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Negotiating Resilience with Hard and Soft City

Negotiating Resilience with Hard and Soft City

This book explores how cities are shaped by the lived experiences of inhabitants and examines the ways they develop strategies to cope with daily and unexpected challenges. It argues that migration livelihood and public health challenges result from inadequacies in the hard city—urban assets such as land infrastructure and housing and asserts that these challenges and escalating vulnerabilities are best negotiated using the soft city—social capital and community networks. In so doing the authors criticise a singular knowledge system and argue for a granular nuanced understanding of cities—of the interrelations between people in places everyday urbanisms social relationships cultural practices and histories. The volume presents perspectives from the Global South and the Global North and engages with city-specific cases from Africa India and Europe for a deeper understanding of resilience. Part of the Urban Futures series it will be of great interest to students and researchers of urban studies urban planning urban management architecture urban sociology urban design ecology conservation and urban sustainability. It will also be useful for urbanists architects urban sociologists city and town planners policy makers and those interested in a deeper understanding of the contemporary and future city. | Negotiating Resilience with Hard and Soft City

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Ocean as Method Thinking with the Maritime

Ocean as Method Thinking with the Maritime

Ocean as Method presents a new way of thinking about the humanities and the social sciences. It explores maritime connections in social and humanistic research and puts forward an alternative to national histories and area studies. As global warming and rising sea levels ring alarm bells across the world the chapters in the volume argue that it is time to think through oceans to realign discourses which better understand our future. The volume: • Engages with the paradigms of oceanic narratives to identify connections between continents through trade migration and economic processes thinking beyond the artificial distinctions between the Pacific Atlantic and Indian Oceans; • Discusses oceanic travel accounts by Muslim travellers to counter the idea that the colonial era was marked by European travel to Asia and Africa without a counterflow of “native travel”; •Examines the connections between South Africa South Asia and South East Asia through histories of Indian indenture and the slave trade and engages with the idea of the ocean and enforced movement; •Compares and connects recent scholarship in the social sciences and the humanities centring the ocean to break away from inherited paradigms which have shaped world history so far. As a unique transdisciplinary collaboration this volume will be of much interest to scholars and researchers of history especially oceanic history historiography critical theory literature geography and Global South studies. | Ocean as Method Thinking with the Maritime

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Communicating with the World Interaction between Chinese and International Media

Communicating with the World Interaction between Chinese and International Media

This book analyses the creation and dissemination of discourse in China while examining how its media and the people interact and communicate with the rest of the world. It explores the interplay between language meanings social practices culture and politics in the processes of discourse generation. The book critically studies intercultural communication and Chinese discourse models at the national institutional and individual levels and the different modes of interaction between China and the world. With the help of several case studies the book analyses reports from the People’s Daily interpersonal meaning in promotional videos and advertisements in China rhetoric in the editorials of China Daily and the representation by international media like The Associated Press and The New York Times to explore differences between Chinese and the Western media reporting the same event. It also looks at the complex models through which the Chinese people—both as individuals and as a collective—communicate with and gain an understanding of the rest of the world. Rich in empirical case studies this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of Chinese Studies communication studies media and cultural studies international relations and political communication. | Communicating with the World Interaction between Chinese and International Media

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Understanding Yoga Psychology Indigenous Psychology with Global Relevance

Understanding Yoga Psychology Indigenous Psychology with Global Relevance

This book is an introduction to Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras and its core concepts about the self suffering and consciousness. It highlights its relevance to contemporary theories and applications in the fields of psychology and health. The book adopts sociology of knowledge as a broad framework as it delves into the core concepts of yoga psychology in the Yoga Sūtras in the context of worldviews and frameworks present in the Upanisads and the Sāṁkhya system. It provides an interpretation of Kriya Yoga and its practice in pursuit of spiritual upliftment and concept of Samādhi or the transformation of consciousness using the language and idiom of contemporary psychology. It draws parallels between yoga psychology and the ideas of Husserl Jung and Piaget while reconciling the seemingly disparate cultural religious spiritual and intellectual traditions of eastern spirituality and schools of modern psychology. The book also discusses yoga psychology in relation to psychoanalysis radical behaviorism as well as mainstream cognitive humanistic transpersonal and indigenous psychologies and provides a guide to both the theories of yoga psychology and its applications. This book will be of interest to students teachers researchers and practitioners of psychology psychiatry philosophy and yoga psychology as well as to psychologists psychiatrists counselors mental health professionals clinical psychologists and yoga enthusiasts. | Understanding Yoga Psychology Indigenous Psychology with Global Relevance

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Gandhi in Contemporary Times

Gandhi in Contemporary Times

This volume brings together essays that discuss and contextualise Gandhi’s ideas on pluralism religious identity non-violence satyagraha and modernity. It interrogates the epistemic foundations of Gandhian thinking and weltanschauung identifies diverse strands within his arguments and gives it new meaning in contemporary society. This book focuses on Gandhi’s engagements with religious political and social conflicts; his reflections on faith and modernity; and his argumentative dialogues with Mohammad Ali Jinnah and B. R. Ambedkar. It provides critical insights into Gandhi’s philosophy and suggests ways of engaging with his ethical and moral ideas in contemporary intellectual and political discourse. Comparing and contrasting Gandhian thought and strategies with contemporary issues and conceptions of religious freedom conflict resolution and liberalism the volume reformulates and reconstitutes his intellectual and political legacy. This book points to new and possible future directions of research on Gandhian concepts and will be useful for scholars in the fields of political science Gandhian studies sociology and philosophy. | Gandhi in Contemporary Times

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Gandhi and Liberalism Satyagraha and the Conquest of Evil

Gandhi and Liberalism Satyagraha and the Conquest of Evil

One of the main themes running through Gandhi’s life and work was the battle against evil. This book offers a fascinating reconstruction of Gandhi and the doctrine of Ahimsa or non-violence. Gandhi’s moral perfectionism is contrasted with other forms of perfectionism but the book stresses that Gandhi also offered a doctrine of the second best. Following Gandhi the author argues that outward violence with compassion is intrinsically not as good as non-violence with compassion but it is a second best that is sometimes a necessary evil in an imperfect world. The book provides an illuminating analysis of coercion non-co-operation civil disobedience and necessary evil comparing Gandhi’s ideas with that of some of the leading western moral legal and political philosophers. Further some of his important ideas are shown to have relevance for the working of the Indian Constitution. This book will be essential for scholars and researchers in moral legal and political philosophy Gandhi studies political science and South Asian studies. | Gandhi and Liberalism Satyagraha and the Conquest of Evil

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India and Global Governance A Rising Power and Its Discontents

India and Global Governance A Rising Power and Its Discontents

This volume explores India’s role in the global governance architecture post–Cold War. It shows how with a rise in India’s capabilities there is an expectation from its external interlocutors that New Delhi ought to play a larger global role. As Indian policymakers redefine their engagements in the global policy matrix the chapters in the volume analyse India’s role as a challenger and a stakeholder in world politics; its uneasy relationship with Western liberal democracies; and its role in shaping new structures of global governance. The volume focuses on a host of critical issues including nuclear policy climate action politics India’s bid for a permanent seat at the UN Security Council humanitarian interventions trade governance democracy promotion India’s engagement with other emerging powers in platforms such as the BRICS the changing dynamics with its neighbours and maritime governance. A timely reimagining of global politics this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics and international relations climate change military and strategic studies economics and South Asian studies. | India and Global Governance A Rising Power and Its Discontents

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India’s National Security Annual Review 2016-17

India’s National Security Annual Review 2016-17

The global security environment in the last five years has been characterised by a state of ‘no war no peace’ among major powers resulting in a state of uncertainty about their national security objectives. For instance the US has been concerned about the attitudes of Iran Russia North Korea China and others and yet did not expect a direct military conflict with them. On the other hand China has expanded its naval strategy from a mere ‘off-shore defence’ to ‘open seas protection’ and has called for both ‘defence and offence’ instead of merely ‘territorial air defence’ thereby indicating preparedness for the possibility of a military confrontation. The major powers have been thus groping for suitable responses to their threat perceptions. It is in this kind of a complex and confusing international environment that India as a rising power has been called upon to wade through its strategic partnerships with major powers and nurture friendships with various Asian and African countries. This sixteenth volume of India’s National Security Annual Review offers indispensable information and evaluation on matters pertaining to national security. It undertakes a thorough analysis of the trends to provide a backdrop to India’s engagement with various countries. The volume also discusses persisting threats from China and Pakistan. With contributions from experts from the fields of diplomacy academia and civil and military services the book will be one of the most dependable sources of analyses for scholars of international relations foreign policy defence and strategic studies and political science and practitioners alike. | India’s National Security Annual Review 2016-17

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Moral and Political Discourses in Philosophy of Education

Moral and Political Discourses in Philosophy of Education

This book focuses on moral and political education and critically engages with educational issues from a philosophical perspective. It engages with questions of moral education as well as questions about citizenship education to address apprehensions on learning in a liberal democracy while parallelly invoking issues from within the curriculum the school environment and teacher-student relationship. With contributions from renowned philosophers and educationists this volume discusses themes like civic education and liberal democracy; toleration and freedom; Tagore’s conception of the moral and political self; key issues in moral education; cosmopolitanism compassion care ethics and moral purpose of schooling; to revisit and rethink some foundational questions related to education curriculum and pedagogy. This volume will be essential reading for educationists and educators and will be important for scholars and researchers of philosophy of education education teacher education and school education. | Moral and Political Discourses in Philosophy of Education

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Maoist Insurgency State and People Overlooked Issues and Unaddressed Grievances

Maoist Insurgency State and People Overlooked Issues and Unaddressed Grievances

This book critically studies descriptive normative and ethical aspects of violence to understand the Maoist conflict in India. It studies important but often overlooked issues such as reasons for youth participation in insurgency the reality and the rhetoric of the urban Maoism debate rights and entitlements of the local communities and their interactions with the Maoist conflict and issues of governance and development. The volume: examines the origins of Maoist insurgency why it continues the factions counterinsurgency impact of violence on education and other development indicators investigates how a conflict with an alternative idea of democracy violently clashes with an established democratic Indian state deals with the critical aspects of the Maoist movement in India and the status of Urban Maoism or Urban Naxal evaluates state responses to the movement and its impact on the economic status of affected communities discusses the gender dimension of armed conflict through a feminist lens and explores how women navigate through varied socio-cultural and gender norms while participating in the conflict Studying a wide range of critical issues this volume will be of interest particularly to scholars of political science development studies public administration security studies peace and conflict studies and human rights. | Maoist Insurgency State and People Overlooked Issues and Unaddressed Grievances

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E-Waste Management Challenges and Opportunities in India

E-Waste Management Challenges and Opportunities in India

This book offers an extensive review of e-waste management in India the world’s third‑largest producer of waste from electrical and electronic equipment. With a focus on the evolution of legalframeworks in India and the world it presents impacts and outcomes; challenges and opportunities; and management strategies and practices to deal with e-waste. First of its kind the book examines relevant concepts and issues from across 15 disciplines and six areas of policy making and will serve as a comprehensive knowledge base on electronic waste in India. It links key themes to the global context of Sustainable Development Goals and explores the convergence with technological infrastructural and social initiatives in e-waste management. A range of topics are discussed such as resource efficiency policies; circular economy; toxicity; technicalities and complexities of e-waste management including role of the informal sector and need for recognising social and human costs in policy making. The book deals with the role of statistics; legal trends and reforms; linkages with green Agenda 2030 and UN initiatives; implementation of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR); environmental factors; business prospects; consequences on human health; Life Cycle Impact Assessment; the ‘six Rs’ (Responsible use Repair Refurbish Recycle Recover and Reuse); recycling practices and problems material flow and informal sector in trade value chain; fostering partnership between formal-informal sectors; safe disposal; alternatives to landfilling; role of jurisprudence and regulatory bodies; and education and awareness. It also includes a survey of pan-India initiatives and trajectories of law-driven initiatives for effective e-waste management along with responses from industries and producers. Timely and essential this volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of environment studies digital waste management waste management development studies public policy political ecology sustainable development technology and manufacturing design and instrumentation environmental and international law taxation commerce electronic industry economics business management metallurgy and engineering labour studies as well as to policymakers nongovernmental organisations and interested general readers. | E-Waste Management Challenges and Opportunities in India

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Population Geography A Systematic Exposition

Population Geography A Systematic Exposition

This book studies the origins and development of population geography as a discipline. It explores the key concepts tools and statistical and demographic techniques that are widely employed in the analysis of population. The chapters in this book: Provide a comprehensive geographical account of population attributes in the world with a particular focus on India; Study the three major components of population change – fertility mortality and migration – that have remained somewhat neglected in the study of human geography so far; Examine the salient social demographic and economic characteristics of population along with topics such as size distribution and growth of population; Discuss major population theories policies and population–development–environment interrelations thus marking a significant departure from the traditional pattern-oriented approach. Well supplemented with figures maps and tables this key text will be an indispensable read for students researchers and teachers of human geography demography anthropology sociology economics and population studies. | Population Geography A Systematic Exposition

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Futilitarianism Essays on India’s Economic Policy and Performance

Futilitarianism Essays on India’s Economic Policy and Performance

This volume is an overview of and commentary on aspects of contemporary India and its socio-economic policies. It focuses on India’s economy and society in recent years and in the process it addresses structural issues of development such as those of population poverty inequality health and social exclusion. It reviews the adequacy and appropriateness of governmental response to these problems in terms of public policy narrowly conceived and philosophical orientation more broadly conceived. The concern is not only with economic achievement and human development but also with the framework of civic rights personal liberty and institutional autonomy within which the exercise of governance is perceived to be carried out. The essays in this volume were originally written with the general-reader-as-involved-citizen very much in mind as the intended target. However it should also be of interest to scholars of economics political science development studies and South Asian studies. | Futilitarianism Essays on India’s Economic Policy and Performance

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Elementary Education in India Policy Shifts Issues and Challenges

Elementary Education in India Policy Shifts Issues and Challenges

This book examines the policy shifts over the past three decades in the Indian education system. It explores how these shifts have unequivocally established the domination of neoliberal capital in the context of elementary education in India. The chapters in the volume:• Discuss a range of elementary education policies and programs in India with a focus on the policy development in recent decades of neoliberalism. • Analyse policy from diverse perspectives and varied vantage points by scholars activists and practitioners illustrated with contemporary statistics. • Introduce the key curriculum assessment and learning debates from contemporary educational discourse. • Integrate the tools and methods of education policy analysis with basic concepts in education like equality quantity equity quality and inclusion. A definitive inter-disciplinary work on a key sector in India this volume will be essential for scholars and researchers of education public policy sociology politics and South Asian studies. | Elementary Education in India Policy Shifts Issues and Challenges

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Long-Term Investments Project Planning and Appraisal

Long-Term Investments Project Planning and Appraisal

First published in 2009. The limited text material available to highlight the relationships among capital structure managerial incentives and valuation has also constrained teaching efforts at business schools. Long-term Investments is intended to give a bird’s eye view of projects for a diverse audience encountered at contemporary business schools. This book is an attempt to blend the theory from Corporate Finance courses with the real-world situations encountered by a project analyst. It provides a systematic ‘guided-tour’ of the world of projects commencing with a strategic view through the development of financial models and culminates with an evaluation of risk and the design of risk-mitigation measures. Given the emphasis on the development of financial models to help make investment decisions it is designed to simultaneously appeal to business school students and to serve as a do-it-yourself guide for practicing professionals. | Long-Term Investments Project Planning and Appraisal

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Kipling in India

Kipling in India

This book explores and re-evaluates Kipling’s connection with India its people culture languages and locales through his experiences and his writings. Kipling’s works attracted interest among a large section of the British public stimulating curiosity in their far-off Indian Empire and made many canonize him as an emblem of the ‘Raj’. This volume highlights the astonishing social and thematic range of his Indian writings as represented in The Jungle Books; Kim; his early verse; his Simla-based tales of Anglo-Indian intrigues and love affairs; his stories of the common Indian people; and his journalism. It brings together different theoretical and contextual readings of Kipling to examine how his experience of India influenced his creative work and conversely how his imperial loyalties conditioned his creative engagement with India. The 18 chapters here engage with the complexities and contradictions in his writings and analyse the historical and political contexts in which he wrote them and the contexts in which we read him now. With well-known contributors from different parts of the world – including India the UK the USA Canada France Japan and New Zealand – this book will be of great interest not only to those interested in Kipling’s life and works but also to researchers and scholars of nineteenth-century literature comparative studies postcolonial and subaltern studies colonial history and cultural studies. | Kipling in India

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Indo-Burma Frontier and the Making of the Chin Hills Empire and Resistance

Indo-Burma Frontier and the Making of the Chin Hills Empire and Resistance

This book examines the British colonial expansion in the so-called unadministered hill tracts of the Indo-Burma frontier and the change of colonial policy from non-intervention to intervention. The book begins with the end of the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824–26) which resulted in the British annexation of the North-Eastern Frontier of Bengal and the extension of its sway over the Arakan and Manipur frontiers and closes with the separation of Burma from India in 1937. The volume documents the resistance of the indigenous hill peoples to colonial penetration; administrative policies such as disarmament; subjugation of the local chiefs under a colonial legal framework and its impact; standardisation of ‘Chin’ as an ethnic category for the fragmented tribes and sub-tribes; and the creation and consolidation of the Chin Hills District as a political entity to provide an extensive account of British relations with the indigenous Chin/Zo community from 1824 to 1935. By situating these within the larger context of British imperial policy the book makes a critical analysis of the British approach towards the Indo-Burma frontier. With its coverage of key archival sources and literature this book will interest scholars and researchers in modern Indian history military history colonial history British history South Asian history and Southeast Asian history. | Indo-Burma Frontier and the Making of the Chin Hills Empire and Resistance

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A Philosophy of Autobiography Body & Text

A Philosophy of Autobiography Body & Text

This book offers intimate readings of a diverse range of global autobiographical literature with an emphasis on the (re)presentation of the physical body. The twelve texts discussed here include philosophical autobiography (Nietzsche) autobiographies of self-experimentation (Gandhi Mishima Warhol) literary autobiography (Hemingway Das) as well as other genres of autobiography including the graphic novel (Spiegelman Satrapi) as also documentations of tragedy and injustice and subsequent spiritual overcoming (Ambedkar Pawar Angelou Wiesel). In exploring different literary forms and orientations of the autobiographies the work remains constantly attuned to the physical body a focus generally absent from literary criticism and philosophy or study of leading historical personages with the exception of patches within phenomenological philosophy and feminism. The book delves into how the authors treated here deal with the flesh through their autobiographical writing and in what way they embody the essential relationship between flesh spirit and word. It analyses some seminal texts such as Ecce Homo The Story of My Experiments with Truth Waiting for a Visa I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings A Moveable Feast Night Baluta My Story Sun and Steel The Philosophy of Andy Warhol MAUS and Persepolis. Lucid bold and authoritative this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of philosophy literature gender studies political philosophy media and popular culture social exclusion and race and discrimination studies. | A Philosophy of Autobiography Body & Text

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Islamic Banking and Finance Second edition

Islamic Banking and Finance Second edition

This book discusses the nature and theories which govern systems of Islamic finance including its most distinctive features and its relationship with conventional financial institutions. It explores the nature and role of money in modern economies and elaborates on the process of credit deposit creation trade cycles and instruments for the creation of value in financial markets through the perspectives of Islamic finance. The author explains its characteristics especially the rationale for the lack of interest-based financial activities. He examines the intrinsic ethical and humanistic frameworks that govern financial theories and practices and the models for the creation of value risk-sharing and socially responsible investing as well as the governance and regulation that these systems follow. The author also does a comparative assessment of conventional financial systems with Islamic finance with relevant examples assesses the performance of Islamic systems and examines existing and expanding markets for Islamic finance. Lucid and cogent this book is useful for scholars and researchers of Islamic finance Islamic studies economics banking and finance in general. | Islamic Banking and Finance Second edition

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Research Methodology for Social Sciences

Research Methodology for Social Sciences

Research Methodology for Social Sciences provides guidelines for designing and conducting evidence-based research in social sciences and interdisciplinary studies using both qualitative and quantitative data. Blending the particularity of different sub-disciplines and interdisciplinary nature of social sciences this volume: Provides insights on epistemological issues and deliberates on debates over qualitative research methods; Covers different aspects of qualitative research techniques and evidence-based research techniques including survey design choice of sample construction of indices statistical inferences and data analysis; Discusses concepts techniques and tools at different stages of research beginning with the design of field surveys to collect raw data and then analyse it using statistical and econometric methods. With illustrations examples and a reader-friendly approach this volume will serve as a key reference material for compulsory research methodology courses at doctoral levels across different disciplines such as economics sociology women’s studies education anthropology political science international relations philosophy history and business management. This volume will also be indispensable for postgraduate courses dealing with quantitative techniques and data analysis.

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How Realist Is India’s National Security Policy?

How Realist Is India’s National Security Policy?

In managing national security how Realist is India in terms of cultivating and using power and especially military power? A conventional view of India is that it has been uncomfortable with realism or ‘power politics’ as a guide to policy. This volume shows that it has been more realist than is generally recognized and that it has increasingly become comfortable with power in the service of its interests. The essays in this volume Examine the different aspects and types of realism in India’s national security policy Include a range of perspectives from academics as well as former military officers and diplomats Focus on India’s military and foreign policy in dealing with China Pakistan the United States Southeast Asia and West Asia. This key volume will be indispensable to scholars and researchers of politics and international relations defence and strategic studies and South Asian studies and to government officials journalists and general readers interested in the external dimensions of India’s national security. | How Realist Is India’s National Security Policy?

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Hereditary Physicians of Kerala Traditional Medicine and Ayurveda in Modern India

Hereditary Physicians of Kerala Traditional Medicine and Ayurveda in Modern India

This book examines the history and evolution of Ayurveda and other indigenous medical traditions in juxtaposition with their encounter with colonial modernity. Through the lens of hereditary folk and Ayurvedic practitioners it focuses on Kerala’s heterogeneous medical traditions and presents them against the backdrop of the geographical historical sociocultural ethnographic and regional contexts in which they developed and transformed. The author explores the world of Kerala’s last traditionally trained hereditary practitioners (folk healers poison therapists Sanskrit-speaking Muslim Ayurvedic practitioners and the legendary Brahman Ashtavaidyan physicians). He discusses the views of these physicians regarding the marked difference between their personalised ancestral methods of treatment and the standardised version of Ayurveda compliant with biomedicine that is practised by doctors today. Drawing on extensive fieldwork this book will be useful to researchers and scholars of medical anthropology health and social medicine sociology and social anthropology the history of science and modern Indian history as well as to medical practitioners interested in alternative and traditional medicine. | Hereditary Physicians of Kerala Traditional Medicine and Ayurveda in Modern India

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Reclaiming Public Universities Comparative Reflections for Reforms

Reclaiming Public Universities Comparative Reflections for Reforms

This book explores the nature of public universities and higher education reforms in emerging economies with a focus on India South Africa and Brazil. Drawing on context-based case studies the essays in the volume highlight the state of public universities amongst the developing world with their shared colonial past and social caste and race inequalities. Based on comparative and multidisciplinary studies the book provides a critical account of the policy reforms and changes on account of globalization and markets in higher education in public universities of the Global South regions. The chapters also compare methodological approaches to university reform and restructuring of public universities and higher education systems in USA Australia the European Union and India and examine the California model the Bologna process the Melbourne model the University of Delhi reforms and engage critically with the New Public Management inspired reform policies. The book further lays the groundwork for understanding 'massification' in a contextual way and the possibilities for expansion of scale of mass higher education through public provision. With its empirical findings and social theory analyses by global experts the volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of education higher education sociology and social anthropology development studies public policy and administration politics political economy and Global South studies. It will also be useful to educationists policymakers and civil society organizations. | Reclaiming Public Universities Comparative Reflections for Reforms

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