The sixteen papers here revolve around exclusion and inclusion that are concerned with the twin objectives of social justice and good governance and alleviation of poverty and amelioration of the living conditions of weaker sections, minorities, women, children and rural masses. They deal with people’s participation at grassroots level and decentralisation that are necessary for development with dignity and development of inclusive policies. They examine ...
Theory as Variation is a collection that attempts to showcase the protean performance of they as it moves from the world into the text and back out into the world again. Theory by its very nature resists totalization and normativization, and the essays assembled here demonstrate the ability of theory to perform contingently in a verity of contexts in response to a broad range of textual problems and worldly challenges. The distinguished contributors to this ...