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  • Calling Family

    Digital Technologies and the Making of Transnational Care Collectives

    by Tanja Ahlin ...
    Series series Medical Anthropology
    How do digital technologies shape both how people care for each other and, through that, who they are? With technological innovation is on the rise and increasing migration introducing vast distances between family members--a situation additionally complicated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the requirements of physical distancing, especially for the most vulnerable – older adults--this is a ... Read more

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  • Red Tape

    Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India

    by Akhil Gupta ...
    Series series A John Hope Franklin Center book
    Red Tape presents a major new theory of the state developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and widespread poverty in India, the world's fourth largest economy, Gupta conceives of the relation between the state in India and the poor as one of structural violence. Every year this violence kills between two and three million people, especially women and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • After Capitalism

    Economic Democracy in Action

    by Dada Maheshvarananda ...
    A grassroots movement for economic democracy based on cooperatives and local economies is quickly growing throughout the planet. After Capitalism, inspired by P.R. Sarkar's Progressive Utilization Theory (Prout), offers a compelling vision of an equitable, sustainable model which economically empowers individuals and communities. Filled with successful examples from six continents as well as many ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Affliction

    Health, Disease, Poverty

    by Veena Das ...
    Series series Forms of Living
    Affliction inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty. Focusing on low-income neighborhoods in Delhi, it stitches together three different sets of issues.First, it examines the different trajectories of illness: What are the circumstances under which illness is absorbed within the normal and when does it exceed the normal—putting ... Read more

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  • Working the Night Shift

    Women in India’s Call Center Industry

    by 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 ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Daughters of the Tharu

    Gender, Ethnicity, Religion, and the Education of Nepali Girls

    by Mary Ann Maslak ...
    Series series Reference Books In International Education
    This book explores the complex structural institutions in society, individual attitudes towards, beliefs about and values of those institutions, and the process by which the relationship between the social structure and individual agency conditions and governs girls' educational participation in Nepal. ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Gender Trouble Makers

    Education and Empowerment in Nepal

    by Jennifer Rothchild ...
    Series series New Approaches in Sociology
    International development efforts aimed at improving girls’ lives and education have been well-intended, somewhat effective, but ultimately short-sighted and incomplete. This is because international development efforts often operate under a reductive understanding of the term 'gender' and how it influences the lives of girls and boys. Gender is more commonly conceived by international efforts as ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • A Village Goes Mobile

    Telephony, Mediation, and Social Change in Rural India

    by Sirpa Tenhunen ...
    Series series Studies in Mobile Communication
    In A Village Goes Mobile, Sirpa Tenhunen examines how the mobile telephone has contributed to social change in rural India. Tenhunen's long-term ethnographic fieldwork in West Bengal began before the village had a phone system in place and continued through the introduction and proliferation of the smartphone. She here analyzes how mobile telephones emerged as multidimensional objects which, in ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Children and Media in India

    Narratives of Class, Agency and Social Change

    by Shakuntala Banaji ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies
    Is the bicycle, like the loudspeaker, a medium of communication in India?Do Indian children need trade unions as much as they need schools?What would you do with a mobile phone if all your friends were playing tag in the rain or watching Indian Idol? Children and Media in India illuminates the experiences, practices and contexts in which children and young people in diverse locations across India ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Political Lives of Information

    Information and the Production of Development in India

    by Janaki Srinivasan ...
    Series series The Information Society Series
    How the definition, production, and leveraging of information are shaped by caste, class, and gender, and the implications for development.Information, says Janaki Srinivasan, has fundamentally reshaped development discourse and practice. In this study, she examines the history of the idea of “information” and its political implications for poverty alleviation. She presents three cases in India ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Missing: Half the Story

    Journalism as if Gender Matters

    Edited by Kalpana Sharma ...
    Toilets, trees and gender? Can there be a connection? Is there a gender angle to a business story? Is gender in politics only about how many women get elected to parliament? Is osteoporosis a women's disease? Why do more women die in natural disasters? These are not the questions journalists usually ask when they set out to do their jobs as reporters, sub-editors, photographers of editors. Yet, by ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Nine Degrees of Justice

    New Perspectives on Violence against Women in India

    Edited by Bishakha Datta ...
    From an early focus on rape, dowry and sati, feminist struggles against violence on women in India have traversed a wide terrain to include issues that were invisible in the 1980s. In Nine Degrees of Justice, second- and third-generation feminists share their perspectives on violence against women through a series of thought-provoking essays. ... Read more

    $19.69 USD