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India’s Democratic Revolution: Right to Information and the Anti-corruption Discourse (2024)
Thesis
Venkat, V. India’s Democratic Revolution: Right to Information and the Anti-corruption Discourse. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This doctoral thesis examines the right to information movement in India emerging from a democratic process of contestation of state power. Combining ethnography with history, the thesis situates the demand for an information law within the context o... Read More about India’s Democratic Revolution: Right to Information and the Anti-corruption Discourse.

Building Co-operation in Farmer Collectives and across ‘Value’ Chains: Institutional Dynamics and Power Relations in Central India (2023)
Thesis
Hadley, P. A. Building Co-operation in Farmer Collectives and across ‘Value’ Chains: Institutional Dynamics and Power Relations in Central India. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis explores processes of co-operative institution building in rural development in central India, with specific regard to farmer producer companies (FPCs), a form of ‘new generation’ co-operative-company hybrid, as well as the organic cotton... Read More about Building Co-operation in Farmer Collectives and across ‘Value’ Chains: Institutional Dynamics and Power Relations in Central India.

Developing Moralities: An Ethnographic Study of New Elite Development Actors in Bangladesh (2022)
Thesis
Jamal, I. Developing Moralities: An Ethnographic Study of New Elite Development Actors in Bangladesh. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis explores young Bangladeshi new elite actors in development and how they conceptualise and practice new modalities of development. By working with a group of actors who are often overlooked when studying development, especially in the cont... Read More about Developing Moralities: An Ethnographic Study of New Elite Development Actors in Bangladesh.

Making Them Look the Other Way! The (Ir)rationality of Road Building in the Sindh Borderlands of Pakistan (2020)
Thesis
Khan, M. A. Making Them Look the Other Way! The (Ir)rationality of Road Building in the Sindh Borderlands of Pakistan. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The thesis explores the politics and poetics of road making in Pakistan. The material addresses two questions: why do states build roads? What happens to the people and places that roads pass through when roads finally appear? I conducted eleven mont... Read More about Making Them Look the Other Way! The (Ir)rationality of Road Building in the Sindh Borderlands of Pakistan.