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“minna saavala”

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  • Fertility and Familial Power Relations

    Procreation in South India

    by Minna Saavala ...
    Describes and analyses the corollaries of declining fertility in Southern India to discover how familial and gender relations are affected by the new situation of women giving birth only to 2-3 children. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Innovation as Social Change in South Asia

    Transforming Hierarchies

    Edited by Minna Säävälä, Sirpa Tenhunen ...
    This book examines innovation as social change in South Asia. From an anthropological micro-perspective, innovation is moulded by social systems of value and hierarchy, while simultaneously having the potential to transform them. Peterson examines the printing press’s changing technology and its intersections with communal and language ideologies in India. Tenhunen explores mobile telephony, ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

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  • Buddhism and Bioethics

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  • Engaging with Empowerment

    An Intellectual and Experiential Journey

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  • Queer Activism in India

    A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics

    by Naisargi N. Dave, Naisargi N. Davé ...
    In Queer Activism in India, Naisargi Dave examines the formation of lesbian communities in India from the 1980s to the early 2000s. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with activist organizations in Delhi, a body of letters written by lesbian women, and research with lesbian communities and queer activist groups across the country, Dave studies the everyday practices that constitute queer ... Read more

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  • Motherhood and Choice

    Uncommon Mothers, Childfree Women

    by Amrita Nandy ...
    Amrita Nandy is a scholar whose work focuses on issues of gender, rights and culture. Her academic work has been published both in India and abroad, including in journals such a as the Economic and Polictical Weekly and Women's Studies International Forum. Amrita contributes to a range of dailies and news portals such as The Indian Express and The Wire. Her piece titled 'Ticking Outside the Box' ... Read more

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  • Re-Presenting Feminist Methodologies

    Interdisciplinary Explorations

    Edited by Kalpana Kannabiran, Padmini Swaminathan ...
    This book tracks the trajectory of gender in the social sciences and humanities through an exploration of the challenges and contradictions that confront contemporary feminist analysis as well as future directions. Drawing on research in India, the essays in the volume engage with the subject in imaginative ways, each one going beyond documenting the persistence of gender inequality, instead ... Read more

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  • Development Theory

    by Jan Nederveen Pieterse ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    This exciting book is a tour de force, spanning a broad range of approaches to development. It does not stop at critique, as so many previous books on these issues have done, but offers a unique perspective on future possibilities and the shape of things to come. It should be essential reading on all development studies courses.- Andrea Cornwall, Institute of Development Studies, University of ... Read more

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