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Migrant Health Professionals and the Global Labour Market
The Dreams and Traps of Nepali Nurses
Inbunden, 2019
2585 kr
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This book offers a fresh perspective on gender debates in Nepal and analyses how the international migration of the first generation of professional female Nepali nurses has been a catalyst for social change.With unprecedented access to study participants in Nepal (the source country), following …
Global Health Governance and Commercialisation of Public Health in India
Actors, Institutions and the Dialectics of Global and Local
Av Anuj Kapilashrami, Rama V. Baru
Häftad, 2020
681 kr
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Global health governance has been the subject of wide scholarship, more recently brought to the fore by priorities for global health defined by the Sustainable Development Agenda. The health landscape itself has changed dramatically in the last two decades, shaped by cross-border flows of capital, …
Agency and Knowledge in Northeast India
The Life and Landscapes of Dreams
Häftad, 2020
691 kr
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The Nagas of Northeast India give great importance to dreams as sources of divine knowledge, especially knowledge about the future. Although British colonialism, Christian missions, and political conflict have resulted in sweeping cultural and political transformations in the Indo-Myanmar …
Provincial Globalization in India
Transregional Mobilities and Development Politics
Av Carol Upadhya, Mario Rutten m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
691 kr
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The movement of people from small towns and villages of India to places outside the country raises a number of questions– about the networks that enable their mobility, the aspirations that motivate them, what they give back to their home regions, and how their provincial home worlds engage with …
Urban Marginalisation in South Asia
Waste Pickers in Calcutta
Av Nandini Sen
Häftad, 2020
691 kr
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The community of waste pickers in Calcutta stands on its own against the hostile outside which comprises the state, elites and mainstream society. The residents of this unique world continuously try to escape the ‘ideal’ world of uniform homogeneity of legally legitimate profession, shelter, …
Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization
Literary Pre-Figurations of the Postcolony
Häftad, 2021
794 kr
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The book illuminates the spatial utopianism of South Asian anti-colonial texts by showing how they refuse colonial spatial imaginaries to re-imagine the British Indian colony as the postcolony in diverse and contested ways. Focusing on the literary field of South Asia between, largely, the 1860s …
Activism and Agency in India
Nurturing Resistance in the Tea Plantations
Häftad, 2019
711 kr
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During the period 2000 to 2010, tea plantations in India experienced a crisis and were at the threshold of transformation, framed by conflict and turbulence.This book is an interdisciplinary and intersectional work examining the nature of victimhood and agency among women workers on tea plantations …
Everyday State and Politics in India
Government in the Backyard in Kalahandi
Häftad, 2019
691 kr
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The Kalahandi district in the state of Odisha in Eastern India is regarded as an iconic region of underdevelopment, and is often perceived to be the ‘Somalia’ of the country. It is also the site of a large number of governmental interventions.This book focuses on processes of governance in Odisha, …
Neoliberalism and the Transforming Left in India
A contradictory manifesto
Av Ritanjan Das
Häftad, 2019
691 kr
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West Bengal has often been perceived as somewhat of an aberration in the wider context of a rather chaotic Indian democracy, as the Left Front (spearheaded by the Communist Party of India-Marxist, CPIM) demonstrated a rare instance of political stability, decisively winning seven consecutive …
Savagery and Colonialism in the Indian Ocean
Power, Pleasure and the Andaman Islanders
Av Satadru Sen
Inbunden, 2009
2585 kr
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This book examines the social, political and ideological dimensions of the encounter between the indigenous inhabitants of the Andaman islands, British colonizers and Indian settlers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The British-Indian penal settlements in the Andaman Islands – beginning …
Empire, Industry and Class
The Imperial Nexus of Jute, 1840-1940
Av Anthony Cox
Inbunden, 2012
2585 kr
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Presenting a new approach towards the social history of working classes in the imperial context, this book looks at the formation of working classes in Scotland and Bengal. It analyses the trajectory of labour market formation, labour supervision, cultures of labour and class formation between two …
Guru in South Asia
New Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Inbunden, 2012
2510 kr
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This book provides a set of fresh and compelling interdisciplinary approaches to the enduring phenomenon of the guru in South Asia. Moving across different gurus and kinds of gurus, and between past and present, the chapters call attention to the extraordinary scope and richness of the social lives …
Violence, Torture and Memory in Sri Lanka
Life after Terror
Av Dhana Hughes
Inbunden, 2013
2585 kr
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Drawing on original ethnographic field-research conducted primarily with former guerrilla insurgents in southern and central Sri Lanka, this book analyses the memories and narratives of people who have perpetrated political violence. It explores how violence is negotiated and lived with in the …
Gender and Sexuality in India
Selling Sex in Chennai
Häftad, 2012
728 kr
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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, …
Gender and Sexuality in India
Selling Sex in Chennai
Inbunden, 2009
2665 kr
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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, …
Princely India Re-imagined
A Historical Anthropology of Mysore from 1799 to the present
Av Aya Ikegame
Inbunden, 2012
2585 kr
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India’s Princely States covered nearly 40 per cent of the Indian subcontinent at the time of Indian independence, and they collapsed after the departure of the British. This book provides a chronological analysis of the Princely State in colonial times and its post-colonial legacies. Focusing on …
Sovereignty and Social Reform in India
British Colonialism and the Campaign against Sati, 1830-1860
Av Andrea Major
Inbunden, 2010
2585 kr
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The British prohibition of sati (the funeral practice of widow immolation) in 1829 has been considered an archetypal example of colonial social reform. It was not the end of the story, however, as between 1830 and 1860, British East India Company officials engaged in a debate with the Indian rulers …
Politics of Reconstruction and Development in Sri Lanka
Transnational Commitments to Social Change
Av Eva Gerharz
Inbunden, 2014
2510 kr
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Sri Lanka’s conflict and peace processes have gained global attention during recent years. This book presents a comprehensive insight into the politics of reconstruction and development in Sri Lanka, focussing on the ceasefire which was negotiated between the Government of Sri Lanka and the …
Empire, Nationalism and the Postcolonial World
Rabindranath Tagore's Writings on History, Politics and Society
Inbunden, 2011
2886 kr
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By presenting a new interpretation of Rabindranath Tagore’s English language writings, this book places the work of India’s greatest Nobel Prize winner and cultural icon in the context of imperial history and thereby bridges the gap between Tagore studies and imperial/postcolonial …
Savagery and Colonialism in the Indian Ocean
Power, Pleasure and the Andaman Islanders
Av Satadru Sen
Häftad, 2012
936 kr
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This book examines the social, political and ideological dimensions of the encounter between the indigenous inhabitants of the Andaman islands, British colonizers and Indian settlers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The British-Indian penal settlements in the Andaman Islands – beginning …
Development and Public Health in the Himalaya
Reflections on healing in contemporary Nepal
Av Ian Harper
Inbunden, 2014
2585 kr
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Engaging with a range of public health issues, this book charts important social and political transitions in Nepal through the lens of medicine and health development. It focuses on mission health care institutions, tuberculosis control programmes as a site of medical intervention, the …
Transnational Pakistani Connections
Marrying ‘Back Home’
Inbunden, 2013
2510 kr
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Since restrictions on commonwealth labour immigration to Britain in the 1960s, marriage has been the dominant form of migration between Pakistan and the UK. Most transnational Pakistani marriages are between cousins or other more distant relatives, lending a particular texture to this transnational …
Urban Marginalisation in South Asia
Waste Pickers in Calcutta
Av Nandini Sen
Inbunden, 2018
2510 kr
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The community of waste pickers in Calcutta stands on its own against the hostile outside which comprises the state, elites and mainstream society. The residents of this unique world continuously try to escape the ‘ideal’ world of uniform homogeneity of legally legitimate profession, shelter, …
Transnational Pakistani Connections
Marrying ‘Back Home’
Häftad, 2017
771 kr
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Since restrictions on commonwealth labour immigration to Britain in the 1960s, marriage has been the dominant form of migration between Pakistan and the UK. Most transnational Pakistani marriages are between cousins or other more distant relatives, lending a particular texture to this transnational …
Politics of Reconstruction and Development in Sri Lanka
Transnational Commitments to Social Change
Av Eva Gerharz
Häftad, 2017
771 kr
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Sri Lanka’s conflict and peace processes have gained global attention during recent years. This book presents a comprehensive insight into the politics of reconstruction and development in Sri Lanka, focussing on the ceasefire which was negotiated between the Government of Sri Lanka and the …
Migrant Health Professionals and the Global Labour Market
The Dreams and Traps of Nepali Nurses
Häftad, 2022
711 kr
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This book offers a fresh perspective on gender debates in Nepal and analyses how the international migration of the first generation of professional female Nepali nurses has been a catalyst for social change.With unprecedented access to study participants in Nepal (the source country), following …
Sex Work and Social Movement in India
Mobilizing in the Time of Pandemics
Av Toorjo Ghose
Inbunden, 2024
2439 kr
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This book examines and theorizes about the emergence, growth, impact, collapse, and rejuvenation of a sex worker movement in India, exploring the manner in which the two pandemics – HIV and COVID-19 – bookended a feminist movement through more than a quarter of a century, shaping its trajectory …
Sex Work and Social Movement in India
Mobilizing in the Time of Pandemics
Av Toorjo Ghose
Häftad, 2026
726 kr
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This book examines and theorizes about the emergence, growth, impact, collapse, and rejuvenation of a sex worker movement in India, exploring the manner in which the two pandemics – HIV and COVID-19 – bookended a feminist movement through more than a quarter of a century, shaping its trajectory …
Authenticity, Legitimacy and the Transglobal Yoga Industry
A Sociological Analysis of Shanti Mandir
Häftad, 2026
705 kr
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This book is a sociological study of knowledge and knowers and explores the production and perceived value of ‘yogic knowledge,’ how distinction is curated, and how access to this knowledge is gained.The book focuses on the organization Shanti Mandir (SM) in India, a new religious movement, which …
Authenticity, Legitimacy and the Transglobal Yoga Industry
A Sociological Analysis of Shanti Mandir
Inbunden, 2025
2510 kr
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This book is a sociological study of knowledge and knowers and explores the production and perceived value of ‘yogic knowledge,’ how distinction is curated, and how access to this knowledge is gained.The book focuses on the organization Shanti Mandir (SM) in India, a new religious movement, which …
