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“arjun shankar”

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  • Brown Saviors and Their Others

    Race, Caste, Labor, and the Global Politics of Help in India

    by Arjun Shankar ...
    In Brown Saviors and Their Others Arjun Shankar draws from his ethnographic work with an educational NGO to investigate the practices of “brown saviors”—globally mobile, dominant-caste, liberal Indian and Indian diasporic technocrats who drive India’s help economy. Shankar argues that these brown saviors actually reproduce many of the racialized values and ideologies associated with who and how to ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Curiosity Studies

    A New Ecology of Knowledge

    Edited by Perry Zurn, Arjun Shankar ...
    The first English-language collection to establish curiosity studies as a unique fieldFrom science and technology to business and education, curiosity is often taken for granted as an unquestioned good. And yet, few people can define curiosity. Curiosity Studies marshals scholars from more than a dozen fields not only to define curiosity but also to grapple with its ethics as well as its role in ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Curiosity Studies

    A New Ecology of Knowledge

    by Perry Zurn, Arjun Shankar ...
    Narrated by Wendy Tremont King ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 22 min

    From science and technology to business and education, curiosity is often taken for granted as an unquestioned good. And yet, few people can define curiosity. Curiosity Studies marshals scholars from more than a dozen fields not only to define curiosity but also to grapple with its ethics as well as its role in technological advancement and global citizenship. While intriguing research on ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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  • Appropriately Indian

    Gender and Culture in a New Transnational Class

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    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 ... Read more

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  • Queer Activism in India

    A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics

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    In Queer Activism in India, Naisargi Dave examines the formation of lesbian communities in India from the 1980s to the early 2000s. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with activist organizations in Delhi, a body of letters written by lesbian women, and research with lesbian communities and queer activist groups across the country, Dave studies the everyday practices that constitute queer ... Read more

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  • The Culturalization of Caste in India

    Identity and Inequality in a Multicultural Age

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • Educational Leadership: a Student-Centered Approach

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • Dislocating Cultures

    Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism

    by Uma Narayan ...
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  • Cultures of Servitude

    Modernity, Domesticity, and Class in India

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  • Civility in Crisis

    Democracy, Equality and the Majoritarian Challenge in India

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  • Social Movements, Media and Civil Society in Contemporary India

    Historical Trajectories of Public Protest and Political Mobilisation

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