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  • Brown Saviors and Their Others

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Curiosity Studies

    A New Ecology of Knowledge

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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    Curiosity Studies

    A New Ecology of Knowledge

    de Perry Zurn, Arjun Shankar ...
    Narrado por Wendy Tremont King ...

    Completo

    14 hora 22 minutos

    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 ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

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  • Playing With Fire

    Feminist Thought And Activism Through Seven Lives In India

    de Sangtin Writers, Richa Nagar ...
    Seven voices contribute to this rare glimpse of the work being done on the front lines of the fight for social change in India. Playing with Fire is written in the collective voice of women employed by a large NGO as activists in their communities and is based on diaries, interviews, and conversations among them. Together their personal stories reveal larger themes and questions of sexism, ... Leer más

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  • Appropriately Indian

    Gender and Culture in a New Transnational Class

    de Smitha Radhakrishnan ...
    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 ... Leer más

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  • Queer Activism in India

    A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics

    de Naisargi N. Dave, Naisargi N. Davé ...
    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 ... Leer más

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  • The Culturalization of Caste in India

    Identity and Inequality in a Multicultural Age

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Educational Leadership: a Student-Centered Approach

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Dislocating Cultures

    Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism

    de Uma Narayan ...
    Series series Thinking Gender
    Dislocating Cultures takes aim at the related notions of nation, identity, and tradition to show how Western and Third World scholars have misrepresented Third World cultures and feminist agendas. Drawing attention to the political forces that have spawned, shaped, and perpetuated these misrepresentations since colonial times, Uma Narayan inspects the underlying problems which "culture" poses for ... Leer más

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  • Cultures of Servitude

    Modernity, Domesticity, and Class in India

    de Raka Ray, Seemin Qayum ...
    Domestic servitude blurs the divide between family and work, affection and duty, the home and the world. In Cultures of Servitude, Raka Ray and Seemin Qayum offer an ethnographic account of domestic life and servitude in contemporary Kolkata, India, with a concluding comparison with New York City. Focused on employers as well as servants, men as well as women, across multiple generations, they ... Leer más

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  • Civility in Crisis

    Democracy, Equality and the Majoritarian Challenge in India

    Edición de Suryakant Waghmore, Hugo Gorringe ...
    This book critically examines the relationship between civility, citizenship and democracy. It engages with the oft-neglected idea of civility (as a Western concept) to explore the paradox of high democracy and low civility that plagues India. This concept helps analyse why democratic consolidation translates into limited justice and minimal equality, along with increased exclusion and ... Leer más

    $54.99 USD

  • Social Movements, Media and Civil Society in Contemporary India

    Historical Trajectories of Public Protest and Political Mobilisation

    de Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha, Manas Dutta, Tirthankar Ghosh ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book examines instances of transformative dissent, turning points or shifts in popular mobilisation patterns in contemporary India, while adopting a historical approach and analysing past events. Exploring the different continuities and discontinuities in mobilising patterns and dissident agency in India, the authors present a heterogeneous insurrectional pattern that pivoted around issues of ... Leer más

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