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OverviewThe essays in this volume take a critical look at these diverse representations of public and private, the manner in which they reinforce each other and collectively impact democracy. In the era of globalization, the relationship between public and private is being steadily redefined. The book reflects upon these changes and the implications they have for democratic citizenship. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Gurpreet Mahajan , Helmut ReifeldPublisher: SAGE Publications Inc Imprint: SAGE Publications Inc Dimensions: Width: 13.90cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.50cm Weight: 0.510kg ISBN: 9780761997023ISBN 10: 0761997024 Pages: 340 Publication Date: 05 August 2003 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsPreface - Helmut Reifeld Introduction: The Public and the Private: Two Modes of Enhancing Democratization - Gurpreet Mahajan PART ONE: CONCEPTUALIZING THE PUBLIC AND THE PRIVATE The Public as a Social Category - Andr[ac]e B[ac]eteille The Domesticated Public - Dipankar Gupta Tradition, Modernity and the Public/Private Divide The Middle Classes as Public and Private - Ute Frevert Culture, Gender and Modernization in 19th Century Europe Of the Social Categories ′Private′ and ′Public′ - T N Madan Considerations of Cultural Context From a ′Private′ Public to a ′Public′ Private Sphere - Margrit Pernau Old Delhi and the North Indian Muslims in Comparative Perspective The Struggle for Social Justice and the Expansion of the Public Sphere - Gail Omvedt PART TWO: RETRIEVING THE PRIVATE Law′s Magic and Empire Revisited - Rajeev Dhavan Public Spaces and Private Lives - The Domain of the Law Transcending Categories - Neera Chandhoke The Private, the Public and the Search for Home Feminism and the Public-Private Distinction - Patricia Uberoi Protecting Individual Rights as Safeguards of the Private Sphere - Clauspeter Hill The German Setting from the Legal Point of View Voluntary Action and Citizenship - Aswini K Ray Issues of Civil Rights Public Ethics and Accountability - L C Jain PART THREE: THE PUBLIC IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALIZATION Public Sector in a Market Economy - Arjun Sengupta Privatization as Reform - Kuldeep Mathur Liberalization and Public Sector Enterprises in India NGOs in the Era of Globalization - Harsh Sethi Reworking the State-Citizen Dialectic Creating a Public: Reinventing Democratic Citizenship - Sarah Joseph IndexReviewsAuthor InformationGurpreet Mahajan is Professor of Political Science at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She is the author of Explanation and Understanding in the Human Sciences (1992), Identities and Rights: Aspects of Liberal Democracy in India (1998) and The Multicultural Path: Issues of Diversity and Discrimination in Democracy (2001). She has also edited Democracy, Difference and Social Justice (1998) and co-edited Minority Identities and the Nation-State (with D.L. Sheth) 1999. Helmut Reifeld is at present the Representative of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in India. Formerly a research fellow with the German Historical Institute, London, and Bayreuth University, Germany, his co edited works include Pluralism and Equality and Women in Panchayati Raj. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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