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Civic space

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Civil society and capacity development

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Civil society collaborations and transnational advocacy

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Civil society and disaster risk reduction

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Wetterberg, A., Brinkerhoff, D. W. & Hertz, J. C. (2015). From compliant to capable: balanced capacity development for local organisations. Development in Practice, 25(7), 966-985.

Wisner, B., Blaikie, P., Cannon, T., & Davis, I. (2004). At Risk: Natural hazards, people’s vulnerability and disasters. London: Routledge.

Civil society and the state

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Dryzek, J. S., Downes, D., Hunold, C., Schlosberg, D., & Hernes, H. K. (2003). Green states and social movements: environmentalism in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Norway. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Fowler, A. (1991). The role of NGOs in changing state-society relations: Perspectives from eastern and Southern Africa.Development Policy Review, 9(1), 53-84.

Goswami, D. &Tandon R. (2013). Civil society in changing India: Emerging roles, relationships, and strategies. Development in Practice, 23(5-6), 653-664.

Harriss, J. (2007) Antinomies of empowerment: Observations on civil society, politics and urban governance in India. Economic and Political Weekly, 42(26), 2716-2724.

Harrison, T. (2017). NGOs and personal politics: The relationship between NGOs and political leaders in West Bengal, India. World Development, 98, 485-496.

Kamat, S. (2002). Development hegemony: NGOs and the state in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Kudva, N. (2005). Strong states, strong NGOs. In R. Ray & M.F. Katzenstein (Eds.), Social movements in India: poverty, power, and politics (pp. 233-266). Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.

Lang, S. (2012). NGOs, civil society, and the public sphere. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Lewis, D. (2004). On the difficulty of studying ‘civil society’: Reflections on NGOs, state and democracy in Bangladesh. Contributions to Indian Sociology, 38(3), 299-322.

Marchetti, R. (Ed.). (2018). Government–NGO relationships in Africa, Asia, Europe and MENA. London: Routledge.

Mitra, S. K. (2017). India’s democracy at 17: civil society and its shadow. Journal of Democracy, 28(3), 106-116.

Noakes, S. (2017). The advocacy trap: Transnational activism and state power in China. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Pearce, J. (Ed.) (2000). Development, NGOs, and civil society. Oxford: Oxfam GB.

Randeria, S. (2007). The state of globalization: Legal plurality, overlapping sovereignties and ambiguous alliances between civil society and the cunning state in India. Theory, Culture and Society, 24(1),1-33.

Riley, J.M. (2002). Stakeholders in rural development: Critical collaboration in State-NGO partnerships. New Delhi: Sage.

Sahoo, S. (2013). The state and civil society in India: a historical narrative. In S. Sahoo, Civil society and democratization in India: institutions, ideologies and interests (pp. 39-65). London: Routledge.

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Shah, G. (2019). Democracy, civil society and governance. New Delhi: Sage.

Shah, M. (2016). Rights-based activism, engaging the state and leveraging the markets: Possibilities of social transformation. In V. Mudgal (Ed.), Claiming India from Below: Activism and Democratic Transformation, New Delhi: Routledge.

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Van Wessel, M., Hilhorst, D., Schulpen, L., & Biekart, K. (2019). Government and civil society organizations: Close but comfortable? Lessons from creating the Dutch strategic partnerships for lobby and advocacy. Development Policy Review.

Van Wessel, M., Schulpen, L., Hilhorst, T. & Biekart, K. (2017). Mapping the expectations of the Dutch strategic partnerships for lobby and advocacy. Wageningen: Wageningen University & Research.

Civil society and women’s rights

Alvarez, S. E. (1999). Advocating feminism: the Latin American feminist NGO 'boom'. International feminist journal of politics, 1(2), 181-209.

Anandhi, S., & Kapadia, K. (Eds.). (2017). Dalit women: Vanguard of an alternative politics in India. Abingdon: Taylor & Francis.

Alston, M. (Ed.) (2014). Women, political struggles and gender equality in South Asia. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

Batliwala, S., & Friedman, M. (2014). Achieving Transformative Feminist Leadership: A Toolkit for Organizations and Movements. Available at: https://creaworld.org/publications/achieving-transformative-feminist-leadership-toolkit-organisations-and-movements

Chhibber, P. (2002). Why are some women politically active? The household, public space, and political participation in India. International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 43(3-5), 409-429.

Deo, N. (2012). Indian women activists and transnational feminism over the twentieth century. Journal of Women’s History, 24(4), 149-174.

Deo, N. (2016). Mobilizing religion and gender in India: The role of activism. London: Routledge.

Deo, N. and McDuie-Ra, D. (2011). The politics of collective advocacy in India: tools and traps. Sterling: Kumarian Press.

Desai, M. & Naples, N.A. (Eds.) (2002). Women’s activism and globalization. London: Routledge.

Hewamanne, S. (2009). The colour of tears is the same everywhere: Inter-ethnic networking and grassroots organizing among women workers in conflict ridden Sri Lanka. In M. Cox (Ed.), Social Capital and Peace Building (pp. 95-106). London: Routledge.

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Mahmood, S. (2006). Feminist theory, agency, and the liberatory subject: Some reflections on the Islamic revival in Egypt. Temenos-Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion, 42(1), 31-71.

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Saigal, A. (2008). Acts of citizenship: Women’s civic engagements as community-based educators in Mumbai. In S. Fennel & M. Arnot (Eds.), Gender education and equality in a global context (pp. 131-145). London: Routledge.

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Civil society in the Global South

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CSO ownership and autonomy

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Diversity in civil society

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Representation

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Roles of civil society

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Theorizing civil society

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