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  • Lost Bride

    by raka raka ...
    FisheR, take the helm.Fisher here, please pick up the phone.Please for my tardiness. I want to run some thoughts by you.All of mine are mundane and overused.Say what's up, Ike!I need you to quit rousing me so early in the morning.If only your column didn't make me fall asleep.Humorous, humorous. - I'm talking to you, Jonah!Come on, Fisher! Really, you'... ... Read more

    $0.98 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cleansing the Nation

    India, the Hindu Modern, and Mediations of Gender

    by Raka Shome ...
    In Cleansing the Nation, Raka Shome explores the logics of governmentality of contemporary Hindu nationalism in India by advancing the concept of the “Hindu modern.” Analyzing a national cleanliness program and other development projects, Shome shows how the Hindu modern—a form of national governmentality that disciplines and regulates individual subjects to create desirable “clean” citizens ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Cultures of Servitude

    Modernity, Domesticity, and Class in India

    by Raka Ray, Seemin Qayum ...
    Domestic servitude blurs the divide between family and work, affection and duty, the home and the world. In Cultures of Servitude, Raka Ray and Seemin Qayum offer an ethnographic account of domestic life and servitude in contemporary Kolkata, India, with a concluding comparison with New York City. Focused on employers as well as servants, men as well as women, across multiple generations, they ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Lecture Notes on Geometry of Numbers

    by R. J. Hans-Gill, Madhu Raka, Ranjeet Sehmi ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book serves as an illuminating introduction to the intricacies of the geometry of numbers. It commences by exploring basic concepts of convex sets and lattices in Euclidean space and goes on to delve into Minkowski’s fundamental theorem for convex bodies and its applications. It discusses critical determinants and successive minima before explaining the core results of packings and coverings. ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Feminist Futures

    Reimagining Women, Culture and Development

    by Amy Lind, Rachel Simon-Kumar, Ifi Amadiume, Raka Ray, Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Dana Collins, Peter Chua, David McKie, Banu Subramaniam, Arturo Escobar, Wendy Harcourt, Ming-yan Lai, Minoo Moallem, Anjali Prabhu, Linda Klouzal, Julia D Shayne ...
    Straddling disciplines and continents, Feminist Futures interweaves scholarship and social activism to explore the evolving position of women in the South.Working at the intersection of cultural studies, critical development studies and feminist theory, the book's contributors articulate a radical and innovative framework for understanding the linkages between women, culture and development, ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Trajectory of 75 years of Indian Agriculture after Independence

    Edited by P. K. Ghosh, Anup Das, Raka Saxena, Kaushik Banerjee, Gouranga Kar, D. Vijay ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This edited book focus on highlighting the evolution of Indian agriculture over the past 75 years of independence, covering every sector, viz. crop science, horticulture, management of biotic & abiotic stress, post-harvest quality management, livestock, fisheries, mechanization, marketing and human resource development. The book has 30 chapters from most experienced researchers and academicians ... Read more

    $281.79 CAD

  • The Social Life of Gender

    Edited by Raka R. Ray, Jennifer Dawn Carlson, Abigail L. Andrews ...
    Series series SAGE Sociological Essentials Series
    The Social Life of Gender provides a comprehensive approach to gender as an organizing principle of institutions, history, and unequal interpersonal relations. This new title will develop students’ capacity to use gender analysis to question social life more broadly, presenting a critical sociology based on the unique insights gleaned from the study of gender. Through bold, concise, and ... Read more

    $87.99 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

    $86.99 CAD

  • Perverse Politics?

    Feminism, Anti-Imperialism, Multiplicity

    by Julian Go ...
    Series Book 30 - Political Power and Social Theory
    In this special issue, we address what we refer to as 'perversity of the political' or 'perverse politics': namely, the assumptions political theory and movements, and in our specific case feminism, often make on behalf of their subjects, and how their subjects, in return, perform individual and collective contrariness, unruliness and resistance to what is expected or desired from their ... Read more

    $164.99 CAD

  • Social Movements in India

    Poverty, Power, and Politics

    Edited by Raka Ray, Mary Fainsod Katzenstein ...
    Series series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    Social movements have played a vital role in Indian politics since well before the inception of India as a new nation in 1947. During the Nehruvian era, from Independence to Nehru's death in 1964, poverty alleviation was a foundational standard against which policy proposals and political claims were measured; at this time, movement activism was directly accountable to this state discourse. ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Cultures of Servitude

    Modernity, Domesticity, and Class in India

    by Raka Ray, Seemin Qayum ...
    Domestic servitude blurs the divide between family and work, affection and duty, the home and the world. In Cultures of Servitude, Raka Ray and Seemin Qayum offer an ethnographic account of domestic life and servitude in contemporary Kolkata, India, with a concluding comparison with New York City. Focused on employers as well as servants, men as well as women, across multiple generations, they ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • CoronAsur

    Asian Religions in the Covidian Age

    by Emily Zoe Hertzman, Natalie Lang, Erica M. Larson, Carola E. Lorea, Dr. Fatema Aarshe, Dr. Yasmeen Arif, Dr. Indira Arumugam0, Dr. Swayam Bagaria1, Dr. Raka Banerjee2, Dr. Md. Khaled Bin Oli Bhuiyan3, Dr. Hsun Chang4, Dr. Ankana Das5, Dr. Deepsikha Dasgupta6, Dr. Dean Koon Lee Wang7, Dr. Nia Deliana8, Dr. Beverly Anne Devakishen9, Dr. Kanchana Dodan Godage0, Dr. Faizah Zakaria1, Dr. Amelia Fauzia2, Dr. Nalika Gajaweera3, Dr. Daniel P.S. Goh4, Dr. Siti Zubaidah Ismail5, Jack Meng-Tat Chia6, Dr. Nurul Fadiah Johari7, Dr. Sinah Theres Kloß8, Dr. Lei Ting9, Dr. Alvin Eng Hui Lim0, Dr. Marianna Lis1, Dr. Lynn Wong2, Dr. Neena Mahadev3, [email protected] Malini Bhattacharjee4, Dr. Mariano Errichiello5, Dr. Muhammad Lutfi Bin Othman6, Dr. Mukul Pandey7, Dr. Lim Peng Chew8, Dr. Dishani Roy9, Dr. Louie Jon A. Sánchez0, Dr. Saymon Zakaria1, Dr. Shen Yeh-Ying2, Dr. Yuki Shiozaki3, Dr. Show Ying Ruo4, Dr. Esmond Chuah Meng Soh5, Dr. Terence Chong6, Tran Thi Thuy Binh7, Dr. Duy Thanh Thanh8, Dr. Catherine Margaret West9, Dr. Yuanhao Zhao0, Dr. Yijiang Zhong1, Dr. Philipp Zehmisch2 ...
    For an open-access edition and online resources, including video and additional images, visit the CoronAsur page on Manifold. https://manifold.uhpress.hawaii.edu/projects/coronasurBy the summer of 2020, when the coronavirus had fully entered our everyday vocabulary and our lives, religious communities and places of worship around the world were already undergoing profound changes. In Asian and ... Read more

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