Alternative Organisations in India

Devi Vijay is Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. Her research explores framing processes in social movements, narratives of social entrepreneurship, community-based organising, institutional emergence and evolution. Rohit Varman is Professor of Marketing at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. His research interests are broadly in the fields of Critical Marketing and Consumer Culture Theory.

• 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.

'Overall, it is refreshing to read about different instances of alternative organisations in India. Unlike many edited volumes, the chapters here are quite consistent in terms of their rigour and quality of discussions that inform them.' Manish Thakur, DECISION