1st Edition
Development, Democracy and the State Critiquing the Kerala Model of Development
1 The Kerala Model: situating the critique K. RAVI RAMAN
PART 1
Historical perspectives: caste, religion and development
2 Caste, public action and the Kerala Model K.T. RAMMOHAN
3 ‘Community’ as de-imagining nation: relocating the Ezhava movement in Kerala J. REGHU
4 Negotiating the Hindu state and nationalism:travails in the making of a community M.M. KHAN
PART 2
Contemporary political economy
5 Freedom, economic reform and the Kerala ‘Model’ M.A. OOMMEN
6 On the periphery: Muslims and the Kerala Model M. KABIR
7 Learning to learn: Dalit education in Kerala ROSHNI PADMANABHAN
8 Thinking through CT scanners: the value(s) of imaging technologies in Kerala CAROLINE WILSON
9 Asian Development Bank, conditionalities and the social democratic governance: Kerala Model under pressure? K. RAVI RAMAN
10 The conjuncture of ‘late socialism’ in Kerala: a critique of the narrative of social democracy NISSIM MANNATHUKKAREN
PART 3
Gender, space and identities
11 Empowerment or politicization? The limits of gender inclusiveness of Kerala’s political decentralization J. DEVIKA AND BINITHA V. THAMPI
12 The institutionalization of dowry in Kerala: feminine identity, conjugal patronage and development PRAVEENA KODOTH
13 ‘Caring’ cosmopolitans and global migration:plus ça change? SHOBA ARUN
PART 4
New social movements: political and cultural perspectives
14 Adivasi workers’ struggles and the Kerala Model:interpreting the past, confronting the present LUISA STEUR
15 Social space, civil society and transformative politics of new social movements in Kerala T.T. SREEKUMAR and GOVINDAN PARAYIL
Biography
K. Ravi Raman was a Hallsworth Research Fellow (2005–8) in the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester and is currently a Research Associate in the Department of Development Studies, SOAS, London. He is the author of Global Capital and Peripheral Labour (2010) and co-editor of Corporate Social Responsibility, forthcoming.
