Amit Prakash - Research Papers
 

  1. * ‘The Long 2020/21 in India: Models of Pandemic Management and Logistics of Governance’ in Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty, Paula Banerjee, Kaustubh Mani Sengupta eds., The Long 2020: Reflections of Epidemiological Times, Singapore: Springer, 2023, forthcoming, pp..

  2. * ‘Covid–19 and the Civil Societies of South Asia’ (jointly with Peter B Andersen, Meghna Guhathakurta & Siri Hettige), Naveiñ Reet: Nordic Journal of Law and Social Research (Special Issue on Covid-19 and Civil Society in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka), Vol 12, 2022, pp. 17-38.

  3. * ‘Introduction to the Issue’ (jointly with Peter B Andersen and Meghna Guhathakurta), Naveiñ Reet: Nordic Journal of Law and Social Research (Special Issue on Covid-19 and Civil Society in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka), Vol 12, 2022, pp. 13-16.

  4. * Guest editor (with Peter B Andersen and Meghna Guhathakurta), Naveiñ Reet: Nordic Journal of Law and Social Research (Special Issue on Covid-19 and Civil Society in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka), Vol 12, 2022.

  5. * ‘COVID-19, International Development and the Global Economy’ (jointly with Stephen McCloskey) in Gerard McCann, Nita Mishra and Padraig Carmody, eds., COVID-19, the Global South and the Pandemic’s Development Impact, Bristol: The Bristol University Press, 2022, pp. 24-37, DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2x8v634.9.

  6. * ‘Shadow of the pandemic and the Beleaguered Liberal- Democratic Script in India’, India Review, Vol. 20, No. 2, 2021, pp. 104-120, DOI: 10.1080/14736489.2021.1895564.

  7. * ‘Introduction to a special issue of India Review: Reflections on Politics and Policy for a post-Covid-19 Era: Analysing Continuities and Fractures through the First Wave of 2020’, India Review, Vol. 20, No. 2, 2021, pp. 97-103, DOI: 10.1080/14736489.2021.1904367.

  8. * ‘Dissemination of Civil Society in South Asia: Introductory Considerations’ (jointly with Peter B. Andersen, Rubya Mehdi and Yasir Sharif), in Peter B. Andersen, Rubya Mehdi & Amit Prakash, eds., Re-interrogating Civil Society in South Asia: Critical Perspectives from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, New Delhi: Routledge, 2021, pp. 1-16.

  9. * ‘Populism as a Crisis of the Liberal Script: Reflections on Politics and Policy in India’ in Amit Prakash & Manish Kumar Jha, eds., Populism-I: Politics, Policies and Social Justice, Kolkata: Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group (Policies and Practices 106), 2019, pp. 1-13.

  10. * Amit Prakash, উদারনৈতিক রাজনীতির সঙ্কটের দর্পনে জনপ্রিয়তাবাদ : ভারতে নীতি ও রাজনীতির সম্পর্কে কিছু কথা in Sibaji Pratim Basu & Rajat Roy, eds., পপুলিজম: ভারতে জনপ্রিয়াতাবাদী রাজনীতির উত্থান (Special Intro. Ranabir Samaddar), Kolkata: Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group.. 2019. pp. 27-42.

  11. * Amit Prakash, ‘उदारवादी आख्यानों में एक संकट के रूप में लोकलुभावनवाद: भारत में राजनीती और नीति पर कुछ विचार ‘ in Upadhyaya, Anjoo Sharan, ed., ‘भारत में लोकलुभावनवादी राजनीती का सन्दर्भ, Kolkata: Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, 2019, pp. 1-23.

  12. * ‘The Dynamics of Social Media and the Indian Elections 2019’ in Asia Dialogue, https://theasiadialogue.com/2019/04/12/the-dynamics-of-social-media-and-the-indian-elections-2019/

  13. * (with Sanjukta Das Gupta), ‘De-centring dominant narratives in India: An Introduction’ in Rivista Degli Studi Orientali, Supplemento 2, Special Issue on De-Centring Dominant Narratives in India: Alternative Perceptions of History and Development (edited By Sanjukta Das Gupta And Amit Prakash), 2018, pp. 9-12.

  14. * ‘Identity, Migration and Crime: Conceptual Underpinnings and Select Evidence from India’ in Revista Degli Studi Orientali, Supplemento 2, Special Issue on De-Centring Dominant Narratives in India: Alternative Perceptions of History and Development (edited By Sanjukta Das Gupta And Amit Prakash), 2018, 137-153.

  15. * ‘The Capital City: Discursive Dissonance of Law and Policy’ in Ranabir Samaddar, ed., Migrants and the Neoliberal City, New Delhi: Orient BlackSwan, 2018, pp. 225-257.

  16. * ‘Conflict and Governance: Participation and Strategic Veto in Bihar and Jharkhand’ in Cederlöf, Gunnel & Das Gupta, Sanjukta, eds., Subjects, Citizens and Law, New Delhi: Routledge, 2016, pp. 122-137.

  17. * ‘The Capital City: Discursive Dissonance of Law and Policy’ in Cities, Rural Migrants and the Urban Poor: Issues of Violence and Social Justice: Research Briefs with Policy Implications, Kolkata: Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group (Policies and Practices 74), 2016.

  18. * ‘The Capital City: Discursive Dissonance of Law and Policy’ in Prakash, Amit, Dey, Ishita, Kumar, Mithlesh, Cities, Rural Migrants and the Urban Poor-III: Migration and the Urban Question in Delhi, Kolkata: Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group (Policies and Practices 74), 2016, pp. 1-20.

  19. * (co-author), ‘Homogenising Discourses of Governance and Local Processes: Identity and Autonomy in Jharkhand’ in Anglistica: An Interdisciplinary Journal, (Edizione speciale a cura di Rossella Ciocca e Sanjukta Das Gupta dal titolo Out of Hidden India: Adivasi Histories, Stories, Visualities and Performances), Vol. 19, N. 1, 2015, pp. 147-162.

  20. * ‘Political Economy of Conflict and Peace: Governmentality of Participation and Strategic Veto in Bihar and Jharkhand, India’ in Richmond, Oliver P., Burgess, J. Peter & Samaddar, Ranabir, Cultures Of Governance and Peace: A Comparison of EU and Indian Theoretical and Policy Approaches, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016, pp. 68-87.

  21. * ‘Post-colonial Indian State and Tribes: Nationalist Discursive Structures and a New Hegemonic Consensus’ in Sandhya Goswami, ed., Troubled Diversity: The Political Process in the Northeast India’, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. 24-47.

  22. * ‘Indian Development Discourse in a Changing World’ in Navnita C Behera, ed., India Engages the World, New Delhi:  ICSSR & Oxford University Press (ICSSR Research Survey and Explorations in Political Science), 2013, pp. 197-233.

  23. * ‘Political Parties’ Manifestoes and Narratives of the Public in India’ in Ajay Mehra, ed., Party System in India: Emerging Trajectories, Atlanta: Lancer, 2013, pp. 180-217.

  24. * ‘The ‘Making’ of a Movement and the Emergence of Jharkhand: Electoral Politics since the Nineties’ in Lata Singh & Biswamoy Pati, ed., Colonial and Postcolonial Bihar and Jharkhand, New Delhi: Primus, 2013, pp. 219-241.

  25. * ‘Governance for Empowerment: the Indian Story’ in Human Development in South Asia 2012: Governance for People’s Empowerment, Lahore: Mahbub ul Haq Human Development Centre, 2012, pp. 32-63.

  26. * ‘Governance, Governmentality and the Study of Conflicts’ in Janel B. Galvanek, Hans J. Giessmann and Mir Mubashir, eds., Norms and Premises of Peace Governance: Socio-Cultural Commonalities and Differences in Europe and India, Berlin: Berghof Foundation, 2012, pp. 50-57.

  27. * ‘The Democratic Story of Twin Challenges to Governance: Identity Needs and Developmental Needs’ in Ranabir Samaddar and Suhit K. Sen, eds., New Subjects and New Governance in India, New Delhi: Routledge, 2012, pp. 13-68.

  28. * ‘Politics, Development and Identity: Jharkhand: 1991-2004’ in Daniel J. Rycroft & Sangeeta Dasgupta, eds., The Politics of Belonging in India: Becoming Adivasi, London: Routledge, 2011, pp. 175-89.

  29. * (co-authored with Jean-Louis Halpérin), ‘Fundamental Rights, Meaning, Content and Discrimination: A Franco-Indian Comparison’ in  Revue Internationale de Droit Comparé, vol. 64, no. 2, Avril-Juin, 2011, pp. 385-402.

  30. * ‘Identity and Development in Jharkhand: Electoral Politics since the Nineties’ in Samuel Berthet and Girish Kumar, eds., New States for a New India, New Delhi: Centre de Sciences Humaines/ Manohar, 2011, pp. 35-71.

  31. * ‘The Policing Functions of the Indian State’ in Ajay K. Mehra and René Lévy, eds., The Police, State and Society: Perspectives From  India and France, New Delhi: Pearson Longman, 2011, pp. 85-108.

  32. * ‘Rethinking “Regional Developmental Imbalances”: Spatial versus the Socio-political “Region”: The Case of Tribals in Jharkhand’ in Ashutosh Kumar, ed., Rethinking State Politics in India: Regions within Regions, New Delhi: Routledge, 2011, pp. 31-75.

  33. * (translated into French) ‘Le cadre Constitutionnel: Égalité, Autonomie et Discrimination Positive’ in Les Cahiers du Conseil constitutionnel, n° 27 (Dossier : Inde), Janvier 2010, pp. 65-72.

  34. * ‘Regionalism, the Politics of Autonomy and Smaller States’ in Ajay K Mehra, ed., Emerging Trends in Indian Politics: The Fifteenth General Elections, New Delhi: Routlege, 2010, pp. 189-216.

  35. * ‘Rights and Social Justice for Tribal Population in India’ in Paula Banerjee & Sanjay Chaturvedi, eds., State of Justice in India: Issues of Social Justice, vol. III (Sage Series in State of Justice in India, Series Editor: Ranabir Samaddar), New Delhi: Sage, 2009, pp. 95-131.

  36. * ‘Group Discrimination and Elections in India’ in Mendis, Dushyantha, ed., Electoral Processes and Governance in South Asia, New Delhi: Sage, 2008, pp. 341-406.

  37. * ‘Adivasi Tribal Rights in Jharkhand State, India’ in Towards Inclusive Governance: Promoting the Participation of Disadvantaged Groups in Asia-Pacific, Bangkok: UNDP Regional Centre in Bangkok, 2007, pp. 82-98.

  38. * ‘The Idea of Jharkhand: The Politics of Identity and the Question of Autonomy’ in Paula Banerjee & Samir Kumar Das, eds., Autonomy: Beyond Kant and Hermeneutics, New Delhi: Anthem Press, 2007, pp. 111-147.

  39. * ‘Development Vision for Jharkhand’ in Jharkhand Development Report 2007, Ranchi: Prabhat Khabar, 2007, pp. 34-9.

  40. * ‘Great Expectations, Uneven Growth: Review of the Performance of the Executive: 2004-05’ in Social Watch Report 2005, New Delhi: National Social Watch Coalition/ Pearson, 2006, pp. 41-69.

  41. * ‘Women, Development and Local Governance in Contemporary Uttar Pradesh: Emerging Linkages’ in Kak, Shakti and Biswamoy Pati, eds., Exploring Gender Equations: Colonial and Post-colonial India, New Delhi: Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, 2005, pp.433-62.

  42. * ‘Social, Cultural and Economic Dimensions of the Party System’ in Mehra, Ajay, Khanna, D. D. & Kueck, Gert W., eds., Political Parties and the Party System: The Indian Experience, New Delhi: Sage, 2002, pp. 129-161.

  43. * ‘Paradoxes of Nationalist Discourse and State Security’ in Behera, Navnita Chadha, State, People and Security: The South Asian Context, New Delhi: Har-Anand Publications, 2001, pp. 117-35.

  44. * ‘Post-colonial Discursive Structures and Identity formation in India: Evidence from Jharkhand’ in Azam, K J, ed., Ethnicity, Identity and the State in South Asia, New Delhi: South Asian Publishers, 2001, pp. 272-290.

  45. * ‘Tribal Identities and the Post-colonial Structures in India – Evidence from Jharkhand’ in Alpjan: Quarterly Chronicle of Minorities, vol. 1 no. 2, January 2001 pp. 17-27.

  46. * ‘Elections in Jharkhand: Politics of Development and Autonomy’ in Basu, Subho and Das, Suranjan, eds., Electoral Politics in South Asia, Calcutta: K.P. Bagchi Press, 2000, pp. 50-100.

  47. * Decolonisation and Tribal Policy in Jharkhand: Continuities with Colonial Discourse’ in Social Scientist, vol. 27 no. 7-8, July-August 1999, pp. 113-139.

  48. * Contested Discourses: Politics of Ethnic Identity and Autonomy in the Jharkhand Region of India’ in Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, vol. 24 no. 4, 1999, pp. 461-96.

Select Book Review Articles

  1. * Review of Devesh Kapur, Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Eds.), Navigating the Labyrinth: Perspectives on India’s Higher Education, Hyderabad, Orient BlackSwan, 2017 in Social Change, vol. 48, no. 1, 2018, pp. 162-164.

  2. * Review of Alpa Shah, In the Shadows of the State: Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism, and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India, London: Duke University Press 2010; republished New Delhi: Oxford University Press 2011 in Labour / Le Travail, vol. 69, Spring, 2012, pp. 250-52.

  3. * ‘“Deepening” Democracy: Beyond Institutional Parameters’ − Review of Dasgupta, Sumona, Citizen Initiatives and Democratic Engagement: Experiences from India, New Delhi: Routledge, 2010 in The Book Review, vol. XXXV, no. 5, May 2011, p. 3.

  4. * ‘The Idea of the Tribal’ – Review of Devy, G N, A Nomad Called Thief: Reflections on Adivasi Silence, New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2006 in The Book Review, vol. XXXII, no. 1, January 2008, p. 56.

  5. * ‘Individual Choices and Global Politics’ – Review of Ginsborg, Paul, The Politics of Everyday Life: Making Choices, Changing Lives, New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2006 in The Book Review, vol. XXXI, no. 4, April 2007, pp. 16-7.

  6. * Review of Mishra, R K & Ch. Lakshmi Kumari, Privatisation: Potential and Challenges, New Delhi: Anmol Publications Ltd., 2006 in ICSSR Newsletter, vol. XXXVII, nos. 2, July-September 2006, pp. 7-8.

  7. * ‘Socio-historical and Cultural Linkages’ – Review of Lalit Kumar Barua, Education and Culture in North-East India (1826-2000), Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 2006 in The Book Review, vol. XXX, no. 11, 11 November 2006, p. 7.

  8. * ‘Impact of Governance’ in Sahara Times, 28 May 2006, p. 6.

  9. * ‘Contemporary Ethnoscape’ – Review of Sanjib Baruah, Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of Northeast India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005 in The Book Review, vol. XXIX, no. 9, 9 September 2005, pp. 25-6.

  10. * Review Article − Prakash, Sanjeev & Per Selle, eds., Investigating Social Capital: Comparative Perspectives on Civil Society, Participation and Governance, New Delhi: Sage Publications, 2004 & Krishna, Anirudh, Active Social Capital: Tracing the Roots of Development and Democracy, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003 in Contributions to Indian Sociology, vol. 39, no. 1, 2005, pp. 186-88.

  11. * Review of Jodhka, Surinder S., Community & Identities: Contemporary Discourses on Culture and Politics in India, New Delhi: Sage, 2001 in Social Scientist, vol. 32, nos. 7 & 8, July-August 2004, pp. 98-102.

  12. * ‘A Shift in the Security Focus’ – review of Chari, P. R., ed., Security and Governance in South Asia, New Delhi: Manohar, 2001 at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS) website at http://www.ipcs.org/

  13. * ‘Coalition Politics in Indian Reality’ – review of Akhtar Majeed, Coalition Politics and Power Sharing, New Delhi: Manak Publications Pvt. Ltd., 2000 in Mainstream vol. XXXIX no. 19, 28 April 2001, pp. 28-3.

  14. * ‘Analysis of Empirical Data’ – review of Subrata K. Mitra and V. B. Singh, Democracy and Social Change: A Cross-sectional Analysis of the National Electorate, New Delhi: Sage, 1999, in Social Scientist, vol. 29 nos. 9 & 10, September-October 2000, pp. 87-92.

  15. * ‘Wither Developing Countries?’ – review of Stuart S. Nagel, ed., Policy Within and Across Developing Nations, Aldershot, Hants: Ashgate/ Policy Studies Organisation, 1998 in Ethnic Conflict Research Digest, vol. 3 no. 1, March 2000.

  16. * ‘Development Needs Muscle’ – review of Olle Törnquist, Politics and Development, New Delhi: Sage, 1999 in Asian Age, 31 October 1999, p. 2.