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Barbuda Changing Times Changing Tides

Barbuda Changing Times Changing Tides

This volume explores a range of themes including impacts of climate change resilience sustainability indigeneity cultural genocide disaster capitalism preservation of biodiversity and environmental degradation. Focusing on the island of Barbuda in the West Indies it shares critical insights into how climate change is reshaping our world. The book examines how climate has changed in the Caribbean over different spatial and temporal scales and how varying natural and anthropogenic factors have shaped Barbuda’s climatic and cultural history. It highlights projections of 21st-century climate change for the Caribbean region and its likely impacts on Barbuda’s coastal ecosystems potable groundwater resources and heritage. With essays by researchers from the United States Canada Caribbean and Europe this volume straddles a range of disciplines such as archaeology anthropology paleoclimatology environmental sciences science education and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK). Drawing on interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches that explore the intersection of natural and social systems over the longue durée the volume will be of interest to scholars researchers and students of ethnography social anthropology climate action development studies public policy and climate change. | Barbuda Changing Times Changing Tides

GBP 120.00
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India and the Changing World Order

India and the Changing World Order

This book brings together new perspectives on India’s foreign policy in the light of a constantly shifting world order. From India’s relations in its immediate neighborhood to its China policy from India-US relations under Biden to Quad from Grand Strategy to peacekeeping this book brings to the fore the shifting terrains of global politics and India’s significant place in it. The chapters in the volume: Critically examine changing preoccupations of India’s foreign policy and its geopolitical interests including its Act East Policy; Include comprehensive inputs on India’s China policy and relations with Japan; Explore India’s relations with the USA the Middle-East Afghanistan and Central Asia; Discuss at length India’s nuclear energy and foreign investment policies; Analyze India’s positioning on the emergence of the Indo-Pacific discourse. This volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of political science and international relations. It will also be of use to foreign policy and diplomacy practitioners career bureaucrats and government think tanks. | India and the Changing World Order

GBP 130.00
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India-Myanmar Relations Changing contours

India-Myanmar Relations Changing contours

This book provides a comprehensive evaluation of India's multi-faceted relations with Myanmar. It unravels the mysteries of the complex polity of Myanmar as it undergoes transition through democracy after long military rule. Based on meticulous research and understanding the volume traces the trajectory of India–Myanmar associations from ancient times to the present day and offers a fascinating story in the backdrop of the region’s geopolitics. An in-depth analysis of ‘India–Myanmar–China Triangle’ brings out the strategic stakes involved. It will be of great interest to researchers and scholars of international relations peace and conflict studies defence and strategic studies politics South and Southeast Asian studies as well as policy-makers and political think tanks. | India-Myanmar Relations Changing contours

GBP 46.99
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India–Africa Relations Changing Horizons

India–Africa Relations Changing Horizons

This book explores the emergence and assertion of Africa as a significant actor and stakeholder in global affairs and the transformation of the India–Africa relationship. Beginning from this strategic perspective the book presents an in-depth exploration of India–Africa partnership in all its critical dimensions. It delineates the historical backdrop and shared colonial past to focus on and contextualise the evolution of the India–Africa engagement in the first two decades of the 21st century. The book scrutinises the unfolding international competition in Africa in depth which includes global actors such as the EU US and Japan among others focusing especially on China's growing influence in the region. Further it dissects objectively the continental regional and bilateral facets of India–Africa relations and offers a roadmap to strengthen and deepen the relationship in the coming decade. This volume will be very useful for students and researchers working in the field of international relations foreign policy governance geopolitics and diplomacy. | India–Africa Relations Changing Horizons

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Changing Contours of Microfinance in India

Changing Contours of Microfinance in India

This book brings together empirical evidences and theoretical perspectives to provide a comprehensive overview of the microfinance sector in India. The essays in the volume: focus on the application of information and communication technology (ICT) solutions in microfinance institutions to strengthen the savings movement and widen credit access to the poor and marginalized sections of society; present case studies on self-help group (SHG) movements federations and SHG-Bank Linkage programmes; propose measures for strengthening regulatory and governance structures of the microfinance sector; and identify linkages between overall financial inclusion and the contribution of microfinance institutions (MFIs). The volume will be indispensable for scholars and researchers of microeconomics South Asian economics and development economics as well as professionals and aspirants in the microfinance rural banking and financial inclusion sectors. | Changing Contours of Microfinance in India

GBP 28.99
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Changing Theory Concepts from the Global South

Changing Theory Concepts from the Global South

This book is an original systematic and radical attempt at decolonizing critical theory. Drawing on linguistic concepts from 16 languages from Asia Africa the Arab world and South America the essays in the volume explore the entailments of words while discussing their conceptual implications for the humanities and the social sciences everywhere. The essays engage in the work of thinking through words to generate a conceptual vocabulary that will allow for a global conversation on social theory which will be necessarily multilingual. With essays by scholars across generations and from a variety of disciplines – history anthropology and philosophy to literature and political theory – this book will be essential reading for scholars researchers and students of critical theory and the social sciences. | Changing Theory Concepts from the Global South

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Employment Growth and Development Essays on a Changing World Economy

Employment Growth and Development Essays on a Changing World Economy

This book examines the critical themes of employment growth and development to focus on challenges and opportunities both old and new in the contemporary world economy. The essential theme that runs through the book is that there is a strong relationship not only between employment and growth but also between employment and development where the causation runs in both directions. The author shows how employment transforms economic growth into meaningful development by providing livelihoods and incomes to people. While the book is primarily concerned with developing countries it considers industrialized countries as points of reference or comparison since the latter are a large part of an interdependent world in which problems faced by the two sets of countries are frequently connected and sometimes common. The ten essays in this volume also provide a macroeconomic analysis of development problems situated in the wider context of a changing world economy exploring possible solutions to understand the implications for countries and for people. A timely collection by an eminent economist this book will be useful to teachers students and researchers in economics especially those interested in macroeconomics political economy and development studies. | Employment Growth and Development Essays on a Changing World Economy

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Performers and Their Arts Folk Popular and Classical Genres in a Changing India

Performers and Their Arts Folk Popular and Classical Genres in a Changing India

Introduction Part I: Caste Community and performance A ritual performance of Kerala Vayala Vasudevan PillaiThe Patuas of Bengal Makbul IslamBards and goddesses: The Pombalas in Tirupati Anand AkundyExplorations in the art forms of the Cindu madigas in Andhra Y A Sudhakar Reddy and R R HarischandraCaste identity and performance in a | Performers and Their Arts Folk Popular and Classical Genres in a Changing India

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Power Legitimacy and World Order Changing Contours of Preconditions and Perspectives

Power Legitimacy and World Order Changing Contours of Preconditions and Perspectives

This book reflects on the reasons for the decline of international cooperation in world politics and studies ways to restore legitimacy in the international order. It engages with the concept of legitimacy in international relations theories and practices to examine the discussions around power shifts the decline of liberalism demands for inclusive international architectures and challenges to multilateralism as well as established norms by leaders and nationalisms. It studies the impact of the post-COVID-19 world order on the nature of power in the international system and changes in normative concerns of security. The volume also interrogates political legitimacy through an area studies lens by examining the concept of legitimacy separately in the USA Europe South Asia Southeast Asia Latin America and Africa. An important and timely text featuring contributions from eminent scholars this book will be of use to students and researchers of modern history political science and international relations. It will also be of interest to think tanks and policy-making bodies concerned with international affairs and foreign policy. | Power Legitimacy and World Order Changing Contours of Preconditions and Perspectives

GBP 36.99
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Globalization and Urban Culture in Dhaka

Globalization and Urban Culture in Dhaka

This book examines globalization and urban cultures in Dhaka the capital of Bangladesh from a socio-cultural view. It focuses on the evolving nature of urbanity in the city due to globalization and the global flow of information while framing the changing patterns of everyday cultures and practices. The volume explores key linkages and factors in urban transformation; the history and heritage of Old Dhaka; globalization diverse urban cultures and ethnic spaces; changes in food habits clothing health practices and recreation; changing forms of festivals marriages and religious practices; the situation of indigenous people in Old Dhaka; and the roles that need to be played by NGOs civil society and the local government. With its rich ethnographic case studies and field-based evidence it discusses the relations between technology-driven economic activities and increasing cultural homogenization. It traces developments induced by cultural globalization and includes contemporary debates along with comparisons of Asian and global perspectives. This book will be a useful resource for scholars and researchers of urban studies city studies urban sociology social anthropology cultural anthropology political sociology development studies South Asian studies and cultural studies and to those interested in Bangladesh. | Globalization and Urban Culture in Dhaka

GBP 130.00
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Understanding Globalisation Challenges and Prospects

Understanding Globalisation Challenges and Prospects

The book examines contemporary globalisation which signifies a growing interconnectedness between people and societies across the world through increasing flows of people goods services finance and ideas across the borders. The concept of globalisation and its meaning is discussed through insights from scholars such as David Held Anthony Giddens David Harvey Arjun Appadurai Ulrich Beck Manuel Castells Saskia Sassen and many other scholars to explain divergent perspectives of globalisation. The book also studies threats like nuclear weapons proliferation global terrorism environmental security issues global justice poverty migration and global shifts. It aims to generate readers’ interest in understanding globalisation and analysing the changing dynamics of world politics by studying it from diverse viewpoints. The emergence of COVID-19 and resurgence of great power politics has given rise to the debate of de-globalisation and return of a new kind of ‘cold war’. In this context this volume will also help readers to understand globalisation in the present changing world order. The book will be useful to the students of political science international relations and other interdisciplinary social sciences subjects like political economy and global/international politics. | Understanding Globalisation Challenges and Prospects

GBP 130.00
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Veena Dhanammal The Making of a Legend

Veena Dhanammal The Making of a Legend

This book looks at the life and music of Veena Dhanammal (1866–1938) considered the embodiment of ‘classicism’ in Karnatik music. It locates her art within the cultural social and intellectual milieu she inhabited allowing readers to track the changing musical landscape of southern India as a process of urbanisation — beginning in the late nineteenth century — resulted in Karnatik music’s movement from a ritual and courtly location to a modern secular form of entertainment in the city space. | Veena Dhanammal The Making of a Legend

GBP 160.00
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The Secret History of Mumbai Terror Attacks Fragile Frontiers

The Secret History of Mumbai Terror Attacks Fragile Frontiers

Critical questions remain unanswered on the events of the cold-blooded and devastating terror attacks in Mumbai on 26 November 2008. Investigative and introspective this book offers a lucid and graphic account of the ill-fated day and traces the changing dynamics of terror in South Asia. Using new insights it explores South Asia’s regional dynamics of antagonism the ever-present challenge to the frontiers of India Pakistan and the terrorism question the strife in Afghanistan and the self-serving selective US ‘war on terror’. Including a new Afterword this second edition will greatly interest those in defence security and strategic studies politics and international relations peace and conflict studies media and journalism and South Asian studies as well as the general reader. | The Secret History of Mumbai Terror Attacks Fragile Frontiers

GBP 38.99
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Macroeconomics and Markets in Developing and Emerging Economies

Macroeconomics and Markets in Developing and Emerging Economies

The book presents and further develops basic principles and concepts in international finance and open economy macroeconomics to make them more relevant for emerging and developing economies (EDEs). The volume emphasises the necessity of greater knowledge of context as populous Asian economies integrate with world markets as well as the rapidly changing nature of the area due to rethinking after the global financial crisis. It addresses a host of themes including key issues such as exchange rate economics macroeconomic policy in an open economy analytical frameworks for and experience of EDEs after liberalisation the international financial system currency and financial crises continuing risks and regulatory response. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of economics especially in macroeconomics business and finance and development studies. | Macroeconomics and Markets in Developing and Emerging Economies

GBP 39.99
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East India Company and Trade in South India Madras 1746–1803

East India Company and Trade in South India Madras 1746–1803

This book presents the economic history of the English East India Company’s trade as it functioned from Madras (Chennai) during the second half of the 18th century. It traces the role of trade and commerce as followed by the European EICs to achieve their economic ends territorial expansion and control of productive resources. The author portrays the nature contents volume and changing trends of trade and commerce over a decisive period of Indian economic history. The volume discusses the chief constituents of trade in general exports investments imports and private trade and traders of Madras from 1746 to 1803. Rich in archival resources this is an essential resource for administrators students scholars and researchers of colonial history and modern Indian economic history besides British trade history. | East India Company and Trade in South India Madras 1746–1803

GBP 130.00
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The Indian Parliament and Democratic Transformation

The Indian Parliament and Democratic Transformation

This book traces the trajectory of the Indian Parliament from its formation to present day. The essays presented here explore parliamentary democracy through the formative years and highlight the Parliament’s function as a representative and accountable institution its procedures and responsibility its connection with the other arms of the state its relationship with grassroots democracy and the press and its critical role in framing foreign policy and national security. The volume frames major debates surrounding the Parliament through historical conceptual and contemporary political perspectives. It also looks at how politics in practice is being continuously changed and challenged by new social media and further views the transformation of India’s apex legislative institution in terms of democratizing processes constitutional values and changing mores. The book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of Indian politics history comparative politics political science and modern India. | The Indian Parliament and Democratic Transformation

GBP 38.99
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Claiming Citizenship and Nation Muslim Politics and State Building in North India 1947–1986

Claiming Citizenship and Nation Muslim Politics and State Building in North India 1947–1986

The book provides insight into the changing nature of Muslim politics and the ideas of citizenship in independent India. It studies the electoral mobilization of minority groups across North India particularly in Uttar Pradesh where Muslims have been demographically dominant in various constituencies. The volume discusses themes such as the making and unmaking of the ‘Congress heartland’ and the threat of revival of ‘Muslim communalism’ alongside issues of representation property language politics rehabilitation and citizenship politics of Waqf personal law and Hindu counter-mobilization. The author utilizes previously unused government and institutional files private archives interviews and oral resources to address questions central to Indian politics and society. An important intervention this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of politics Indian history minority studies law political studies nationalism electoral politics partition studies political sociology sociology and South Asian Studies. | Claiming Citizenship and Nation Muslim Politics and State Building in North India 1947–1986

GBP 38.99
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The Routledge Handbook of Poverty in the Global South

The Routledge Handbook of Poverty in the Global South

This handbook initiates fresh debates on poverty and its impact in a constantly changing Global South society. It studies the concept theories and causes of poverty as well as the design and delivery of social welfare policies related to specific groups such as women children and the elderly. The chapters are theoretical evidence-based and empirical in nature and bring together a holistic understanding of social problems and issues in developing countries. The volume brings together researchers educators and practitioners from across the globe to develop a hands-on reference work that will be requisite for several social science disciplines concerned with poverty and the welfare of poor people. The first of its kind the handbook will be indispensable for scholars and researchers of development studies economics social work political studies poverty studies population and demographic studies sociology social anthropology public policy and political economy especially those concerned with the Global South. | The Routledge Handbook of Poverty in the Global South

GBP 205.00
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Rethinking State Politics in India Regions within Regions

Rethinking State Politics in India Regions within Regions

In recent decades India has been witness to the assertion of geographically culturally and historically constituted distinct and well-defined regions that display ethnic communal caste and other social–political cleavages. This book examines the changing configurations of state politics in India. Focussing on identity politics and development it explores the specificities of the regions within states — not merely as politico-administrative constructs but also as conceived in historical geographic economic sociological or cultural terms. Adopting a comparative approach the book looks at alternative theoretical approaches — the quest for homeland identity caste politics and public policy. This second edition includes a new Introduction that updates the research in the area while further developing the theoretical framework. One of the first major volumes on federalism in India including studies from across the nation this book will be indispensable for students and scholars of political science sociology history and South Asian studies. | Rethinking State Politics in India Regions within Regions

GBP 84.99
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Television Publics in South Asia Mediated Politics and Culture

Television Publics in South Asia Mediated Politics and Culture

Television has a prime role to play in the formation of discursive domains in the everyday life of South Asian publics. This book explores various television media practices social processes mediated political experiences and everyday cultural compositions from Bangladesh India Nepal Pakistan and Sri Lanka. With the help of country-specific case studies it captures a broad range of themes which foreground the publics and their real-life experiences of television in the region. The chapters in this book discuss gendered television spaces women seeking solace from television in pandemic the taboo in digital TV dramas television viewership and localizing publics changing viewership from television to OTT news and public perception of death redefining ‘the national’ theatrical television and post-truth television news among other key issues. Rich in ethnographic case studies this volume will be a useful resource for scholars and researchers of media and communication studies journalism digital media South Asian studies cultural studies sociology and social anthropology. | Television Publics in South Asia Mediated Politics and Culture

GBP 130.00
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India and Global Governance A Rising Power and Its Discontents

India and Global Governance A Rising Power and Its Discontents

This volume explores India’s role in the global governance architecture post–Cold War. It shows how with a rise in India’s capabilities there is an expectation from its external interlocutors that New Delhi ought to play a larger global role. As Indian policymakers redefine their engagements in the global policy matrix the chapters in the volume analyse India’s role as a challenger and a stakeholder in world politics; its uneasy relationship with Western liberal democracies; and its role in shaping new structures of global governance. The volume focuses on a host of critical issues including nuclear policy climate action politics India’s bid for a permanent seat at the UN Security Council humanitarian interventions trade governance democracy promotion India’s engagement with other emerging powers in platforms such as the BRICS the changing dynamics with its neighbours and maritime governance. A timely reimagining of global politics this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics and international relations climate change military and strategic studies economics and South Asian studies. | India and Global Governance A Rising Power and Its Discontents

GBP 38.99
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Challenges to Punjab Economy A Regional Perspective from India

Challenges to Punjab Economy A Regional Perspective from India

This volume looks at the challenges faced by the economy and society in Punjab India. It probes into the economic issues institutional development and resources imbalance faced by the Punjab economy. It discusses regional research problems and futuristic approaches for a developing economy. The chapters in this volume: focus on comprehending economic challenges agrarian structure and development; markets R&D and public policy; manufacturing sector; opportunities and possibilities; examine labour caste and gender trajectories exploring the question of freedom and livelihood; human social and financial resources development; hunger diet and disease; challenges for development paradigm; present the macro and micro facets of development processes in the region and offer a way forward for long-run growth sustainability and inclusiveness amidst the dynamic fast-changing economies across the globe. Comprehensive and analytical in its approach this volume will be of interest to young researchers scholars practitioners and policymakers working in the fields of Development Economics Regional Economics Evolutionary Economics Sustainable Economics Agrarian Development Manufacturing and Labour. | Challenges to Punjab Economy A Regional Perspective from India

GBP 130.00
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Empowering Women in Bangladesh Gender and the Politics of Reserved Seats

Empowering Women in Bangladesh Gender and the Politics of Reserved Seats

This book investigates the deep linkages between gender and grassroots politics. It studies how women candidates in Bangladesh are elected in reserved seats in the local government bodies and explores the challenges that they face both from within the domestic unit and from the government administration. The book focuses on grassroots-level governance and provides a comparative study between selected rural and urban local government institutions in different socio-economic educational and cultural contexts. It documents loopholes in the system of quota seats for women allocation of electoral constituency and elected representatives’ rights and responsibilities. It also studies the life-changing impact of women at different levels of governance and society and offers important policy implications for furthering their participation and empowerment. A major intervention in the study of Bangladesh and its politics this key text will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of political science public administration gender studies public policy and South Asian studies. | Empowering Women in Bangladesh Gender and the Politics of Reserved Seats

GBP 38.99
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Film Media and Representation in Postcolonial South Asia Beyond Partition

Film Media and Representation in Postcolonial South Asia Beyond Partition

This volume brings together new studies and interdisciplinary research on the changing mediascapes in South Asia. Focusing on India Pakistan and Bangladesh it explores the transformations in the sphere of cinema television performing arts visual cultures cyber space and digital media beyond the traumas of the partitions of 1947 and 1971. Through wide-ranging essays on soft power performance film and television; art and visual culture; and cyber space social media and digital texts the book bridges the gap in the study of the postcolonial and post-Partition developments to reimagine South Asia through a critical understanding of popular culture and media. The volume includes scholars and practitioners from the subcontinent to foster dialogue across the borders and presents diverse and in-depth studies on film media and representation in the region. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of media and film studies postcolonial studies visual cultures political studies partition history cultural studies mass media popular culture history sociology and South Asian studies as well as to media practitioners journalists writers and activists. | Film Media and Representation in Postcolonial South Asia Beyond Partition

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