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  • The Gender Order of Neoliberalism

    by Smitha Radhakrishnan, Cinzia D. Solari ...
    What do mompreneurs, angry working-class men, and migrant domestic workers all have in common? They are all gendered subjects responding to the economic, political, and cultural realities of neoliberalism’s global gender order.In this ambitious book, Radhakrishnan and Solari map the varied gendered pathways of a global hegemonic regime. Focusing on the US, the former Soviet Union, and South and ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Sociology of South Asia

    Postcolonial Legacies, Global Imaginaries

    Edited by Smitha Radhakrishnan, Gowri Vijayakumar ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited volume moves the study of South Asia to the center of sociological analysis, bringing together recent scholarship across sites in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Pakistan, as well as in Ethiopia and the USA. This book situates the project of decolonizing the discipline within a rich transnational intellectual legacy and reveals how South Asia offers a uniquely generative site from which ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Making Women Pay

    Microfinance in Urban India

    by Smitha Radhakrishnan ...
    In Making Women Pay, Smitha Radhakrishnan explores India's microfinance industry, which in the past two decades has come to saturate the everyday lives of women in the name of state-led efforts to promote financial inclusion and women's empowerment. Despite this favorable language, Radhakrishnan argues, microfinance in India does not provide a market-oriented development intervention, even though ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Appropriately Indian

    Gender and Culture in a New Transnational Class

    by Smitha Radhakrishnan ...
    Appropriately Indian is an ethnographic analysis of the class of information technology professionals at the symbolic helm of globalizing India. Comprising a small but prestigious segment of India’s labor force, these transnational knowledge workers dominate the country’s economic and cultural scene, as do their notions of what it means to be Indian. Drawing on the stories of Indian professionals ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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    The Renewal of Social Democracy

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    The idea of finding a 'third way' in politics has been widely discussed over recent months - not only in the UK, but in the US, Continental Europe and Latin America. But what is the third way? Supporters of the notion haven't been able to agree, and critics deny the possibility altogether. Anthony Giddens shows that developing a third way is not only a possibility but a necessity in modern ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Playing With Fire

    Feminist Thought And Activism Through Seven Lives In India

    by Sangtin Writers, Richa Nagar ...
    Seven voices contribute to this rare glimpse of the work being done on the front lines of the fight for social change in India. Playing with Fire is written in the collective voice of women employed by a large NGO as activists in their communities and is based on diaries, interviews, and conversations among them. Together their personal stories reveal larger themes and questions of sexism, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Liquidated

    An Ethnography of Wall Street

    by Karen Ho ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    Financial collapses—whether of the junk bond market, the Internet bubble, or the highly leveraged housing market—are often explained as the inevitable result of market cycles: What goes up must come down. In Liquidated, Karen Ho punctures the aura of the abstract, all-powerful market to show how financial markets, and particularly booms and busts, are constructed. Through an in-depth investigation ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • An Analysis of Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom

    by David Linden, Nick Broten ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Friedrich Hayek’s 1944 Road to Serfdom is a classic of conservative economic argument. While undeniably a product of a specific time in global politics – which saw the threat of fascism from Nazi Germany and its allies beguilingly answered by the promises of socialism – Hayek’s carefully constructed argument is a fine example of the importance of good reasoning in critical thinking.Reasoning is ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Pluralism and Democracy in India

    Debating the Hindu Right

    Edited by Wendy Doniger, Martha C. Nussbaum ...
    Wendy Doniger and Martha Nussbaum bring together leading scholars from a wide array of disciplines to address a crucial question: How does the world's most populous democracy survive repeated assaults on its pluralistic values? India's stunning linguistic, cultural, and religious diversity has been supported since Independence by a political structure that emphasizes equal rights for all, and ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

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    Transforming How We Make Money While Making a Difference

    by Antony Bugg-Levine, Jed Emerson ...
    A ground-breaking book on the transformative power of impact investingThis is the first book to chart the catalytic path of this new industry, explaining how it is and can be a positive disruptive force. It shows how impact investing is a transformational vehicle for delivering "blended value" throughout the investment spectrum, giving a single name to a set of activities previously siloed in ... Read more

    $31.00 USD

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  • After the End of History

    Conversations with Francis Fukuyama

    Edited by Mathilde Fasting ...
    Intimate access to the mind of Francis Fukuyama and his reflections on world politics, his life and career, and the evolution of his thoughtIn his 1992 best-selling book The End of History and the Last Man, American political scientist Francis Fukuyama argued that the dominance of liberal democracy marked the end of humanity’s political and ideological development. Thirty years later, with ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Nepal

    Identities and Mobilization after 1990

    Edited by Mahendra Lawoti, Susan Hangen ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    Identity movements, based on ethnicity, caste, language, religion and regional identity, have become increasingly significant in Nepal, reshaping debates on the definition of the nation, nationalism and the structure of the state. This book analyzes the rapid rise in ethnic and nationalist mobilization and conflict since 1990, the dynamics and trajectories of these movements, and their ... Read more

    $65.99 USD