The Ecology of Failure: Reflections on Democracy, Participation and Development

Prof Arjun Appadurai, New York University 27 March 2014 The experience of the developing world, including India, since the beginnings of major international development projects in the 1940's, has not been a happy one. In spite of billions of dollars of Euro-American development funding, poverty and inequality have deepened, while wealth at the top has increased. In part, this failure is reflected in the failure of grassroots efforts to bring in women, lower castes and other marginalised groups into deliberative processes and fora. In this year's Professor M N Srinivas Annual Lecture, Professor Arjun Appadurai examines this failure, and proposes an alternative view of the nature of this participatory failure and a new perspective on how to think about failure in social and political life.

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