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Deprovincializing Habermas

Global Perspectives

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Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014

This volume engages with Jürgen Habermas’s political theory from critical perspectives beyond its Western European origins. In particular, it explores the challenges of democratizing, decolonizing and desecularizing his theory for global contexts, and proposes ‘deprovincializing’ reformulations for contemporary political and social issues.

Yoga, Bhoga and Ardhanariswara

Individuality, Wellbeing and Gender in Tantra

by Prem Saran
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017

This book offers a social–scientific interpretation of the Hindu and Buddhist traditions of Tantra dating back 15 centuries. It is a self-reflexive study approached with an insider’s empathy and the perspective of an Indologist, anthropologist, mystic and practitioner of the cult.  The...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012

The essays in this volume address the central theme of Pakistan’s enduring, yet elusive, quest for democracy. The book charts Pakistan’s struggle from its very inception, at least in the political rhetoric provided by both civilian and military leaders, for democracy, liberalism, freedom of expression,...
by Madhusudan Subedi
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018

This book focuses on health, healing and health care in Nepal. It presents an intriguing picture: the interplay between the natural processes that cause ill health or diseases and the socio-cultural processes through which people try to understand and cope with them. The work places medical tradition,...

Canned Heat

Ethics and Politics of Global Climate Change

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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014

Climate change is a key challenge in the contemporary world. This volume studies climate change through many lenses: politics, law, ethics, philosophy, religion, and contemporary art and culture. The essays explore alternatives for sustainable development and highlight oft-overlooked issues, such...

Modern Art in Pakistan

History, Tradition, Place

by Simone Wille
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017

Modern Art in Pakistan examines interaction of space, tradition, and history to analyse artistic production in Pakistan from the 1950s to recent times. It traces the evolution of modernism in Pakistan and frames it in a global context in the aftermath of Partition. A masterful insight into...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014

The collection of papers brings out the complexities in PPP in terms of types, conceptualization, structure, institutions, and financing. It covers a broad sweep ranging from infrastructure to services and utilities; and from global to Indian states. The methodology is primarily empirical but the...

Broadening and Deepening Democracy

Political Innovation in Karnataka

by E Raghavan, James Manor
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012

This book examines certain changes in the political make-up of Karnataka, between the early 1970s and the late 1980s, which, in turn, led to the birth of a unique democracy in the state. In a departure from most studies on political science and political history which pay little or no attention...

Indian Agriculture

Performance, growth and challenges. Essays in honour of Ramesh Kumar Sharma

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Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016

This volume examines the transitions in Indian agriculture since the 1980s, and emphasizes upon the role of neoliberal policies and their impact. The essays presented here deal with a range of pertinent and contemporary issues, including global food security, livelihoods of agricultural labourers,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016

This book presents a nuanced analysis of governance in South Asia. It examines a range of themes including civil service reforms, women and development, environmental governance and public sector programmes, together with the impact of globalization on local issues and its influence on governance...

Disaster Law

Emerging Thresholds

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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017

This book looks at how legal frameworks can and do reduce risks arising out of disasters. The volume: analyses existing disaster laws and the challenges on the ground; brings together case studies from some of the most vulnerable regions; and proposes solutions to avert existing and possible...

The 21st Century

Geopolitics, Democracy and Peace

by Balmiki Prasad Singh
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017

This book examines a wide range of issues that are expected to play a dominant role in shaping the 21st century. Delineating key concerns in geopolitics, democracy and peace, it studies the functions and influences of educational institutions, progressive religious and social groups, communities,...

Women and Disasters in South Asia

Survival, security and development

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Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016

South Asia is one of the most vulnerable areas of an increasingly disaster-impacted world, with cyclones, earthquakes, floods and droughts causing several casualties and disrupting lives and livelihoods every year. Yet the impacts of disasters are not equally distributed across the peoples of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016

This volume traces the theme of the loss of language and culture in numerous post-colonial contexts. It establishes that the aphasia imposed on the indigenous is but a visible symptom of a deeper malaise — the mismatch between the symbiotic relation nurtured by the indigenous with their environment...
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