Keralites on the Move

Keralites on the Move
Author: Kumbattu Varkey Joseph
Publisher:
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Malayalees, The Inhabitants Of Kerala, Who Could Make A Name For Themselves Since They Started To Stir Out Of Their Village Moorings From The Closing Decades Of Nineteenth Century, Can In A Sense Be Called A Globalised Community By Virtue Of Their Presence In Almost All Parts Of The World.;;The Book, A Pioneering Study On The Migratory Movements Of Keralites, Gives A Vivid Account Of The Process Of Migration Of Keralites From The Very Beginning With An Array Of Facts And Figures Collected From Divergent Sources. The Presentation Of Outward Migration Of Keralites Within The Framework Of Migration In India Makes The Book All The More Attractive.;;The Book Will Be A Valuable Source Of Information Not Only To The Hundreds Of Thousands Of Malayalees But Also To The Academics And The Readers Alike From Far And Wide.;

In Pursuit of the Good Life

In Pursuit of the Good Life
Author: Jocelyn Lim Chua
Publisher: University of California Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2014-03-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520281160

Once celebrated as a model development for its progressive social indicators, the southern Indian state of Kerala has earned the new distinction as the nation’s suicide capital, with suicide rates soaring to triple the national average since 1990. Rather than an aberration on the path to development and modernity, Keralites understand this crisis to be the bitter fruit borne of these historical struggles and the aspirational dilemmas they have produced in everyday life. Suicide, therefore, offers a powerful lens onto the experiential and affective dimensions of development and global change in the postcolonial world. In the long shadow of fear and uncertainty that suicide casts in Kerala, living acquires new meaning and contours. In this powerful ethnography, Jocelyn Chua draws on years of fieldwork to broaden the field of vision beyond suicide as the termination of life, considering how suicide generates new ways of living in these anxious times.

Caste, Knowledge, and Power

Caste, Knowledge, and Power
Author: Sunandan (Azim Premji University K. N., Bangalore India)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2022-09-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1009273124

Analyses the relation between caste and knowledge practices and the exploration of the hierarchical colonial-Brahmanical forms of knowledge production.

India Migration Report 2016

India Migration Report 2016
Author: S. Irudaya Rajan
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1315443392

India Migration Report 2016 discusses migration to the Persian Gulf region. This volume: looks at contemporary labour recruitment and policy, both in India and in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries; explores gender issues in migration to Gulf countries; and brings together the latest field data on migrants across states in India. Part of the prestigious annual series, this volume will interest scholars and researchers of economics, development studies, migration and diaspora studies, labour studies, and sociology. It will also be useful to policymakers and government institutions working in the area.

Women, Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in India

Women, Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in India
Author: Kenneth Bo Nielsen
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2014-08-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1783082690

The pace of socioeconomic transformation in India over the past two and a half decades has been formidable. This volume sheds light on how these transformations have played out at the level of everyday life to influence the lives of Indian women, and gender relations more broadly. Through ethnographically grounded case studies, the authors portray the contradictory and contested co-existence of discrepant gendered norms, values and visions in a society caught up in wider processes of sociopolitical change. ‘Women, Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in India’ moves the debate on gender and social transformation into the domain of everyday life to arrive at locally embedded and detailed, ethnographically informed analyses of gender relations in real-life contexts that foreground both subtle and not-so-subtle negotiations and contestations.

The Reincarnation

The Reincarnation
Author: Sarath Jayadevan
Publisher: OrangeBooks Publication
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2021-08-28
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN:

This is a simple life story with a critical explanation and evaluation of each of its aspects in depth. Most of us would certainly have thought about this question, 'what is the meaning and purpose of our life at some part of our life. Those were highly subjective without an answer. This would give a track for us to think about the solution to some unanswered questions around us. A gateway to explore those through some common lives.

India Migration Report 2019

India Migration Report 2019
Author: S. Irudaya Rajan
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2018-10-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429758944

India Migration Report 2019 examines the issues of identity related to integration in European societies. It examines the multifarious nature of social, economic and political engagements of the Indian diaspora with their host societies in Europe. This volume: assesses the historical trends in migration to Europe, mobility paths and transnational networks of skilled Indian migrants, as well as recent tendencies in movements of migrants; explores the roles of Indian migrants in transforming host societies with their skills and capabilities; highlights their contribution towards the development of their homeland through knowledge transfer, philanthropy, capital flows, remittances and investment; takes stock of the impact of recent events, especially Brexit and anti-immigrant positioning of some political parties; uses mixed research methods including ethnography, key informant interviews and in-depth case studies. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of development studies, economics, demography, sociology and social anthropology, and migration and diaspora studies.

Globalization Development and Social Justice

Globalization Development and Social Justice
Author: Ann El Khoury
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 415
Release: 2015-03-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317504801

Are there existing alternatives to corporate globalization? What are the prospects for and commonalities between communities and movements such as Occupy, the World Social Forum and alternative economies? Globalization Development and Social Justice advances the proposition that another globalization is not only possible, but already exists. It demonstrates that there are multiple pathways towards development with social justice and argues that enabling propositional agency, rather than oppositional agency such as resistance, is a more effective alternative to neoliberal globalization. El Khoury develops a theory of infraglobalization that emphasizes creative constitution, not just contestation, of global and local processes. The book features case studies and examples of diverse economic practice and innovative emergent political forms from the Global South and North. These case studies are located in the informal social economy and community development, as well as everyday practices, from prefigurative politics to community cooperatives and participatory planning. This book makes an important contribution to debates about the prospects for, and practices of, a transformative grassroots globalization, and to critical debates about globalization and development strategies. It will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, globalization, social movement studies, political and economic geography, sociology, anthropology and development studies.

We and Our Administration

We and Our Administration
Author: K. C. Brahmachary
Publisher: Mittal Publications
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2004
Genre: Administrative agencies
ISBN: 9788170999164

Corruption Is A Much Talked About Subject. Various Types And Causes Of Corruption Have Been Classified, Elaborated And Analysed And In This Context Function And Malfunction Of Audit And Executive Vigilance Have Been Focused In The Book.