The Bodo Movement and Women Participation

The Bodo Movement and Women Participation
Author: Sucheta Sen Chaudhuri
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2004
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Based On Fieldwork In Kokrajhar, Nalbari And Darrang Districts Of Assam And Argues That Women Had A Significant Role To Play In The Border Movement But It Is Perceived To Be Secondary. It Thus Gives Us The Women`S Perspective On The Theme. 5 Chapters, Introduction, The Bodo-Antecedents Of The Movement The Bodo Movement, The Bodo Movement And Women`S Participation, Conclusion.

Comprehending Equity

Comprehending Equity
Author: Kedilezo Kikhi
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2021-09-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000442667

This book interrogates the idea of equity in the context of India’s Northeast region. The region comprises of diverse ethnicities heralding different socio-political and historical contexts. The present volume attempts to bring to the fore, the ever-widening socio-economic gap between dominant and marginalized groups and the challenges of traversing towards equity and social justice in this context. The book looks at the socio-economic disparity and exploitation in the region, conspicuous in the form of poor governance, ethnic violence and a sense of marginalisation and disillusionment. Based on case studies and research of different states and communities in the Northeast, the volume discusses the complex and unique socio-economic challenges of the people in the region. It analyses the issues of representation, identity and ethnic dominance, affirmative action, food security, sustainability, access to education, territorial conflicts, ineffective governance, among others. The book offers insights and perspectives into concepts such as equity, justice, fairness and discrimination by juxtaposing the booming global economic order which depicts the extreme levels of deprivation especially among those belonging to the disadvantaged communities. This volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers of sociology, social anthropology, development studies, politics, law and governance, and South Asia studies.

Bodoland Movement, 1986-2001

Bodoland Movement, 1986-2001
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2001
Genre: Assam (India)
ISBN:

Pictorial works of the political activities of Bodo people of Assam, demanding a separate state.

Indian Feminist Ecocriticism

Indian Feminist Ecocriticism
Author: Douglas A. Vakoch
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2022-08-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 166690872X

Following Françoise d’Eaubonne’s creation of the term “ecofeminism” in 1974, scholars around the world have explored ways that the degradation of the environment and the subjugation of women are linked. In the nearly three decades since the publication of the classical work Ecofeminism by Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva in 1993, several collections have appeared that apply ecofeminism to literary criticism, also known as feminist ecocriticism. The most recent of these include anthologies that emphasize international perspectives, furthering the comparative task launched by Mies and Shiva. To date, however, there have been no books devoted to gaining a broad-based understanding of feminist ecocriticism in India, understood in its own terms. Our new volume Indian Feminist Ecocriticism offers a survey of literature as seen through an ecofeminist lens by Indian scholars, which places contemporary literary analysis through a sampling of its diverse languages and in the context of millennia-old mythic traditions of India.

Revisiting Tribal Heritage and Contemporary Issues (volume 1)

Revisiting Tribal Heritage and Contemporary Issues (volume 1)
Author: Priyanka Jain
Publisher: Allied Publishers
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2023-03-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9390951518

This book is an effort to relook into the tribal heritage of India vis-a-vis the contemporary issues, tribal groups of India, in particular face. The purpose of the book is to compile contemporary developments, critiques and concerns regarding tribal world at one place. For the convenience of readers, the book is being divided into three parts namely: 1. Section-A: Tribal Administration and Education 2. Section-B: Tribal Identity, Women, and Way of Life 3. Section-C: Tribal Media and Market

The Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture

The Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture
Author: Jessica Retis
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 626
Release: 2019-04-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1119236703

A multidisciplinary, authoritative outline of the current intellectual landscape of the field. Over the past three decades, the term ‘diaspora’ has been featured in many research studies and in wider theoretical debates in areas such as communications, the humanities, social sciences, politics, and international relations. The Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture explores new dimensions of human mobility and connectivity—presenting state-of-the-art research and key debates on the intersection of media, cultural, and diasporic studies This innovative and timely book helps readers to understand diasporic cultures and their impact on the globalized world. The Handbook presents contributions from internationally-recognized scholars and researchers to strengthen understanding of diasporas and diasporic cultures, diasporic media and cultural resources, and the various forms of diasporic organization, expression, production, distribution, and consumption. Divided into seven sections, this wide-ranging volume covers topics such as methodological challenges and innovations in diasporic research, the construction of diasporic identity, the politics of diasporic integration, the intersection of gender and generation with the diasporic condition, new technologies in media, and many others. A much-needed resource for anyone with interest diasporic studies, this book: Presents new and original theory, research, and essays Employs unique methodological and conceptual debates Offers contributions from a multidisciplinary team of scholars and researchers Explores new and emerging trends in the study of diasporas and media Applies a wide-ranging, international perspective to the subject Due to its international perspective, interdisciplinary approach, and wide range of authors from around the world, The Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students, teachers, lecturers, and researchers in areas that focus on the relationship of media and society, ethnic identity, race, class and gender, globalization and immigration, and other relevant fields.

New Subjects and New Governance in India

New Subjects and New Governance in India
Author: Ranabir Samaddar
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2014-03-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317809688

This volume looks at the ways in which governance in the exercise of its strategies also acts as a process of production of subjects. It argues that governance is not a one-sided affair starting and ending with those who rule and govern, producing fiats, decrees, and diktats, but a productive process — one that produces subjects of governance who in turn respond to the process, and make the field of governance a contentious one. Against the backdrop of the first transition of democracy in India from its origin in a colonial polity to the first phase of its independent life after the promulgation of the Indian Constitution in 1950, this volume explores the second transition towards developmental democracy, examining the interrelations between globalisation, development and structures of governance. The volume suggests that while there is need to reflect on the governance of transition, it is important to question how democracy negotiates this transition.

Gendered Publics

Gendered Publics
Author: Hemjyoti Medhi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2023-10-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9354973124

This book offers a comprehensive appraisal of the relatively unexplored but highly impactful women’s association, the Assam Mahila Samiti which led one of the most remarkable women’s movements in colonial India. Central to the Assam Mahila Samiti story is its founding Secretary, the firebrand feminist Chandraprava Saikiani (1901-72) who, despite being an unwed mother and belonging to a lower caste, was a celebrated writer, a polemical columnist, and a successful publicist of two vernacular magazines in the 1940s. The book traverses these individual and collective journeys from the 1920s to the 1950s, exploring their negotiations with the complex terrain of the multi-ethnic Brahmaputra valley during the highly politicised period of the anti-colonial movement. It argues that theoretical understanding of the term public sphere may be enriched through an engagement with rare archival materials of these middle class women’s associations’ hand written minutes of meetings in a local language in early twentieth-century colonial India and posits that gender may not function merely as constitutive of the public, but how women’s collectives may shape, transform and orchestrate a veritable gendered public, resistant to both native patriarchy and sometimes to colonial authority.