Stating the Difference: State, Discourse and Class Reproduction in Uttar Pradesh, India
Stating the Difference: State, Discourse and Class Reproduction in Uttar Pradesh, India
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说明差异:印度北方邦的国家、话语和阶级再生产
DOI:
10.1111/1467-7660.00180
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发表时间:
2000
影响因子:
3
通讯作者:
Jens Lerche
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作者:
C. Jeffrey;Jens Lerche
Much development literature concerned with state-society relations operates with a simplistic state-people dichotomy. In contrast this article focuses on the intersection between state and society and argues that this plays an important part in class reproduction in "civil society". This issue is explored with reference to the role of the local state in class reproduction in the Indian countryside. The focus is on the means by which rural social groups negotiate access to the local state and discourses surrounding the state. The balance of colonization co-option and opposition that characterizes the relationship between dominant rural classes and local state officials/institutions is examined against the impact of the rise of a populist low class party. It is argued that the intersection between class and state is closer than even critical studies of state-society relations have posited. Moreover the state can within certain limits be brought to serve interests other than those of the dominant classes. (authors)