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Sustainability of Rights after Globalisation is the result of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)-supported research program, ‘Globalisation and Sustainability of Rights’. The thrust of this volume is on various concerns of globalization and its interface with rights.
The book talks about the interconnectedness of globalization with social and economic systems and how links develop with reference to both polity and common people's movements. The book provides a new way of understanding the constitution of rights with the help of micro-histories drawn from diverse fields, such as environmental rights, law, information, and labor studies in India.
The book examines how rights have been redefined in this era of globalization and how India is still plagued by the constant tension between ‘social’ yearning for democratic values and ‘economic’ competition for unhindered profits.
Right to Information as a Means of Mass Persuasion*
Right to Information as a Means of Mass Persuasion*
One cannot perhaps be blamed if one's attention is drawn to Germany of the early 1960s in the context of certain democratic deficits in contemporary India. In 1962, Jürgen Habermas, a relatively less-known scholar, made a significant contribution to democratic theory and generated quite a sensation in the still and rather dull intellectual milieu of the post-war Germany. He focused on those features of contemporary democracy in his Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society that the young scholar's more conservative colleagues tended to downplay at that point (Scheuerman 2008: 88).
Influenced significantly by the neo-Marxian Frankfurt School of thought, Habermas ...
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