Books written by John Harriss
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Reinventing India: Liberalization, Hindu Nationalism and Popular Democracy
Part Two then narrates the story of the making and unmaking of this modern India in the period from 1950 to the present day.
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Depoliticizing Development: The World Bank and Social Capital
[so that] . . . IA staff are so much part of the local society that they can neither escape uncomfortable censure if ... is probably another aspect of the story from Taiwan, however – and is one to which Evans returns (as shall we).
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India Today: Economy, Politics and Society
This theme of the reassertion of hierarchy within subaltern civil society is also prominent in Martin Webb's (2010) study of public activism in Delhi. Webb worked with 'citizen activists' involved in campaigns around social justice and ...
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India: Continuity and Change in the Twenty-First Century
Micklethwait, J. and A. Wooldridge (2009), God Is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith Is Changing the World (New York: Penguin Press). Miles, R. (2002), 'Employment and unemployment in Jordan: The importance of the gender system', ...
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Reinventing India: Liberalization, Hindu Nationalism and Popular Democracy
When India was invented as a "modern" country in the years after Independence in 1947 it styled itself as a secular, federal, democratic Republic committed to an ideology of development....
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Keywords for Modern India
As Raymond Williams argues in his book Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, 'some important social and ... A 'keyword' is a word that is both important and provides a window on processes of social and political change.
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Keywords for Modern India
Why is the idea of 'faction' so significant in modern India? Why has the idea of 'empowerment' come to be used so extensively? These are the sorts of questions that are addressed in this book.
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Depoliticizing Development: The World Bank and Social Capital
It successfully supports the sys— tematic depoliticization of development (which is, of course, in itself a deeply political act) by occluding the recognition of power and of class relations. 'Social capital', I have argued, ...
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The Politics of Humanitarian Intervention
"Amid the criticism of the UN's apparent failure to intervene in humanitarian disasters there has been little scholarly consideration of the real issues. The nature of human rights, sovereignty, UN...
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Power Matters: Essays on Institutions, Politics, and Society in India
This volume brings together ten essays from the author's enduring work on the different dimensions of power in Indian society.
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India: Continuity and Change in the Twenty-First Century
In this book, research leaders John Harriss, Craig Jeffrey and Trent Brown explore in depth the economic, social, and political changes occurring in India today, and their implications for the people of India and the world.
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The New Institutional Economics and Third World Development
A major contribution to an area of debate still in its formative phase. It offers new perspectives on both the micro-foundations of economics and the long run dynamics of economic development.
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Rural Development: Theories of Peasant Economy and Agrarian Change
Textbook (essays) on economic theories (agricultural economy) relating to agrarian reform and rural development in developing countries - discusses relations between agrarian change, population growth and poverty, considers farm size,...
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The New Institutional Economics and Third World Development
The contributors to this volume address its significance for the developing world. The book is a major contribution to an area of debate still in its formative phase. The book challenges the orthodoxies of development, espec
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Reinventing Social Democratic Development: Insights from Indian and Scandinavian Comparisons
Can social democratic development be reinvented? This is what we discuss in this book. There are numerous protests against the existing order and there are attempts at change.
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The New Institutional Economics and Third World Development
Contributors to this volume address the significance of new institutional economics to third world development. It includes articles from Douglas North, political scientist Robert Bates and John Toye.