Stéphanie Tawa Lama‐rewal
Biographic Data
| ID | 4519935 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stéphanie Tawa Lama‐rewal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stéphanie Tawa |
| FAMILY NAME | Lama‐rewal |
| SIGNATURE | REWAL S T L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Center for South Asian Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4746-7586 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 33 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
AAP, Apps and WhatsApp
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), a young party that has been governing the city-state of Delhi since 2015, has placed (i) the fight against corruption; (ii) the development of participatory democracy; and (iii) good governance at the center of its agenda. The official discourse of the party, in its formative years, promoted participation through a major promise: if voted to power, it would govern with the people. This paper investigates the meanings an…
Introduction. The Digitalization of Urban Governance in India
Introduction The digitalization of governance processes is most visible in cities—partly because information technology infrastructure and services were developed first in large urban centers. However, this phenomenon is not quite new: “e-governance” was already a fashionable term in the early 2000s. Since then, digitalization has expanded and further developed through various new techniques and technologies: simple web portals have given way to …
Niraja Gopal Jayal, Citizenship and its Discontents
Citizenship is a notoriously ambiguous and contested concept. Its ambiguity stems from the fact that it refers at the same time to a normative and a positive reality; to the ideal and the actual; to the moral and the legal. In her latest book, Niraja Gopal Jayal endeavors to ‘document the Indian idea of the citizen across the twentieth century, primarily as a relation between the individual and the state, but also as a relation between citizens’ …
Comparative Research between France and India
Metropolitan democracy from below
The concept of ‘metropolitan democracy’ is crucial to understanding the political dimension of cities. But while this concept has strong normative value, its ability to describe a reality is less obvious. This paper argues that metropolitan democracy is defined by a multiplicity of scales, legitimacies and actors, and that the development of participatory practices offers a privileged standpoint to analyse the competition (and sometimes the coope…
Mumbai, Delhi
Dans la démocratie indienne, la ville a longtemps été une catégorie mineure sinon inexistante. Mais si les institutions de la démocratie urbaine restent faibles aujourd’hui, les grandes villes indiennes sont le lieu et l’objet de pratiques politiques qui constituent autant de revendications en actes d’un droit à la ville. Deux mégapoles sont à cet égard particulièrement intéressantes. Mumbai et Delhi sont respectivement le berceau de deux partis …
What is new is the comprehensive nature of the political assault on academic institutions'-An Interview with Niraja Gopal Jayal
Niraja Gopal Jayal is a professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Her research, at the crossroads between political theory and the study of Indian politics, focuses on four main areas: democracy, representation, citizenship and governance (including local governance, and gender and governance). She is presently working on the crisis of the public university in India. Interview…
It's Effective Because It's Affective
The jan sunwai [public hearing] is a new, highly original and increasingly popular form of collective action in today’s India. Being essentially confrontational and dealing mostly with vital issues such as access to work, education and healthcare, the jan sunwai is a participatory dispositive that is characterised by a strong emotional intensity. Focusing on a specific jan sunwai organised in Delhi in 2011, this chapter demonstrates that a situat…
Contentious Emotions
Emotions matter a great deal in politics, in South Asia as elsewhere, because they have the power to mobilise. A growing number of scholarly works show that emotions, both negative (fear, anger, hatred, disgust, grief, sadness, indignation, shame, guilt, resentment) and positive (trust, compassion, love, pride, pleasure, joy) have explanatory power regarding the shape and trajectory of political mobilisations. However, this exciting new literatur…
Emotions, Mobilisations and South Asian Politics
"This book highlights the role of emotions in the contentious politics of modern South Asia. It brings new methodological, theoretical and empirical insights to the mutual constitution of emotions and mobilisations in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. As such, it addresses three distinct but related questions: what do emotions do to mobilisations? What do mobilisations do to emotions? Further, what does studying emotions in mobilisations reveal abo…
Political Representation in the Discourse and Practices of the “Party of the Common Man” in India
One of the many challenges presented by populism concerns its relationship with political representation. What happens when an anti-politics movement wins elections? This article offers an analysis of the exercise of power by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP, Party of the Common Man), which has been ruling the city-state of Delhi since 2015, in order to bring elements of answer to this question. On the basis of discourse analysis as well as direct observ…
The Redistribution of Representation through Participation
A strong contention of the “representative turn” is that representation is consubstantial with politics (Saward, 2010). One way to test the heuristic value of this vision is to look for representation in an institution that was historically built against representation, namely participatory budgeting (PB), a democratic innovation that has spread globally with exceptional rapidity. The literature on PB identifies two types of relationships between…
L’Inde, fabrique (menacée) des intellectuels globaux
Public Hearings as Social Performance
Since the late 1990s, major claims addressed to the Indian state by, or on behalf of, the underprivileged, have been formulated in terms of rights (right to work, to food, etc.). Collective action increasingly addresses the courts as much as governments or legislative assemblies. This paper aims to show, through an analysis of public hearings (jan sunwai in Hindi), that such “legalism” of Indian progressive social movements is at work not only in…
Political representation in India
Democratic theory has recently been marked by a renewed interest in political representation that is manifest in, and proceeds from, a series of theoretical works that radically open up the concept of representation. This introductory article briefly presents some of the key theoretical propositions that are brought forward by this body of literature, but also by anthropological works on South Asia, namely (i) the intrinsic plurality of the meani…
La lutte révolutionnaire des maoïstes continue en Inde
Alpa Shah fait partie des rares chercheurs qui ont observé, de près et sur la durée, le mouvement maoïste qui fait rage au centre de l'Inde. Elle offre ici une vision à la fois panoramique et engagée de ce mouvement et de la contre-offensive que lui oppose l'État indien
Le mouvement contre la corruption. Un printemps de la société civile indienne
L'année 2011 a été marquée, en Inde, par l'émergence d'un mouvement social d'un type nouveau, mené par un vieil activiste, Anna Hazare 1 . Ce mouvement propose de lutter contre la corruption à travers la création d'une institution, le Jan Lokpal, doté d'un grand pouvoir d'investigation, y compris sur les élus et le gouvernement. Ce mouvement a souvent été présenté, dans les médias - notamment français - comme un mouvement de masse contre la corru…
Tanika Sarkar. Rebels, Wives, Saints
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Resilient Bhadralok
The data evaluated here come from two main sources: the Who’s Whos published by the West Bengal Legislative Assembly (WBLA), presenting the biodata of MLAs; and interviews focusing on the identifi cation of the caste/community of MLAs, since this information is not available in the Who’s Whos. But these data are limited both in their availability and reliability
Le conflit sur l'usage du sol à Delhi
En 2006, la capitale de l’Inde a été secouée par un violent conflit sur l’usage du sol, dans lequel les associations de résidents ont joué un rôle majeur. Ce conflit révèle comment un dispositif participatif a conféré à des associations représentant une fraction de la population le statut d’acteurs légitimes de la gouvernance urbaine ; il illustre ainsi les relations problématiques entre les dimensions représentative et participative de la démocr…
The ‘missing middle’
This research critically engages with existing theories of class and urban governance, and is empirically located in Delhi, India. The paper argues that existing theories of urban participatory governance in the global South, which polarise urban citizens and their mobilisation strategies into the elite, typically understood as guilty of ‘capturing’ participatory structures; and the poor, conceptualised as excluded from formal governance mechanis…
Introduction. Urban Democracy
The ‘urban question’ has attracted increasing attention since the 1990s in the South Asian context because the issues at stake take on a particular urgency in the subcontinent for several reasons. A first, obvious reason is the increasing (and even strategic) importance of cities from a demographic, political and economic perspective. South Asia is home to 5 of the 10 largest cities—in fact, megacities—in the world. At the same time, with an urba…
Urban governance and health care provision in Delhi
This paper considers how changes in urban governance in Delhi over the last two decades have influenced the provision of health care services. It begins by describing the introduction of, or return to, elected governments for the National Capital Territory of Delhi and for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi. It then discusses public health care, which in effect serves low-income groups as most higher-income groups now use private services, and ho…
Le mouvement de femmes en Inde
Le mouvement des femmes est l’un des grands mouvements sociaux qui animent une société civile indienne caractérisée par sa vitalité1. On peut définir le mouvement indien des femmes (MIF) comme un réseau de groupes et d’individus se mobilisant avec une certaine régularité autour de causes touchant particulièrement les femmes. Ce qui fait du réseau un mouvement, c’est la continuité de son activité des années 1970 à nos jours, même s’il est comme ai…
Des républiques villageoises aux associations de quartier. Généalogie des dispositifs participatifs indiens
Cet article dessine l’itinéraire, en Inde, de l’idée d’une démocratie locale permettant la participation directe des citoyens à la prise de décision. Cette idée est portée par différents leaders et partis politiques, du Mahatma Gandhi (dans les années 1930) à Rajiv Gandhi (dans les années 1990). L’article analyse les fluctuations du contenu de cette idée, et notamment son va-et-vient entre une interprétation « politique » et une interprétation « …
The ‘missing middle’
This research critically engages with existing theories of class and urban governance, and is empirically located in Delhi, India. The paper argues that existing theories of urban participatory governance in the global South, which polarise urban citizens and their mobilisation strategies into the elite, typically understood as guilty of ‘capturing’ participatory structures; and the poor, conceptualised as excluded from formal governance mechanis…
Urban governance and health care provision in Delhi
This paper considers how changes in urban governance in Delhi over the last two decades have influenced the provision of health care services. It begins by describing the introduction of, or return to, elected governments for the National Capital Territory of Delhi and for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi. It then discusses public health care, which in effect serves low-income groups as most higher-income groups now use private services, and ho…
Political representation in India
Democratic theory has recently been marked by a renewed interest in political representation that is manifest in, and proceeds from, a series of theoretical works that radically open up the concept of representation. This introductory article briefly presents some of the key theoretical propositions that are brought forward by this body of literature, but also by anthropological works on South Asia, namely (i) the intrinsic plurality of the meani…
Political Representation in the Discourse and Practices of the “Party of the Common Man” in India
One of the many challenges presented by populism concerns its relationship with political representation. What happens when an anti-politics movement wins elections? This article offers an analysis of the exercise of power by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP, Party of the Common Man), which has been ruling the city-state of Delhi since 2015, in order to bring elements of answer to this question. On the basis of discourse analysis as well as direct observ…
Introduction. The Digitalization of Urban Governance in India
Introduction The digitalization of governance processes is most visible in cities—partly because information technology infrastructure and services were developed first in large urban centers. However, this phenomenon is not quite new: “e-governance” was already a fashionable term in the early 2000s. Since then, digitalization has expanded and further developed through various new techniques and technologies: simple web portals have given way to …
The Redistribution of Representation through Participation
A strong contention of the “representative turn” is that representation is consubstantial with politics (Saward, 2010). One way to test the heuristic value of this vision is to look for representation in an institution that was historically built against representation, namely participatory budgeting (PB), a democratic innovation that has spread globally with exceptional rapidity. The literature on PB identifies two types of relationships between…
The Hindu Goddess and Women's Political Representation in South Asia
International audience
Des républiques villageoises aux associations de quartier. Généalogie des dispositifs participatifs indiens
Cet article dessine l’itinéraire, en Inde, de l’idée d’une démocratie locale permettant la participation directe des citoyens à la prise de décision. Cette idée est portée par différents leaders et partis politiques, du Mahatma Gandhi (dans les années 1930) à Rajiv Gandhi (dans les années 1990). L’article analyse les fluctuations du contenu de cette idée, et notamment son va-et-vient entre une interprétation « politique » et une interprétation « …
The Hindu Goddess and Women's Political Representation in South Asia
International audience
Danielle Haase-Dubosc, Mary E. John, Marcelle Marini, Rama Melkote et Susie Tharu, Enjeux contemporains du féminisme indien , Editions de la maison des sciences de l’homme, Paris, 2002, 445 p
Les femmes en Inde
Le local et le global dans le mouvement indien des femmes
À partir d’une approche anthropologique de la mondialisation, qui privilégie « l’enchevêtrement accru du global et du local », cet article propose une réflexion sur la dynamique local/global au sein du mouvement indien des femmes. L’inventaire des principaux moments de l’internationalisation du féminisme indien révèle d’abord un mouvement de balancier entre phases d’ouverture et phases de repli, toujours liées à des enjeux politiques majeurs, sur…
Les femmes et le pouvoir exécutif en Inde
Au-delà d’Indira Gandhi, Premier ministre de la plus grande démocratie du monde durant seize années, un nombre non négligeable de femmes ont occupé des fonctions exécutives de premier plan, que ce soit au niveau de l’Union indienne ou des États fédérés. À travers le repérage de quelques tendances - combien de femmes ont-elles eu accès à des fonctions exécutives majeures depuis l’indépendance ? Qui sont ces femmes, et quelles ressources politiques…
New Delhi - De la capitale coloniale au G20
National audience
Introduction. Contextualizing and Interpreting the 15th Lok Sabha Elections
Most of the papers presented in this special issue of SAMAJ are the outcome of a workshop organised by the Centre de Sciences Humaines in New Delhi in July 2009. By then the results of the 2009 general elections had been largely commented upon already. The workshop was therefore not meant to discuss electoral results per se, but rather to have specialists discuss papers that considered elections as an analyzer of political dynamics that most auth…
Studying Elections in India
Election studies (which are here defined as scholarly work focusing on the major phases of the electoral process, i.e. the campaign, the vote, the announcement of results and subsequent government formation) constitute a distinct sub-genre of studies on democracy, which focuses, so to speak, on the ‘mechanics’ more than on the ‘substance’ of representative democracy. This sub-genre, being relatively more visible than other studies of representati…
Le mouvement de femmes en Inde
Le mouvement des femmes est l’un des grands mouvements sociaux qui animent une société civile indienne caractérisée par sa vitalité1. On peut définir le mouvement indien des femmes (MIF) comme un réseau de groupes et d’individus se mobilisant avec une certaine régularité autour de causes touchant particulièrement les femmes. Ce qui fait du réseau un mouvement, c’est la continuité de son activité des années 1970 à nos jours, même s’il est comme ai…
Des républiques villageoises aux associations de quartier. Généalogie des dispositifs participatifs indiens
Cet article dessine l’itinéraire, en Inde, de l’idée d’une démocratie locale permettant la participation directe des citoyens à la prise de décision. Cette idée est portée par différents leaders et partis politiques, du Mahatma Gandhi (dans les années 1930) à Rajiv Gandhi (dans les années 1990). L’article analyse les fluctuations du contenu de cette idée, et notamment son va-et-vient entre une interprétation « politique » et une interprétation « …
Introduction. Urban Democracy
The ‘urban question’ has attracted increasing attention since the 1990s in the South Asian context because the issues at stake take on a particular urgency in the subcontinent for several reasons. A first, obvious reason is the increasing (and even strategic) importance of cities from a demographic, political and economic perspective. South Asia is home to 5 of the 10 largest cities—in fact, megacities—in the world. At the same time, with an urba…
Urban governance and health care provision in Delhi
This paper considers how changes in urban governance in Delhi over the last two decades have influenced the provision of health care services. It begins by describing the introduction of, or return to, elected governments for the National Capital Territory of Delhi and for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi. It then discusses public health care, which in effect serves low-income groups as most higher-income groups now use private services, and ho…
The Resilient Bhadralok
The data evaluated here come from two main sources: the Who’s Whos published by the West Bengal Legislative Assembly (WBLA), presenting the biodata of MLAs; and interviews focusing on the identifi cation of the caste/community of MLAs, since this information is not available in the Who’s Whos. But these data are limited both in their availability and reliability
Le conflit sur l'usage du sol à Delhi
En 2006, la capitale de l’Inde a été secouée par un violent conflit sur l’usage du sol, dans lequel les associations de résidents ont joué un rôle majeur. Ce conflit révèle comment un dispositif participatif a conféré à des associations représentant une fraction de la population le statut d’acteurs légitimes de la gouvernance urbaine ; il illustre ainsi les relations problématiques entre les dimensions représentative et participative de la démocr…
The ‘missing middle’
This research critically engages with existing theories of class and urban governance, and is empirically located in Delhi, India. The paper argues that existing theories of urban participatory governance in the global South, which polarise urban citizens and their mobilisation strategies into the elite, typically understood as guilty of ‘capturing’ participatory structures; and the poor, conceptualised as excluded from formal governance mechanis…
Tanika Sarkar. Rebels, Wives, Saints
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
La lutte révolutionnaire des maoïstes continue en Inde
Alpa Shah fait partie des rares chercheurs qui ont observé, de près et sur la durée, le mouvement maoïste qui fait rage au centre de l'Inde. Elle offre ici une vision à la fois panoramique et engagée de ce mouvement et de la contre-offensive que lui oppose l'État indien
Le mouvement contre la corruption. Un printemps de la société civile indienne
L'année 2011 a été marquée, en Inde, par l'émergence d'un mouvement social d'un type nouveau, mené par un vieil activiste, Anna Hazare 1 . Ce mouvement propose de lutter contre la corruption à travers la création d'une institution, le Jan Lokpal, doté d'un grand pouvoir d'investigation, y compris sur les élus et le gouvernement. Ce mouvement a souvent été présenté, dans les médias - notamment français - comme un mouvement de masse contre la corru…
Political representation in India
Democratic theory has recently been marked by a renewed interest in political representation that is manifest in, and proceeds from, a series of theoretical works that radically open up the concept of representation. This introductory article briefly presents some of the key theoretical propositions that are brought forward by this body of literature, but also by anthropological works on South Asia, namely (i) the intrinsic plurality of the meani…
L’Inde, fabrique (menacée) des intellectuels globaux
Public Hearings as Social Performance
Since the late 1990s, major claims addressed to the Indian state by, or on behalf of, the underprivileged, have been formulated in terms of rights (right to work, to food, etc.). Collective action increasingly addresses the courts as much as governments or legislative assemblies. This paper aims to show, through an analysis of public hearings (jan sunwai in Hindi), that such “legalism” of Indian progressive social movements is at work not only in…
It's Effective Because It's Affective
The jan sunwai [public hearing] is a new, highly original and increasingly popular form of collective action in today’s India. Being essentially confrontational and dealing mostly with vital issues such as access to work, education and healthcare, the jan sunwai is a participatory dispositive that is characterised by a strong emotional intensity. Focusing on a specific jan sunwai organised in Delhi in 2011, this chapter demonstrates that a situat…
Contentious Emotions
Emotions matter a great deal in politics, in South Asia as elsewhere, because they have the power to mobilise. A growing number of scholarly works show that emotions, both negative (fear, anger, hatred, disgust, grief, sadness, indignation, shame, guilt, resentment) and positive (trust, compassion, love, pride, pleasure, joy) have explanatory power regarding the shape and trajectory of political mobilisations. However, this exciting new literatur…
Emotions, Mobilisations and South Asian Politics
"This book highlights the role of emotions in the contentious politics of modern South Asia. It brings new methodological, theoretical and empirical insights to the mutual constitution of emotions and mobilisations in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. As such, it addresses three distinct but related questions: what do emotions do to mobilisations? What do mobilisations do to emotions? Further, what does studying emotions in mobilisations reveal abo…
Political Representation in the Discourse and Practices of the “Party of the Common Man” in India
One of the many challenges presented by populism concerns its relationship with political representation. What happens when an anti-politics movement wins elections? This article offers an analysis of the exercise of power by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP, Party of the Common Man), which has been ruling the city-state of Delhi since 2015, in order to bring elements of answer to this question. On the basis of discourse analysis as well as direct observ…
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