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New Media and Public Diplomacy Political Communication in India the United States and China

New Media and Public Diplomacy Political Communication in India the United States and China

This book examines the role of new media and digital technologies in public diplomacy and political communication. Exploring political communication in India as well as in the US and China it highlights the fundamental changes that new technology has brought about in public diplomacy. While facilitating direct engagement with constituents and tapping into territories and audiences which were harder to reach before the new media’s power to influence perceptions has revolutionised public diplomacy and engagement like never before. While managing national brands utilizing digital tools has emerged imperative for contemporary nation states they are equally engaged in online disinformation and influence campaigns. This book analyzes these activities and also emphasizes the critical role of social media in defining and shaping political attitudes while empowering the ordinary public and the leadership alike. The author through examples from India the US and China also examines the challenges of using digital tools in diplomacy and its effects on democracies across the world. Lucid and engaging this book will be an essential read for students and scholars of communication studies political studies diplomacy and foreign policy defence and strategic analysis media and culture studies and international relations. | New Media and Public Diplomacy Political Communication in India the United States and China

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The Textile Industry and Exports in Post-Liberalization India

The Textile Industry and Exports in Post-Liberalization India

This book is a comprehensive examination of the Indian textile industry and the various determinants affecting its export performance trends in labour and capital productivity in the post-liberalization years. Employing 45 million people including skilled and unskilled workers the Indian textile and clothing industry occupies a significant position in the Indian economy in terms of industrial production employment and exports. This work traces the growth and expansion of this industry in the post-reform period and studies its contributions to the economic development of the nation. It discusses global trade agreements India’s share in international exports and its major trading partners across the globe including the USA UK UAE Germany China. It also provides recommendations to Indian policy makers for a possible improvement in the textile exports across the globe. The Textile Industry and Exports in Post-Liberalization India will be of interest to students and researchers of politics and international relations economics development studies labour economics sociology and social policy and South Asian studies.

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In an Outpost of the Global Economy Work and Workers in India's Information Technology Industry

In an Outpost of the Global Economy Work and Workers in India's Information Technology Industry

While much has been written on the growth of information technology (IT) and IT-enabled services in India little is known about the people who work in these industries about the nature of the work itself and about its wider social and cultural ramifications. The papers in this collection combine empirical research with theoretical insight to fil | In an Outpost of the Global Economy Work and Workers in India's Information Technology Industry

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Learning without Burden Where are We a Quarter Century after the Yash Pal Committee Report

Learning without Burden Where are We a Quarter Century after the Yash Pal Committee Report

This book looks at education reforms planning and policy through an exploration of the Yash Pal Committee report (1993) in India which made recommendations to improve the quality of learning while reducing cognitive burden on students. It analyses the wide-ranging impact the report had on curriculum pedagogy teacher education reforms and the national policy on education. The book examines the legacy of the report tracing the various deliberations and critical engagements with issues around literacy language and mathematics learning curriculum reforms and classroom practices assessment and evaluation. It reviews contemporary developments in research on learning in diverse disciplines and languages through the lens of the recommendations made by the Learning without Burden report while engaging with challenges and systemic issues which limit inclusivity and access to quality education. Drawing on extensive research and first-hand academic and teaching experience this book will attract attention and interest of students and researchers of educational policy and analysis linguistics sociology and South Asian studies. It will also be of interest to policy makers think tanks and civil society organisations. | Learning without Burden Where are We a Quarter Century after the Yash Pal Committee Report

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Perspectives in Sustainable Management Practices

Perspectives in Sustainable Management Practices

Embracing sustainable management practices is important for businesses and commercial organizations wishing to responsibly contribute to the socioeconomic development of societies and communities. This book provides insights into recent trends issues and challenges in embracing these practices while promoting growth and innovation in business. The COVID-19 pandemic has redefined the necessity of implementing sustainable practices. This book looks at the process implementation and evaluation of sustainable practices in the social and commercial sectors in recent years. With case studies from different industries these chapters explore and document creative applications of effective measures to chart out financial growth for businesses while reducing carbon emissions focusing on corporate social responsibility and working toward socio-economic sustainability for workers and communities among others. They also examine how these innovative strategies can be scaled up and applied across diverse industries for small and large businesses and in different economic environments. Part of the Contemporary Management Practices series this book will be useful to practising managers researchers and students who are interested in business strategy financial strategy and social inclusion. It will be especially of use to those working in the areas of corporate governance corporate social responsibility green marketing corporate finance and organizational performance. | Perspectives in Sustainable Management Practices

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Chakshudana or Opening the Eyes Seeing South Asian Art Anew

Chakshudana or Opening the Eyes Seeing South Asian Art Anew

Chakshudana or rituals of opening the eyes are practiced across multiple South Asian communities by artists sculptors and priests. The ritual offers gods access to the mortal world. This practice applied to the study of material and visual culture offers a distinctive perspective to interrogate the complex engagements with paintings sculptures found objects fragments built environments and ecologies. This volume takes the process of seeing as its focus—to look closely remaining true to the object but also to see widely—from multiple subjective stances and diverse bodily engagements such as walking to dreaming glancing to looking askance hypnotic stares and to see beyond the visible. It examines art history through nuanced considerations of materiality aesthetics and regional specificities. The essays emerge from current research that builds on the contributions of Michael W. Meister W. Norman Brown Distinguished Professor of History of Art and South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania whose works laid the foundations for the study of South Asian visual and material culture. The essays in this book underscore methodological resonances rather than privileging conventional categories of media or chronology exploring artistic media including temples and paintings as well as Bengali-quilted textiles manuscript ‘lozenges ’ and metal repousse. This volume part of the Visual Media and Histories Series will be of interest to students and researchers of history of art religious studies and history as well as the allied disciplines of anthropology and folklore studies. Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Chakshudana or Opening the Eyes Seeing South Asian Art Anew

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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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Pandita Ramabai Life and landmark writings

Pandita Ramabai Life and landmark writings

This book looks at the life of Pandita Ramabai one of the major social reformers of 19th-century India. Her unique life trajectory spanned across a pan-Indian orthodox Hindu mould to being part of Brahmo Samaj and Prarthana Samaj and further to Christianity. At the age of 30 she had travelled widely within India and across the world from USA and UK in the West to Japan in the Far East. She reported these fascinating journeys to international friends and fellow Maharashtrians in both English and Marathi. Fighting conservatism and marginalization she set up several projects to empower women notably the Sharada Sadan in Mumbai and the Mukti Mission in Kedgaon near Pune in Maharashtra. This work locates Pandita Ramabai within her liminal social milieu and discursive networks during various phases of her life and traces her diverse ideological routes along with her critical writings some of which have been retrieved and/or presented in English translation here for the first time including The High-Caste Hindu Woman and the newly discovered Voyage to England. Offering a comprehensive insight into aspects of 19th-century Indian society — religion and reform women’s rights and feminism social movements poverty and colonialism — this book will greatly interest researchers and students of South Asian history sociology and gender studies. | Pandita Ramabai Life and landmark writings

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Changing Theory Concepts from the Global South

Changing Theory Concepts from the Global South

This book is an original systematic and radical attempt at decolonizing critical theory. Drawing on linguistic concepts from 16 languages from Asia Africa the Arab world and South America the essays in the volume explore the entailments of words while discussing their conceptual implications for the humanities and the social sciences everywhere. The essays engage in the work of thinking through words to generate a conceptual vocabulary that will allow for a global conversation on social theory which will be necessarily multilingual. With essays by scholars across generations and from a variety of disciplines – history anthropology and philosophy to literature and political theory – this book will be essential reading for scholars researchers and students of critical theory and the social sciences. | Changing Theory Concepts from the Global South

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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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Education for Fullness A Study of the Educational Thought and Experiment of Rabindranath Tagore

Education for Fullness A Study of the Educational Thought and Experiment of Rabindranath Tagore

This volume is the first comprehensive exploration of Rabindranath Tagore’s works on education and pedagogy. It presents a valuable account of the creation of Santiniketan and Visva-Bharati Tagore’s vision of social regeneration and his rejection of the colonial scheme; while reflecting on significant events of his life and his ideas. The book evaluates Tagore’s unique contribution to education and discusses his views on fundamental issues such as aim method discipline and medium. It reinforces for readers today the relevance of his experiments and activities in the field of education. Drawing from various sources the book also offers bibliographic information on Tagore’s writing on education. This new edition with a new Introduction and Foreword will be of immense value to educationists teachers policymakers and those interested in modern Indian history and the philosophy of education. | Education for Fullness A Study of the Educational Thought and Experiment of Rabindranath Tagore

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Rethinking State Politics in India Regions within Regions

Rethinking State Politics in India Regions within Regions

In recent decades India has been witness to the assertion of geographically culturally and historically constituted distinct and well-defined regions that display ethnic communal caste and other social–political cleavages. This book examines the changing configurations of state politics in India. Focussing on identity politics and development it explores the specificities of the regions within states — not merely as politico-administrative constructs but also as conceived in historical geographic economic sociological or cultural terms. Adopting a comparative approach the book looks at alternative theoretical approaches — the quest for homeland identity caste politics and public policy. This second edition includes a new Introduction that updates the research in the area while further developing the theoretical framework. One of the first major volumes on federalism in India including studies from across the nation this book will be indispensable for students and scholars of political science sociology history and South Asian studies. | Rethinking State Politics in India Regions within Regions

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Decolonizing Consciousness Reclaiming the Indian Psychology of Well-being

Decolonizing Consciousness Reclaiming the Indian Psychology of Well-being

The book intertwines several strands of scholarship in Indian Philosophy contemporary psychology and the lived Indian psychological practice inclusive of Yoga advaita tantra and bhakti to engage in an exploration of consciousness cognitive science and philosophy. The book examines the characteristics of consciousness by situating it in the historical and cultural contexts of Euro-American as well as Asian particularly Indian philosophical tradition specifically the Bhakti tradition and creative living. The volume decolonizes the understanding of the ecology of consciousness while accounting for the diverse strands which have given us a unique understanding of the mind psychology cognition and philosophy of the mind. This book will be of interest to students teachers and scholars of psychology consciousness studies cognitive science philosophy social psychology Yoga studies and Yoga psychology. It will also be useful for Yoga professionals social workers therapists and anyone who is interested to learn about consciousness. | Decolonizing Consciousness Reclaiming the Indian Psychology of Well-being

GBP 120.00
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Armed Conflicts in South Asia 2011 The Promise and Threat of Transformation

Armed Conflicts in South Asia 2011 The Promise and Threat of Transformation

Fourth in the annual series this volume reviews the transformative changes which have emerged in the armed conflicts in South Asia in 2010 several of these with long and convoluted histories including the conflicts in Jammu & Kashmir northeast India and the Naxalite movement in central India; as also issues of autonomy in Balochistan the FATA region in Pakistan the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh and the Terai foothills in Nepal. The book examines whether armed conflicts have transformed since their inception; or only metamorphosed into the sullen acceptance that could usher future violence. While conflicts in South Asia have been interspersed with peace efforts the book looks at the complex trajectories that such attempts have taken. Specifically it identifies three regions where most significant transformative trends were witnessed in South Asia in 2010: conflict-ridden Sri Lanka Af-Pak and the Naxalite regions of India. | Armed Conflicts in South Asia 2011 The Promise and Threat of Transformation

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Higher Education and Professional Ethics Roles and Responsibilities of Teachers

Higher Education and Professional Ethics Roles and Responsibilities of Teachers

This book discusses the significance relevance and usefulness of professional ethics in the context of higher education. It highlights the pivotal role of professional ethics in offering teachers a better understanding of their responsibilities duties rights and institutional obligations as they work to provide quality education. The volume investigates the connection between the adoption of professional ethics by individual faculty members in higher education and the development of work cultures in higher educational institutions. It explores the requisite modifications of the Teachers’ Code of Ethics in relation to the usage of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in teaching–learning platforms. While examining the validity reliability and application of professional ethics in the higher education sector the book also illustrates the application of codes of ethics to resolve conflicting interests and commitments. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers in higher education the philosophy of education applied ethics public policy and the social sciences. | Higher Education and Professional Ethics Roles and Responsibilities of Teachers

GBP 44.99
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Ethnicity and Adivasi Identity in Bangladesh

Ethnicity and Adivasi Identity in Bangladesh

This book explores the transitions in the adivasi identity as well as in the political representation of adivasi communities in Bangladesh. It traces the use of categories such as “primitive” “tribe” and “adivasi” in post-colonial Bangladesh both in the political discourse and in everyday life. The volume studies the history of these essentialized categories used for indigenous communities within the hierarchies of power and identity. It also analyses the diverse articulations of indigeneity through ethnographic narratives exploring the formations of newer traditions and identity. The author highlights the persistence of the terms “simple” and “primitive” in contemporary discourses while also sharing examples of complex mediations and appropriation of these categories by adivasi groups in Bangladesh. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of sociology social ethnography social and cultural anthropology indigenous studies exclusion studies development studies political sociology and South Asian studies. | Ethnicity and Adivasi Identity in Bangladesh

GBP 120.00
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Socio-political Ideas of Aurobindo Ghose

Socio-political Ideas of Aurobindo Ghose

By focusing on the socio-political ideas of the nationalist Aurobindo Ghosh (1872-1950) the book is an analytical dissection of his ideational vision which is still a relatively under-studied area of nationalist thoughts. During the perod 1893-1910 Ghosh radically altered the texture of Indian nationalism by dwelling on how nationalism flourished in different parts of India particularly Japan Italy and Ireland. conceptually different from the prevalent form of nationalist voice it was he who clearly charted out a new course for anti-British campaign that fully unfolded with the appearance of Gandhi (1869-1948) on the Indian political scene. So Aurobindo's politico-ideological vision ushered in a new era in the nationalist battle for India's political emancipation. Not only is the book therefore an intervention in the nationalist thought but also devised new conceptual parameters for comprehending the radicalization of politico-ideological voices while simultaneously mobilizing those who were ready to make supreme sacrifices for the cause. | Socio-political Ideas of Aurobindo Ghose

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Field Instruction in Social Work Education The Indian Experience

Field Instruction in Social Work Education The Indian Experience

A comprehensive guide to social work praxis this book provides a clear conceptual understanding of fieldwork supervision in India. It elaborates on the dynamic components of fieldwork instruction – the methodologies and effective strategies the supervisor–student–agency triad challenges and the future. The volume underlines the importance of student mentoring and the imperative need to develop creative and competent strategies to make fieldwork education more responsive and effective. It also emphasises the need for the inclusion of social justice-oriented perspectives and approaches in fieldwork training in India. Instructive and anecdotal the chapters in this volume reflect on the challenges which students and supervisors face on a regular basis in different environments while dealing with critical circumstances. The focus of the book is to delineate strategies and approaches which promote skill building and the ability in students to understand sociocultural contexts of the field and engage with them effectively. This volume will be an essential resource for social work educators field practitioners and students of social work law public policy sociology and social entrepreneurship. | Field Instruction in Social Work Education The Indian Experience

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Globalization and Sense-Making Practices Phenomenologies of the Global Local and Glocal

Globalization and Sense-Making Practices Phenomenologies of the Global Local and Glocal

This book presents a critical analysis of sense-making practices through an exploration of acoustic creative and artistic spaces. It studies how local cultures of sight hearing smell taste and touch are impacted by global discourses and media such as television popular music digital media and literature. The authors look at sense-making practices and spatial discourses through an interconnected discussion on thought and experience that seeks to present a multidimensional cartography of the global the local and the glocal to closely analyze the phenomenon of globalization. The volume is an investigation of the possibilities of alternate sustainable modes of being and existing in a world which requires a unified ethical biopolitical worldview that challenges the disparity of its fragments while speculating on their synesthetic conditionality. A unique contribution the book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of English literature media studies cultural studies literary cultures post-colonial studies globalization studies philosophy critical theory sociology and social anthropology. | Globalization and Sense-Making Practices Phenomenologies of the Global Local and Glocal

GBP 130.00
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Psychology and Gender An Advanced Reader

Psychology and Gender An Advanced Reader

This book provides an understanding of how psychology and gender are closely interrelated. It examines critiques and debunks some of the theoretical premises from mainstream psychology while remaining mindful and respectful of their utilities. The book brings together psychological concepts theories and paradigms and examines how they interplay with gender studies going beyond the typical understanding of gender as merely demographic variable. The volume discusses important concepts such as gender role development and interpersonal relationships across caste class genders sexualities race and region. It also studies the significant link between psychology and gender and with feminism women’s studies the women’s movement the queer movement queer studies as well as other social movements. It uses an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach all through. This book will appeal to students researchers and teachers of psychology applied psychology gender and women studies sociology practitioners activists those working in not-for-profit organizations and those working specifically on engendering psychology. The book will also be valuable reading for those interested in South Asian studies and other interdisciplinary courses in social sciences. | Psychology and Gender An Advanced Reader

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Postpositivist International Relations Theory A Globalist Restructuring

Postpositivist International Relations Theory A Globalist Restructuring

This book discusses postpositivist theories foregrounding postpositivism against the reigning realist and positivist–pluralist orthodoxies. The book explicates seven theories not as disparate endeavours but as developments linked by a common thread that seeks to enunciate globalist emancipatory goals for the theoretical field and the world that these theories seek to change. It focuses on the following themes: feminism environmentalism or green theory the English School critical theory constructivism postmodernism and postcolonialism. Additionally a separate chapter on globalization shows that while mainstream (neo)realist international relations theories respond hostilely to globalization and liberal-pluralist theories react benignly to it postpositivist theories positively welcome it. The book offers a competent meta-theoretical gridwork showing on which side of the opposing disciplinary positions in the fourth debate each of the seven theories are located. It is a comprehensive guide to the postpositivist restructuring of the discipline of international relations. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of political science international relations history humanities and literature. | Postpositivist International Relations Theory A Globalist Restructuring

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Homelessness Research Practice and Policy

Homelessness Research Practice and Policy

This book provides insights into the experiences of ‘homelessness’ while exploring its psychological and socio-economic dimensions. Hunger addiction and disability which often accompany homelessness are brought into focus and discussed within the frameworks of promoting social welfare and enabling human capability in this volume. Based on the author’s ethnographic and quantitative research on homeless families living on the streets of Delhi this book identifies some of the most acute problems associated with homelessness. It analyzes the causes of homelessness and draws connections between social bonds and family socio-economic status and psychopathology. It also includes personal accounts of hardship and trauma which quantify the systematic discrimination and marginalization that people living on the streets face. The volume offers policy recommendations to protect the right to self-determination dignity and self-efficacy of the homeless and help rehabilitate them. It will be a useful guide for students and researchers of social sciences specializing in psychology sociology economics and development studies. The book will also be of interest to mental health professionals and policy-makers in designing effective strategies. | Homelessness Research Practice and Policy

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The Kantian Subject New Interpretative Essays

The Kantian Subject New Interpretative Essays

This book presents a critical reconsideration of the Kantian cognitive and practical subject. Special attention is devoted to highlighting the complex relation between subjectivity as it is presented in the three critiques and the way in which it is construed in other writings in particular the Anthropology. While for Kant our cognitive apparatus and the structure of our will are common to all humans the anthropological subject reveals degrees of variation depending on a myriad of external circumstances that pose a challenge to the unity of Kant’s account and await theoretical solutions. The chapters collected in the volume delve into how the different shapes of human nature are not unrelated. They explore how and why different ‘Kantian subjects’ are closely connected at their core if not entirely unified. The notions of personality humanity and citizenship will serve as leading threads for the reconstruction of this possible underlying unity. An engaging read that promises to deepen our understanding of human nature the volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of philosophy politics psychology social anthropology ethics and epistemology. | The Kantian Subject New Interpretative Essays

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