Employing a view of culture as a communicative phenomenon involving discursive engagement, which is deeply influenced by social and economic inequalities, the authors argue that the struggle to break free of poverty is as much a cultural process as it is political and economic. In this paper, they analyze important examples of discursive spaces - public meetings in Indian village democracies (gram sabhas), where villagers make important decisions...
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2009/05/01
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS4924
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2010/07/01
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Dignity through discourse : poverty and the culture of deliberation in Indian village democracies
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Center for Policy Research