{"product_id":"hailing-the-state-9781478018766","title":"Hailing the State","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLisa Mitchell explores the historical and contemporary methods of collective assembly that people in India use to hold elected officials and government administrators accountable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Note on Transliteration and Spelling  ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Hailing the State: Collective Assembly, Democracy, and Representation  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Seeking Audience\u003cbr\u003e 1. Sit-In Demonstrations and Hunger Strikes: From \u003ci\u003eDharna\u003c\/i\u003e as Door-Sitting to Dharna Chowk  43\u003cbr\u003e 2. Seeking Audience: Refusals to Listen, “Style,” and the Politics of Recognition  67\u003cbr\u003e 3. Collective Assembly and the “Roar of the People”: Corporeal Forms of “Making Known” and the Deliberative Turn  94\u003cbr\u003e 4. The General Strike: Collective Action at the Other End of the Commodity Chain  122\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Criminal and the Political\u003cbr\u003e 5. Alarm Chain Pulling: The Criminal and the Political in the Writing of History  151\u003cbr\u003e 6. Rail and Road Blockades: Illiberal or Participatory Democracy?  168\u003cbr\u003e 7. Rallies, Processions and \u003ci\u003eYātrās\u003c\/i\u003e: Ticketless Travel and the Journey to “Political Arrival”  197\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Of Human Chains and Guinness Records: Attention, Recognition, and the Fate of Democracy amidst Changing Mediascapes  216\u003cbr\u003e Notes  225\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  265\u003cbr\u003e Index  287","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867287892311,"sku":"9781478018766","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478018766.jpg?v=1722282609","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/hailing-the-state-9781478018766","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}