Revolutionary Guerillas
At first sight violence appears to be an anomaly in democratic theory. Why should people pick up guns and/or support armed revolutionaries when they can make political claims through other methods
Back to the basics: An afterword
Democracy and Revolutionary Politics
Democracy and political violence can hardly be considered conceptual siblings, at least at first sight. Democracy allows people to route their aspirations, demands, and expectations of the state through peaceful methods; violence works outside these prescribed and institutionalized channels in public spaces, in the streets, in the forests and in inhospitable terrains. But can committed democrats afford to ignore the fact that violence has become …
Realising Justice
In the recent past the Western-dominated global institutional order has come to be challenged by the bloc of rising powers. The question of whether brics has the ability to reshape global governance is an important one and carries significance for the global South, which has been adversely affected by global institutions. Yet the reliance on the capacity, or the will, of rising powers to speak for the global South, or to prioritise the concerns o…
Civil Society in India
Has the wheel turned full circle
Participation, Representation, and Democracy in Contemporary India
This article analyzes the tensions and paradoxes that are emerging as developing nation governments and civil society organizations alike institutionalize. It examines the prospect for effective representation and for democratic governance in the face of the increasing complexities and professionalization of the public's business and of non-governmental institutions. The article concludes that the challenges are large but not insuperable if appro…
Exploring the Right to Secession: The South Asian Context
One of the most intractable problems confronting South Asian states and societies has been the presence of secessionist movements and insistent demands for a state of one's own. Though societies and states tend to react violently when faced with such demands, many serious issues are embedded in secessionist demands, as well as in the responses to these demands, above all issues of justice and injustice. The present article seeks to trace out the …
Civil society
The idea of civil society has proved very elusive, escaping conceptual grasps and evading sure-footed negotiation of the concept itself. Resurrected in a very definite historical setting, that of authoritarian states, the concept of civil society came to signify a set of social and political practices that sought to engage with state power. The close connection with the re-emergence of the concept and the collapse of dictatorial states made civil…
Ethics in Action: The Ethical Challenges of International Human Rights Nongovernmental Organizations
This book is the product of a multi-year dialogue between leading human rights theorists and high-level representatives of international human rights NGOs (INGOs). It is divided into three parts that reflect the major ethical challenges discussed at the workshops: the ethical challenges associated with interaction between relatively rich and powerful northern-based human rights INGOs and recipients of their aid in the South; whether and how to co…
How Global is Global Civil Society
In recent times the concept of global civil society has made its appearance on national and international intellectual, as well as political agendas, in a major way. It is of some interest that two other concepts, both of which call for transcendence of national boundaries in precisely the same way as global civil society does, have also made their appearance on the scene of intellectual debates at roughly the same time: the concept of cosmopolit…
Revisiting the crisis of representation thesis: The Indian context
This article addresses the ‘crisis of representation’ thesis by examining some of the findings of a survey conducted in Delhi in 2003. On the basis of the data collected during the course of the survey, it revisits two rather significant questions that have been thrown up by the thesis. First, how valid is the assumption that people have lost confidence in the capacity of political parties to represent them in forums of policymaking? Second, have…
The 'Civil' and the 'Political' in Civil Society
The main objective of this article is to interrogate some of the dominant conceptualizations that have come to cluster around the concept of civil society in recent theory. Due to a variety of historical factors, these conceptualizations have romanticized the concept to a large extent. In the process, meaningful or politically relevant discussion of civil society has often been obfuscated. The article problematizes the notion of civil society as …
State and Civil Society: Explorations in Political Theory
Of States and of Civil Societies Thinking about the State Civil Society A Conceptual History Civil Society The Hegelian, Marxian and the Gramscian Tradition Civil Society Reconsidered The Constitution of the Civil Sphere Civil Society as the Arena of Contestation Restating the Need for Civil Society
On the Social Organization of Urban Space: Subversions and Appropriations
International Relations: General : S. L. Roy: Diplomacy. Sterling Publishers, New Delhi, 1984, vii, 196p., Rs. 75
The Nature of the Dominant Elite in Africa
African countries seem to be constantly groping for the distinctive political paradigm as evinced by the fact that forms of political order have followed each other in rapid succession—the multi-party state, the one party syndrome, the charismatic presidency, the military coup d'etat and in some cases, like that of Nigeria and for a short while in Ghana, a return to civilian rule. The future of the African continent is thus viewed with deep roote…
The 'Civil' and the 'Political' in Civil Society
The main objective of this article is to interrogate some of the dominant conceptualizations that have come to cluster around the concept of civil society in recent theory. Due to a variety of historical factors, these conceptualizations have romanticized the concept to a large extent. In the process, meaningful or politically relevant discussion of civil society has often been obfuscated. The article problematizes the notion of civil society as …
Civil society
The idea of civil society has proved very elusive, escaping conceptual grasps and evading sure-footed negotiation of the concept itself. Resurrected in a very definite historical setting, that of authoritarian states, the concept of civil society came to signify a set of social and political practices that sought to engage with state power. The close connection with the re-emergence of the concept and the collapse of dictatorial states made civil…
How Global is Global Civil Society
In recent times the concept of global civil society has made its appearance on national and international intellectual, as well as political agendas, in a major way. It is of some interest that two other concepts, both of which call for transcendence of national boundaries in precisely the same way as global civil society does, have also made their appearance on the scene of intellectual debates at roughly the same time: the concept of cosmopolit…
Revisiting the crisis of representation thesis: The Indian context
This article addresses the ‘crisis of representation’ thesis by examining some of the findings of a survey conducted in Delhi in 2003. On the basis of the data collected during the course of the survey, it revisits two rather significant questions that have been thrown up by the thesis. First, how valid is the assumption that people have lost confidence in the capacity of political parties to represent them in forums of policymaking? Second, have…
Realising Justice
In the recent past the Western-dominated global institutional order has come to be challenged by the bloc of rising powers. The question of whether brics has the ability to reshape global governance is an important one and carries significance for the global South, which has been adversely affected by global institutions. Yet the reliance on the capacity, or the will, of rising powers to speak for the global South, or to prioritise the concerns o…
Has the wheel turned full circle
Participation, Representation, and Democracy in Contemporary India
This article analyzes the tensions and paradoxes that are emerging as developing nation governments and civil society organizations alike institutionalize. It examines the prospect for effective representation and for democratic governance in the face of the increasing complexities and professionalization of the public's business and of non-governmental institutions. The article concludes that the challenges are large but not insuperable if appro…
International Relations: General : S. L. Roy: Diplomacy. Sterling Publishers, New Delhi, 1984, vii, 196p., Rs. 75
The Nature of the Dominant Elite in Africa
African countries seem to be constantly groping for the distinctive political paradigm as evinced by the fact that forms of political order have followed each other in rapid succession—the multi-party state, the one party syndrome, the charismatic presidency, the military coup d'etat and in some cases, like that of Nigeria and for a short while in Ghana, a return to civilian rule. The future of the African continent is thus viewed with deep roote…
On the Social Organization of Urban Space: Subversions and Appropriations
State and Civil Society: Explorations in Political Theory
Of States and of Civil Societies Thinking about the State Civil Society A Conceptual History Civil Society The Hegelian, Marxian and the Gramscian Tradition Civil Society Reconsidered The Constitution of the Civil Sphere Civil Society as the Arena of Contestation Restating the Need for Civil Society
The 'Civil' and the 'Political' in Civil Society
The main objective of this article is to interrogate some of the dominant conceptualizations that have come to cluster around the concept of civil society in recent theory. Due to a variety of historical factors, these conceptualizations have romanticized the concept to a large extent. In the process, meaningful or politically relevant discussion of civil society has often been obfuscated. The article problematizes the notion of civil society as …
How Global is Global Civil Society
In recent times the concept of global civil society has made its appearance on national and international intellectual, as well as political agendas, in a major way. It is of some interest that two other concepts, both of which call for transcendence of national boundaries in precisely the same way as global civil society does, have also made their appearance on the scene of intellectual debates at roughly the same time: the concept of cosmopolit…
Revisiting the crisis of representation thesis: The Indian context
This article addresses the ‘crisis of representation’ thesis by examining some of the findings of a survey conducted in Delhi in 2003. On the basis of the data collected during the course of the survey, it revisits two rather significant questions that have been thrown up by the thesis. First, how valid is the assumption that people have lost confidence in the capacity of political parties to represent them in forums of policymaking? Second, have…
Ethics in Action: The Ethical Challenges of International Human Rights Nongovernmental Organizations
This book is the product of a multi-year dialogue between leading human rights theorists and high-level representatives of international human rights NGOs (INGOs). It is divided into three parts that reflect the major ethical challenges discussed at the workshops: the ethical challenges associated with interaction between relatively rich and powerful northern-based human rights INGOs and recipients of their aid in the South; whether and how to co…
Civil society
The idea of civil society has proved very elusive, escaping conceptual grasps and evading sure-footed negotiation of the concept itself. Resurrected in a very definite historical setting, that of authoritarian states, the concept of civil society came to signify a set of social and political practices that sought to engage with state power. The close connection with the re-emergence of the concept and the collapse of dictatorial states made civil…
Exploring the Right to Secession: The South Asian Context
One of the most intractable problems confronting South Asian states and societies has been the presence of secessionist movements and insistent demands for a state of one's own. Though societies and states tend to react violently when faced with such demands, many serious issues are embedded in secessionist demands, as well as in the responses to these demands, above all issues of justice and injustice. The present article seeks to trace out the …
Has the wheel turned full circle
Participation, Representation, and Democracy in Contemporary India
This article analyzes the tensions and paradoxes that are emerging as developing nation governments and civil society organizations alike institutionalize. It examines the prospect for effective representation and for democratic governance in the face of the increasing complexities and professionalization of the public's business and of non-governmental institutions. The article concludes that the challenges are large but not insuperable if appro…
Civil Society in India
Realising Justice
In the recent past the Western-dominated global institutional order has come to be challenged by the bloc of rising powers. The question of whether brics has the ability to reshape global governance is an important one and carries significance for the global South, which has been adversely affected by global institutions. Yet the reliance on the capacity, or the will, of rising powers to speak for the global South, or to prioritise the concerns o…
Democracy and Revolutionary Politics
Democracy and political violence can hardly be considered conceptual siblings, at least at first sight. Democracy allows people to route their aspirations, demands, and expectations of the state through peaceful methods; violence works outside these prescribed and institutionalized channels in public spaces, in the streets, in the forests and in inhospitable terrains. But can committed democrats afford to ignore the fact that violence has become …
Back to the basics: An afterword
The politics of poverty reduction in India: The UPA government, 2004 to 2014
In January 2020 Oxfam released a study in Davos ahead of the 50th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum. The study reported that the richest one per cent of the population in India owns more t
Nelson Mandela: Peace Through Reconciliation
Night March: Among India's Revolutionary Guerillas
At first sight violence appears to be an anomaly in democratic theory. Why should people pick up guns and/or support armed revolutionaries when they can make political claims through other methods
The complexities of the urban [the case of Delhi]
The city is seen as the domain of freedom and as the site for agency. I argue with reference to India that whereas planned urban spaces have been appropriated by the urban poor, and that the shanty town defines the modern city, we cannot make a case that the act realizes agency. Many of the people who appropriate space live in dismal conditions that encourage crime, many of them are under the control of urban criminal elements and many engage in …
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