Routledge India imprint: 457 books
Social Movements
Transformative Shifts and Turning Points
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
This volume attempts to show the emerging contours of ‘transformative action’ in social movements across South Asia. It argues that these contours have been shaped by contestations over questions of equity, justice and well-being on the one hand, and the nature and scope of new and classical social...
Sikkim Human Development Report 2014
Expanding Opportunities, Promoting Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
This report brings together the findings of a decade-long field survey conducted in the Indian state of Sikkim. It outlines the interventions made by the state government in human development, biodiversity, gender equity, justice and other parameters. It also outlines Sikkim's efforts in achieving Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015.
Security and South Asia
Ideas, Institutions and Initiatives
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Stephen Philip Cohen can rightly be called the doyen of South Asian security analysis, especially traditional security concerns in the region and advocacy on US foreign policy.
The contributors to the volume have all, at different at different points in time, been Cohen’s students, and are...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
This book highlights how climate change has affected migration in the Indian subcontinent. Drawing on field research, it argues that extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, cyclones, cloudbursts as well as sea-level rise, desertification and declining crop productivity have shown higher frequency...
Researching Geography
The Indian context
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This book is a one-stop comprehensive guide to geographical inquiry.
A step-by-step account of the hows and the whys of research methodology.
Introduces students to the complexities of geographical perspective and thought, essentials of fieldwork, formulation of research topics, data collection,...
The Structure of Indian Society
Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book has a collection of ten articles written during 1982–2007 and an exhaustive introduction on the structural features of Indian society, that is, the enduring social groups, institutions and processes, such as caste, tribe, sect, rural-urban relations, etc. The book views Indian society...
Social Protection as Development Policy
Asian Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
The Asian crisis of the late 1990s severely affected some of the most successful economies in the region, placing the issue of social protection high on the regional and international agenda. Subsequently, growth rates revived, but the fruits of growth have not been evenly distributed and inequality...
Politics of Migration
Indian Emigration in a Globalized World
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This book studies the politics surrounding Indian emigration from the 19th century to the present day. Bringing together data and case studies from across five continents, it moves beyond economic and social movers of migration, and explores the role of politics—both local and global—in shaping...
Financial Economy
Evolutions at the Edge of Crises
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
This book examines how contemporary financial economy evolved as the predominant economic system, and why unabated accumulation of financial capital takes place in such systems. It reviews the mechanics of accumulation of wealth by tracing the historical roots of financial capital. Traversing the...
The Gender Imperative
Human Security vs State Security
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
This collection of essays by feminist scholar-activists addresses the crucial problem of human security in a world of heavily armed, militarized states. It describes the gendered aspects of human security excluded from the realist militarism that dominates current security policy in most nation states....
Globalisation, Environment and Social Justice
Perspectives, Issues and Concerns
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
This volume provides a comprehensive account of the connections between globalisation, environment and social justice. It examines varied dimensions of environmental sustainability; the adverse impact of globalisation on environment and its consequences for poverty, unemployment and displacement;...
Poetry, Politics and Culture
Essays on Indian Texts and Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
This book maps the journey of the Indian poetic imagination—in Hindi, Panjabi and Indian English—from its original quasi-spiritual longings to its activist interventions in the public domain. As Indian poetry of the post-1990s gravitates towards a non-Orientalised postcolonial nationalism, it...
A Philosophy of Autobiography
Body & Text
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
This book offers intimate readings of a diverse range of global autobiographical literature with an emphasis on the (re)presentation of the physical body. The twelve texts discussed here include philosophical autobiography (Nietzsche), autobiographies of self-experimentation (Gandhi, Mishima, Warhol),...
Who is the Scientist-Subject?
Affective History of the Gene
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
This book explores two disparate sets of debates in the history and philosophy of the life sciences: the history of subjectivity in shaping objective science and the history of dominance of reductionism in molecular biology. It questions the dominant conception of the scientist-subject as a neo-Kantian...