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Homelessness Research Practice and Policy

Homelessness Research Practice and Policy

This book provides insights into the experiences of ‘homelessness’ while exploring its psychological and socio-economic dimensions. Hunger addiction and disability which often accompany homelessness are brought into focus and discussed within the frameworks of promoting social welfare and enabling human capability in this volume. Based on the author’s ethnographic and quantitative research on homeless families living on the streets of Delhi this book identifies some of the most acute problems associated with homelessness. It analyzes the causes of homelessness and draws connections between social bonds and family socio-economic status and psychopathology. It also includes personal accounts of hardship and trauma which quantify the systematic discrimination and marginalization that people living on the streets face. The volume offers policy recommendations to protect the right to self-determination dignity and self-efficacy of the homeless and help rehabilitate them. It will be a useful guide for students and researchers of social sciences specializing in psychology sociology economics and development studies. The book will also be of interest to mental health professionals and policy-makers in designing effective strategies. | Homelessness Research Practice and Policy

GBP 38.99
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Decolonizing Consciousness Reclaiming the Indian Psychology of Well-being

Decolonizing Consciousness Reclaiming the Indian Psychology of Well-being

The book intertwines several strands of scholarship in Indian Philosophy contemporary psychology and the lived Indian psychological practice inclusive of Yoga advaita tantra and bhakti to engage in an exploration of consciousness cognitive science and philosophy. The book examines the characteristics of consciousness by situating it in the historical and cultural contexts of Euro-American as well as Asian particularly Indian philosophical tradition specifically the Bhakti tradition and creative living. The volume decolonizes the understanding of the ecology of consciousness while accounting for the diverse strands which have given us a unique understanding of the mind psychology cognition and philosophy of the mind. This book will be of interest to students teachers and scholars of psychology consciousness studies cognitive science philosophy social psychology Yoga studies and Yoga psychology. It will also be useful for Yoga professionals social workers therapists and anyone who is interested to learn about consciousness. | Decolonizing Consciousness Reclaiming the Indian Psychology of Well-being

GBP 120.00
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Toxic Disruptions Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Urban India

Toxic Disruptions Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Urban India

This book provides a unique ethnographic account of women living with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) in India. It examines how contaminated environments and political–economic changes render urban middle-class women in India vulnerable to PCOS a condition which has the potential to disrupt conventional normative feminine biographies of marriage and childbearing. The volume revolves around two main themes: how toxic landscapes the endocrine disrupting chemicals suffusing them and the political–economic environments related to them are linked to endocrine disorders such as PCOS; and how the biosocial disruptions caused by PCOS are both affecting women and reflective of changes in contemporary urban India. The author draws on anthropological fieldwork to investigate these connections through a fresh approach combining a political ecological framework with perspectives from the anthropology of toxic exposures and health–environment systems. The first of its kind this volume will be indispensable to students and researchers of anthropology particularly medical anthropology medical sociology human geography science and technology studies medical humanities health–environment systems endocrine disorders public health and South Asian studies. | Toxic Disruptions Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Urban India

GBP 120.00
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An Ethnography of the Parsees of India 1886–1936

An Ethnography of the Parsees of India 1886–1936

This volume explores a wide spectrum of Parsee culture and society derived through essays from the Journal of Anthropological Society of Bombay (1886–1936). This journal documents intensive scholarship on the Parsee community by eminent anthropologists Indologists orientalogists historians linguists and administrators in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Comprising 0. 05% of India’s total population today the Parsees (now spelled “Parsis”) have made significant contributions to modern India. Through contributions of Jivanji Jamshedji Modi Bomanjee Byramjee Patell and Rustamji Munshi eminent Parsee scholars the essays in this book discuss the social and cultural frameworks which constitute various key phases in the Parsee life nearly 100 years ago. They also focus on themes such as birth childhood and initiation marriage and death. The volume also features works on Parsee folklore and oral literature. An important contribution to Parsi culture and living this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of sociology social anthropology ethnography cultural studies history and South Asia studies. | An Ethnography of the Parsees of India 1886–1936

GBP 38.99
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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

GBP 130.00
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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

GBP 46.99
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Singular Selves An Introduction to Singles Studies

Singular Selves An Introduction to Singles Studies

This book examines for perhaps the first time singlehood at the intersections of race media language culture literature space health and life satisfaction. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach borrowing from sociology literary studies medical humanities race studies linguistics demographic studies and critical geography to understand singlehood in the world today. This collection of essays aims to establish the discipline of Singles Studies finding new ways of examining it from various disciplinary and cultural perspectives. It begins with laying the field and then moves on to critically look at how race has shaped the way we understand singlehood in the West and how class age gender privilege and the media play a role in shaping singlehood. It argues for a need for increased interdisciplinarity within the field for example analyzing singlehood from the perspective of medical humanities. The volume also explores the role workplace living arrangements financial status and gender play in single people’s life satisfaction. With an interdisciplinary and transnational approach this interdisciplinary volume seeks to establish Singles Studies as a truly global discipline. This pathbreaking volume would be of interest to students and researchers of sociology literature linguistics media studies and psychology. | Singular Selves An Introduction to Singles Studies

GBP 35.99
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Eloquent Spaces Meaning and Community in Early Indian Architecture

Eloquent Spaces Meaning and Community in Early Indian Architecture

Eloquent Spaces adopts the twin analytic of meaning and community to write a fresh history of building in early India. It presents a new perspective on the principles and practices of early Indian architecture. Defining it broadly over a range of space uses the book argues for architecture as a form of cultural production as well as public consumption. Ten chapters by leading archaeologists architects historians and philosophers examining different architectural sites and landscapes including Sanchi Moodabidri Srinagar Chidambaram Patan Konark Basgo and Puri demonstrate the need to look beyond the built form to its spirit beyond aesthetics to cognition and thereby to integrating architecture with its myriad living contexts. The volume captures some of the semantic diversity inherent in premodern Indian traditions of civic building both sacred and secular which were however unified in their insistence on enacting meaning and a transcendent validity over and above utility and beauty of form. The book is a quest for a culturally rooted architecture as an alternative to the growing crisis of disembededness that informs modern praxis. This volume will be of interest to scholars and practitioners of architecture ancient Indian history philosophy art history and cultural studies. | Eloquent Spaces Meaning and Community in Early Indian Architecture

GBP 38.99
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Mumbai / Bombay Majoritarian Neoliberalism Informality Resistance and Wellbeing

Mumbai / Bombay Majoritarian Neoliberalism Informality Resistance and Wellbeing

Mumbai / Bombay is a quintessential urban expression which represents the questions and puzzles related to Indian urbanity. This book traces the various ways through which majoritarianism and neoliberal capitalist accumulation has reorganised Bombay or Mumbai in India. The book assesses Mumbai’s present trajectories and processes as being embedded in its recent past. It looks at these changes by exploring work and labour; health and education; spatial planning and infrastructural development; politics and identity; and shows how financialisation land speculation deregulation and informality have impacted the city’s culture and everyday living. The contributors to this volume analyse the consequences of these changes for women and men across ages as they live their material and cultural lives; evaluate the role of the changing nature of work urban infrastructure and planning; determine its outcome for public health and education; and take a measure of its manifestation in the field of arts and culture. The volume explores the processes that reorient these changes the socio-spatial and political implications of these on the inhabitants of the city and the resistance and response to marginalisation. This interdisciplinary volume will interest students and researchers of economics sociology anthropology political science public policy development studies and urban studies. It will also be useful to urban practitioners planners bureaucrats activists and general readers. | Mumbai / Bombay Majoritarian Neoliberalism Informality Resistance and Wellbeing

GBP 35.99
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Urban Daily Labour Markets in Gujarat Western India

Urban Daily Labour Markets in Gujarat Western India

This volume explores one of the most complex labour landscapes of India - the urban daily labour market. These markets form an important sector of the urban informal labour market and contribute significantly to the Indian economy. This book presents an empirical comparative picture of daily labour markets in Gujarat Western India. These markets consist mostly of intra-state and interstate migrant workers who suffer from layered multiple marginalities based on markers of informality migrant status caste ethnicity gender and poor agency and often live in the peripheries of the cities without any rights and entitlements to their spaces and services. This study based on an extensive survey of three cities in Gujarat contains descriptions and analyses of the places of migration and their causes as well as the working and living conditions of the workers along with their spending patterns on food health education and leisure. It mirrors the work life and issues of these workers on the regional level while contributing to a better understanding for future policy interventions. An in-depth study the book will be of interest to students and researchers of labour economics labour studies urban planning social work sociology anthropology and demography. It will also be useful to NGOs/trade unions working with migrant workers civil servants in Labour department and other related departments city planners and policy makers. | Urban Daily Labour Markets in Gujarat Western India

GBP 130.00
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Environmental Humanities in Folktales Theory and Practice

Environmental Humanities in Folktales Theory and Practice

This work throws light on the areas of space and time nature and culture spirit and matter in the folktales that nurture systemic thinking. It identifies and explores motifs and patterns in select folktales that promote interconnectedness interdependence holism synthesis and circular pattern of life and examines the ecological relevance of folktales in fostering a systematic view of life. The volume discusses why it is important to critically analyze alternative worldviews in order to find holistic solutions to contemporary global ecological issues. It sheds light upon Ecofemiotics as a discipline a portmanteau of Ecofeminist Semiotics and through a re-reading of folktales it puts forward an innovative folktale typology which connects women with environment. The book discusses an ecofemiotics cyclical praxis at three levels • Promoting theory to practice through the analysis of folktales as Gaia Care Narratives using the Ecofemiotic framework. • Enabling practice to theory through a classroom experiment observation and inference. • Envisioning theory to practice through the identification of Gaia Care Principles and its multidisciplinary hands-on scope and function to create avenues towards ecological balance and sustainable living. Inspired by the hearts that tell stories of love care nurture and the Earth this nuanced work will be of interest to students and researchers of literature and literary theory sociology social anthropology gender studies and women’s studies feminism development studies environment and folklore studies. | Environmental Humanities in Folktales Theory and Practice

GBP 48.99
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Critical Humanities from India Contexts Issues Futures

Critical Humanities from India Contexts Issues Futures

The field of humanities generates a discourse that traditionally addressed the questions of what is proper to man rights of man crimes against humanity human creativity and action human reflection and performance human utterance and artefact. The university as a philosophical-political institution transmits this humanist account. This European humanistic legacy which is little more than Christian anthropology barely received any questioning from cultures that faced colonialism. In such a context this volume attempts to unravel the ‘barely secularized heritage’ of Europe (Derrida’s phrase) and its fatal consequences in other cultures. The task of Critical Humanities is to explore the ways in which the question of being human (along with non-human others) today from heterogeneous cultural ‘backgrounds’ can be undertaken. The future of the humanities teaching and research is contingent upon the risky task of configuring cultural difference from non-European locations. Such a task is inescapable and urgently needed when tectonic cultural upheavals have begun to show devastating effect on planetary coexistence today. It is precisely in such a context that this collection of essays on critical humanities affirms ‘without alibi’ the urgency of collective reflection and innovative research across the traditional disciplinary and institutional borders and communication systems on the one hand and Asian African and European cultural formations on the other. Critical Humanities are at one level little more than communities on the verge (critical) but whose centuries long survival and resilient creations of cultural (and /as natural) habitats are of deeply enduring significance to affirm the biocultural diversities of living that compose the planet. Topical and timely this book will be useful to scholars researchers and teachers of cultural theory literary studies philosophy cultural geography legal studies sociology history performance studies environmental studies caste and communalism studies postcolonial theory India studies and education. | Critical Humanities from India Contexts Issues Futures

GBP 38.99
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