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  • Running on Hope

    Female Community Health Labor in Rajasthan, India

    de Svea Closser, Surendra Singh Shekhawat ...
    Series series Policy to Practice
    This book is freely available in an open-access edition thanks to the generous support of Johns Hopkins University.Throughout India, Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) visit households in their communities to deliver essential health services and link community members with key health benefits. Like many other female Community Health Workers across the world, ASHAs are often portrayed as ... Leer más

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  • Geek Heresy

    Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology

    de Kentaro Toyama ...
    After a decade designing technologies meant to address education, health, and global poverty, award-winning computer scientist Kentaro Toyama came to a difficult conclusion: Even in an age of amazing technology, social progress depends on human changes that gadgets can't deliver.Computers in Bangalore are locked away in dusty cabinets because teachers don't know what to do with them. Mobile phone ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

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  • After Capitalism

    Economic Democracy in Action

    de Dada Maheshvarananda ...
    A grassroots movement for economic democracy based on cooperatives and local economies is quickly growing throughout the planet. After Capitalism, inspired by P.R. Sarkar's Progressive Utilization Theory (Prout), offers a compelling vision of an equitable, sustainable model which economically empowers individuals and communities. Filled with successful examples from six continents as well as many ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Working the Night Shift

    Women in India’s Call Center Industry

    de Reena Patel ...
    Relatively high wages and the opportunity to be part of an upscale, globalized work environment draw many in India to the call center industry. At the same time, night shift employment presents women, in particular, with new challenges alongside the opportunities. This book explores how beliefs about what constitutes "women's work" are evolving in response to globalization.Working the Night Shift ... Leer más

    $20.49 USD

  • Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change

    An Intersectional Feminist Analysis

    de Ariane M. Balizet, Jacoby Ballard, Diana York Blaine, Mary Bunn, Beth S. Catlett, Kimberly Dark, Lauren Eckstrom, Jillian Ford, Thalia González, Marcelle M. Haddix, Carol Horton, Kerrie Kauer, Roopa Kaushik-Brown, Karishma Kripalani, Punam Mehta, Steffany Moonaz, Whitney Myers, Enoch H. Page, Sarah L. Schrank, Maria Velazquez, Jennifer Musial ...
    Yoga, the Body, and Embodied Social Change is the first collection to gather together prominent scholars on yoga and the body. Using an intersectional lens, the essays examine yoga in the United States as a complex cultural phenomenon that reveals racial, economic, gendered, and sexual politics of the body. From discussions of the stereotypical yoga body to analyses of pivotal court cases, Yoga, ... Leer más

    $44.59 USD

  • Women in 'New Nepal'

    Through the Lens of Classed, Ethnic, and Gendered Peripheries

    de Seika Sato ...
    Series series Nepal and Himalayan Studies
    This book brings rarely voiced lives and experiences of women in Nepal to light and combines rich ethnography with discourse analysis. Multifaceted and critical, the volume situates its narrative in the profoundly transformative period after the turn of the century when ‘New Nepal’ was rising on the horizon and sheds light on Nepali women’s experiences in multiple sites, crossing class and ethnic ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

  • The Semantics of Development in Asia

    Exploring ‘Untranslatable’ Ideas Through Japan

    Edición de Jin Sato, Soyeun Kim ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book explores Japanese involvement in Asian development through selected development ideas and lexemes that are widely regarded in Japan as 'untranslatable' into other languages. Each chapter traces the genealogy of locally nuanced development ideas and lexemes in Japan and the process by which they have spread across Asia and beyond through Japan's development cooperation. The ... Leer más

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  • Peace Education

    de Roberto Miguel Rodriguez ...
    A synthesis of peace education and its overlapping and interrelated fields and reflections about the origins of peace education; the theoretical, conceptual and pedagogical perspectives of various strands of peace education; a historic framework of peace education; education for dismantling a culture of war; education for living with justice and compassion; education for promoting human rights and ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • The Political Lives of Information

    Information and the Production of Development in India

    de Janaki Srinivasan ...
    Series series The Information Society Series
    How the definition, production, and leveraging of information are shaped by caste, class, and gender, and the implications for development.Information, says Janaki Srinivasan, has fundamentally reshaped development discourse and practice. In this study, she examines the history of the idea of “information” and its political implications for poverty alleviation. She presents three cases in India ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Calling Family

    Digital Technologies and the Making of Transnational Care Collectives

    de Tanja Ahlin ...
    Series series Medical Anthropology
    How do digital technologies shape both how people care for each other and, through that, who they are? With technological innovation is on the rise and increasing migration introducing vast distances between family members--a situation additionally complicated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the requirements of physical distancing, especially for the most vulnerable – older adults--this is a ... Leer más

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  • Missing: Half the Story

    Journalism as if Gender Matters

    Edición de Kalpana Sharma ...
    Toilets, trees and gender? Can there be a connection? Is there a gender angle to a business story? Is gender in politics only about how many women get elected to parliament? Is osteoporosis a women's disease? Why do more women die in natural disasters? These are not the questions journalists usually ask when they set out to do their jobs as reporters, sub-editors, photographers of editors. Yet, by ... Leer más

    $7.19 USD

  • Attention and Alienation

    The International Political Economy of Information and Communication Technologies

    de Aarushi Bhandari ...
    Honorable Mention, 2026 Paul Sweezy Sociology Book Award, Marxist Sociology Section, American Sociological AssociationThe worldwide spread of the internet has revolutionized communication at a harrowing cost: the relentless commodification of attention. Algorithm-driven capitalism extracts profit from not only physical bodies but also the emotional and creative labor of internet users. This ... Leer más

    $28.49 USD