{"product_id":"politics-of-the-poor-9781107117181","title":"Politics of the Poor","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book challenges the ongoing debates on poor people's negotiations with democracy. It analyses the varied ways in which the poor participate in a democracy. Based on fieldwork, Roy argues that poor people neither assimilate into the universal values associated with democracy nor maintain their difference vis-à-vis democracy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of tables, maps and charts; Acknowledgements; Glossary; Introduction: against false binaries; 1. The perspectives of the study: towards an Agonistics of democracy; 2. Political spaces: institutional opportunity structures; 3. Political spaces: social relations of power; 4. From clientelism to citizenship?: The politics of supplications; 5. From moral vocabularies to languages of stateness?: The politics of demands; 6. From backwardness to improvement?: The politics of disputation; 7. From tradition to modernity?: The politics of imagination; Conclusion: the politics of the poor: agonistic negotiations with democracy; Annexure 1: the dramatis personae; Annexure 2: the census survey; Annexure 3: the Multidimensional Poverty Index; Annexure 4: Schedule for BPL Census 2002; Annexure 5: Schedule for BPL Census 2002 West Bengal; Annexure 6: BPL Cutoff List for West Bengal; Annexure 7: Bihar Mahadalit Vikas Mission Mandate; Bibliography; Index.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768974377303,"sku":"9781107117181","price":104.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781107117181.jpg?v=1758719218","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/politics-of-the-poor-9781107117181","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}