Heart of the Matter Engelska 2010

The Heart of the Matter: Development, Identity and Violence - Reconfiguring the Debate The Volume addresses the complex relationship betweenDevelopment, Identity and Violence from different dimensions. Itexplores the ideas of development beyond its appearances anddevlves deeper into its essence. India has been a site oftumultuous changes in recent times as a consequence of its shifttowards neoliberalism. This shift has not only introduced a newframework of development but has also produced its side effects.Chapters in this volume make an effort to critically engage withthese issues trying to reconfigure the ongoing debates ondevelopment. Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Thinking Through Urban Debris: Violence, Terror and theState 2. Through an Beyond: Identities and class Struggle 3. " No rehabilitation" is Ecocide and Genocide: Is TherePossibility of Hope? 4. Ventilating Predicament of Development: New Economic Enclavesand Structural Violence in India 5. The Artifice of Modernity in Nation- Building: Analyzing thecase of "Postcolonial" Northeast India 6. Developing Bastar: The Dandakaranya Project Contributor Ravi Kumar Ravi Kumar teaches at the Development of Sociology, Jamia MilliaIslamia. His works include Ghetto and within; Class, Identity,State and politics of Mobilization (2010, Delhi: Aakar Books);Global Neoliberalism and education and its Consequences (2009, NewYork& London: Roultledge); The Crisis of Elementary Educationin India (2006, New Delhi: sage Publications); The Politics ofImperialism and Counterstrategies (2004, New Delhi: Aakar books).He is in Process of Co-editing a series on social movements,Dissent and Transformative. He has written extensively oneducation, media and social movements and is on the advisory boardof Journal of Critical Education Policy Studies and co-editsRadical Notes.