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  • Atomic Mumbai

    Living with the Radiance of a Thousand Suns

    by Raminder Kaur ...
    Atomic Mumbai offers an insightful historical and ethnographic account of how nuclear issues are represented in popular culture, print media, films, documentaries, advertising and superhero comics, driven by perceptions of those based in the city of Mumbai, a prime site of nuclear establishments in India since the mid-1940s. Based on long-term fieldwork, and including rare photographs, narratives ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Kudankulam

    The Story of an Indo-Russian Nuclear Power Plant

    by Raminder Kaur ...
    Since the 1980s, the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu has faced multiple forms of resistance. Women and men from different walks of life—fishers, farmers, environmentalists, activists, writers, scholars, teachers, journalists, doctors, and lawyers among many others—have come together to combat the deadly radioactive repercussions and repression that come with ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Adventure Comics and Youth Cultures in India

    by Raminder Kaur, Saif Eqbal ...
    This pioneering book presents a history and ethnography of adventure comic books for young people in India with a particular focus on vernacular superheroism. It chronicles popular and youth culture in the subcontinent from the mid-twentieth century to the contemporary era dominated by creative audio-video-digital outlets.The authors highlight early precedents in adventures set by the avuncular ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Diaspora and Hybridity

    by Virinder Kalra, Raminder Kaur, John Hutnyk ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    ′Diaspora & Hybridity deals with those theoretical issues which concern social theory and social change in the new millennium. The volume provides a refreshing, critical and illuminating analysis of concepts of diaspora and hybridity and their impact on multi-ethnic and multi-cultural societies′ - Dr Rohit Barot, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of BristolWhat do we mean by ... Read more

    $113.39 USD

  • Arts and Aesthetics in a Globalizing World

    Edited by Professor Raminder Kaur, Professor Parul Dave-Mukherji ...
    Series series Association of Social Anthropologists Monographs
    This is an investigation of arts and aesthetics in their widest senses and experiences, presenting a variety of perspectives which range from the metaphysical to the political. Moving beyond art as an expression of the inner mind and invention of the individual self, the volume bridges the gap between changing perceptions of contemporary art and aesthetics, and maps globalizing currents in a ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Arts and Aesthetics in a Globalizing World

    Edited by Raminder Kaur, Parul Dave-Mukherji ...
    Series series ASA Monographs
    This is an investigation of arts and aesthetics in their widest senses and experiences, presenting a variety of perspectives which range from the metaphysical to the political. Moving beyond art as an expression of the inner mind and invention of the individual self, the volume bridges the gap between changing perceptions of contemporary art and aesthetics, and maps globalizing currents in a ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Mapping Changing Identities

    New Directions in Uncertain Times

    Edited by Claire Alexander, Raminder Kaur, Brett St Louis ...
    Issues of identity, culture and difference remain central to the politics, policies and encounters of global societies in the 21st century. Changes in the speed, scale, scope and form of international and internal migration, new and resurgent religious and ethnic solidarities, the emergence of ‘new’ multicultural societies, and the fusions and fissures of ‘old’ multicultural societies, have ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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    Climate Change and the Unthinkable

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    A " concise and utterly enlightening" look at why we can't wrap our minds around climate change ( Publishers Weekly).Are we deranged? Award-winning essayist and novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? The Great Derangement examines our inability—at the level of literature, history, and politics—to ... Read more

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  • Jnu

    The Making Of A University

    by Rakesh Batabyal ...
    Jawaharlal Nehru University, or JNU as it is popularly known, is perhaps India's grandest of nationalist institutions. It embodies the spirit of an earlier nationalist quest for autonomous and excellent intellectual life. In the choice of the issues and the confidence with which the disciplinary boundaries were questioned, JNU tried to constitute itself as an ethical alter ego of the nation.JNU: ... Read more

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  • Homi Baba

    by K.C.Shivappa ...
    Series series Indian Scientists
    The architect of Nuclear Science in Modern India. His farsightedness, powers of organization, and the encouragement and guidance young scientists received from him - these built up an invaluable asset for scientific work in India. He was a painter and worshipped the beauty of Nature. Science and art both enriched his mind and life. He was the ideal personality India needs today. ... Read more

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  • Japanese Media and the Intelligentsia after Fukushima

    Disaster Culture

    by Katsuyuki Hidaka ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    How and why does a catastrophic disaster change public discourse and social narratives? This is the first book to comprehensively investigate how Japanese newspapers, TV, documentary films, independent journalists, scientists, and intellectuals from the humanities and social sciences have critically responded to the Fukushima nuclear disaster over the last decade.In Japan, nuclear power ... Read more

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  • Racism: A Very Short Introduction

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