Varieties of Activist Experience
Civil Society in South Asia
- David Gellner - Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK
The uniqueness of this book lies in its treatment of 'civil society' as a process brought into being by the actions of specific individuals whose struggles and experiences can profitably be examined for understanding everyday politics.
The ethnographic studies lay bare how activists in the entire region continuously wrestle with the tensions between the tidy boxes of official classifications and the fuzzy categories of everyday life.