Co-author: Duncan McDuie-Ra, Professor and Head of the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Monash University Malaysia
India has one of the world’s most active civil societies, but the way scholars describe advocacy often differs from how it works on the ground. This book compares campaigns on women’s rights, human rights, the environment, and religion. It shows what makes some succeed and others fail. We identify the tools activists use to get past obstacles, and the traps that derail efforts to frame issues and win support, especially when campaigns depend on transnational networks.
Details
- Publisher: Kumarian Press, an imprint of Lynne Rienner Publishers
- Published: 2011, 177 pages
- ISBN: 978-1-56549-327-8 (paperback); 978-1-56549-328-5 (hardback)
- Chapters: Rhetoric and Reality: The Many Dimensions of Civil Society · Transnational Women’s Advocacy and Indian Agendas · Transnational Human Rights Advocacy and the Might of Local Action · Transnational Environmental Advocacy and Ethnic Identity in India · Transnational Feminist and Religious Advocacy in India · Negotiating Networks
- Buy: Lynne Rienner
- Reviewed in: Asian Studies Review 37(1), 2013; Contemporary South Asia 22(3), 2014; Choice 49(1), 2011
