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Taylor & Francis Boundaries of Utopia Imagining Communism from Plato to Stalin
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Environmental Justice in African Philosophy
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on environmental justice in African philosophy, highlighting important new perspectives which will be of significance to researchers with an interest in environmental ethics both within Africa and beyond. Drawing on African social and ethical conceptions of existence, the book makes suggestions for how to derive environmental justice from African philosophies such as communitarian ethics, relational ethics, unhu/ubuntu ethics, ecofeminist ethics and intergenerational ethics. Specifically, the book emphasises the ways in which African philosophies of existence seek to involve everyone in environmental policy and planning and to equitably distribute both environmental benefits (such as natural resources) and environmental burdens (such as pollution and the location of mining, industrial or dumping sites). This extends to fair distribution between global South and global North, rich and poor, urban and rural populations, men and women and adults and children. TTrade Review"In this book Chemhuru ably articulates the bearing of African philosophies on environmental justice. His book will be essential reading for Africans concerned about how their traditions can motivate and underpin environmental equity, and worldwide for all who seek to discover what can be learned about relations between genders, classes, cultures and generations from the continent where humanity first evolved."Robin Attfield, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Cardiff University, Wales, UK."Here comes a resourceful publication on environmental justice with convincing arguments and illustrations on why and how everyone is a stakeholder in the project and must be involved in achieving environmental justice for mankind. It deserves global attention."Lawrence Ogbo Ugwuanyi, Professor of Philosophy, University of Abuja, Nigeria.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Environmental Ethics in African Philosophy 2. Environmental (in)Justice in Africa: The North – South Challenge 3. Environmental Justice from an African Land Ethic 4. African Relational Environmental Justice 5. African Ecofeminist Environmental Justice 6. Intergenerational Environmental Justice in African Philosophy
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Handbook of African Law
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of African Law provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the contemporary legal terrain in Africa. The international team of expert contributors adopt an analytical and comparative approach so that readers can see the nexus between different jurisdictions and different legal traditions across the continent.The volume is divided into five parts covering: Legal Pluralism and African Legal Systems The State, Institutions, Constitutionalism, and Democratic Governance Economic Development, Technology, Trade, and Investment Human Rights, Gender-Based Violence, and Access to Justice International Law, Institutions, and International Criminal Law Providing important insights into both the specific contexts of African legal systems and the ways in which these legal traditions intersect with the wider world, this handbook will be an essential reTable of ContentsIntroduction PART ONE: LEGAL PLURALISM AND AFRICAN LEGAL SYSTEMS Chapter 1: Legal Pluralism in Africa: Three Levels and Seven Types of Law, Raymond A. Atuguba Chapter 2: Customary Marriages and the South African Constitution: The Recent Developments, Sipho Nkosi Chapter 3: Gods at War: Religion and Law-Making, Roseline K. Njogu Chapter 4: Pluralism and the Tenor of Bankruptcy Legislation in West African Societies, Samuel Boadi Adarkwah Chapter 5: Common Law in Kenya, Duncan M. Okubasu Chapter 6: The Evolution of Property Rights to Land in Postcolonial Buganda, Olive Sabiiti PART TWO: THE STATE, INSTITUTIONS, CONSTITUTIONALISM, AND DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE Chapter 7: One Nation, Multiple Identities: Ethnicity, Inclusivity, and Constitution- Making, Muna Ndulo Chapter 8: Democratic Transitions in Africa: The Issue of Civil Resistance and Unconstitutional Change of Government, Lydia A. Nkansah Chapter 9: Freedom of Expression in Zambia Revisited, Sangwani Patrick Ng’ambi Chapter 10: Mapping the Legal Contours of Presidential Electoral Law in Kenya: A Case Review of Raila Odinga v. Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission Presidential Election 1 of 2017 , Luis Franceschi and Emmah Wabuke Chapter 11: The Unconstitutional Change of Government Normative Framework in Africa: Do Elections Matter?, O’Brien Kaaba Chapter 12: Commissions of Inquiry and the Quest for a Greater Accountability in Health Care Delivery in Africa: A Ghanaian Perspective, Ernest Owusu-Dapaa Chapter 13: The Effectiveness and Predictability of Social Security Law: Constitutional Perspectives from the Republic of South Africa, Letlhokwa George Mpedi Chapter 14: Rule of Law with African Characteristics, Salvatore Mancuso PART THREE: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, TECHNOLOGY, TRADE, AND INVESTMENT Chapter 15: Law and the Regulation of New Technologies in Africa, Olufunmilayo B. Arewa and Ayodeji O. Fakolade Chapter 16: The East African Community’s Used Clothing Policy and International Trade Law, Chantal Thomas Chapter 17: Technology, Legal Information, and Access to Justice in Africa, Femi Cadmus Chapter 18: Show Me the Money: Evaluating the Significance of Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Expressions in the Context of Foreign Direct Investment Outflows, Anthony C. K. Kakooza Chapter 19: Labor Law, Labor Market Regulation, and Social Protection in Sub-Saharan Africa: Emerging Trends in Comparative Perspective, Chanda Chungu and Evance Kalula Chapter 20: The Pan-African Investment Code and Its Impact on Investments and Resource Extraction in Africa, Dunia P. Zongwe PART FOUR: HUMAN RIGHTS, GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE, AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE Chapter 21: The ECOWAS Citizen in a Dilemma: The Role of the ECOWAS Court of Justice in the Promotion of Human Rights in West Africa, George Asare-Afriyie Chapter 22: When Criminal Law is Not Enough: Toward a Holistic Approach to Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response in Zambia and Beyond, Elizabeth Brundige and Tinenenji Banda Chapter 23: African Law and the Rights of Sexual Minorities: Western Universalism and African Resistance, Nicholas Kahn-Fogel Chapter 24: Developing Effective Money-Laundering Laws in Africa: Dealing with Corrupt, Politically Exposed Persons, John Hatchard Chapter 25: Citizenship, Rights, and Political Subjectivity in Eritrea, Kibron Teweldebirhan and Luwam Dirar PART FIVE: INTERNATIONAL LAW, INSTITUTIONS, AND INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW Chapter 26: Addressing Serious Crimes of Global Concern in Africa: Dribbling Around the Problem, Chris Maina Peter Chapter 27: South Africa’s Contribution to the International Criminal Justice, Ntombizozuko Dyani-Mhango Chapter 28: Stateless and Rightless? An Appraisal of Standards and Practices on Prevention of Statelessness and Protection of Stateless Persons in Africa, Juliana Masabo Chapter 29: Abducted, Inducted, and Indicted: The Case of Dominic Ongwen in the International Criminal Court, Simeon P. Sungi and George R. Kakoti Chapter 30: From Brussels to Addis Ababa: A Contextual and Comparative Analysis of Access to Justice Under African Private International Law in Africa, Pontian Okoli Chapter 31: An Assessment of the Right of Individuals to Access the Southern African Development Community Tribunal, Onkemetse Tshosa Chapter 32: Beyond Formalism and uti possidetis: The International Court of Justice and Boundary Disputes in Africa, Cosmas Emeziem
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Christological Paradigm Shifts in Prophetic
Book SynopsisThis book explores recent developments in South African Pentecostalism, focusing on new prophetic churches. The chapters engage with a number of paradigm shifts in Christology, identified as complementing Christ, competing with Christ, removing Christ and replacing Christ. What are the implications of these shifts? Does it mean that believers no longer believe in Christ but in their leaders? Does it shift believers' faith towards materiality than the person of Christ? This volume will be valuable for scholars of African Christianity and in particular those interested in the neo-prophetic movement and Christology in a South African context.Table of ContentsIntroduction-Mookgo Solomon Kgatle, Marius Nel and Collium Banda; 1 The paradigmatic shift of some New Prophetic Churches from the ipsissima verba of Scripture to a non-existent Christology-Paul Themba Mngadi; 2 "Who has bewitched you?": The Christological shift from faith to works in Galatians 3:1-9 applied to South African Pentecostalism-Elise B. Kisungu; 3 Towards a deepened Christology on the Cape Flats: The "Spirit of Christ" metaphor in the neo-Pentecostal church-Eugene Baron; 4 Wo/Men’s God-given power: Male headship versus female agency in Pentecostal sermons-Tumi Mampane; 5 Examining the position of prophets in relation to Christology within contemporary South African Pentecostal missions-Themba Shingange; 6 African neo-Pentecostalism's emphasis on prosperity and its implications for its Christology: An African Pentecostal hermeneutical consideration-Marius Nel; 7 Insufficient to ransom Africans?: The neo-Pentecostal fear of generational curses in Africa and Christ’s vicarious atonement-Collium Banda; 8 Christ and the neo-Pentecostal preacher on the platform: Catechists or celebrities?-Kelebogile T. Resane; 9 From replacing Christ to crisis: Rethinking Christology in some new religious ministries in South Africa-Bekithemba Dube; Epilogue-Mookgo Solomon Kgatle, Marius Nel and Collium Banda
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Taylor & Francis Routledge Handbook of Humanitarian Communication
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Humanitarian Communication is an authoritative and comprehensive guide to research in the academic sub-field of humanitarian communication. It is broadly focused on communication that presents human vulnerability as a cause for public concern and encompasses communication with respect to humanitarian aid and development as well as human rights and humanitarian wars.Recent years have seen the expansion of critical scholarship on humanitarian communication across a range of academic fields, sharing recognition of the centrality of media and communications to our understanding of humanitarianism as an agent of transnational power, global governance and cosmopolitan solidarity. The Handbook brings into dialogue these diverse fields, their theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches as well as the public debates that lie at the heart of the contemporary politics of humanitarianism. It consolidates existing knowledge and maps out this eTable of ContentsIntroduction: Humanitarian Communication in the 21st Century PART I: DOMAINS 1. Disaster Aid as a Domain of Media and Humanitarian Politics 2. Development and its Narratives 3. Human Rights, Culture and Media 4. Media and Compassion in Digital War PART II: METHODS 5. The Audience of Humanitarian Communication 6. Text-analytical Approaches to Humanitarian Communication 7. Production-centered Approaches to Humanitarian Communication 8. Ethnography in Humanitarian Communication: Descending into the Lifeworlds of Witnessing and Wounded Subjects PART III: ISSUES Politics 9. The Logic of Projects in Humanitarian Relief 10. Micro-mapping: Digital Humanitarianism and the Politics of Material Participation in Disaster Relief 11. Technocolonialism: Digital Innovation and Data Practices in the Humanitarian Response to Refugee Crises 12. The Politics of Humanitarian Journalism 13. Conflicted Witnesses: Journalists and the Humanitarian Imaginary 14. Human Rights Protests and Mediated Violence Economy 15. Celebrity Advocacy 16. Brand Aid: Humanitarianism in Corporate Communication 17. Humanitarianism in the African Luxury Designer Market 18. Corporate Social Responsibility and the Humanitarian Civic Imaginary 19. Volunteer Tourism as Humanitarian Communication 20. Humanitarianism and Microfinance Histories and Futures 21. Humanitarian Imagery: Historical registers in the representation of atrocity 22. Photography and Humanitarian Intervention: The Early Years, 1850s–1914 23. MSF: Silence heals. From the Cold War to the War on Terror 24. How Do We Arm the Other Eleven? Humanitarianism, Commodities and Jobs 25. Post-humanitarianism: Solidarity beyond the Politics of Pity 26. Data Witnessing: Attending to Injustice with Data in Amnesty International’s Decoders Project
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Taylor & Francis Ltd 1917 and the Consequences
Book SynopsisThe Russian Revolution of 1917 has been one of the most important events of modern history. It changed the course of the events not only in Russia but, on a wider scale, across the world while it influenced the flow of history throughout the twentieth century until the fall of the Soviet Union and, to some extent, well beyond this time. Radical change in Russia triggered social revolutions and reformations across Europe, while authoritarian systems shaped their societies according to the Russian model. This book analyses these forces, particularly at the European periphery which has been underexplored until this volume.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; Abbreviations; Notes on contributors; 1. Introduction (Katarzyna Stokłosa and Gerhard Besier); 2. 7 November in post-Soviet politics of history (Stefan Troebst); 3. In search of a ‘red’: East Central Europe’s responses to the Russian Revolutions (Maciej Górny); 4. "Drown it in Lenin’s and his Jewish creatures’ blood": Danish reactions to the 1917 Russian Revolution (Thomas Wegener Friis and Jesper Jørgensen); 5. The intervention of the German Empire in the Finnish Civil War 1917/18: from revolutionary state to kingdom (Gerhard Besier); 6. Perceptions of the 1917 Revolution in Latvia and Estonia (Benjamin Conrad); 7. The meaning of Kruty: remembering the 1917–1921 revolution and the struggle for Ukrainian statehood (Lina Klymenko); 8. The reverberations of the October 1917 Revolution and the state of siege in interwar Romania (Corneliu Pintilescu); 9. 1917, a turning point in neutral countries: Great War and Russian Revolution in Spain (and Argentina) (Maximiliano Fuentes Codera); Index
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Taylor & Francis Structural Change in Africa
Book SynopsisDebates on African development continue to downplay the achievement of the continent: economic achievements are diminished and the perception of a conflict prone continent continues. Many of the policy prescriptions externally imposed on African countries have done little to transform the continent largely because they have been conceived and applied without context.Using literature from diverse origins, this book expands our knowledge about Africa and makes practical suggestions as to how successful development in a complex, yet dynamic continent can be achieved. Widening the policy dialogue and providing alternative thinking on the key elements and full extent of opportunities and challenges towards achieving the socio-economic transformation of Africa, the book moves the debate from the rhetoric to reality. As a considered reflection on the âAfricaâs transformationâ narrative, it outlines the practical pathways necessary for Africaâs sustainable develoTrade Review"This is the book so many of us have waited for and will welcome as an informed and rigorously empirical contribution to the challenges of our times – loss of biodiversity, fragile and fading social cohesion and the emergence of new forms of authoritarianism. It’s narrative of possibility, based on empirical evidence and informed by pluralist scholarship, constitutes a new departure in the economics of development. It is a work that is invaluable, not only to the continent of the young and the future that is Africa, but for all scholars and policy-makers concerned at the insufficiency of current economic models in delivering a sustainable global world. We are indebted to Lopes and Kararach." - Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland "Capturing the diversity and richness of African narratives about development - past, present and future - remains a complex challenge. In their endeavour to bring context and perspective to Africa’s contemporary discourse about the future, Lopes and Kararach offer an eclectic yet compelling review of ‘narratives about Africa’ to demonstrate that perceptions often are not reality when it comes to reporting, research or rhetoric about Africa. Geography, demography and economy take centre stage in their search for greater African agency in articulating choices and pathways that will shape Africa’s future development and transformation. A rich and thought-provoking book that conveys opportunity and excitement about Africa’s diverse and fast changing prospects." - Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme"This timely book presents one of the critical issues of development economics in the twenty-first century, namely Africa’s structural change. It combines both theoretical perspectives and empirical evidence to examine the challenges and misconceptions surrounding Africa’s structural transformation, and the central importance of industrialization. It will undoubtedly generate optimism about Africa. A must read to policymakers, researchers, and students!" - Arkebe Oqubay, Ethiopian Minister and author of "Made in Africa" (OUP, 2015)"Western based depictions of Africa massively underestimated its size and just about everything else about the continent. New tropes, such as ‘Africa Rising’ are equally misleading. The continent urgently needs a new narrative to support a transformative agenda underpinned by African agency. This is exactly what Lopes and Kararach provide in their superb new book which is essential reading for everyone with any interest in the future of Africa." - Kevin Marsh, Professor of Tropical Medicine and Director of Oxford Africa Initiative, Oxford University"This book is different! So, a must read. It presents a rich and refreshing perspective on Africa’s need for structural transformation with analysis based on diverse intellectual and philosophical approaches. Ultimately, it is Africans who must act to change mindsets by building a continent whose reality awakens and inspires." - Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former Nigerian Senior Minister, former World Bank Managing Director and Chair of GAVI and Africa Risk Capacity"This will be the first book I place in the hands of the emerging African leaders who study at the Mandela School. Not ignoring political economy challenges, Lopes and Kararach have written an articulate and persuasive exhortation to African agency in development, also describing the immense imminent potential of African economic development. It is comprehensively researched and eloquently copy edited." - Alan Hirsch, Professor and Director of the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town"A forward-looking assessment of Africa’s prospects and the pathways for achieving structural transformation and inclusive growth. This is a must read for policymakers and students of African economies." - Fantu Cheru, Emeritus Professor, American University, Washington, DC"This book debunks the dominant analysis of Africa economic and social condition, examine methodically the politics, policy prescriptions and knowledge production that have reworked and accounted for the gains (often neglected) and regressions (always highlighted) of the continent's development trajectory. It paints a rich and multifaceted future of an awakening continent. An essential reading for everyone interested in the future of Africa." -Mamadou Diouf, Leitner Family Professor of African Studies and History, Columbia University"This is a thought proving and timely book on the prospects of and barriers to Africa's economic transformation. Its arguments challenge a number of liberal ideas about the best paths to economic prosperity making it all the more interesting." - Jonathan Rosenthal, Africa Editor, The EconomistTable of ContentsOverview Chapter 1: Defining structural transformation Chapter 2: Seeking transformation? Africa is not alone Chapter 3: Transformation through industrialization Chapter 4: Understanding other key enablers of Africa's structural transformation Chapter 5: Innovative development financing sources Chapter 6: Selected experiences: drilling into the country dimension Chapter 7: African circumstances and efforts into the future
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Taylor & Francis Science and Religion in India
Book SynopsisThis book provides an in-depth ethnographic study of science and religion in the context of South Asia, giving voice to Indian scientists and shedding valuable light on their engagement with religion. Drawing on biographical, autobiographical, historical, and ethnographic material, the volume focuses on scientists' religious life and practices, and the variety of ways in which they express them. Renny Thomas challenges the idea that science and religion in India are naturally connected and argues that the discussion has to go beyond binary models of conflict' and complementarity'. By complicating the understanding of science and religion in India, the book engages with new ways of looking at these categories.Trade Review"In this careful and shrewd study of the lives of science and of religion in an Indian setting, Renny Thomas offers startling new approaches to familiar problems of spiritual practice and rational analysis in institutions of laboratory sciences. The book combines superbly documented case-studies of rigorous fieldwork with accessible and ambitious analyses of the very notions of a fundamental conflict, or a highly idealised complementarity, between scientific and religious forms of existence and conduct. In these studies, Thomas illuminates the variable senses of cultural behaviour and of doctrinal commitment that are evidenced by his many informants and interlocutors. He demonstrates the dangers of an exclusively Eurocentric approach to the alleged relations between the scientific world-view and religious faith, while exploring in fascinating detail crucial issues such as practices of devotion, of celebration, of prayer, and of debate and education. In closely related explorations of the fraught issue of caste adherence among Indian scientists, of attempts to trace the achievements of modern science within religious traditions, and of practices of distinction and of reconciliation in the everyday conduct of scientific workers, this study will set quite new standards for the central debates around faith and reason in modern societies." - Simon Schaffer, University of Cambridge, UK"Renny Thomas's ethnographic look at religious practices and beliefs among Indian scientists is a vital contribution to our understanding of religion, science, and social structures. It helps us wrestle with the inflections of modernity and the construction of scientific life across the world. Thomas's work surpasses typical studies by showing that religion--not just science--happens in labs and explores the politics of science and culture as that happens. This book engages both explicit and implicit religious practices and beliefs, including Indian forms of non-belief and atheism, and provides new ways of thinking about religion and science everywhere. Thanks to its wide-ranging contributions, this book is of profound significance." - Robert M. Geraci, Manhattan College, USA"It has been increasingly recognised that many of the general conclusions drawn about the relations between science and religion are limited by a narrow focus on specific features of late Western modernity. This excellent new ethnographic study of science and religion in India helps remedy this deficiency. It prompts us to fresh questions about the applicability of the categories ‘science’ and ‘religion’ and about standard ways of relating them in terms of conflict or complementarity. This book also models a novel anthropological approach to science and religion that is reminiscent of the work of Latour and Woolgar. All up, this is a most welcome contribution to the science-religion field and is highly recommended." - Peter Harrison, University of Queensland, Australia "In this remarkable book, Renny Thomas urges us to move beyond the political rhetoric of science and religion. In a pandemic weary world filled with tense engagements between religion and science, Thomas offers a rich, layered, and candid ethnographic study of postcolonial science in India - its labs and scientists- revealing a nuanced, complex, and tantalizing view of Indian science and scientists. He offers an important and urgent call - science cannot save us from religion, or religion from science - both are deeply implicated in claims of truth. We need to engage with them both. This is a book for our times." - Banu Subramaniam, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA "Renny Thomas's interesting work fills in many silences in earlier ethnographies on scientific laboratories.. Having drawn substantially in his review of literature on these sources, he proceeds to look at the essential way in which the question of compartmentalisation is posed in new ways. The question is really about co-existence and cultural relativism and the manner in which scientists are able to explain the presence of ritual, caste histories and cultural parameters in their life. Thomas is an engaging writer, using conversations with laboratory scientists to negotiate with paradoxes and puzzles in the manifest world of objectivity and patronage. Questions of equality and informative yet suppressed histories of conflict are key to the book. It is hard to upset the apple cart on experiential modes of Social Life, Ideologies and Reality, but he has succeeded in drawing attention to the vitality of focussed enquiry in social science, using personal biographies as his index for symbolic representation of every day practises." - Susan Visvanathan, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India"This remarkable book is a major leap forward in the study of science and religion – it uncovers and dismantles West-centric modes of thinking about both categories. Thomas’ insightful combination of ethnography and history examines closely the complicated and varied contexts of scientific identity and religious practice among Indian scientists. With skillful analysis of everyday practices in a major science institution – from publication schedules to cafeteria arrangements – Thomas demonstrates the persistence of religion, spirituality, and caste among both believers and non-believers. He has pioneered novel and essential ways to think about science and religion outside the West." - Matthew Stanley, New York University, USA"How do forms of the religious life shape scientific life? Drawing on finely tuned laboratory ethnography and on conversations with scientists in India, Renny Thomas takes readers beyond dichotomies — mostly emergent from Western contexts — that would have science and religion as either in sharp conflict or as easily complementary. This rigorous and empathetic book teaches us that essentialist definitions of science and religion are, in addition to being politically dangerous, a distraction from the much more interesting story, captivatingly recorded here, of science, religion, and belief lived." - Stefan Helmreich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA"By means of a rich ethnographic study of contemporary Indian scientists, Renny Thomas provides a fascinating window into the construction of scientific praxis, the lived relationship between ‘science and religion’, and the entanglement of caste and professional culture in South Asia. It is heartily recommended for scholars of religion as well as science and technology studies." - Jason Josephson Storm, Williams College, USA"For decades, scholars have laboured under the assumption that the myth of conflict between science and religion is best countered by the proposition of alternative relationships. It hardly occurred to anyone to examine the everyday practices and reflections of working scientists, to see if this assumption held water. Until now. The new ethonologists of science and religion - among whom Thomas is sure to be a leading light - are rapidly overturning the old ideas, demonstrating the subtleties and complexities that arise in ordinary people's lives in science and religion. This book should prove to be a vital point of reference for science and religion in India - and worldwide - for years to come." - Mark Harris, University of Edinburgh, UK"The book is a valuable contribution to the anthropological understanding of science and religion in India, as it brings out some pertinent contextual questions." - Tiatemsu Longkumer, IIAS Reviews"This is an illuminating study that throws light on an area that has remained largely unexplored. It shows up the notion of an intractable opposition between religion and science/rationality as false dogma. The author does an excellent job of marshalling past and present discourses to contextualise his findings and make them more meaningful." - N. Kalyan Raman, The Wire"[A] seminal contribution, which distinguishes Thomas as a sharp critic and a glowing ethnographer." - Sayantan Datta, Doing Sociology"Science and Religion in India is unique for its hands-on ethnographic approach that follows scientists into their laboratories to study their religious lives, or lack of one." – Religion Watch"As Thomas convincingly argues, the interface of science and religion in India is too complex to be summarized as either conflicting or complementary. Thomas provides a compelling argument for how Indian scientists navigate the boundary between science, religion, culture, caste, and modernity… [This] is an excellent book. It will attract researchers specializing in science, religion, and spirituality, as well as general readers with an interest in the Indian context." – Di Di, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion"This is a remarkably well-researched book, a landmark ethnographic study in the sociology of science in India. […] I think this is a book that should be widely read for the many important messages it contains." – R. Ramaswamy, IIC Quarterly"Science and Religion in India has a bold claim: to rethink conventional narratives of the relationship between science and religion. Thomas’s novel contribution is to study how religion is practiced in the laboratory. [...] Science and Religion in India joins a growing set of recent books that explore the modernity of both science and religion in contemporary India. [...] They help us see the surprising ways people in the world wrestle with the imperfect categories—such as science and religion, tradition and modernity, East and West—that are humanity’s collective inheritance." – Eric Moses Gurevitch in Physics Today"Thomas wisely allows his subjects to speak at length concerning the relation between their cultural belief systems and their own ideas about their role as scientists. The book is rich in detail and stimulates questions. […] Science and Religion in India can also be re-read as an account of how one does ethnography among people who know something esoteric which the anthropologist or sociologist does not. Thomas is remarkably transparent in the book about his methods and admits his approach and methodology were uncommon in India. From that reflexive angle too, this is a conscientious work in its transparency and thus an important contribution in the sociology and anthropology of science and scientists. It could be used as a teaching text with people not particularly interested in the Indian angle of this kind of research." - Robert S. Anderson in Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society"This is a welcome ethnographic study to the discussion of science and religion that is heavily based on historical and theoretical debates. It will be stimulating reading for both undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as for researchers interested in questions of belief, rationality and knowledge practices in the Indian context and beyond." - Victor Secco in Society and Culture in South Asia"Science and Religion in India is an important contribution to the sociology/anthropology of religion and science, and science and technology studies in particular. The ethnographic study re-examines the apparently settled opposition between faith and reason of European Enlightenment." - Subhadeepta Ray in Contributions to Indian Sociology"This ethnographic study of the religious lives of laboratory scientists is a very welcome addition to the literature on science and religion in India. [….] a rare and detailed account of contemporary Indian scientists’ attitudes toward religion. It is fraught with implications for understanding religious and cultural nationalism in India. Because Thomas provides a substantive critique of European conceptions of modernity, it will be a fruitful read for anyone who is interested in arriving at a less Eurocentric understanding of this subject area. It is written in clear, direct language and describes historical contexts and theoretical concepts in a way that will make it accessible for non-experts, including undergraduates." - Daniel Heifetz in Nova Religio"Science and Religion in India will leave the reader’s head spinning with different intertwined, and at times contradictory, interpretations of the relationship between religion and science posited by Thomas’ respondents and in (auto)biographies of India’s eminent scientists. In this multivocality, we see different ways in which scientists working in India today examine the possibility of accommodating both Western and ancient Indic science, science and religion, religious praxis and rationality, cultural belonging and non-belief. By offering a glimpse of the multiplicity and intricacy of these individual examinations, Science and Religion in India succeeds in its aim to problematize binary understandings of religion and science, and convincingly argues that it makes sense to study the ways in which people connect and perform religion and science in a case-study-based, contextualized and historicized way." - Tine Vekemans in Religion“Thomas allows his subjects to speak at length, astutely embeds their ideas and practices within broader historical, sociological, and anthropological debates on science and religion, and is transparent about his own positionality and methodological challenges of ‘studying up.’ This makes this brilliant ethnography not only a valuable contribution for a broad readership in science studies but also an excellent teaching text.” - Claudia Lang in Technology and Culture“Outside of academic scholarship, an important takeaway of the book relates to efforts at diversity and decolonization in the South Asian context. A healthy awareness of the social and cultural dominance of a few privileged-caste communities in Indian science and academia, and the Indian diaspora in general, is essential for any meaningful action on those fronts, and Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment makes a timely contribution to that awareness.” - Kiran Kumbhar in Isis: A Journal of the History of Science SocietyTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1 Science, Rationality, and Scientific Temper in Postcolonial India; 2 Beyond Disenchantment: Scientists, Laboratories, and Religion; 3 The Making of Scientist-Believers; 4 Being Atheistic, Being Scientific: Scientists as Atheists; 5 Caste, Religion, and the Laboratory Life; Conclusion; Bibliography
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Taylor & Francis Modern South Asia
Book SynopsisThe fifth edition of Modern South Asia draws on the newest historical research and scholarship in the field to interpret and debate key developments in modern South Asian history and historical writing, covering the diverse spectrum of the subcontinentâs social, economic and political past.Jointly authored by two leading Indian and Pakistani historians, this definitive study offers a rare depth of historical understanding of the politics, cultures and economies that have shaped the lives of more than a fifth of humanity. This new edition on the 75th anniversary of independence and partition brings the narrative up to the present day, discussing recent events and addressing new themes such as the capture of state power in India by the forces of religious majoritarianism, economic development in the context of the âriseâ of Asia and strategic shifts occasioned by the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and Chinaâs increasing role in the region.Providing fresh insights Table of Contents1. South Asian history: An Introduction 2. Modernity and antiquity: interpretations of ancient India 3.Pre-modern accommodations of difference: the making of Indo-Islamic cultures 4. The Mughal empire: state, economy and society 5. India between empires: decline or decentralization? 6.The transition to colonialism: resistance and collaboration 7. The first century of British rule, 1757 to 1857: state and economy 8. Company raj and Indian society, 1757 to 1857: re-invention and reform of tradition 9. 1857: rebellion, collaboration and the transition to crown raj 10. High noon of colonialism, 1858 to 1914: state and political economy 11. A nation in making? ‘Rational’ reform, ‘religious’ revival, 1858 to c. 1900 12. A nation in making: Swadeshi Nationalism and Internationalism, 1905-1918 13. Colonialism under siege: state and political economy after World War I 14. Gandhian nationalism and mass politics in the 1920s 15. The Depression decade: society, economics and politics 16. Nationalism and colonialism during World War II and its aftermath: economic crisis and political confrontation 17. The partition of India and the creation of Pakistan 18. 1947: memories and meanings 19. Post-colonial South Asia: state and economy, society and politics, 1947 to 1971 20. Post-colonial South Asia: State and economy, society and politics, 1971 to c. 2000 21. South Asia in the Twenty-First Century 22. Decolonizing South Asian history: A 75th anniversary perspective
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Taylor & Francis African Environmental Crisis
Book SynopsisThis book explores how and why the idea of the African environmental crisis developed and persisted through colonial and post-colonial periods, and why it has been so influential in development discourse. From the beginnings of imperial administration, the idea of the desiccation of African environments grew in popularity, but this crisis discourse was dominated by the imposition of imperial scientific knowledge, neglecting indigenous knowledge and experience. African Environmental Crisis provides a synthesis of more than one-and-a-half centuryâs research on peasant agriculture and pastoral rangeland development in terms of soil erosion control, animal husbandry, grazing schemes, large-scale agricultural schemes, social and administrative science research, and vector-disease and pest controls. Drawing on comparative socio-ecological perspectives of African peoples across the East African colonies and post-independent states, this book refutes the hypothesis that African peoplTable of Contents1 The African environmental crisis: Is it a myth? An introduction PART 1 EMPIRE, SCIENCE, SOCIETY AND DEVELOPMENT 2 European exploration of East Africa: Textual analysis of travel narratives, 1831–1900 3 Imperial scientific infrastructure: Science for development, 1848–1960s 4 African environmental crisis narratives: Schemes, technology and development, 1904–1960 PART 2 ECOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL RESEARCH 5 Experimental science and development: A re-evaluation of the Environmental crisis hypothesis, 1939–1960 6 Social science research: Behavioral responses to development, 1919–1950 7 Administrative science for development dialogue: Three Kenyan case studies, 1943–1954 PART 3 VECTORS, PESTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE 8 Tsetse fly control in East Africa: Environmental and social impacts, 1880–1959 9 Locust invasion and control in East Africa: Economic and environmental impacts, 1890–1960s 10 A synthesis: Conclusions and epilog
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Taylor & Francis Ltd African Clusters in India
Book SynopsisAfrican Clusters in India examines the discrimination and stereotypes faced by African migrants in India. It outlines the narratives of the migrants and demonstrates how their African identity' gets associated with drugs, prostitution, and cannibalism. The book brings to the fore how African migrants experience racial profiling based on a conflated African identity and how this identity gets generalized irrespective of the different nationalities and leads to social exclusion.This monograph argues that the antagonistic urban environment gives rise to the formation of a pan-African identity as a response to cultural biases and stereotypes. Thus, it explores the role of language, culture, and politics of representation to show the process of othering' and exclusion in India.Drawing on lived experiences of the migrants, the volume engages with the larger discourse of globalization, liberalization, and migration within the global south. It will be of great interesTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Acronyms PART IIntroduction 1 ‘African Clusters,’ Spatial Exclusion, and ‘African’ Identity in India PART IIThe Emergence of African Clusters in India 2 India-Africa Relations: Delineating Post-colonial and Neoliberal Ties in Global South 3 Historical and Contemporary Patterns of Migration from Africa to India 4 The Forced Migration of Somali Refugees: Mapping the Impacts of Civil War and Internal Political Crisis 5 Re-reading ‘African’ Clusters: Locating Housing Segregation, Gated Communities, and Discriminatory Practices PART IIIRace, Representation, and Othering: Lived Experiences from the African Cluster 6 African Migrants and Discrimination: Locating the Intersectionality of Race, Class, Gender, and Religion 7 African Migrants, the State, and Contesting Narratives on Racial Discrimination: Locating Critical Race Theory 8 Discursive Representation and Othering of the African Identity: Race as a Signifier 9 The Pan-African Identity in India: The Emergence of Collective Identity through Solidarity Networks and African Kitchens PART IVThe Way Forward 10 De-colonizing Colour Consciousness: Theorzing Race and Racism in India Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Metamorphoses of Religion and Spirituality in
Book SynopsisThis book offers a range of contemporary sociological reflections on new manifestations of religion, religiosity, and spirituality in Central and Eastern Europe, a region that has seen significant social and political transformation. It explores the development of cultural and religious trends, including secularisation, new spiritualit,y and a resurgence of religiosity outside of traditional structures. The theoretical and empirical contributions by established and emerging scholars address topics including: the experiences and values of young people, the role and influence of media, the relationship between public and private religion, and the position of state and institutions. The book will be of particular interest to sociologists of religion and others focused on contemporary Central and Eastern European societies.Table of ContentsTransmutation of Spiritual and Religious Mentality – Introduction Part 1 The Metatoretical Dimension of Social and Religious Metamorphoses 1 Cultural Sociology of Religion in the Perspective of Comparative Religion 2 The Concept of Public Religion in the Context of the Development of the Sociology of Religion – The Perspective of the Central and Eastern Europe 3 Spirituality vs. Religiosity as an Impetus to the Discussion on the Change Factors in the Contemporary Sociology of Religion 4 Modern Directions of Development of Religion and Spirituality – An Attempt at Systematisation 5 New Spirituality as a Social and Cultural Megatrend 6 Metamorphoses of Religiosity in Poland – Post-Modern Spirituality or Religious Morality? 7 "The Miracle of Mindfulness" – Between the Discovery of the Sacred in Everyday Life and Secularization of the Practice of Meditation Part 2 Transformations of Religiosity and Spirituality in the Society at Risk – An Attempt at Diagnosis 8 Religiosity of the Polish Intelligentsia at the Beginning of the 21st Century 9 The Sacred and the Youth – Theoretical and Empirical Inspirations 10 The Spectre of Secularisation: Against Equating Church Indifference with Religious Indifference 11 Spiritual Values of University Students in Contemporary Ukrainian Society – A Sociological Discourse 12 Contemporary Religiosity in Practice – Experiencing Religion 13 Religious Experience as a Dimension of Religiosity – Polish Youth in the World of Experience 14 The Approach to Jehovah’s Witnesses in Poland in Light of Innovation and Religious Selectivity 15 From Orality to the Internet – Transformations of Religious Communication in the Polish Miracular Communities 16 A Scapegoat or a Modern Devil? The Analysis of the Catholic Press Discourse on "Gender" and "Genderists" (on the Examples of "Niedziela" and "Tygodnik Powszechny" Weeklies) 17 #Witchesofinstagram. How Does Social Media Spread Spirituality, Witchcraft, and Pagan Movements?
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Taylor & Francis Territorial Change and Conflict in Indonesia
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on Indonesia and investigates why competition between various identity-affiliated groups to claim a new province increases conflict severity. It includes a quantitative study, along with complementary case studies of provinces in Indonesia, which provide evidence that group fragmentation plays a role in determining conflict during a new province's struggle.Against the background of the Indonesian government's territorial autonomy (TA) strategy, regional proliferation, or pemekaran, the author examines the long-term decentralization project in Indonesia, which has an ethnically and religiously divided population. The book provides answers to the questions of how the new province claim increases conflict in the supporting districts and how competition among diverse elites in districts pursuing a new province precipitate conflict within the region. Based on extensive field research, the four case studies of districts with varying degrees of conflict reve
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Belgian Congo as a Developmental State
Book SynopsisThis book challenges assumptions that poor post-colonial economic performance is always a direct product of colonialism by reconsidering the Belgian Congo (19081959) as a developmental state.The book demonstrates that despite the colonial system's economic exploitation and extraction, brutality, excessive taxation, and inequities, the Belgian Congo achieved successes in developing the economy in a short period of time. The Belgian Congo was able to achieve this by investing its higher rates of fiscal revenue in political stability, physical infrastructure, education, and healthcare. By reconsidering the Belgian colonial state as a developmental state, this book encourages scholars to adopt a more nuanced analysis of African history. Considering state capacity and state autonomy as key features of a developmental state, the book demonstrates that colonial state managers in the Belgian Congo were able to supply these public goods that sustained economic growth for decades. WhilTable of Contents1. An overview of the argument, 2. The Leopoldian State and economy of plunder, 3. Political order and rule of law in the Belgian Congo, 4. Belgian Congo and basic infrastructure for economic development, 5. Property rights and economic development, 6. Revenue imperative, state building, and economic development, 7. From Mobutu to Mobutu and hubris syndrome, 8. From an anarchic to a criminal state, 9. The Belgian Congo state in comparative perspective, Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis The European Union and Regional Integration in
Book SynopsisThis book examines European countriesâ engagement in promoting regional integration in the East African Community (EAC). In addition to their usage of the European Union (EU), states employ other bilateral initiatives to channel their regional aid to the EAC. The book explores differing national interests and the decisions to engage with the EAC, both multilaterally via the EU and through their other bilateral channels.In addition to analysing statesâ interests, the book goes further, to examine how lack of coordination of those European initiatives creates various challenges in the EAC. It is shown how EAC bureaucrats have to engage separately with the EU and its member states in their different channels, thus experiencing challenges in different stages of their aid project cycles, for instance in the identification, implementation and reporting phases. This book will be an excellent resource for researchers and practitioners focusing on the topics of European promotion of rTable of ContentsTable of ContentList of TablesList of Abbreviations and AcronymsPrefaceAcknowledgementsChapter 1 – Introduction PART I: MULTILATERAL PROMOTION OF REGIONAL INTEGRATIONChapter 2 – Collective Interests and Regionalism SupportChapter 3 – Coordinating Multilateral Regionalism SupportPART II: BILATERAL PROMOTION OF REGIONAL INTEGRATIONChapter 4 – National Interests and Regionalism SupportChapter 5 – How States ChoosePART III: EFFECTS IN EAST AFRICA Chapter 6 – Donor Coordination and ProliferationChapter 7 – Coordination and Proliferation on the GroundChapter 8 – ConclusionReferencesIndex
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Taylor & Francis Archaic Instruments in Modern West Java Bamboo
Book SynopsisArchaic Instruments in Modern West Java: Bamboo Murmurs explores how current residents of Bandung, Indonesia, have (re-)adopted bamboo musical instruments to forge meaningful bridges between their past and presentâbetween traditional and modern values. Although it focuses specifically on Bandung, the cosmopolitan capital city of West Java, the book grapples with ongoing issues of global significance, including musical environmentalism, heavy metal music, the effects of first-world hegemonies on developing countries, and cultural âœauthenticity.â Bamboo music's association with the Sundanese landscape, old agricultural ceremonies, and participatory music making, as well as its adaptability to modern society, make it a fertile site for an ecomusicological study.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd India Migration Report 2022
Book SynopsisIndia Migration Report 2022 is one of the first volumes to focus comprehensively on Indian health professionals' migration. The essays in the volume discuss the reasons, challenges and opportunities that daunt and prompt health professionals to migrate within and outside India.This volume: Explores the history of migration of health professionals, especially nurses from India; Focuses in economic and social drivers of migration among health professionals; Examines shifting patterns in migration as well as emergence of new destinations for migrants; Studies the economic and social impact of COVID-19 among migrant health professionals; Highlights the influence of remittances on rural economies in India.Timely, data-driven and drawing on exhaustive fieldwork, the volume looks at Indian health professionals in North America, Middle East, Asia Pacific and South Asia. It will be of interest to scholars and researchers of develoTable of Contents1. The women who paved the way: at the beginning of Indian nurses’ migration 2. Decision-Making of International Migration: A Case Study of Indian Nurses in New Zealand 3. Analysing Health professional Mobility from India to Canada 4. Becoming a Migrant Health Care worker: Interrogating Gender and Migration 5. Beyond the Caring Obligation: Indian Nurses Negotiating Nursing Care and Migration 6. Indian-EU Healthcare workforce migration in data, 2010-2020 7. An Analysis of Nurses’ Intention not to Migrate: Evidence from Nurses in Tamil Nadu 8. Health Worker Mobility from India: Trends and Opportunities for International Cooperation 9. The transmutation of care and emotional labour for a technologically advanced workplace: A case of Indian nurse migration 10. India and the global provision of health professionals: Recent developments and potential policy responses 11. Aspirations of Health Professionals in India for Migration Abroad: A Pre-Covid and Covid-time Comparison of Nurses 12. South-South migration: Southern interpretations of a Northern discourse 13. Non-payment of Wages among Gulf returnees in the first wave of COVID 19 14. Do remittances affect labour supply decisions at a household level in India? 15. COVID 19 and International Migrants: Results from Post-Flood Migrant Survey in Kerala 16. Internal Migrant Enumeration and Service Provision: A Municipal Governance Approach 17. Shutdown Workers during the COVID-19 pandemic times in Tamil Nadu 18. Understanding Economic Well-Being of the Elderly Return Migrants in India 19. Emerging Relationship between Migration and Development in West Bengal 20. Migration, Remittances and Welfare in Rural Maharashtra 21. Drivers of Economic and Social Change: The Impact of Indian Workers to the Gulf
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Humanitarian and Military Intervention in Libya
Book SynopsisThis book explores the contradictions in Britain's humanitarian and military intervention in Libya and Syria, beginning with the Arab spring in 2010. The book assesses the contradictions between the expressed humanitarian intentions of British military interveners and the impact of their actions on the putative beneficiary states. It demonstrates that, as a result of foreign intervention, both Libya and Syria were rendered non-functional as unitary nations and suffered extensive harm to their people and infrastructure. To evaluate the effectiveness and credibility of humanitarian warfare, the author conducts a thematic analysis of debates on Libya and Syria in the House of Commons. The book provides a detailed study of intentions and motives expressed by Members of Parliament, of consequent British state actions and their outcomes, and of MPs' reactions to outcomes. It provides ample evidence of duplicity, insincerity, indifference to harm, and ulterior motives for Table of ContentsChapter One: Introduction and Research Method Introduction The Research Method Chapter Two: Five Centuries of Humanitarian Intervention Chapter Three: The Libya Debates Top Five Themes: Variation over Four Years Chapter Four: Regime Change in Libya Chapter Five: The Syria Debates Top Five Themes: Variation over Four Years Chapter Six: Regime Change in Syria Chapter Seven: Libya and Syria Theme Comparison Theme Differences Ranked 1–20 Chapter Eight: Credibility of Humanitarian Warfare Chapter Nine: Conclusions
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Microfinance Livelihoods and Poverty Reduction in
Book SynopsisThis book assesses the role of microfinance in the construction of livelihoods for poverty reduction in the Northern Savannah of Ghana, analysing the current microfinance landscape and financial services in the region. The book analyses the current microfinance landscape and financial services in Ghana. In doing so, it demonstrates the key factors for designing microfinance products and services to ensure greater uptake and outreach enhancing the sustainability of microfinance service providers. Chapters explore the impact of access to microfinance on livelihood diversification, asset accumulation patterns and welfare outcomes. In addition to assessing the role as well as of microfinance as an anti-poverty tool, the book presents new theoretical frameworks and models, including the microfinance livelisystem framework (MFL). This unique framework, which combines and goes beyond existing frameworks, situates the microfinance industry within national and international financial Table of Contents1 Microfinance and Poverty Reduction: An Introduction 2 The Conceptual, Theoretical and Epistemological Perspectives of Livelihoods, Microfinance and the Rhetoric of Poverty Reduction 3 The Context of the Global Microfinance Industry 4 The State of Financial Services and Financial Inclusion in Ghana 5 Designing Microfinance Products and Services for Financial Inclusion in Ghana 6 Determinants of Microfinance Uptake in Ghana 7 Impacts of Household Access to Microfinance in Ghana 8 Conclusions
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Queer Southeast Asia
Book SynopsisTang and Wijaya present a range of new and established scholarly voices, including local activists directly involved in developments in Southeast Asia.This groundbreaking collection presents the current state of play and longstanding LGBTQ+ debates in this often-overlooked region of Asia. The diversity of both the subject and the region is reflected in the broad scope of topics addressed, from the impact of Japanese queer popular culture on queer Filipinos, to the politics of public toilets in Singapore, and the impact of digital governance on queer communities across ASEAN. Taken in combination, these investigations not only highlight the operations of queer politics in Southeast Asia, but also present a concrete basis to reflect on queer knowledge production in the region.A vital resource for students and scholars of gender and sexuality in Southeast Asia, or any Queer or LGBTQ+ studies looking beyond the West.Trade Review"Queer Southeast Asia showcases the current trends and developments of LGBTQ+ debates taking place throughout Southeast Asia. It offers a rich, dynamic collection of theoretical and methodological innovation and scholarship by researchers, activists and educators. Queer Southeast Asia makes a powerful and highly relevant contribution to regional and global discussions involving contemporary LGBTQ+ communities, culture, media and politics, especially in relation to emerging transnational concerns and challenges."---Dr Baden Offord, Professor of Cultural Studies and Human Rights, Curtin University"This pioneering book provides an essential guide to queer histories, cultures and social movements in the Southeast Asian context. Challenging a West-centred queer epistemology and championing an Inter-Asian cultural studies approach, this exciting volume places Southeast Asia at the heart of queer knowledge and global queer politics."---Associate Professor Hongwei Bao, author of Queer China, Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism "Just as queerness implies an unfixed space of change and difference, Southeast Asia represents a region that perpetually defies conventional scholarly practice. At the juncture of these two epistemic formations, this book introduces some of the most cutting-edge research in the study of global queer Asia. It features an impressive diversity of topics, in terms of both breadth and depth, ranging from trans categorization, migrant labor, gay pornography, student activism, film history, postcolonial indigeneity, toilet habits, queer comics, online video streaming, experimental photography, digital governance, to sexuality studies and queer pedagogy."---Howard Chiang, author of Transtopia in the Sinophone PacificTable of ContentsIntroduction: Queer Southeast Asia: Itineraries, Stop-Overs, and Delays 1. An Inter-Asia History of Transpuan in Indonesia 2. Exploring Southeast Asian Queer Migrant Biographies: Queer Utopia, Capacitations, and Debilitations 3. Japanese Queer Popular Culture and the Production of Sexual Knowledge in the Philippines 4. When the Gay Ivy Comes to (U)Town: The Globalisation of Higher Education and the Possibilities of Queer Student Activism in Singapore 5. Emergent Queer Identities in 20th Century Films from Southeast Asia 6. Endurance as Queer Worldmaking in Northern Aceh of Indonesia 7. Queer(ing) Indigeneity and The Igorot Lesbians of Hong Kong 8. Keep Singapore Clean and Chaste: Spatial-Sexual Discipline in Singapore’s Toilet Narratives 9. Independent and Safe Panels for Youths: Queer Comics in a time of Southeast Asian Populism 10. Viddsee: Queer Assemblages of Short Film Circulation, Distribution, Production, and Reception in Singapore 11. Ohm Phanphiroj’s Underage: Some Queer Thoughts on Photography and Night-time Bangkok 12. Digital Governance, Human Rights Norms, and ASEAN: Sexuality and Gender Rights Meet Surveillance, Networks, and Data 13. Queer Vietnam: Early Notes From Sexuality Studies to Activism 14. Pedagogy of Queer Studies Beyond Empire Queer Southeast Asia: An afterword
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Taylor & Francis The Art of a Corporation
Book SynopsisThe Art of a Corporation is a comprehensive study of artworks that were commissioned and collected by the East India Company from the early seventeenth to the midnineteenth centuries. These items range from oil paintings on canvas and marble statuary, to sandstone Buddhas and metal figurines of Hindu deities. The book takes a chronological approach and focuses on provenance to show that objects are valuable primary resources for understanding the East India Companyâs history. The artworks illustrate how one of the longest-surviving multinational corporations in the Western world changed over its three-century history and provide a powerful visual account of its perpetually reinvented image.This book is a must read for scholars and researchers of art history, colonial art, colonial studies, British history, economic history, business history, South Asian history, post-colonial studies, and cultural studies.Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloaTrade Review‘This is the first attempt to look at all the artworks produced by the East India Company, as a corporate entity. Through detective investigation, Howes brings the dispersed collection back together both as a narrative and as a collection, connecting also to current debates about empire, capitalism and memorials.’—Giles Tillotson ‘The complexity of the East India Company is one of the reasons British Empire is so poorly understood. Howes does vital work shining light on one particular aspect of its history – a real education for me.’—Sathnam Sanghera“This is the first attempt to look at all the artworks produced by the East India Company, as a corporate entity. Through detective investigation, Howes brings the dispersed collection back together both as a narrative and as a collection, connecting also to current debates about empire, capitalism and memorials”.Giles Tillotson“The complexity of the East India Company is one of the reasons British Empire is so poorly understood. Howes does vital work shining light on one particular aspect of its history – a real education for me”.Sathnam SangheraTable of ContentsList of illustrationsPreface AcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsIntroduction1 Chaos to confidence 2 Landscape and imperialism3 Romans4 Scandals5 Indian sculpture6 Bureaucracy7 ContinuitiesBibliographyIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Religion Public Health and Human Security in
Book SynopsisThis book critically examines the intersection of religion, public health and human security in Nigeria. Focusing on Christianity, Islam, traditional religions and intra-religious doctrinal divergencies, the book explores the impact faith has on health-related decisions and how this affects security in Nigeria. The book assesses the connection between religion and five contemporary major health and medical issues in the country. This includes the issue of epidemics and pandemics such as the Covid-19 pandemic, vaccines, contraception, blood transfusion and the controversies associated with miracle healing. In particular, this book explores situations where individuals have the power of choice but instead embraces faith and religious positions that contradict science in the management of their health and, in the process, expose themselves and others to personal health insecurity. It investigates aspects of human security including the wider international ramifications of health issuesTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction:Passion, Concerns and Tension: Overview of God, Public Health, and Security in Nigeria. Chapter 1:Religion, Human Security and Health in Nigeria: Complex Dimensions of Linkage. Chapter 2:Religion, Human Security and Epidemics in Nigeria. Chapter 3:Religion, Human Security, and the Politics of Vaccines in Nigeria. Chapter 4:Religion, Human Security and Contraception in Nigeria. Chapter 5:Blood Transfusion, Religion and Human Security in Nigeria. Chapter 6:Human Security and “Miracle Healing” in Nigeria. Chapter 7:Governance in the Politics of Religion, Public Health, and Human Security in Nigeria. Conclusion: “It is Well” … Even when it is not so well. Bibliography. Index.
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Taylor & Francis Political Economy of Development and Environment in Modern India
Book SynopsisThis book captures the complexities of both development and environment, from the political economy point of view, to offer a broad economic and environmental history of post-independence India. It analyses the various components of constitutional provisions, policies, programmes and ecology protection measures during the post-independence period, that is, 1947â2020. The author also investigates Indiaâs land and forest policies of the 21st century: Fair Compensation of Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act 2013 and the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2006, which pose a great threat to ecology and the environment. The volume argues how, on one hand, the development agenda has undermined the environmental components for the first three decades of independence and, on the other hand, how the popular vote bank politics further has aggravated the issues related to environment in India.This book is an essenti
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