TY - BOOK AU - Gellner,David N. ED - Sage eBooks TI - Varieties of activist experience: civil society in South Asia T2 - Governance, conflict and civic action SN - 9788132112235 (ebook) : AV - JQ98.A91 V37 2010 U1 - 322.40954 23 PY - 2010/// CY - Los Angeles PB - SAGE KW - Political participation KW - South Asia KW - Civil society KW - Political activists KW - Politics and government KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - This book examines in rich detail the lives, struggles, and strategies of South Asian activists seeking to advance various political, social, and environmental causes. Through a series of case studies from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka on activists' efforts, it elucidates how they mediate between different spheres that are often (and sometimes legally) kept apart: the political and the legal, the economic and the political, the local and the international UR - http://ezproxy.alfaisal.edu/login?url=http://sk.sagepub.com/books/varieties-of-activist-experience ER -