Alternative Organisations in India: Undoing Boundaries

Cambridge University Press, 2/1/2018
EAN 9781108422178, ISBN10: 1108422179

Hardcover, 264 pages, 23.5 x 15.8 x 2.2 cm
Language: English

This book studies accounts of alternative organisations in India and provides critical insights on if and why alternative organisations matter to management theory and practice, how management theory can be applied to the context of alternative organisations, and how, from an alternate organisational perspective, existing debates in management can be enriched. Some other questions examined in this book are: what are spaces of organising outside corporations? How do these alternative organisational forms challenge our assumptions about a globalised, monolithic capitalist order? How do we understand the organisational lives of those marginalised, silenced and oppressed? How can we imagine an alternative organisational reality? It includes cases from different parts of India that explore the functioning of a Special Investigation Team constituted by the Supreme Court of India, Mritshilpis (idol-makers), homeless shelters, panchayats, Shahid Hospital, Budhan Theater, Swaraj University, and organisations that promote social inclusivity.

List of tables and figures
Acknowledgement
1. Introduction
undoing boundaries Devi Vijay and Rohit Varman
2. Formal and informal technologies of alternative organisational spaces within the state
an analysis of violence, wrongdoing and policing Srinath Jagannathan and Rajnish Rai
3. Scripting alternative images
institutions, practices and scripts of the Mritshilpis of Kumortuli Devi Vijay
4. Shelter for homeless
ethnography of invisibility and self-exclusion Ram Manohar Vikas
5. Alternative spaces of employment generation in India
informal rules, structures, and conflicting organisational requirements Joydeep Guha and Bhaskar Chakrabarti
6. Shaheed hospital
alternative organisation, ideology and social movement Apoorv Khare and Rohit Varman
7. Acting for change
a circuit of power analysis of a denotified nomadic tribe and Budhan Theater's struggle for change Prateek Shah, George Kandathil and Anvika Kapoor
8. Swaraj
an alternative university Nivedita Kothiyal
9. Alternative organisations
spaces for contestation Ankur Sarin and M. S. Sriram
Contributors
Index.