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What is Pluralism?

What is Pluralism?

Is pluralism inherent to the human condition? Does it have its origins in the diversity of cultures? Are disagreements among individuals the same as disagreements among societies? Focusing on these critical questions essential to the understanding of modern societies this book traces the origins of pluralism in contemporary political thought and presents new original interpretations of the idea by contemporary philosophers. The chapters in the volume bring clarity into an ongoing fractious debate and reveal the underlying roots and fissures in our understanding of a dynamic and contested idea. Drawing on the works of John Rawls Jürgen Habermas and other major political philosophers they delve into the different strands of the concept their possible real-world political outcomes and popular misconceptions. A key text this volume will be essential reading for scholars and researchers of politics political theory and philosophy and social theory. | What is Pluralism?

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What Is Critical in Language Studies Disclosing Social Inequalities and Injustice

What Is Critical in Language Studies Disclosing Social Inequalities and Injustice

This volume examines the notion of criticality in language studies. Drawing on the work of the Frankfurt School – Adorno Habermas Horkheimer and Marcuse among others – the chapters in the volume examine a variety of linguistic contexts: from gender activism to web journalism from the classroom to the open streets. It also presents theoretical and methodological guidelines to researchers interested in • Expanding their critical outlook for meaning brought on by the notion of criticality in contemporary language studies. • Understanding criticality in languages through historical political and social perspectives. • Using linguistics and language studies as tools to dissect and disclose social injustices. This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of language studies and linguistics philosophy politics and sociology and social policy. | What Is Critical in Language Studies Disclosing Social Inequalities and Injustice

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The Bhagavad-Gita for the Modern Reader History interpretations and philosophy

The Bhagavad-Gita for the Modern Reader History interpretations and philosophy

What is the Bhagavad-Gita? Is it just a religious text? When was it composed? How relevant is it to the modern world? This book answers these foundational questions and goes beyond. It critically examines the Bhagavad-Gita in terms of its liberal humanist and inclusive appeal bringing out its significance for the present times and novel applicati | The Bhagavad-Gita for the Modern Reader History interpretations and philosophy

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Food and Nutrition Systems in Urban India Towards Disentitlement

Food and Nutrition Systems in Urban India Towards Disentitlement

This book explores identity-mediated dynamics of food and nutrition entitlement in urban India analysing concerns around equity access to food and public health. The issues of disentitlement and identity dynamics when it comes to nutrition and health are more intricate in the urban context due to a greater population and cultural diversity. While in the global north urban food planning is increasingly dependent on local government in developing countries urban nutrition is yet to be considered a serious policy issue. This book with a disaggregated analysis for urban India and an in-depth case study of Mumbai examines how malnutrition in India is becoming an urban challenge. It discusses how far caste religion and migratory identities serve as a source of deprivation and analyses the role of local governance particularly municipal governance and urban planning in facilitating the disentitlement. It also offers suggestions for the global south to reverse the stark inequality in its urban centres and address nutrition challenges by developing their own sustainable and resilient food systems. This book is an essential read for scholars and researchers of public health nutrition urban sociology urban planning development studies political sociology public policy and political studies. | Food and Nutrition Systems in Urban India Towards Disentitlement

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Hindu–Muslim Relations What Europe Might Learn from India

Hindu–Muslim Relations What Europe Might Learn from India

This book reconstructs Hindu–Muslim relations from a European standpoint. Drawing from the Indian context the author explores options for Western Europe – a region grappling with the refugee crisis and populist reactions to the growth of Muslim minorities. The author shows how India can serve not only as a model but also as a warning for Europe. For example European liberals may learn not only from the achievements of Indian secularism but also from its crisis. Based on extensive interviews with Indians from diverse backgrounds from politicians to social activists and from the middle class to slum dwellers the volume investigates a wide range of perspectives: Hindu and Muslim religious and secular moderate and militant. Relevant engaging and accessible this book speaks to a broad audience of concerned citizens and policy makers. Scholars of political science sociology modern history cultural studies and South Asian studies will be particularly interested. | Hindu–Muslim Relations What Europe Might Learn from India

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The Call for Recognition Naturalizing Political Norms

The Call for Recognition Naturalizing Political Norms

This book builds a case for how social norms are neither mere conventions nor are they merely anthropological phenomena which are relativistic. In other words it talks about how socio-political norms are built out of our natural social behaviour but at the same time also have objective normative validity. The volume puts forth an alternative model called the recognitional model which can help us address some of the socio-political concerns we face in today’s world. It addresses the problem with a purely legalistic framework of addressing social injustice in that law due its universalistic assumptions regarding human nature tends to glide over the particular differences that might exist between people. This book discusses how we know that in our daily lives we value people not only because that person is a legal human being but also because that person is our father mother our teacher etc. There is a whole network of acts of social respect that we engage in with the other in our social sphere which the legal framework can’t quite capture. This volume sheds light on the political consequence of legal reasoning in that it is formalistic in the sense that legal relations can’t successfully codify the immediate epistemic context from which social identities emerge. An introspective work this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of linguistics political philosophy law and human rights and social theory. | The Call for Recognition Naturalizing Political Norms

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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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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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Reversals of Fortune Why the Hierarchy Of Nations So Often Turns Topsy-Turvy

Reversals of Fortune Why the Hierarchy Of Nations So Often Turns Topsy-Turvy

Why has history so often turned the economic and political hierarchy of nations topsy-turvy? This book examines the evidence of the last 500 years to challenge the two dominant narratives on the answers to this question. It argues that the explanation lies neither in the quality of institutions that societies possess nor in their capacities for technological innovation. What matters for the economic and political success of a country it claims is the interaction between current technological knowledge and global demand on the one hand and its geography and the population it inherits from its past on the other. Those societies succeed whose endowments best fit the requirements of current technology and world demand. It hardly matters who developed the technology. In the process of examining the patterns that inform the fates of nations over time Reversals of Fortune charts the economic histories of Western Europe and Asia from the sixteenth century to the present day. A compelling tour de force this book reshapes and rethinks global history. The volume will be a fascinating read for scholars of history and economics especially economic history and human geography. | Reversals of Fortune Why the Hierarchy Of Nations So Often Turns Topsy-Turvy

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The COVID-19 Pandemic The Deadly Coronavirus Outbreak

The COVID-19 Pandemic The Deadly Coronavirus Outbreak

This book presents a comprehensive account of the COVID-19 pandemic also known as the novel coronavirus pandemic as it happened. This volume examines the first responses to the COVID-19 pandemic the contexts of earlier epidemics and the epidemiological basics of infectious diseases. Further it discusses patterns in the spread of the disease; the management and containment of infections at the personal national and global level; effects on trade and commerce; the social and psychological impact on people; the disruption and postponement of international events; the role of various international organizations like the WHO in the search for solutions; and the race for a vaccine or a cure. Based on new data and latest developments the second edition of this volume explores the global spread of COVID-19 since 2019 and examines the emergence of the evolving coronavirus variants (Alpha Beta Gamma Delta and Omicron). Further it extensively discusses what we have since discovered on the disease along with recent progress on treatments and vaccines. Authored by a medical professional and an economist working on the frontlines this book gives a nuanced verified and fact-checked analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic and its global response. A one-stop resource on the COVID-19 outbreak it is indispensable for every reader and a holistic work for scholars and researchers of medical sociology public health political economy public policy and governance sociology of health and medicine and paramedical and medical practitioners. It will also be a great resource for policymakers government departments and civil society organizations working in the area. | The COVID-19 Pandemic The Deadly Coronavirus Outbreak

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SacredSecular Contemplative Cultural Critique

SacredSecular Contemplative Cultural Critique

What would it mean to conceive of the sacred as a source of knowledge that is as vital as the secular? What insights does a contemplative approach yield in analysing neoliberal globalisation or Hindu fundamentalism? Is a dew drop sacred or is it secular? In today‘s charged atmosphere many believe that the sacred is best kept firmly apart from the realm of the secular. SacredSecular: Contemplative Cultural Critique offers a contrasting view. It argues that the two are indivisible and can productively interweave in illuminating key contemporary issues. Essays investigate the quotidian (trash cut flowers) the philosophical (advaita karma) the economic (work globalisation) and the political (war violence). Mani invites us to rethink the prevailing view that secularism is the only progressive response to religious authoritarianism. SacredSecular proposes a conceptual approach in which body mind heart nature matter and spirit are not merely equals but equally crucial to crafting an inclusive vision and practice. This book addresses several audiences: scholars of contemporary Indian society and culture spiritual practitioners striving to integrate their practice with their politics and all those interested in contemplating the present and what it portends for our collective future. | SacredSecular Contemplative Cultural Critique

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An Alternative Development Agenda for India

An Alternative Development Agenda for India

This book provides a revamped transformative and fiscally sustainable developmental agenda for India to radically improve the well-being and livelihoods of its citizens. Grounded in a ‘people first’ approach this alternative agenda focuses on seven vital development and inter-connected areas including health education food and nutrition child development gender livelihood and jobs and urbanization. The volume highlights the systemic issues plaguing these sectors and offers pragmatic and implementable solutions to address them. The author takes cognizance of the COVID-19 pandemic and draws attention to the limitations of the current public policies and suggests cost-effective interventions and strategies that focus on the poor. The volume discusses crucial themes of universalizing healthcare battling malnutrition and food insecurity ensuring quality schooling unshackling gendered mindsets enhancing livelihoods and improving the urban quality of life to spell out a pragmatic and workable development agenda for India. Accessible and reader-friendly the book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of development studies economics public policy governance development policy public administration political studies South Asia studies. It will also be of interest to professionals in the development sector. | An Alternative Development Agenda for India

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Literature Language and the Classroom Essays for Promodini Varma

Literature Language and the Classroom Essays for Promodini Varma

This book is a Festschrift dedicated to Promodini Varma a meticulous scholar teacher and administrator of extraordinary rigour grit and perception. It presents reflections on researching and teaching English literatures and languages in India. It concerns itself broadly with literary modernism and English language teaching and classroom pedagogy some of the core concerns of the literary fraternity today. The volume examines how the literary and cultural manifestations of modernity have pervasively informed not just much of our disciplinary framework but many of the key issues—decolonisation globalisation development—our society grapples with. With essays on William Butler Yeats Arthur Conan Doyle E. M. Forster D. H. Lawrence and Rudyard Kipling the volume presents fresh insights on familiar canonical ground. It discusses ELT and classroom pedagogy and provides grounded appraisals of teaching and translating for multilingual classroom audiences given the demands of employability and the hierarchical dynamics of educational institutions. An interview on feminist pedagogy and theatre and an essay on urban nostalgia and redevelopment act as pertinent outliers reflecting the ongoing transition to more multi-sited and interdisciplinary research and praxis. An engaging read on some of the most pressing concerns in the field this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature and literary criticism English language studies and education. | Literature Language and the Classroom Essays for Promodini Varma

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The Second Partition of Palestine Hamas–Fatah Struggle for Power

The Second Partition of Palestine Hamas–Fatah Struggle for Power

This book examines the factors and issues responsible for the intra-Palestinian conflict that has undermined the strength and vitality of the struggle for liberation against the state of Israel. It explores how the ideological incompatibility and competition for political primacy account for the Hamas–Fatah conflict entailing the risk of partition of Palestine even before it takes shape as an independent sovereign entity. It analyzes the developments since the signing of the September 1993 Oslo Accord and discusses themes such as the background of Palestinian politics; the role of Fatah; the rise of Hamas as Fatah’s political rival; the Hamas–Fatah struggle for power; and the role played by the international community including by the US and the European Union. The study deals with the various facets of territorial and political challenges faced by the rival Palestinian actions; the failure of the reconciliation efforts by Egypt and Yemen; the stalled peace process in the West Bank and Gaza Strip; the emergence of the Islamic resistance movement and secular nationalist party; and the political and ideological shifts in Palestinian politics. Comprehensive and topical this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of West Asian studies peace and conflict studies politics and international relations foreign policy political studies area studies and strategic and defence studies. | The Second Partition of Palestine Hamas–Fatah Struggle for Power

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Undernutrition and Public Policy in India Investing in the future

Undernutrition and Public Policy in India Investing in the future

Despite substantial economic growth India has one of the highest undernutrition rates in the world; it is home to almost 40 per cent of the world’s stunted children. This volume assesses the status and causes of undernutrition in the country and examines the effectiveness of policies designed to address undernutrition. The essays tackle wide-ranging themes and challenging issues including nutrition; water sanitation and hygiene (WASH); maternal neonatal and child health; Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS); Public Distribution System (PDS); crop procurement; and National Food Security Act 2013. With contributions from leading academic researchers policymakers as well as civil society representatives this volume will be indispensable to scholars teachers and students of public policy development economics development sociology and Indian economy. It will also be useful to government institutions think tanks and NGOs. | Undernutrition and Public Policy in India Investing in the future

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Political Ecology of Everyday Resistance and State Building A Case of the Ho of Jharkhand

Political Ecology of Everyday Resistance and State Building A Case of the Ho of Jharkhand

Resource extraction and conflicts over natural resources are a global phenomenon including in India. Indigenous tribes like the Ho community in Jharkhand are affected by these dynamics as their cultural practices and livelihoods are intertwined with the local ecology. This book explores the process of state formation through developmental intervention in the resource-rich areas of Jharkhand in eastern India which are inhabited by the indigenous Ho community. The conflict in Jharkhand is intertwined with State development projects and capitalist interventions. This book examines the history of these projects and the issues of territorialization dispossession accumulation and marginalization which communities have been fighting against for many decades. It examines the process of development policies and projects shaping and restructuring the resource-rich ecology in the region and addresses the interrelated issues of development-induced dispossession resistance ecological transformation governance illegalities and state-building. It focuses on the questions: what do development projects bring to the Ho community; what induces them to resist and negotiate? How do State decentralization schemes and local governance in resource conflict areas strengthen State capacities? The book highlights the consequences on the livelihoods and cultural practices of the local people because of ecological transformation and everyday resistance. Comprehensive and important this book will be of interest to students and researchers of anthropology sociology political ecology social work development studies ecology developmental sociology indigenous studies law and economic anthropology. | Political Ecology of Everyday Resistance and State Building A Case of the Ho of Jharkhand

GBP 130.00
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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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The Challenge of Enlightenment Conflict Transformation and Peace in Pakistan

The Challenge of Enlightenment Conflict Transformation and Peace in Pakistan

This book looks at the process of cultural enlightenment in the context of Pakistan. It undertakes an interesting and in-depth research focusing on how the world’s second largest Muslim state can learn from Europe’s heritage of enlightenment. It studies why Pakistan lacks a process of awakening and what the scope of cultural enlightenment in Pakistan is against the backdrop of militant Islam. The author argues that cultural enlightenment can help promote positive conflict transformation in Pakistan and discusses the ways in which challenges to establishing a culture of reasoning tolerance accommodation social justice and peace can be dealt with. A unique contribution this book will be of interest to students and researchers of philosophy political science history international relations South Asian studies and religious studies. It will also appeal to think tanks policymakers and general readers interested in these topics. | The Challenge of Enlightenment Conflict Transformation and Peace in Pakistan

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Kings Spirits and Memory in Central India Enchanting the State

Kings Spirits and Memory in Central India Enchanting the State

Part anthropological history and part memoir this book is a unique study of the polity of the colonial-princely state of Kanker in central India. The author a scion of the erstwhile ruling family of Kanker delves into the oral accounts given in the ancestral deity practices of the mixed tribe-caste communities of the region to highlight popular narratives of its historical polity. As he struggles with his own dilemmas as ethnographer-king what comes into view is a polity where the princely state is drawn out amidst a terrain of gods and spirits as much as that of law courts and magistrates and political power is divided contested and shared between the raja/state and the people. This study constitutes not only an intervention in the larger debate on the relationship between state formations and tribal peoples but also on the very nature of history as a knowledge practice especially the understandings of power authority and sovereignty in it. Combining intensive ethnography complementary archival work and crucial theoretical questions engaging social scientists worldwide the author charts an unusual explanatory path that can allow us to obtain a meaningful understanding of societies/peoples that have historically been marginalized and seen as different. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of history anthropology politics religion tribal society and Modern South Asia. | Kings Spirits and Memory in Central India Enchanting the State

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Understanding the China Threat

Understanding the China Threat

This book examines the contours of the Sino-American confrontation and its future trajectories. It delineates the two major causes of the friction in Sino-American relations—change in the balance of power in China’s favor and the conf licting ideologies of the two states—and emphasizes why it is imperative for the U. S. to hold on to its ideological principles. It demonstrates the ultimate and irreconcilable gap in the visions the two competitors have for international politics and consequently why conf lict—certainly cold and very possibly hot—is inevitable. The authors also suggest measures which the U. S. can adopt to sustain its leadership and deter China’s ideology and vision for the future of global politics. A significant contribution to the study of Sino-American relations the volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers of international relations foreign policy and U. S. and Chinese politics. It will be of great interest to think tanks public policy professionals and the interested general reader. | Understanding the China Threat

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Indigenous Question Land Appropriation and Development Understanding the Conflict in Jharkhand India

Indigenous Question Land Appropriation and Development Understanding the Conflict in Jharkhand India

This book provides a first-hand account of land conflict and power relations in one of the most resource-rich states in India — Jharkhand. Through the eyes of the state corporate and indigenous actors it reveals how conflict over land in Jharkhand is firmly embedded in the ideological foundations of the key actors in the region. Based on thorough research on the ground and interviews with state corporate and indigenous actors the book explores a host of themes such as: the need and efficacy of state-led modernisation programmes the market as the best regulator and ‘ideas’ of development. The volume highlights how land conflicts in Jharkhand will persist until the ideological differences are recognised and welcomed in hopes of making way for collaborative governance. This work will be a key intervention in the fields of area studies especially South Asian studies public policy politics and development studies. | Indigenous Question Land Appropriation and Development Understanding the Conflict in Jharkhand India

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The Santal Rebellion 1855–1856 The Call of Thakur

The Santal Rebellion 1855–1856 The Call of Thakur

The book presents a new interpretation of the Santal Rebellion the Hul 1855–1856 drawing on the colonial sources as well as Santal memories. It offers a critique of postcolonial approaches that overlook specifically tribal perspectives and see the Hul as a class-based peasant rebellion. The author analyses the Hul and its participants—the Santals and their opponents both the colonial administration and the Bengalis. He also looks at the attempts of the Hul’s leaders Sido and Kạnhu to reform the Santal religion. Offering a new respectful reading of the Hul’s religious legitimation the book argues that changes in Santal religion and ethics were responses to the colonial regime’s new and aggressive economic order. The Hul’s leaders Sido and Kạnhu demanded the introduction of just laws based on the universal principle of equality. This historical approach leads to a call for the inclusion of the voice of tribal and Adivasi minorities when formulating politics for their development in the 21st century. The book is relevant for researchers and students of social history social reform tribal and indigenous studies postcolonial studies and South Asian studies. | The Santal Rebellion 1855–1856 The Call of Thakur

GBP 120.00
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The Routledge Handbook of Inclusive Education for Teacher Educators Issues Considerations and Strategies

The Routledge Handbook of Inclusive Education for Teacher Educators Issues Considerations and Strategies

This handbook provides foundational conceptual and practical knowledge and understanding of inclusive education and special needs education. It highlights the need for preparing special educators and teachers for inclusive classrooms to effectively cater to the needs of students with diverse needs in various low- middle- and high-income countries globally. It demonstrates various evidence-based and practice-based strategies required to create classrooms inclusive of diverse learners. While tracing the historical trajectory of the foundational underpinnings philosophical bases and crucial issues associated with inclusive education this book presents a future roadmap and pathways through case instances and in-depth discussions to share with educators how they can strengthen their bases and make learning more inclusive in their context. It also provides an overview of the different models of assessment and their applications in the analysis of children in inclusive classroom settings. Comprehensive accessible and nuanced this handbook will be of immense interest and benefit to teachers educators special educators students scholars and researchers in the areas of social inclusion education special needs education educational psychology technology for inclusion disability studies among other related disciplines. It will be extremely beneficial for academicians teacher educators special educators and those interested in professional teacher training courses. | The Routledge Handbook of Inclusive Education for Teacher Educators Issues Considerations and Strategies

GBP 190.00
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Media and the Global South Narrative Territorialities Cross-Cultural Currents

Media and the Global South Narrative Territorialities Cross-Cultural Currents

What does the notion of the ‘global south’ mean to media studies today?This book interrogates the possibilities of global thinking from the south in the field of media communication and cultural studies. Through lenses of millennial media cultures it refocuses the praxis of the global south in relation to the established ideas of globalization development and conditions of postcoloniality. Bringing together original empirical work from media scholars from across the global south the volume highlights how contemporary thinking about the region as theoretical framework ・ an emerging area of theory in its own right ・ is incomplete without due consideration being placed on narrative forms both analogue and digital traditional and sub-cultural. From news to music cultures from journalism to visual culture from screen forms to culture-jamming the chapters in the volume explore contemporary popular forms of communication as manifested in diverse global south contexts. A significant contribution to cultural theory and communications research this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of media and culture studies literary and critical theory digital humanities science and technology studies and sociology and social anthropology. | Media and the Global South Narrative Territorialities Cross-Cultural Currents

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