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“romit chowdhury”

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  • City of Men

    Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport

    by Romit Chowdhury ...
    In South Asian urban landscapes, men are everywhere. And yet we do not seem to know very much about precisely what men do in the city as men. How do men experience gender in city spaces? What are the interactional dynamics between different groups of men on city streets? How do men adjudicate between good and bad conduct in urban spaces? Through ethnographic descriptions of copresence on public ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Men and Feminism in India

    Edited by Romit Chowdhury, Zaid Al Baset ...
    The relationship between men and feminism is frequently assumed to be antagonistic. This volume confronts this assumption by bringing critical attention to men’s engagement in feminist research, pedagogy, and activism in India. The chapters in this collection respond to two broad thematic concerns: theoretical implications of men producing feminist knowledge and the history of men’s participation ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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    Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India

    by Akhil Gupta ...
    Series series A John Hope Franklin Center book
    Red Tape presents a major new theory of the state developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and widespread poverty in India, the world's fourth largest economy, Gupta conceives of the relation between the state in India and the poor as one of structural violence. Every year this violence kills between two and three million people, especially women and ... Read more

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  • No Outlaws in the Gender Galaxy

    by Chayanika Shah, Raj Merchant, Shals Mahajan and Smriti Nevatia ...
    The constructed “naturalness” of a world made up of two sexes, two genders, and heterosexual desire as the only legitimate desire has been continuously questioned and challenged by those marginalised by these norms. This forces us to ask some important questions: How is gender really understood and constructed in the world that we inhabit? How does it operate through the various socio-political ... Read more

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  • Buddhism in the Public Sphere

    Reorienting Global Interdependence

    by Peter D. Hershock ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
    The core teachings and practices of Buddhism are systematically directed toward developing keen and caring insight into the relational or interdependent nature of all things. Hershock applies Buddhist thought to reflect on the challenges to public good, created by emerging social, economic, and political realities associated with increasingly complex global interdependence.In eight chapters, the ... Read more

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  • Just Violence

    Torture and Human Rights in the Eyes of the Police

    by Rachel Wahl ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Human Rights
    Police who engage in torture are condemned by human rights activists, the media, and people across the world who shudder at their brutality. Stark revelations about torture by American forces at places like Guantanamo Bay have stoked a fascination with torture and debates about human rights. Yet despite this interest, the public knows little about the officers who actually commit such violence. ... Read more

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  • Provisional Authority

    Police, Order, and Security in India

    by Beatrice Jauregui ...
    Policing as a global form is often fraught with excessive violence, corruption, and even criminalization. These sorts of problems are especially omnipresent in postcolonial nations such as India, where Beatrice Jauregui has spent several years studying the day-to-day lives of police officers in its most populous state, Uttar Pradesh. In this book, she offers an empirically rich and theoretically ... Read more

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  • A Political Economy of Attention, Mindfulness and Consumerism

    Reclaiming the Mindful Commons

    by Peter Doran ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainability
    The power of capital is the power to target our attention, mould market-ready identities, and reduce the public realm to an endless series of choices. This has far-reaching implications for our psychological, physical and spiritual well-being, and ultimately for our global ecology. In this consumer age, the underlying teachings of Buddhist mindfulness offer more than individual well-being and ... Read more

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  • Religion and Public Discourse in an Age of Transition

    Reflections on Bahá’í Practice and Thought

    Edited by Geoffrey Cameron, Benjamin Schewel ...
    Series series Bahá’í Studies
    Technology, tourism, politics, and law have connected human beings around the world more closely than ever before, but this closeness has, paradoxically, given rise to fear, distrust, and misunderstanding between nation-states and religions. In light of the tensions and conflicts that arise from these complex relationships, many search for ways to find peace and understanding through a “global ... Read more

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  • Decolonizing Psychology

    Globalization, Social Justice, and Indian Youth Identities

    by Sunil Bhatia ...
    Series series Explorations in Narrative Psychology
    In recent years, the news media has directed a significant amount of attention to the effect of globalization on the second most populous nation in the world: India. With the emergence of new economic opportunities and the influx of foreign popular culture and commodities, India has experienced an enormous sea of change in the last few decades. In Decolonizing Psychology: Globalization, Social ... Read more

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  • Dislocating Cultures

    Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism

    by Uma Narayan ...
    Series series Thinking Gender
    Dislocating Cultures takes aim at the related notions of nation, identity, and tradition to show how Western and Third World scholars have misrepresented Third World cultures and feminist agendas. Drawing attention to the political forces that have spawned, shaped, and perpetuated these misrepresentations since colonial times, Uma Narayan inspects the underlying problems which "culture" poses for ... Read more

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  • Indian Tribes in Transition

    The need for reorientation

    by Yogesh Atal ...
    India has witnessed a sea change in its social structure and political culture since Independence. Despite the developmental model that the country opted for, the hangover of the Raj continued to encourage fissiparous tendencies dividing the Indian populace on the basis of religion, ethnicity and caste hierarchy.This book argues for the need to develop a fresh approach to dismantling the ... Read more

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