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  • Finding The Middle Path

    The Political Economy Of Cooperation In Rural India

    by B. S. Baviskar ...
    Soviet-style socialism has failed; but in Russia, China, and India the transition to capitalism has proven hazardous. Elsewhere, capitalism itself appears to be in crisis, often failing to meet the fundamental needs of workers, small farmers, and even the middle classes. Clearly, the world needs enterprises that are both economically efficient and ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Elite and Everyman

    The Cultural Politics of the Indian Middle Classes

    Edited by Amita Baviskar, Raka Ray ...
    This book examines the middle classes — who they are and what they do — and their influence in shaping contemporary cultural politics in India. Describing the historical emergence of these classes, from the colonial period to contemporary times, it shows how the middle classes have changed, with older groups shifting out and new entrants taking place, thereby transforming the character and ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Understanding Indian Society

    Past and Present

    Edited by B S Baviskar, Tulsi Patel ...
    Understanding Indian Society brings together a collection of writings by eminent scholars across disciplines that capture the dynamic character of Indian society. The fifteen essays focus on four vital areas-gender relations, religion, developmental concerns and social change, and the future of the discipline of sociology. The volume explores a wide range of issues as varied as Muslim women's ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry

    A Comprehensive Approach,

    by S. L. Deore, S. S. Khadabadi, B.A. Baviskar ...
    This fully revised second edition of “Pharmacogonosy and Phytochemistry: A Comprehensive Approach” attempts to provide not only technical corrections, updates and clarifications in all chapters of the original book but also added new topics like serotaxonomical classification, markers, herbal excipients, novel herbal dosage forms, antioxidants in skin cosmetics, skin whitening (bleaching) agents, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Climate Change and Critical Agrarian Studies

    Edited by Ian Scoones, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Amita Baviskar, Marc Edelman, Nancy Lee Peluso, Wendy Wolford ...
    Series series Critical Agrarian Studies
    Climate change is perhaps the greatest threat to humanity today and plays out as a cruel engine of myriad forms of injustice, violence and destruction. The effects of climate change from human-made emissions of greenhouse gases are devastating and accelerating; yet are uncertain and uneven both in terms of geography and socio-economic impacts. Emerging from the dynamics of capitalism since the ... Read more

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  • Citizen Action and National Policy Reform

    Making Change Happen

    by Rabéa Naciri, Amita Baviskar, Michael D. Layton, Ana Maria Sanchez Rodriguez, Claudio A. Fuentes, Beatriz Campillo Carrete, Jennifer C. Franco, Steven Friedman, Ireri Ablanedo Terrazas, Saturnino M. Borras, Pinar Ilkkaracan ...
    Series series Claiming Citizenship
    How does citizen activism win changes in national policy? Which factors help to make myriad efforts by diverse actors add up to reform? What is needed to overcome setbacks, and to consolidate the smaller victories?These questions need answers. Aid agencies have invested heavily in supporting civil society organizations as change agents in fledgling and established democracies alike. Evidence ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

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  • Hindu Women's Property Rights in Rural India

    Law, Labour and Culture in Action

    by Reena Patel ...
    Hindu women in India have independent right of ownership to property under the Law of Succession (The Hindu Succession Act, 1956). However, during the last five decades of its operation not many women have exercised their rights under the enactment. This volume addresses the issue of Hindu peasant women's ability to effectuate the statutory rights to succession and assert ownership of their share ... Read more

    $71.44 CAD

  • A Companion to the Anthropology of India

    Edited by Isabelle Clark-Decès ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
    A Companion to the Anthropology of IndiaA Companion to the Anthropology of India offers a broad overview of the rapidly evolving scholarship on Indian society from the earliest area studies to views of India’s globalization in the twenty-first century. Contributions by leading experts present up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of key topics that include developments in population and life ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Ideas, Institutions, Processes

    Essays in Memory of Satish Saberwal

    Edited by N. Jayaram ...
    • This book commemmorates eminent sociologist Satish Saberwal who pioneered interdisciplinarity in the social sciences in India through a series of 15 collected essays in four different parts.  • The first part takes a biographical approach to Saberwal and includes both reminiscences by his peers as well as an extensive interview with Saberwal. The second part is devoted to the methodology of ... Read more

    $9.61 CAD

  • Rehearsing the State

    The Political Practices of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile

    by Fiona McConnell ...
    Series series RGS-IBG Book Series
    Rehearsing the State presents a comprehensive investigation of the institutions, performances, and actors through which the Tibetan Government-in-Exile is rehearsing statecraft. McConnell offers new insights into how communities officially excluded from formal state politics enact hoped-for futures and seek legitimacy in the present.Offers timely and original insights into exile Tibetan politics ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Law, Power and Culture

    Supporting Change From Within

    by F. Knight ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    A fresh theory on how individuals respond to inequalities occurring within their own communities. This original and insightful study draws on empirical research on the Santal people of Asia, examining power relations within social fields, and the state, to reveal a typology of power practices, and applies these to forced marriage in the West. ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Making Peace with the Earth

    by Vandana Shiva ...
    'One of the world's most prominent radical scientists', Vandana Shiva demolishes the myths propagated by corporate globalisation in its pursuit of profit and power, revealing the devastating environmental impact of corporate capitalism.Shiva argues that consumerism lubricates the war against the earth and that corporate control violates all ethical and ecological limits. She takes the reader on a ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus