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Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy Speaking Truth to Power

Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy Speaking Truth to Power

Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy explores the new forms voices and venues of stand-up comedy in different parts of the world and its potential role as a counterhegemonic tool for satire commentary and expression of identity especially for the disempowered or marginalised. The title brings together essays and perspectives on stand-up and satire from different cultural and political contexts across the world which raise pertinent issues regarding its role in contemporary times especially with the increased presence of OTT platforms and internet penetration that allows for easy access to this art form. It examines the theoretical understanding of the different aspects of the humour aesthetics and politics of stand-up comedy as well as the exploration of race gender politics and conflicts urban culture and LGBTQ+ identities in countries such as Indonesia Finland France Iran Italy Morocco India and the USA. It also asks the question whether along with contesting and destabilising existing discursive frameworks and identities a stand-up comic can open up a space for envisaging a new social cultural and political order? This book will appeal to people interested in performance studies media popular culture digital culture sociology digital sociology and anthropology and English literature. Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons (CC-BY) 4. 0 license. Funded by the University of Helsinki. | Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy Speaking Truth to Power

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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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Troubled Testimonies Terrorism and the English novel in India

Troubled Testimonies Terrorism and the English novel in India

Since the 9/11 attacks terror has established its permeating hold on society’s psyche. Creative writing a popular and visible cultural witness to the strain has taken up this destabilization with remarkable regularity. Troubled Testimonies focuses on the Indian novel in English deriving inspiration from these disturbances to essay a unique grasp of the cultural make-up of the times and its reverberations on the sense of self and belonging to the nation. This first full-length study of terror in the subcontinental novel in English (from India) places it in the world context and analyzes the fictional coverage of the spread of terrorism across the country and its cultural fallout. The enigmatic coming together of the contemporary with the anguish of loss and betrayal unleashed by terror occasions a significant redefinition of the issues of trauma conflict and gender and opens a fresh window to Indian writing and the culture of the subcontinent and a new paradigm in literary and cultural criticism termed ‘post-terrorism’. Lucid and thought provoking this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of South Asian literature cultural studies postcolonial studies history politics and sociology. | Troubled Testimonies Terrorism and the English novel in India

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Negotiating Identity and Religion Young Adults in Inter-religious Families

Negotiating Identity and Religion Young Adults in Inter-religious Families

This book examines the religious lives of young adults growing up in inter-religious families in India. It explores complex questions of identity social background and religion in twenty-first-century India. The volumestudies the religious commitments of young adults analyses the identity formation process for a critical age group and discusses the interpersonal dynamics within inter-religious families. Drawing on real life stories of mixed heritage – Hindu Sikh Muslim Christian Jain Buddhist and Parsi – this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of psychology education sociology and social anthropology religious studies politics and other interdisciplinary studies. | Negotiating Identity and Religion Young Adults in Inter-religious Families

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The Different Faces of Politics in Literature and Music

The Different Faces of Politics in Literature and Music

This book highlights the links between politics and governance and the arts. The essays in the volume show how literature and music have challenged those in power risking political censure. In addition they also try to delineate how patronage has been used for propaganda or to stir up national fervour. They focus on the tension and symbiosis between the politician and the artist foregrounding how they have always tried to influence challenge and in some cases undermine one another. This volume will serve as an indispensable source for researchers and academics in political science the humanities and performing arts. | The Different Faces of Politics in Literature and Music

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The Different Faces of Politics in the Visual and Performative Arts

The Different Faces of Politics in the Visual and Performative Arts

This book highlights the linkages between politics and governance and the arts. The essays in the volume show how visual and performative arts have challenged those in power – or conversely patronised by them – been used for propaganda to stir up national fervour and found themselves at the receiving end of political censure. They focus on the tension and symbiosis between the politician and the artist foregrounding how they have always tried to influence challenge and in some cases undermine one another. This volume will serve as an indispensable source for researchers and academics in political science the humanities and performing arts. | The Different Faces of Politics in the Visual and Performative Arts

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Understanding Public Speaking A Learner's Guide to Persuasive Oratory

Understanding Public Speaking A Learner's Guide to Persuasive Oratory

Public speaking is a much coveted yet difficult art. This book illustrates the use of various linguistic devices and persuasive strategies with examples from the speeches of powerful orators in history. It systematically draws on the various approaches to public speaking and persuasive discourse to present new insights and techniques. The volume: Critically examines strategies of persuasive oratory. Draws on extensive investigation of a corpus of famous public speeches in history. Focuses on the needs of those who want to brush up their public speaking skills. The volume will be a key reference for aspiring civil servants lawyers business and corporate professionals and politicians. It will be of great interest to scholars of linguistics and political and business communication. | Understanding Public Speaking A Learner's Guide to Persuasive Oratory

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Community Engagement in Higher Education From Theory to Practice

Community Engagement in Higher Education From Theory to Practice

This book explores the finer nuances of community engagement in Indian higher education ranging from theory to practice. It contextualizes the concept and practice of community engagement in the contemporary context capturing global experiences insights and varied standpoints. The volume also identifies gaps present in the system and recommends solutions for the successful implementation and scaling up of the practice of community engagement not only in India but also at the global level. It also brings to the forefront; opinions perspectives and experiences of stellar women and their valuable scholarship with the aim of addressing the gender gap in the field of knowledge production on community engagement. The book will be of interest to scholars teachers and researchers of education higher education and sociology of education. It will also be useful for academicians think tanks higher education administration policymakers civil society organizations higher education institutions and those interested in the study of community engagement. | Community Engagement in Higher Education From Theory to Practice

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Democratic Transition in Bhutan Political Contests as Moral Battles

Democratic Transition in Bhutan Political Contests as Moral Battles

This book studies how a modern monarchy transformed Bhutan into a parliamentary democracy. A political ethnography it focuses on the historic elections of 2007–2008 and studies democracy and its transformational processes from the ground up. It draws on historical as well as contemporary theories about kingship and regime change to analyse Bhutan’s nascent democratic process and reflect on the direction of political change both at the state and local levels in the aftermath of the elections. It also presents insights into the electoral and political process by giving a first-hand account of the author’s own participation in the elections and ponders on the larger political implications of this election for the region. A strong theoretical discussion situated in robust fieldwork and personal experience this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of politics especially comparative politics and political institutions South Asian and Himalayan Studies political sociology and social anthropology. | Democratic Transition in Bhutan Political Contests as Moral Battles

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Pamuk's Istanbul The Self and the City

Pamuk's Istanbul The Self and the City

This book reconstructs Istanbul through the prism of Orhan Pamuk’s fiction. It navigates the multiple selves and layers of Istanbul to present how the city has shaped the writings of Pamuk and has in turn been shaped by it. Through everyday objects and architecture it shows how Pamuk transforms the city into a living museum where different objects converse along with characters to present a rich tapestry across space and time. Further the monograph explores the formation of communal and literary identity within and around nation-building narratives informed by capitalism and modernization. The book also examines how Pamuk uses the postmodern city to move beyond its postmodern confines and utilizes the theories and universes of Bakhtin Benjamin and Foucault to open up his fiction and radically challenge the idea of the novel. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature literary theory museum studies architecture and cultural studies and especially appeal to readers of Orhan Pamuk. | Pamuk's Istanbul The Self and the City

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Managing Start-ups for Success Entrepreneurship in Difficult Times

Managing Start-ups for Success Entrepreneurship in Difficult Times

World economics and the industrial environment has recently created a fertile ground for the creation of new enterprises and start-ups. This book skilfully identifies the challenges of building a new business venture from an idea to a marketable product. It highlights • Robust methods for keeping up with innovation; • Designing new ways to grow improve and market your product; and • Managing the changes in the business environment market dynamics and other uncertainties. The volume is rich with examples and case studies of many small and large businesses. It further reflects on the business and entrepreneurship ecosystem the challenges and opportunities in India entrepreneurship and women e-commerce the new generation of entrepreneurs and exit strategies for entrepreneurs. An essential guide for entrepreneurs and professionals working in business management and marketing communications as well as scholars of business administration and financial sciences this book by an industry expert offers many new and practiced approaches examples and lessons for innovative thinking and breaking new ground in business. | Managing Start-ups for Success Entrepreneurship in Difficult Times

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Artificial Intelligence Evolution Ethics and Public Policy

Artificial Intelligence Evolution Ethics and Public Policy

What will the future be? A dystopian landscape controlled by machines or a brave new world full of possibilities? Perhaps the answer lies with Artificial Intelligence (AI)—a phenomenon much beyond technology that has continues to and will shape lives in ways we do not understand yet. This book traces the evolution of AI in contemporary history. It analyses how AI is primarily being driven by capital as the only factor of production and its consequences for the global political economy. It further explores the dystopian prospect of mass unemployment by AI and takes up the ethical aspects of AI and its possible use in undermining natural and fundamental rights. A tract for the times this volume will be a major intervention in an area that is heavily debated but rarely understood. It will be essential reading for researchers and students of digital humanities politics economics science and technology studies physics and computer science. It will also be key reading for policy makers cyber experts and bureaucrats. | Artificial Intelligence Evolution Ethics and Public Policy

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Literature and the War on Terror Nation Democracy and Liberalisation

Literature and the War on Terror Nation Democracy and Liberalisation

This book examines cultural imaginations post 9/11. It explores the idea of a religious community and its multifaceted representations in literature and popular culture. The essays in the volume focus on the role of literature film music television shows and other cultural forms in opening up spaces for complex reflections on identities and cultures and how they enable us to rethink the ‘trauma of familiarity’ post-traumatic heterotopias religious extremism and the idea of the ‘neighbour’ in post-9/11 literary and cultural imagination. The volume also probes the intersections of religion popular media televised simulacrum and digital martyrdom in the wake of 9/11. It also probes the simulation of new- age media images with reference to the creation and dissemination of ‘martyrs’ the languages of grief religionisation of terrorism islamophobia religious stereotypes and the reading of comics in writing the terror. An essential read the book reclaims and reinterprets the alternative to a Eurocentric/Americentric understanding of cultural and geopolitical structures of global designs. It will be of great interest to researchers of literature and cultural studies media studies politics film studies and South Asian studies. | Literature and the War on Terror Nation Democracy and Liberalisation

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English Siege and Prison Writings From the ‘Black Hole’ to the ‘Mutiny’

English Siege and Prison Writings From the ‘Black Hole’ to the ‘Mutiny’

This volume brings together an unusual collection of British captivity writings – composed during and after imprisonment and in conditions of siege. Writings from the ‘Mutiny’ of 1857 are well known but there exists a vast body of texts from Afghanistan Sri Lanka and Burma and the Indian subcontinent that have rarely been compiled or examined. Written in anxiety and distress or recalled with poignancy and anger these siege narratives depict a very different Briton. A far cry from the triumphant conqueror explorer or ruler these texts give us the vulnerable injured and frightened Englishman and woman who seek in the most adverse of conditions to retain a measure of stoicism and identity. From Robert Knox’s 17th-century account of imprisonment in Sri Lanka through J. Z. Holwell’s famous account of the ‘Black Hole’ of Calcutta through Florentia Sale’s Afghan memoir and Lady Inglis’s ‘Mutiny’ diary from Lucknow the book opens up a dark and revealing corner of the colonial archive. Lucid and intriguing this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of modern South Asia colonial history literary and culture studies. | English Siege and Prison Writings From the ‘Black Hole’ to the ‘Mutiny’

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Lives in Exile Exploring the Inner World of Tibetan Refugees

Lives in Exile Exploring the Inner World of Tibetan Refugees

This book recounts the life stories - stories of loss and hope of anxieties and aspirations - of generations of exiled Tibetans living in India since the late 1950s after the Chinese takeover of Tibet. Located in the realm of psycho-historical analysis this work has a dual focus in interpreting and analyzing these life stories. First a consistent effort is made to unravel the psychologically devastating consequences following refugeehood and torture. A simultaneous focus searches for symbols of human resilience - the opening up of creative possibilities and a return to renewed meanings in the lives of these exiles. Two central symbols of continuity among this community which are discussed are the Dalai Lama and the philosophy of Buddhism. This is a unique book that looks at issues of contemporary interest and relevance to the Tibetan community today providing a different view of their ‘place’ in the wider political sphere. Lives in Exile - Exploring the World of Tibetan Refugees will be of interest to scholars in the fields of psychology history and refugee studies and to the general reader. | Lives in Exile Exploring the Inner World of Tibetan Refugees

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Humour and the Performance of Power in South Asia Anxiety Laughter and Politics in Unstable Times

Humour and the Performance of Power in South Asia Anxiety Laughter and Politics in Unstable Times

This book critically examines the role and politics of humour and the performance of power in South Asia. What does humour do and how does it manifest when lived political circumstances experience ruptures or instability? Can humour that emerges in such circumstances be viewed as a specific narrative on the nature of democracy in the region? Drawing upon essays from India Sri Lanka and Bangladesh this volume discusses many crucial historical and contemporary themes including dance-drama performances in northern India; caste and stand-up comedy in India; cartoon narratives of citizens’ anxieties; civic participation through social media memes in Sri Lanka; media politics and humorous public in Bangladesh; the politics of performance in India; and the influence of humour and satire as political commentaries. The volume explores the impact of humour in South Asian folklore ritual performances media and journalism and online technologies. This topical and interdisciplinary book will be essential for scholars and researchers of cultural studies political science sociology and social anthropology media and communication studies theatre and performance studies and South Asian studies. | Humour and the Performance of Power in South Asia Anxiety Laughter and Politics in Unstable Times

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European Adventurers in North India 1750–1803

European Adventurers in North India 1750–1803

This book explores how European particularly French adventurers shaped early modern India. It highlights the significant contributions of these adventurers in social political economic and intellectual life of north India in the 18th and the 19th centuries. The author examines how the French adventurers played a key role in bringing Western science and ideas to a polity in flux. He examines the role of individuals like René Madec Sombre De Boigne Perron Gentil Canaple Delamarr Sonson and Pedrose who made instrumental contributions in modernising armies of pre-modern states in South Asia. The volume also underlines how French adventurers’ commercial networks developing from their enterprises opened up markets in the heartlands of north India for European consumers. Further it brings to the fore intellectual pursuits of the leading French figures such as Anquetil Duperron Polier Gentil De Boigne and Perron whose engagement with Indian literature opened a new chapter framing studies of the Occident. Rich in French English and translated Persian archival resources this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of colonial history early modern history military history and South Asian studies. | European Adventurers in North India 1750–1803

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Social Innovations in Urban Sanitation in India Meeting Unmet Needs

Social Innovations in Urban Sanitation in India Meeting Unmet Needs

This book discusses effective social innovation strategies facilitated by civil society organisations (CSOs) to tackle India’s significant urban sanitation challenge. It presents the contours of an ecosystem that includes citizen participation and strengthening community-managed systems for improved sanitation and public health. The book analyses case studies of effective sanitation programmes as well as experiments with innovative ideas in different regional contexts by CSOs to meet the contextual needs of the community and to ensure access to safe sanitation especially among the urban poor. It highlights the challenges and the need for active participation of communities for change in behaviour increasing institutional capacities of municipalities for standardising and scaling up strategies which work. The authors highlight the need for designing low-cost solutions organising informal sanitation workers serving marginalised communities and building effective alliances between communities and institutions to influence public policy. Rich in empirical data this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of urban studies public policy governance political science development studies and sociology as well as for CSOs and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working on urban sanitation urban planning and public policy. | Social Innovations in Urban Sanitation in India Meeting Unmet Needs

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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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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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The Culture of Dissenting Memory Truth Commissions in the Global South

The Culture of Dissenting Memory Truth Commissions in the Global South

This volume deals with the manifold ways in which histories are debated and indeed historicity and historiography themselves are interrogated via the narrative modes of the truth commissions. It traces the various medial responses (memoirs fiction poetry film art) which have emerged in the wake of the truth commissions. The 1990s and the 2000s saw a spate of so-called truth commissions across the Global South. From the inaugural truth commissions in post-juntas 1980s Latin America to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission set up by the incoming post-apartheid government in South Africa and the twinned gacaca courts and National Unity and Reconciliation Commission in Rwanda and that in indigenous Australia various truth commissions have sought to lay bare human rights abuses. The chapters in this volume explore how truth commissions crystallized a long tradition of dissenting and resisting cultures of memorialization in the public sphere across the Global South and provided a significant template for contemporary attempts to work through episodes of violence and oppression across the region. Drawing on studies from Latin America Africa Asia and Australia this book illuminates the modes in which societies remember and negotiate with traumatic pasts. This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of human rights popular culture and art literature media politics and history. | The Culture of Dissenting Memory Truth Commissions in the Global South

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Conflict Demand and Economic Development Essays in Honour of Amit Bhaduri

Conflict Demand and Economic Development Essays in Honour of Amit Bhaduri

This book presents a comprehensive overview of three key areas: heterodox macroeconomics development economics and classical political economy. It offers an alternative macroeconomic framework to analyse policies with an emphasis on issues of equity and justice. With contributions by leading economists from across the world it examines the growth and distribution of income; trade and finance in developing countries; classical political economy and Marxist theory; dualism in the US economy; economic crisis; and agrarian economy in poor countries. It explores themes such as the effect of an exogenous shock to wage share; Harrodian instability and Steindlian solutions; economics and politics of social democracy; the role of power in the macroeconomy; economic development through the promotion of domestic value chains; and reflections on primitive accumulation. Going beyond the neo-classical tradition the volume opens up a new vista of economics by discussing unexplored questions. It provides a refreshing treatment of time-tested ideas as well as discussions of recent developments and current research. A major intervention in heterodox macroeconomics and a tribute to macroeconomist Amit Bhaduri this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of economics political economy development studies sociology political science public administration economic theory economic history economic geography and critical studies as well as professionals economists and policymakers. | Conflict Demand and Economic Development Essays in Honour of Amit Bhaduri

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Narrating Nomadism Tales of Recovery and Resistance

Narrating Nomadism Tales of Recovery and Resistance

Narrating Nomadism provides an unflinching account of ethnic groups and nomadic communities across the world that were branded as ‘criminal’ during colonial times. It explores the tragic effect of the new identity imposed on them the traumatic survival of these communities and cultures and the creative expression of this experience in their arts and literature in the form of resistance. Presenting specific contexts and locations of cultural devastation in history the volume traces colonial social imagination as such showing how the grossly misperceived non-sedentary communities in the colonies were subjected to the mission of ‘settling’ them. The essays presented here document these alternative histories from perspectives ranging from literary criticism and art history to ethnography and socio-linguistics highlighting in what ways different nomadic communities negotiate discrimination and challenge in contemporary times while finding remarkable convergence in their local histories and collective testimonies. This anthology opens up a new area in postcolonial studies as well as cultural anthropology by bringing the viewpoint of marginalized communities and their cultural rights to bear upon history society and culture. It places an activist’s ‘view from below’ at the centre of literary interpretation engages with oral history more substantially than folklore studies usually do and brings together several historical narratives hitherto unexplored. This will be essential for students of anthropology sociology cultural studies history linguistics post-colonial studies literature and tribal studies as well as the general reader. | Narrating Nomadism Tales of Recovery and Resistance

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Selected Writings of Shyamal Kumar Pramanik Dalit Literature from Bangla

Selected Writings of Shyamal Kumar Pramanik Dalit Literature from Bangla

Shyamal Kumar Pramanik is one of the most powerful writers of the Bangla Dalit literary movement. His evocative fictional world throws into relief the lives of the downtrodden in in contemporary India. This volume brings his fiction to a new readership by presenting English translations of a selection of his most powerful stories. This book is part of the Voices from the Margins series which seeks to enhance the visibility of literary texts and traditions from various Indian languages and also to bring Dalit literature to the center stage. Pramanik focuses extensively on lives and lifestyles of the people in the Sundarbans the largest mangrove forest in the world and an ecologically fragile zone. Drawn from personal experience many of these stories paint in vivid colors the deprivations that define life in this part of the world. His fiction highlights the workings of caste. . The translations in this anthology are buttressed by an interview with the writer which includes his reflections on his life society and his writings opening up new possibilities of understanding his work in its larger social context. The book also creates an academic framework within which Pramanik’s fiction can be read and critically analyzed. This critical edition will be of interest to students and researchers of comparative literature South Asian literature and culture modern Indian literature Dalit studies culture history and sociology. | Selected Writings of Shyamal Kumar Pramanik Dalit Literature from Bangla

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Negotiating Development at the Margins Natural Resources Conflicts and People’s Movements in Odisha

Negotiating Development at the Margins Natural Resources Conflicts and People’s Movements in Odisha

This book critically examines various facets of conflicts involving people and the state arising due to the uneven distribution of natural resources. It provides an overview of the people’s movements in Odisha a resource-rich state in eastern India. Reflecting on the conceptual frameworks of conflict it analyses violence and struggle for rights over resources and public policies around natural resources alongside local strategies and governance. Drawing from extensive field surveys in the villages of Kalahandi and undivided Koraput districts in Odisha this volume explores the sociopolitical and economical aspects of people’s movements instead of solely viewing them as political and security threats. The authors demonstrate the misappropriations of these movements by both the state and non-state actors for their vested interests. This book offers recommendations for policymakers to draw up a more ready response to mitigate and minimize the conflict and violence and implement equitable policies around land and resources. While doing so the book also provides some primers to development perspectives the role of natural resources and conditions under which the natural resources can result in conflict and principles and practices to overcome such conflicts. The volume will be an indispensable read for researchers and students of social history social reform tribal and indigenous studies postcolonial studies exclusion studies development studies political sociology and South Asian studies. | Negotiating Development at the Margins Natural Resources Conflicts and People’s Movements in Odisha

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