Negotiating Terrain In Local Governance

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This book explores and analyses women’s participation in local urban governance in West Bengal, India. It is developed from empirical research with in-depth understanding of ground situations of freedom, functioning and obstacles of women councilors in India. The central idea of this book revolves around two central research questions: 1. How are women’s positions and spaces changing due to their political participation in the urban local governance? and 2. What are the major hurdles they face in their day to day lives barring their emancipation? The main strength of the book lies in the in-depth grounded research in four small cities (Darjiling, Balurghat, Raniganj and Hugli-Chinsurah) using both quantitative and qualitative research methods. This volume can be considered as a reference book for Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Urban Governance, Women and Policy Research, Gender Development Studies.

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Genre : Science
Author : Riya Banerjee
Publisher : Springer Nature
Release : 2021-03-30
File : 203 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783030606633


Women Leadership Decentralised Governance And Development

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Author : D. Rajasekhar
Publisher : Springer Nature
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File : 216 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789819737093


City Making And Urban Governance In The Americas

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Cities in both North and South America are confronting tremendous challenges in urban growth and management as they enter the new century. Curitiba in Brazil and Portland in Oregon, US are cities that have achieved recognition for exemplary urban planning programmes over the past three decades. As such, they provide particularly useful illustrations of the intense development pressures that many urban areas currently face. This book explores the dynamics of their urban governance, arguing that, in general, there has been a unique synergy derived from the combination of visionary leadership, innovative urban plans and effective citizen involvement. The book argues that, while urban design and architecture are key to the success in making cities livable and in augmenting the global reputations, such sensitive, innovative urban planning and design projects first need to be governed effectively and grounded within the specifics of their local cultures and existing built environments.

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Clara Irazábal
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2017-03-02
File : 389 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781351951340


Mobilities In India

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This book presents commuting as a new paradigm in mobility studies in the context of global south. It delves into suburban train commuting in Eastern India. The book interprets commuting not only as a means to attend work but also as a process producing kinetic event-space infused with different mobile practices, which is not determined by their locational fixity, rather can be cognized. It analyses the role of suburban train commuting in the metropolitan expansion of Kolkata, and the transformation of rural space into urban. The significant contribution of the book lies in explaining commuters’ experiencescape and the production of spatial fluidity in time capsule through commuting. It also explores the subjective reality of gendered commuting. The book uses a trans-disciplinary research design, blending quantitative and ethnographic research methods. The area selected for the empirical research is the Howrah-Bardhaman Main Railway Line (108 km), the first suburban railway line in Eastern India. Commuters originating from three adjacent districts of Purba Bardhaman, Hooghly and Howrah took part in this research. Besides the commuters, non-commuting passengers and hawkers in the train were also interviewed to understand the diverse perceptions of the process of commuting. This book may be considered as a reference book for mobility studies, transport studies, urban geography and regional planning.

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Genre : Science
Author : Bhaswati Mondal
Publisher : Springer Nature
Release : 2021-07-26
File : 187 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783030783501


Handbook Of U S Environmental Policy

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A comprehensive analysis of diverse areas of scholarly research on U.S. environmental policy and politics, this Handbook looks at the key ideas, theoretical frameworks, empirical findings and methodological approaches to the topic. Leading environmental policy scholars emphasize areas of emerging research and opportunities for future enquiry.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : David M.Konisky
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Release : 2020-04-24
File : 507 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781788972840


Negotiating Corruption

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Negotiating Corruption demands that we think again about corruption in Africa. It problematises the framing of African corruption as a phenomenon that emerges from a clash between two sets of norms. Moreover, it highlights the colonial legacies of this frame, which situates African corruption within continually recurring debates about the political inclusion or banishment of 'others'. NGOs are characterised as intermediaries between the local and the international, and between the state and the population. In both of these roles they are understood to reform governance by bringing about changes in culture and instituting bureaucratic norms. They have, therefore, been seen as part of the apparatus of a global liberal governmentality. This book complicates this portrayal and highlights the ambiguous role of liberal governmentality through an exploration of the 'grey practices' of the NGOs studied. These practices are 'grey' as they do not fit the pattern of virtuous NGOs holding the state to account described in development policy, yet at the same time they ensure that the state produces the outcomes that a fully-functioning state ought to. This enacting of oppositional and antagonistic elements is further unpacked in conversation with Homi Bhabha's concepts of negotiation and hybridity. Negotiating Corruption draws attention to both the limitations of current explanations of corruption in Africa and the problematic way in which they are framed. The book's detailed engagement with understandings of corruption within policy and academic debates will make it a useful resource for undergraduate teaching. It will also be of keen interest to researchers, academics, and postgraduate students who engage with the issues of corruption, NGOs, civil society, African politics, governmentality, and hybridity.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : Laura Routley
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2015-12-14
File : 174 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781317216247


Accounting For Public Policy

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : David Rosenberg
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Release : 1989
File : 288 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0719025656


Successful Negotiating In Local Government

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Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
Author : Nancy A. Huelsberg
Publisher :
Release : 1985
File : 232 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015014295292


Negotiating Autonomy

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Comprises four cases of indigenous groups' experiences to protect their land and resources from external threats using, among others, the ancestral titlling procedures of the Indigenous Peoples Rights Act.

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Genre : History
Author : Augusto B. Gatmaytan
Publisher : International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
Release : 2007
File : 264 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015077607391


Negotiating Cohesion Inequality And Change

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This unique study explores how local bureaucrats and politicians negotiate diversity, discrimination, migration, and class in the midst of many other issues that affect community cohesion. Drawing on original empirical research, Hannah Jones contends that local government workers must often occupy uncomfortable positions when managing ethical, professional, and political commitments. Ultimately, she reveals the surprising extent to which governmental power affects the lives and emotions of the people who wield it.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Hannah Jones
Publisher : Policy Press
Release : 2015-01-14
File : 248 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781447310044