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  • Women in 'New Nepal'

    Through the Lens of Classed, Ethnic, and Gendered Peripheries

    de Seika Sato ...
    Series series Nepal and Himalayan Studies
    This book brings rarely voiced lives and experiences of women in Nepal to light and combines rich ethnography with discourse analysis. Multifaceted and critical, the volume situates its narrative in the profoundly transformative period after the turn of the century when ‘New Nepal’ was rising on the horizon and sheds light on Nepali women’s experiences in multiple sites, crossing class and ethnic ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

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  • Playing With Fire

    Feminist Thought And Activism Through Seven Lives In India

    de 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, ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • 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

  • The Culturalization of Caste in India

    Identity and Inequality in a Multicultural Age

    de Balmurli Natrajan ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    In India, caste groups ensure their durability in an era of multiculturalism by officially representing caste as cultural difference or ethnicity rather than as unequal descent-based relations. Challenging dominant social theories of caste, this book addresses questions of how caste survives the system that gave rise to it and adapts to new demands of capitalism and democracy.Based on original ... Leer más

    $68.99 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

  • 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

  • The Elementary Education System in India

    Exploring Institutional Structures, Processes and Dynamics

    Edición de Rashmi Sharma, Vimala Ramachandran ...
    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

    $73.99 USD

  • Cultures of Servitude

    Modernity, Domesticity, and Class in India

    de Raka Ray, Seemin Qayum ...
    Domestic servitude blurs the divide between family and work, affection and duty, the home and the world. In Cultures of Servitude, Raka Ray and Seemin Qayum offer an ethnographic account of domestic life and servitude in contemporary Kolkata, India, with a concluding comparison with New York City. Focused on employers as well as servants, men as well as women, across multiple generations, they ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Buddhism under Capitalism

    Edición de Richard K. Payne, Professor Fabio Rambelli ...
    This book argues that Buddhism has spread due to globalized capitalism, and explores how capitalism is also impacting Buddhists and Buddhism today.Edited by two leading scholars in Buddhist studies, the book examines how capitalism and neo-liberalism have shaped global perceptions of Buddhism, as well as specific local practices and attitudes. It examines the institutional practices that sustained ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Grammar of Caste

    Economic Discrimination in Contemporary India

    de Ashwini Deshpande ...
    Is the caste system disappearing? Are traditional hierarchies being replaced by competing equalities? Do globalization and liberalization automatically result in diminishing disparities? Are modern labour markets intrinsically meritocratic and efficient? Challenging the dominant discourse and demolishing various myths, this book provides answers to these and other critical questions on caste in ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Nepali Migrant Women

    Resistance and Survival in America

    de Shobha Hamal Gurung ...
    Series series Gender and Globalization
    In this pathbreaking and timely work, Hamal Gurung gives voice to the growing number of Nepali women who migrate to the United States to work in the informal economy. Highlighting the experiences of thirty-five women, mostly college educated and middle class, who take on domestic service and unskilled labor jobs, Hamal Gurung challenges conventional portraits of Third World women as victims forced ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Caste in Contemporary India

    de Surinder S. Jodhka ...
    Caste is a contested terrain in India’s society and polity. This book explores contemporary realities of caste in rural and urban India. It examines questions of untouchability, citizenship, social mobility, democratic politics, corporate hiring and Dalit activism. Using rich empirical evidence from the field across Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and other parts of north India, this volume presents ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD