Dalit Empowerment

Dalit Empowerment
Author: Felix Wilfred
Publisher: ISPCK
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2007
Genre: Caste
ISBN: 9788172149949

On contemporary political, social, economic and cultural issues of Dalits in India.

Exploring Social Movements

Exploring Social Movements
Author: Biswajit Ghosh
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2024-06-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1040032915

This book introduces the readers to the dynamics of various kinds of social movements. It examines how social movements have become an instrument of social change including assertion of identity and protest against marginalisation. This book describes three major domains – conceptual, experiential, and the impact of globalisation on social movements. The volume begins by locating social movements within broad and contemporary social processes and explores the intrinsic and complex patterns of dynamics among state, market, and social movements from a critical sociological perspective. It explains the meaning, basic features, origins and types, leadership and ideology, and perspectives of social movements and probes into major experiences of eight social movements in India, namely, peasant and farmers, tribal, Naxalite and Maoist, Dalit, working class, women, ethnic, and environmental movements. This book also analyses the role of information technology, media, and civil society in the spread and continuation of such movements. The experiences of queer, new religious, anti-systemic, and anti-displacement movements would also help readers understand how globalisation has offered new avenues of protest to diverse sections of the population. Lessons of anti-globalisation movements across the world provide a futuristic perspective in assessing the strength of social movements in a global society. This book will be useful to the students, researchers, and faculty working in the field of political science, sociology, gender studies, and post-colonial contemporary Indian politics in particular. It will also be an invaluable and interesting reading for those interested in South Asian studies.

Broken People

Broken People
Author: Smita Narula
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1999
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781564322289

Women and the Law.

Memory, Identity and the Colonial Encounter in India

Memory, Identity and the Colonial Encounter in India
Author: Ezra Rashkow
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2017-08-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351596942

This book sheds new light on the dynamics of the colonial encounter between Britain and India. It highlights how various analytical approaches to this encounter can be creatively mobilised to rethink entanglements of memory and identity emerging from British rule in the subcontinent. This volume reevaluates central, long-standing debates about the historical impact of the British Raj by deviating from hegemonic and top-down civilizational perspectives. It focuses on interactions, relations and underlying meanings of the colonial experience. The narratives of memory, identity and the legacy of the colonial encounter are woven together in a diverse range of essays on subjects such as colonial and nationalist memorials; British, Eurasian, Dalit and Adivasi identities; regional political configurations; and state initiatives and patterns of control. By drawing on empirically rich, regional and chronological historical studies, this book will be essential reading for students and researchers of history, political science, colonial studies, cultural studies and South Asian studies.

Labour Mobility and Rural Society

Labour Mobility and Rural Society
Author: Arjan de Haan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2015-12-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 131784503X

Comprising seven edited pieces of detailed empirical work drawn from recent research, this title reveals the dynamics behind the movements of poor people in South and South East Asia and Africa.

The Routledge Handbook of Religions and Global Development

The Routledge Handbook of Religions and Global Development
Author: Emma Tomalin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 646
Release: 2015-02-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135045704

This Handbook provides a cutting-edge survey of the state of research on religions and global development. Part one highlights critical debates that have emerged within research on religions and development, particularly with respect to theoretical, conceptual and methodological considerations, from the perspective of development studies and its associated disciplines. Parts two to six look at different regional and national development contexts and the place of religion within these. These parts integrate and examine the critical debates raised in part one within empirical case studies from a range of religions and regions. Different religions are situated within actual locations and case studies thus allowing a detailed and contextual understanding of their relationships to development to emerge. Part seven examines the links between some important areas within development policy and practice where religion is now being considered, including: Faith-Based Organisations and Development Public Health, Religion and Development Human rights, Religion and Development Sustainable Development, Climate Change and Religion Global Institutions and Religious Engagement in Development Economic Development and Religion Religion, Development and Fragile States Development and Faith-Based Education Taking a global approach, the Handbook covers Africa, Latin America, South Asia, East and South-East Asia, and the Middle East. It is essential reading for students and researchers in development studies and religious studies, and is highly relevant to those working in area studies, as well as a range of disciplines, from theology, anthropology and economics to geography, international relations, politics and sociology.

Writing Labour

Writing Labour
Author: Mohammad Talib
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2010-10-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0199088241

In most globalizing economies, workers engaged in the informal sector occupy the lowest rungs of society. This book examines one such group—stone quarry workers located beyond the expanding rim of south Delhi and beneath the radar of effective law and policy. Drawing upon extensive case studies and personal narratives of this labouring class, Talib focuses on their inner world and interprets their life stories. He records the dwindling oral tradition of these people and brings to the fore the dynamics of survival. Questioning the discourse that views this group as passive objects, the book portrays them as active negotiators of their own circumstances. This work is crucial to an understanding of the current debates on labour and development studies. It presents the workers' story of social exclusion and struggle for survival, which is rarely heard amidst the counter narratives of the formal sector's economic boom.

1996

1996
Author: Massimo Mastrogregori
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2014-02-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110950421

Annually published since 1930, the International bibliography of Historical Sciences (IBOHS) is an international bibliography of the most important historical monographs and periodical articles published throughout the world, which deal with history from the earliest to the most recent times. The works are arranged systematically according to period, region or historical discipline, and within this classification alphabetically. The bibliography contains a geographical index and indexes of persons and authors.

Connecting Seas and Connected Ocean Rims

Connecting Seas and Connected Ocean Rims
Author: Donna R. Gabaccía
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 565
Release: 2011-04-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004193162

With a series of rich case studies focused on mobile laborers, this book demonstrates how the regional migrations of the early modern era came to be connected, contributing to the creation of an increasingly integrated nineteenth-century world.