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  • A Tryst with Nature: Labour, Self, and Language

    by Savyasaachi ...
    Tryst with Nature talks about the clear gap between nature as known in the laboratory and nature as known in the diversity of natural landscapes. Faced with this contradiction between two equally important and necessary spaces, the key questions facing us now are:•What is the future of this contradiction?•What does harmony mean?•Of what significance is the nation-State in relation to these ... Read more

    $30.00 USD

  • Rediscovering Architecture with a Sense of History

    Edited by Savyasaachi, Narendra Dengle ...
    This book explores the connection between architecture and history, presenting a rich variety of examples from different cultures that have made human settlements, architecture, and cities. It demonstrates that histories of settlement patterns conserve natural and human sources and symbiotic living with nature, animals, vegetation, and communities that are on the move and explores how the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Intractable Conflicts in Contemporary India

    Narratives and Social Movements

    Edited by Savyasaachi ...
    Series series Social Movements and Transformative Dissent
    This book attempts a representation of society in contemporary India through an ethnography woven around long-standing intractable conflicts — of displacement and rehabilitation, patriarchy, insurgency and counter-insurgency operations, and climate change. Each chapter in this volume offers a critical transformative narrative in response to these conflicts. It asks how social justice and equality ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Social Movements

    Transformative Shifts and Turning Points

    Edited by Savyasaachi, Ravi Kumar ...
    Series series Social Movements and Transformative Dissent
    This volume attempts to show the emerging contours of ‘transformative action’ in social movements across South Asia. It argues that these contours have been shaped by contestations over questions of equity, justice and well-being on the one hand, and the nature and scope of new and classical social movements on the other. This is manifest in diverse modes through people’s struggles, protest and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Television and the War in Ukraine

    Narratives from 11 Countries

    by Kaarle Nordenstreng, Hichem Akoubache, Bruno Araujo, Giuliano Bobba, Irina Böttcher, Fernanda Vasques Ferreira, Liziane Soares Guazina, Nagamallika Gudipaty, Mohammed El-Fateh Hamdi, Kamal Hamidou0, Elisa Iannone1, Savyasaachi Jain2, Meli M. Ncube3, Musawenkosi W. Ndlovu4, Suchitra Patnaik5, Fernando Oliveira Paulino6, Liane Rothenberger7, Antonella Seddone8, Hanne Vuorela9, Henry Wolgast0, Danilo Yanich1, Tao Zhang2, Aaron Hyzen4, Svetlana Pasti6, Daya Thussu7, Hilde Van den Bulck9 ...
    Focusing on the first two months after the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, this book presents quantitative and qualitative analyses of the main television news coverage of the war in 11 countries across the geopolitical spectrum. Contributors discuss coverage by Russia's Vremya, Brazil's Globo Jornal Nacional, India's DD The News, China's CCTV News, South Africa's SABC News, ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

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    Essays in Memory of Satish Saberwal

    Edited by N. Jayaram ...
    • This book commemmorates eminent sociologist Satish Saberwal who pioneered interdisciplinarity in the social sciences in India through a series of 15 collected essays in four different parts.  • The first part takes a biographical approach to Saberwal and includes both reminiscences by his peers as well as an extensive interview with Saberwal. The second part is devoted to the methodology of ... Read more

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  • The Great Derangement

    Climate Change and the Unthinkable

    by Amitav Ghosh ...
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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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  • Anthropology and Development

    Culture, Morality and Politics in a Globalised World

    by Emma Crewe, Richard Axelby ...
    In recent decades international development has grown into a world-shaping industry. But how do aid agencies work and what do they achieve? How does aid appear to the adults and children who receive it? And why has there been so little improvement in the position of the poor? Viewing aid and development from anthropological perspectives gives illuminating answers to questions such as these. This ... Read more

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  • The Great Work

    Our Way into the Future

    by Thomas Berry ...
    Thomas Berry is one of the most eminent cultural historians of our time. Here he presents the culmination of his ideas and urges us to move from being a disrupting force on the Earth to a benign presence. This transition is the Great Work -- the most necessary and most ennobling work we will ever undertake. Berry's message is not one of doom but of hope. He reminds society of its function, ... Read more

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  • China and India

    Asia's Emergent Great Powers

    by Chris Ogden ...
    China and India are becoming increasingly influential, powerful and prominent countries – but what kind of states do their leaders and people wish them to become? Will they act and behave like major Western entities or like something altogether different, hence changing the very nature of international affairs? And as the Asian twenty– first century takes shape, how will these dynamics affect the ... Read more

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  • The SAGE Handbook of Globalization

    Edited by Paul Battersby, Manfred B. Steger, Joseph M Siracusa ...
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  • Remotely Global

    Village Modernity in West Africa

    by Charles Piot ...
    At first glance, the remote villages of the Kabre people of northern Togo appear to have all the trappings of a classic "out of the way" African culture—subsistence farming, straw-roofed houses, and rituals to the spirits and ancestors. Arguing that village life is in fact an effect of the modern and the global, Charles Piot suggests that Kabre culture is shaped as much by colonial and ... Read more

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