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  • The Ethics and Politics of Community Engagement in Global Health Research

    Edición de Lindsey Reynolds, Salla Sariola ...
    Drawing on a growing consensus about the importance of community representation and participation for ethical research, community engagement has become a central component of scientific research, policy-making, ethical review, and technology design. The diversity of actors involved in large-scale global health research collaborations and the broader ‘background conditions’ of global inequality and ... Leer más

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  • Gender and Sexuality in India

    Selling Sex in Chennai

    de Salla Sariola ...
    Series series Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series
    India has one of the highest numbers of HIV carriers in the world. HIV has remained associated with sex work, and large sums of money provided to fund public health interventions have come from global institutions such as UNAIDS, the World Bank and USAID. In the midst of these processes, however, sex workers and their everyday lives have been hidden behind the rhetorics of control and prevention ... Leer más

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  • Research as Development

    Biomedical Research, Ethics, and Collaboration in Sri Lanka

    In Research as Development**, Salla Sariola and Bob Simpson show how international collaboration operates in a setting that is typically portrayed as "resource-poor" and "scientifically lagging."** Based on their long-term fieldwork in Sri Lanka, Sariola and Simpson bring into clear ethnographic focus the ways international scientific collaborations feature prominently in the pursuit of global ... Leer más

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    Cultural Myths and Social Realities

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  • Queer Activism in India

    A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labor

    Sex Work and the Law in India

    Popular representations of third-world sex workers as sex slaves and vectors of HIV have spawned abolitionist legal reforms that are harmful and ineffective, and public health initiatives that provide only marginal protection of sex workers' rights. In this book, Prabha Kotiswaran asks how we might understand sex workers' demands that they be treated as workers. She contemplates questions of ... Leer más

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  • Daughters of the Tharu

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

    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. ... Leer más

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  • Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia

    Critical Perspectives

    Edición de Assa Doron, Alex Broom ...
    Series series Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series
    Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia brings together top international scholars from a range of social science disciplines to critically explore the interplay of local cultural and religious practices in the delivery and experiences of health in South Asia. This groundbreaking text provides much needed insight into the relationships between health, culture, community, livelihood, and the ... Leer más

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  • Everyday Resistance

    Female Headed Households in Northern Sri Lanka

    Series series eCahiers de l’Institut
    Northern Sri Lanka has been at the heart of the country’s 30-year civil war, a bloody conflict which has given rise to an estimated 40,000 households headed by women in this region. Based on fieldwork conducted in 10 villages and towns, this ePaper aims to identify and describe the most pervasive economic, physical and psycho-social vulnerabilities that female heads of households (FHHs) in the ... Leer más

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  • The Elementary Education System in India

    Exploring Institutional Structures, Processes and Dynamics

    This book focuses on the failure of elementary education since Independence, which is usually seen as the result of simplified phrases like 'lack of political will', 'because of poverty', etc. This book looks at the system as a whole: infrastructure, quality of teaching, privatisation, nutritional incentives, curriculum. It contains samples from two states namely Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh. ... Leer más

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  • Nine Degrees of Justice

    New Perspectives on Violence against Women in India

    Edición de 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. ... Leer más

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  • Gender Trouble Makers

    Education and Empowerment in Nepal

    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 ... Leer más

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