Interpreting politics : situated knowledge, India, and the Rudolph legacy /

This text investigates how people construct meaning and motivation for political action. Building on Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph's seminal scholarship of India, it develops the concept of situated knowledge to argue that people's capacity to empathize and dehumanize as well as their engageme...

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Other Authors: Echeverri-Gent, John (Editor), Sadiq, Kamal (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This text investigates how people construct meaning and motivation for political action. Building on Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph's seminal scholarship of India, it develops the concept of situated knowledge to argue that people's capacity to empathize and dehumanize as well as their engagement in ongoing discourses and ideational power shape their political action. The volume illuminates contemporary Indian politics by showing how political leadership can transform people's understandings and cause dramatic political transformation.
Item Description:This edition also issued in print: 2020.
Physical Description:1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Audience:Specialized.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780190991296
0190991291