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he book develops a fresh approach to understanding governance using key concepts of Pierre Bourdieu (symbolic violence, doxa, field and habitus) and Jurgen Habermas (deliberative politics). Taking a case study of forest governance in Nepal Terai, the book analyses Habermas’s ideal of Bourdieu’s theory of practice. The case study shows that despite growing rhetoric of participatory and decentralized governance of forestry in Nepal, the actual practices of forest governance in Nepal Terai are controlled by dominant actors (mainly techno-bureaucratic and feudal political agents), with limited deliberative spaces actually available to, or proactively claimed by, the disadvantaged groups of people dependent on forests. The book demonstrates how rhetoric 9of participation and inclusion is actually a part of symbolic instrument of domination and reproduction of pre-existing power relations. The analysis shifts the usual emphasis on ‘conscious will’ and ‘rational behaviour’ of individual human agents as the key elements for understanding governance, to an approach that interrogates the often overlooked symbolic structures of governance that systematically disadvantage some and privilege others. Thus, the book proposes that the analysis of governance and politics should be expanded to include the processes of domination and hegemony in the symbolic domain, including language and processes of deliberation, through which power relations are reproduced in a society.

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Authors
Cover-Types

Hardcover

Distributors

Bhrikuti Pustak

ISBN/ISSN

9788187392835

Language

English

Pages

328

Publishers

Adroit Publishers

Year of Publication

2008 A.D

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