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  • Women, Land and Power in Asia

    Edited by Govind Kelkar, Maithreyi Krishnaraj ...
    Across the world women constitute an integral part of the agricultural sector. This volume is based on feminist responses to farming women’s struggle for economic rights and social justice in Asia, and seeks to provide a greater understanding of the development consequences of women’s marginal, limited ownership rights to land and other productive assets.Using comprehensive analyses, quantitative ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • International Trade and Global Civil Society

    by Dev Nathan, D Narasimha Reddy, Govind Kelkar ...
    This study challenges the dominant tendency of civil society to negate international trade as such. The authors argue that it is necessary to frame differentiated trade rules based on levels of economic development, and also to shift from subsidies to shore up uncompetitive livelihoods to productivity-enhancing investments.Most importantly, the book ends with a case for trade unions, women's ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Feminist Challenges in the Information Age

    Information as a Social Resource

    Edited by Christiane Floyd, Govind Kelkar, Silvie Klein-Franke, Cheris Kramarae, Cirilia Limpangog ...
    Series Book 5 - Schriftenreihe der internationalen Frauenuniversität "Technik und Kultur"
    In the last three decades, women's intervention in the social and natural sci ences, in medicine and technology has introduced new paradigms. We have to admit that it takes time and energy to influence these fields in a feministic way. Women do not only work for the growth of knowledge, but also for the trans formation of knowledge systems. This book is about using knowledge for action in an ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice

    The Capability Approach Re-Examined

    by Ingrid Robeyns ...
    How do we evaluate ambiguous concepts such as wellbeing, freedom, and social justice? How do we develop policies that offer everyone the best chance to achieve what they want from life? The capability approach, a theoretical framework pioneered by the philosopher and economist Amartya Sen in the 1980s, has become an increasingly influential way to think about these issues.Wellbeing, Freedom and ... Read more

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  • Employment, Poverty and Rights in India

    by Dayabati Roy ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    In comparison to other social groups, India’s rural poor – and particularly Adivasis and Dalits - have seen little benefit from the country’s economic growth over the last three decades. Though economists and statisticians are able to model the form and extent of this inequality, their work is rarely concerned with identifying possible causes.Employment, Poverty and Rights in India analyses ... Read more

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  • Ethnography Essentials

    Designing, Conducting, and Presenting Your Research

    by Julian M. Murchison ...
    Series Book 25 - Research Methods for the Social Sciences
    A comprehensive and practical guide to ethnographic research, this book guides you through the process, starting with the fundamentals of choosing and proposing a topic and selecting a research design. It describes methods of data collection (taking notes, participant observation, interviewing, identifying themes and issues, creating ethnographic maps and tables and charts, and referring to ... Read more

    $49.00 USD

  • Ecology and Equity

    The Use and Abuse of Nature in Contemporary India

    by Madhav Gadgil, Ramachandra Guha ...
    Environmental destruction is seen a matter of worldwide concern but as a Third World problem.Ecology and Equity explores the most ecologically complex country in the world. India's peoples range from technocrats to hunter-gathers and its environments from dense forest to wasteland. The bookanalyses the use and abuse of nature on the sub-continent to reveal the interconnections of social and ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

  • Media and Development

    by Martin Scott ...
    Series series Development Matters
    Media matters. From encouraging charitable donations and delivering public health messages to promoting democratic participation and state accountability, the media can play a crucial role in development. Yet the influence of the media is not always welcome. It can also be used as a mechanism of surveillance and control or to disseminate hate speech and propaganda.How then should we respond to the ... Read more

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  • Whose Global Village?

    Rethinking How Technology Shapes Our World

    by Ramesh Srinivasan ...
    This critical reassessment of digital proliferation calls for a new approach to technology that includes marginalized, non-western communities.In the digital age, technology has shrunk the physical world into a "global village," where we all seem to be connected as an online community. Yet while we think of platforms such as Twitter and Facebook as open and accessible to all, they are in fact ... Read more

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  • Distrusting Educational Technology

    Critical Questions for Changing Times

    by Neil Selwyn ...
    Distrusting Educational Technology critically explores the optimistic consensus that has arisen around the use of digital technology in education. Drawing on a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives, this book shows how apparently neutral forms of educational technology have actually served to align educational provision and practices with neo-liberal values, thereby eroding the nature ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Intercultural Communication for Everyday Life

    by John R. Baldwin, Robin R. Means Coleman, Suchitra Shenoy-Packer, Alberto González ...
    Written for students studying intercultural communication for the first time, this textbook gives a thorough introduction to inter- and cross-cultural concepts with a focus on practical application and social action.Provides a thorough introduction to inter- and cross-cultural concepts for beginning students with a focus on practical application and social actionDefines “communication” broadly ... Read more

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