PROF David Mosse's Outputs (4)

NGOs as Social Movements: Policy Narratives, Networks and the Performance of Dalit Rights in South India (2020)
Journal Article
Mosse, D., & Nagappan, S. B. (2020). NGOs as Social Movements: Policy Narratives, Networks and the Performance of Dalit Rights in South India. Development and Change, 52(1), 134-167. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12614

Donor‐funded development NGOs are sometimes portrayed as co‐opting, privatizing or depoliticizing citizen action or social movements. This much is implied by the term ‘NGOization’. Alternatively, NGOs can be seen as bearers of rights‐based work incre... Read More about NGOs as Social Movements: Policy Narratives, Networks and the Performance of Dalit Rights in South India.

Anti-Caste Activism and Dwindling Numbers: David Mosse and Michal Kravel-Tovi discuss Diasporic Anxieties among British South Asians and American Jews (2020)
Digital Artefact
Mosse, D., & Kravel-Tovi, M. (2020). Anti-Caste Activism and Dwindling Numbers: David Mosse and Michal Kravel-Tovi discuss Diasporic Anxieties among British South Asians and American Jews

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.

Outside Caste? The Enclosure of Caste and Claims to Castelessness in India and the United Kingdom (2020)
Journal Article
Mosse, D. (2020). Outside Caste? The Enclosure of Caste and Claims to Castelessness in India and the United Kingdom. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 62(1), 4-34. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417519000392

Caste has always generated political and scholarly controversy but the forms that this takes today newly combine anti-caste activism with counter-claims about the irrelevance or non-existence of caste, or claims to castelessness. Such claims to caste... Read More about Outside Caste? The Enclosure of Caste and Claims to Castelessness in India and the United Kingdom.