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  • A Revolution of Rules

    The Regulatory Reform of India’s Nonprofit Sector

    de Erica Bornstein ...
    What is it about nonprofits that inspires so many to passionately support their agendas and others to adamantly seek their control? In India, laws regulating the nonprofit sector were dramatically reformed between 2010–2020, reconfiguring relationships between corporations, nonprofits, and the government. Thousands of nonprofits, including powerful NGOs, lost their ability to receive foreign ... Leer más

    $28.79 USD

  • Disquieting Gifts

    Humanitarianism in New Delhi

    de Erica Bornstein ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Human Rights
    While most people would not consider sponsoring an orphan's education to be in the same category as international humanitarian aid, both acts are linked by the desire to give. Many studies focus on the outcomes of humanitarian work, but the impulses that inspire people to engage in the first place receive less attention. Disquieting Gifts takes a close look at people working on humanitarian ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Cultures of Doing Good

    Anthropologists and NGOs

    de Steven Sampson, Christian Vannier, Erica Bornstein, Amanda Lashaw, Inderpal Grewal, David Lewis, Katherine Lemons, Victoria Bernal0, Nermeen Mouftah1, Theodora Vetta2, Aviva Sinervo3, Moshe Kornfeld4, Mark Schuller5, Amanda Woomer6, Hana Synková7, Karen Kapusta-Pofahl8 ...
    Series series NGOgraphies: Ethnographic Reflections on NGOs
    Anthropological field studies of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in their unique cultural and political contexts.Cultures of Doing Good: Anthropologists and NGOs serves as a foundational text to advance a growing subfield of social science inquiry: the anthropology of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Thorough introductory chapters provide a short history of NGO anthropology, address how ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

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  • The Deep Democracy of Open Forums

    Practical Steps to Conflict Prevention and Resolution for the Family, Workplace, and World

    de Arnold Mindell ...
    Most of us are terrified of conflict, says Arnold Mindell, PhD, author of fifteen books and internationally recognized for his innovative synthesis of Jungian therapy, dreams, and bodywork. But we needn't be. His burning passion is to create groups and organizations where everyone looks forward to group processes instead of fearing them. He calls this the deep democracy of open forums, where all ... Leer más

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  • Appropriately Indian

    Gender and Culture in a New Transnational Class

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Working the Night Shift

    Women in India’s Call Center Industry

    de Reena Patel ...
    Relatively high wages and the opportunity to be part of an upscale, globalized work environment draw many in India to the call center industry. At the same time, night shift employment presents women, in particular, with new challenges alongside the opportunities. This book explores how beliefs about what constitutes "women's work" are evolving in response to globalization.Working the Night Shift ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Patrons of Women

    Literacy Projects and Gender Development in Rural Nepal

    de Esther Hertzog ...
    Assuming that women’s empowerment would accelerate the pace of social change in rural Nepal, the World Bank urged the Nepali government to undertake a “Gender Activities Project” within an ongoing long-term water-engineering scheme. The author, an anthropologist specializing in bureaucratic organizations and gender studies, was hired to monitor the project. Analyzing her own experience as a ... Leer más

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  • The Womanist Idea

    de Layli Maparyan ...
    Following on the heels of The Womanist Reader, The Womanist Idea offers a comprehensive, systematic analysis of womanism, including a detailed discussion of the womanist worldview (cosmology, ontology, epistemology, logic, axiology, and methodology) and its implications for activism. From a womanist perspective, social and ecological change is necessarily undergirded by spirituality – as distinct ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Educational Leadership: a Student-Centered Approach

    de Karma M. Chukdong B.Ed. M.A. M.Ed. ...
    Educational leadership today needs to focus on our teachers and support staff implementing a student-centred pedagogy in their daily classroom instruction. We need to train our educators to adapt their lesson plans to the everyday realities of their students. This is the main building block in securing student success for each academic year. What is a student-centred approach? This is the main ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • Just Violence

    Torture and Human Rights in the Eyes of the Police

    de Rachel Wahl ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Human Rights
    Police who engage in torture are condemned by human rights activists, the media, and people across the world who shudder at their brutality. Stark revelations about torture by American forces at places like Guantanamo Bay have stoked a fascination with torture and debates about human rights. Yet despite this interest, the public knows little about the officers who actually commit such violence. ... Leer más

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  • Ethics in Governance in India

    de Bidyut Chakrabarty ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    Governance and ethics are intertwined. A government functions within certain broad moral and ethical parameters, integrally linked with the sociological foundation of the polity in which it is articulated. The importance of ethics in governance has acquired a significant place in contemporary theoretical discussion.This book situates ethics in governance in India in the national frame and ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • Reaching for the Sky: Empowering Girls Through Education

    Empowering Girls Through Education

    de Urvashi Sahni ...
    Transforming the Lives of Impoverished Girls in Patriarchal SocietiesSince 2003 a privately funded high school in India has provided desperately needed education for girls from impoverished families in Lucknow, the capital and largest city in Uttar Pradesh. Urvashi Sahni, the founder of Prerna Girls School, has written a compelling narrative of how this modest school in northeast India has changed ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD