사회공헌센터

Challenges and Dilemmas of Civil Society movements in India

Asian Social Work and Policy Review

2019, vol.13, no.2, pp.169~178(9 pages)

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연구분야 : 사회과학 > Asian Social Work and Policy Review

Venkat Pulla

(Institute of Land;Water and Society;

초록

Civil Society spaces provide citizens opportunities to frame their collective identities and interests through the formation of voluntary interest groups and organisations set to specific purposes. In the west, historically these interest groups have contrib-uted to the development of political thought that assisted to forge the economic interests of emerging bourgeoisie. This paper situated in the context of India begins with a thematic perspective and reviews the challenges that emerge as a result of the demands that emerge within the civil society space. The paper considered three broad range organizations for this review such as the Narmada Bachao Andolan (Save the river Narmada Campaign); National Alliance for People's Movement (NAPM); and the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA). The authors see civil society as a conciliating place―where individual interests appear to mingle with societal require-ments while providing adequate representation to the marginalized groups and ex-pression of concerns around economic and environmental rights.