Social Development In India

Working with stakeholders Booklet - English

by Flora Cornish

2012, Cornish, Shukla, Banerji, Campbell

This booklet reports findings from our research in India on how successful CBOs win the support of powerful... more This booklet reports findings from our research in India on how successful CBOs win the support of powerful stakeholders - including police, politicians, government officials, funding agencies, and sympathetic activist movements.

It may be used as background information in support of the training module (above).

Working with stakeholders Training Module - English

by Flora Cornish

2012, Cornish, Shukla, Banerji, Campbell

Based on our research in India, this training module is designed for capacity-building of NGOs and CBOs, especially... more Based on our research in India, this training module is designed for capacity-building of NGOs and CBOs, especially those serving sex workers, to build their critical thinking and skills in working with important stakeholders - including police, politicians, government officials, funding agencies, and sympathetic activist movements.

The booklet, below, presents background principles and examples in support of the training module.

Working with stakeholders Training Module - English

by Flora Cornish

2012, Cornish, Shukla, Banerji, Campbell

Based on our research in India, this training module is designed for capacity-building of NGOs and CBOs, especially... more Based on our research in India, this training module is designed for capacity-building of NGOs and CBOs, especially those serving sex workers, to build their critical thinking and skills in working with important stakeholders - including police, politicians, government officials, funding agencies, and sympathetic activist movements.

The booklet, below, presents background principles and examples in support of the training module.

The Unique Identity (UID) Project and the New ‘Bureaucratic Moment’ in India

by Swagato Sarkar

University of Oxford, QEH Working Paper Series – QEHWPS194 - Working Paper Number 194

At various points in its career the Indian state has deployed technologies to govern the country. In its latest move,... more At various points in its career the Indian state has deployed technologies to govern the country. In its latest move, the state has undertaken a number of large scale projects to install digital technology, the most controversial of these is the Unique Identity Project, an ongoing project which is registering the biometric, along with demographic, information of the residents. In this paper, I will try to understand what is politically at stake in this technological intervention. I would like to explore whether these interventions signal a shift in thinking around the institutional, while negotiating the political in a particular way;
whether it reconciles the participatory and procedural impulses of Indian democracy – negotiates with particular claims; and whether it brings a change in the state-citizen relationship. I will argue that these interventions cannot be understood as an orthodox neoliberal policy initiative – rather it articulates a new “will to power” and a desire to segregate, yet preserve the state, and free the executive from the encumbrance of populist democracy. Theoretically, the main thrust of this paper is to understand the “general economy of power”, as Michel Foucault calls it, which is unfolding in India around the issues of capitalist growth, inequality, governance, social protection and technology.

How Many Committees Do I Belong To?

by Crispin Bates

Authors: Abha Mishra; Shilpa Vasavada; Crispin Bates
Published in R. Jeffery & N.Sundar (eds.) A New Moral Economy for India's Forests? Discourses of Community and Participation, (London: Sage, 1999)

In their own words: Learning about child sexual abuse by listening to the perpetrators

by Alankaar Sharma

Co-authored with Jane F Gilgun.
Published in The Indian Journal of Social Work, 2008, Vol. 69, No. 3, Pp. 321-338.

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to knowledge about perpetrators of child sexual abuse in India. We do so by... more The purpose of this paper is to contribute to knowledge about perpetrators of child sexual abuse in India. We do so by challenging certain myths and discuss what perpetrators themselves say about their sexually abusive behaviours towards children. In their own words, perpetrators show that how they think about child sexual abuse is very different from widespread assumptions and beliefs

Decriminalising Queer Sexualities in India: A Multiple Streams Analysis

by Alankaar Sharma

Published in Social Policy and Society, 2008, Vol 7, No. 4, Pp. 419-431.

Against a historical and contemporary backdrop of queer sexualities in India, this paper discusses certain approaches... more Against a historical and contemporary backdrop of queer sexualities in India, this paper discusses certain approaches towards agenda setting using the Multiple Streams policy framework (Kingdon, 1984; Zahariadis, 1999) to change Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code that criminalises non-normative sexual activities. The paper attempts to map the path of legal challenge to Section 377 and focus on the process of agenda setting as a crucial step in the campaign towards social policy change. It then examines some of the current trends and developments that, if used efficaciously through agenda setting, may result in a unique policy window opportunity.

INDIA'S LIVING-WAGE GAP – Another modern slave work ethos

by Alvaro De Regil Castilla

Álvaro J. de Regil

© 2010. The Jus Semper Global Alliance
http://www.jussemper.org/Resources/Economic%20Data/Resources/India_LW_gap.pdf

Under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

Regarding the real value of the manufacturing wages, India’s living-wage gap is not as dramatically dire as that of... more Regarding the real value of the manufacturing wages, India’s living-wage gap is not as dramatically dire as that of China. However, as could be expected, it is still one of the worst in the world, for it clearly exhibits its sheer modern slave work nature. As a result, India’s increasingly deregulated economy is rapidly becoming a very important source of misery wage manufacturing workers for the Darwinian capitalist system of today’s global corporations and their institutional investors. Whereas there is increasing talk about China reaching a turning point when its pool of surplus labour would start declining, India is expected to contribute, over the next few decades, a larger labour supply to its manufacturing sector than China. Yet, to be sure, this will continue to occur at rather meagre real wages. Consequently, along with China, India will continue to exert tremendous downward pressure on the wages of all the developing nations that have bet their economic strategy on the traditional centre-periphery relationship, anchored on the offering of comparative advantages. In this way, as Álvaro de Regil, the author of this analysis argues, from the perspective of real democracy and human rights, this poses a rather intractable problem for the labour endowments of workers worldwide, but all the more so for those in the periphery of the world’s Darwinian capitalist system in which we have been undemocratically immersed.