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Food and Nutrition Systems in Urban India Towards Disentitlement

Food and Nutrition Systems in Urban India Towards Disentitlement

This book explores identity-mediated dynamics of food and nutrition entitlement in urban India analysing concerns around equity access to food and public health. The issues of disentitlement and identity dynamics when it comes to nutrition and health are more intricate in the urban context due to a greater population and cultural diversity. While in the global north urban food planning is increasingly dependent on local government in developing countries urban nutrition is yet to be considered a serious policy issue. This book with a disaggregated analysis for urban India and an in-depth case study of Mumbai examines how malnutrition in India is becoming an urban challenge. It discusses how far caste religion and migratory identities serve as a source of deprivation and analyses the role of local governance particularly municipal governance and urban planning in facilitating the disentitlement. It also offers suggestions for the global south to reverse the stark inequality in its urban centres and address nutrition challenges by developing their own sustainable and resilient food systems. This book is an essential read for scholars and researchers of public health nutrition urban sociology urban planning development studies political sociology public policy and political studies. | Food and Nutrition Systems in Urban India Towards Disentitlement

GBP 120.00
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Selected Writings of Anil Gharai Dalit Literature from Bangla

Selected Writings of Anil Gharai Dalit Literature from Bangla

Anil Gharai is arguably one of the most significant authors of Bangla Dalit literature. His works deal with the stark everyday realities of people on the margins and the complex interplay of domination and subjugation in these spaces. This volume of English translations of some of his most celebrated works seeks to introduce his writings to a new readership in India and abroad. In his works Gharai explored caste-based and gender-based oppression in the rural areas of coastal Bengal. His protagonists are from remote spaces from the Dalit community or the indigenous communities—men and women who work and live in extremely exploitative circumstances and whose lives are depicted by Gharai with great care and detail. His novels short stories and poems translated in this volume give voice to the unrepresented and offer a critique of the oppressive caste and class hierarchies and traditions in eastern India. He also focuses on the replication of patriarchal mores within Dalit society and culture. This volume includes critical essays on Anil Gharai and his long interview to reflect on his position in the alternative literary canon of Bangla Dalit literature. Part of the Voices from the Margins series this critical edition seeks to visibilise the less visible literary texts and traditions. It will be of interest to those scholars engaged in contemporary Indian/South Asian literary cultures comparative literature modern Indian literature minority studies Dalit studies and gender studies. It will also be useful to students and researchers of social sciences and humanities. | Selected Writings of Anil Gharai Dalit Literature from Bangla

GBP 130.00
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