Alternative Organisations in India Undoing Boundaries

Spatial elements of invisibility: Location, architecture and layout -- Operational opaqueness: Absence of administrative structure, budget and human resources -- Absent homeless persons -- Freedom from the homeless perspective -- Mobility and livelihood as freedom -- Living with friends and family -- Cooking and eating food together -- Possessions as mark of freedom -- Conclusion and discussion -- Invisibility as absence: Strategy of governance by reverting processes of governmentality -- Absence as invisibility: Freedom from alienation and semi-exclusion to self-exclusion -- References -- 5: Alternative Spaces of Employment Generation in India: Informal Rules, Structures and Conflicting Organisational Requirements -- Panchayats in West Bengal -- The MGNREGA -- Methods -- Findings -- Decoupling everyday practices from formal rules -- Cooperation in a network -- Conflicts between politicians and the bureaucracy -- Overcoming restrictions imposed by the software -- Divergent social construction of the MGNREGA -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- References -- 6: Shaheed Hospital: Alternative Organisation, Ideology and Social Movement -- Ideology and social movements -- Ideology -- Social movements -- Methodology -- Findings -- Genesis of SH in a workers' movement -- Marxist-Leninist ideals and the workers' movement -- Creating SH as an alternative institution -- Materialising ideology and challenging dominant norms in everyday practices -- Challenges of sustaining SH in neoliberal India -- Discussion and conclusion -- References -- 7: Acting for Change: A Circuits of Power Analysis of a Denotified Nomadic Tribe and Budhan Theater's Struggle for Change -- Theoretical framework -- Act I: The Chharas - a narrative of powerlessness -- Act II: Budhan Theatre -- Changing perceptions -- Change within the community -- Helping other DNTs -- Discussion