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  • Vulnerable Communities in Neoliberal India

    Perspectives from a Feminist Ethnographic Approach

    Edited by Deepanshu Mohan, Sakshi Chindaliya, Ashika Thomas ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    Mohan, Chindaliya, and Thomas offer an ethnographic critique of modern, neoliberal India from the perspective of studying the daily lives-livelihoods of marginalised, unsecured, informal vulnerable communities residing in the urban, peri-urban spaces across the nation.With case studies ranging from groups of pastoralists, fisher-folk, and handicraft workers of Kashmir to the weavers of Kutch, and ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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    An Intellectual and Experiential Journey

    by Srilatha Batliwala ...
    In this fascinating collection of writings, Srilatha Batliwala, feminist thinker and practitioner, explores the many dimensions of what empowerment means for, and to, women. Looking back on a life lived through commitment to a cause—rather than to an organisation or to a sector—and working for it at many levels and locations, she traces the evolution of the concept from the late 1980s till now, ... Read more

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  • Notes from Gandhigram

    Challenges to Gandhian Praxis

    by Sameer Banerjee ...
    In a critical departure from books that concentrate on Gandhi the person, Gandhian thought and Gandhism, Notes from Gandhigram focuses instead on the institutions and individuals that have adopted the Gandhian approach as a means of social transformation. It looks beyond the conceptual and symbolic into the concrete to determine whether Gandhi is passé, redundant or insightful. The relevance of ... Read more

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  • Planetary Justice

    Stories and Studies of Action, Resistance and Solidarity

    by Natasha Abhayawickrama, Alex Baird, Robin A Bellingham, Sanjana Dutt, Souvik Lal Chakraborty, Beth Christie, Alicia Flynn, Aleryk Fricker, Aditya Ghosh, Naomi Godden, Anwesha Haldar, Lowell Hunter, Marlies Kustatscher, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, Callum McGregor, Jenia Mukherjee, Yin Paradies, Anne Poelina, Kalyan Rudra, Lakshminarayan Satpati, Amrita Sen, Sharon Stein, Ruchira Talukdar, Dani Villafaña, Bill Webb, Sandra Wooltorton, Julian S. Yates ...
    Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Bringing together interdisciplinary climate change scholarship and grassroots activism, this book considers the possibilities of planetary justice across human difference, generations, species and the concept of life and non-life. Writing amidst bushfires, cyclones, global climate strikes and a global pandemic, contributors from the Earth ... Read more

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  • Leadership for Disaster Resilience

    Lessons from India

    by Jacquleen Joseph, Suchita Awasthi, Zubin R. Mulla ...
    This book comprehensively conceptualises disaster resilience leadership within the macro context of a risk society. Leadership for disaster resilience has gained prominence in the face of global environmental change, and the need for collaboration, integration, and synergy in addressing this crisis is starker than ever. Drawing on case studies from across India, the volume focuses on leaderships ... Read more

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  • Water Security, Conflict and Cooperation in Peri-Urban South Asia

    Flows across Boundaries

    Edited by Vishal Narain, Dik Roth ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book explores the implications of urbanization in South Asia for water (in-) security in the peri-urban spaces of Dhaka and Khulna in Bangladesh, Bengaluru, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Pune in India, and Kathmandu Valley in Nepal. The book looks into specifically peri-urban water security issues in a context of rapid urbanization and social-environmental changes, including ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of Gender, Culture, and Development in India

    Edited by N. B. Lekha, Pradeep Kumar M. ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Lekha, Kumar M., and their team of contributors embark on a transformative exploration of 'Intersectionality' in the Indian context, where gender, culture, and development intersect to shape the destinies of diverse groups. Drawing from extensive research and nuanced analyses by scholars across the country and a few scholars on India from outside the country, the handbook uncovers the intricate ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Crafting India's Skill Ecology

    Reproductions, Recalibrations, and Reimaginations

    Edited by Saikat Maitra, Sebastian Schwecke ...
    Series series Politics and Society in India and the Global South
    This volume traces how the discourse of skill evolved in colonial and postcolonial India, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present neoliberal era. It introduces the concept of skill ecology to capture the broader political, economic, and social environment within which skills emerge, transform, and acquire meaning. Skill is examined here not merely as a technical attribute but as a ... Read more

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  • Atmosphere of Collaboration

    Air Pollution Science, Politics and Ecopreneurship in Delhi

    by Rohit Negi, Prerna Srigyan ...
    This book discusses air pollution in Delhi from scientific, social and entrepreneurial perspectives. Using key debates and interventions on air pollution, it examines the trajectories of environmental politics in the Delhi region, one of the most polluted areas in the world. It highlights the administrative struggles, public advocacy, and entrepreneurial innovations that have built creative new ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Gender, Environment and Sustainable Development

    Challenges and Responses from India

    Edited by Shweta Prasad ...
    This book studies environment and sustainable development from the perspective of gender. It focuses on three major themes, including sustainability of development practices, policy perspectives on environmental management and climate change and its gendered impact. It includes contributions from academicians working across disciplines and practitioners working at the grassroots levels. The book ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Environment, Development and Sustainability in India: Perspectives, Issues and Alternatives

    Edited by Manish K. Verma ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive account of asymmetric linkage in the trilogy of environment, development and sustainability and its impact on society. It examines varied perspectives and issues of development related to environmental destruction and sustainability challenges. By examining the recent trends of development and recording the dilemmas which are creating ecological imbalances, it ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Postcolonial Feminism in Management and Organization Studies

    Critical Perspectives from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh

    Edited by Vijayta Doshi ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Women Writers in Organization Studies
    The term feminism is often treated as a stable and universalizing politics and practice. For postcolonial feminism, the issues of interest are not only social and cultural inequalities in terms of caste, class, color, ethnicity, gender, and religion, but also historical, political, and geographical inequalities in terms of “Third World”, “Global South” and “remnants of the colonial past”. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD