Patronage as Politics in South Asia

Piliavsky, Anastasia

doi:10.1017/cbo9781107296930

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“…The evidence here is in contrast to research on patronage (Piliavsky, 2014), which tends to assume that existing hierarchies of caste, class, and gender are mobilized in new settings. While this may often be true, it does not explain the varied conditions of democratic action in the city and how people cut across usual lines of caste or regional alignment.…”

Section: Auto -Dri Vers Conducting Democr Atic Actioncontrasting

confidence: 94%

“…Auto-drivers primarily self-identify through their livelihood in the city. This contrasts with research on patronage (Piliavsky, 2014), in which existing hierarchies of caste, class, and gender are mobilized in new settings. While this may often be true, it does not explain how people and democratic action cut across the usual lines of caste, region, and religion.…”

Section: Studying LI Velihoods Democr Acy and Citizenship In South Asi Amentioning

confidence: 84%

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Small Transport Operators as Democratic Actors: Work, Politics, and Governance in Delhi

Mullick

2023

Anthropology of Work Review

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The paper broadly illuminates how livelihood pursuits and acts of democratic citizenship mutually constitute each other for the urban working poor in South Asia and argues this through the “democratic action” done by the auto‐rickshaw drivers in Delhi. The paper shows how the drivers work their livelihoods and maintain stable work conditions while also trying to protect its very possibilities in the future. The paper does this by tracing first how government regulation envelopes the everyday livelihoods of these drivers, forcing them to master regulation. The drivers go on to perform two kinds of work—challenging regulation on its own terrain and performing electoral activities in lieu of changing regulation and policy. The paper argues that we can understand these two kinds of activities as pertaining to substantive and procedural democracy. The paper draws upon 24 months of dissertation fieldwork in Delhi with auto‐drivers, other small transport operators, bureaucrats, lawyers, politicians, and others associated with the small transport economy.

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Section: Auto -Dri Vers Conducting Democr Atic Actioncontrasting

confidence: 94%

Section: Studying LI Velihoods Democr Acy and Citizenship In South Asi Amentioning

confidence: 84%

Small Transport Operators as Democratic Actors: Work, Politics, and Governance in Delhi

Mullick

2023

Anthropology of Work Review

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“…Others take a more generous position. Anastasia Piliavsky, for example, argues that patronage in South Asian politics is part of a moral universe rooted in mutuality and constitutive of social bonds (Piliavsky 2014). Dhora-dhorireflectssuchamoraluniversecomposedof and generating social bonds.Tasrin's account exemplifies the centrality of dhora-dhori in navigating maternal health resources.…”

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You have to do some dhora-dhori’: achieving medical maternal health expectations through trust as social practice in Bangladesh

Perkins

2023

JBA

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In contrast to prevailing conceptualisations of ‘trust’ as an object in popular and political discourses, this article takes the concept of trust as future-oriented practice as a launching pad for understanding relationships between people and medical systems in Bangladesh. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Bangladeshi peri-urban and rural spaces, it focuses on expectations related to advanced maternal biomedical technologies delivered through medical institutions. These technologies have recently come to dominate practices and expectations around pregnancy and childbirth care and women’s navigations of health systems to realise these expectations. Within this context, trust in institutions in the public or private health sectors remains peripheral to women’s experiences of accessing desired maternal health resources. Rather, women leverage social connectedness through the patronage-related practice of dhora-dhori, translated as mutual grasping or holding. Dhora-dhori is based on social rootedness, trust in that rootedness, and reciprocity. Women act as embedded agents within their families to appeal to various social connections through dhora-dhori to tactically access desired services and resources, with the expectation that this will result in better care at a lower cost, whether in public or private health sectors. It is through such practice that women and families work to realise their expectations of care through institutions, collapsing distinctions between ‘trust’ in personal relationships and ‘trust’ in institutions, as it is through inti-mate relationships that relationships with medical institutions are engaged.

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Dhaka: A City of Development and Deprivation for Environmentally Induced Migrants

Khanom,

Miller,

Suchet-Pearson

2023

Urban Dynamics, Environment and Health

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Patronage as Politics in South Asia

Cited by 147 publications

References 339 publications

Small Transport Operators as Democratic Actors: Work, Politics, and Governance in Delhi

Small Transport Operators as Democratic Actors: Work, Politics, and Governance in Delhi

You have to do some dhora-dhori’: achieving medical maternal health expectations through trust as social practice in Bangladesh

Dhaka: A City of Development and Deprivation for Environmentally Induced Migrants

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