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  • Equitable Everyday Journeys

    Inclusive Mobilities for South Asian Cities

    Edited by Ajay Bailey, Sobin George, Prajwal Nagesh ...
    This book examines urban mobility across rapidly growing South Asian cities by drawing upon critical analyses of user experiences, popular media representations, and transport policies. While transport infrastructures are expanding, many residents - particularly those from lower-income households, older adults, women, and people with disabilities—lack access to affordable and accessible transport ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • Change and Mobility in Contemporary India

    Thinking M. N. Srinivas Today

    Edited by Sobin George, Manohar Yadav, Anand Inbanathan ...
    This book studies caste and community dynamics in India and offers a critical view of social mobility from below. Building on the theories of the eminent sociologist M N Srinivas, the essays in this volume reformulate the debate on caste as they document the changing inter-caste dynamics and caste-based violence in contemporary India.The volume showcases the new language of change in caste ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Redefined Labour Spaces

    Organising Workers in Post-Liberalised India

    Edited by Sobin George, Shalini Sinha ...
    This book discusses the transformation of labour movements and trade unionism in post-liberalised India. It looks at emerging collectivism, both in formal and informal sectors, and relates it to changing political and industrial relations. Bringing together studies of resistance, struggles and new forms of negotiations from different industries –agriculture, fisheries, brick kiln, plantations, IT, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Volume 1: Community and Society

    by Sarah Turner, Nguyen N. Binh, Abdellatif Qamhaieh, Carolina Sternberg, Sheere Kadez Brooks, Ferhan Gezici, Cansu İlhan, Prajwal Nagesh, Ajay Bailey, Sobin George, Lekha Subaiya, Hanna A. Ruszczyk, M. Feisal Rahman, Olga Matveieva, Vasil Navumau, Charlotte Lemanski, Jiska de Groot, Jeremy Auerbach, Jordin Clark, Solange Muñoz, Roberto Rocco, Higor Carvalho, Luciana Royer, Beatriz Kara-José, Ellen Bal, Lorraine Nencel, Hosna J. Shewly, Sanjeeb Drong, Nurul Azreen Azlan, Diotima Chattoraj, AKM Ahsan Ullah, Mallik Akram Hossain, Sallie Yea, Robin Mazumder, Richardson Dilworth, Timothy P.R. Weaver, Jolanda Lindenberg, Paul van de Vijver, Lieke de Kock, David van Bodegom, Niels Bartels, Magdalena Svetlana Rodekirchen, Sawyer Phinney, Rebekah Graham, Bridgette Masters-Awatere, Chrissie Cowan, Rose Wilkinson, Amanda Stevens ...
    Series series Global Reflections on COVID-19 and Urban Inequalities
    Our experiences of the city are dependent on our gender, race, class, age, ability, and sexual orientation. It was already clear before the pandemic that cities around the world were divided and becoming increasingly unequal. The pandemic has torn back the curtain on many of these pre-existing inequalities.Contributions to this volume engage directly with different urban communities around the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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    Issues in Business and Higher Education

    Edited by Lailani Alcantara, Yoshiki Shinohara ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on the Asia-Pacific Region
    Alcantara, Shinohara, and their contributors evaluate the current state of diversity and inclusion (D&I) within business and higher education in Japan, and the importance of D&I to the growth of Japan’s economy and the enrichment of its society.Japan is widely understood to be a homogenous and patriarchal society, and while this is changing and was never wholly accurate, it certainly faces ... Read more

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  • India Today

    Economy, Politics and Society

    by Stuart Corbridge, John Harriss, Craig Jeffrey ...
    Series series Politics Today
    Twenty years ago India was still generally thought of as an archetypal developing country, home to the largest number of poor people of any country in the world, and beset by problems of low economic growth, casteism and violent religious conflict. Now India is being feted as an economic power-house which might well become the second largest economy in the world before the middle of this century. ... Read more

    $33.00 USD

  • Education Policies in the 21st Century

    Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Birol Akgün, Yusuf Alpaydın ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book explores the agenda of education policies in the 21st century. In the first part of the book, education is handled from a historical and political framework, and the effects of the change of states and policies on education are examined. In the second part, the effects of changes in the economy on education policies and economies’ demands from educational institutions are ... Read more

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  • Inclusive Cities and Global Urban Transformation

    Infrastructures, Intersectionalities, and Sustainable Development

    Edited by Ajay Bailey, Kei Otsuki ...
    This open access book addresses the problem of global urban development that excludes various groups of people from the benefits of urban growth and sustainable development. Using the intersectionality and agency of urban dwellers and citizens, it outlines possibilities of responsive urban governance that builds on principles of the inclusive city. The book's first section presents various cases ... Read more

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  • Caste and Democratic Politics in India

    by GHANSHYAM SHAH ...
    The Indian constitution seeks to prevent the perpetuation of caste and build a casteless social system. But this has not happened over the fifty-odd years since Indian independence, and shows little sign of happening in the near future. Therefore no understanding of Indian politics is possible without a thorough understanding of the complexities of caste. The aim of this book is to bring about ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Tourism and Hospitality Industry: Challenges and Innovations

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    by Lalit K. Bansa ...
    Series Book 1 - Surf Rangers
    tourism and hospitality industry in the development of economies, employment generation, entrepreneurship and skill development, strengthening of culture, contribution for infrastructural development, cementing of international relations and enhancement of our environment, this book is dedicated to address a wide vista of tourism related issues that rightly acknowledge the importance of this ... Read more

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  • Reinventing India

    Liberalization, Hindu Nationalism and Popular Democracy

    by Stuart Corbridge, John Harriss ...
    When India was invented as a "modern" country in the years after Independence in 1947 it styled itself as a secular, federal, democratic Republic committed to an ideology of development. Nehru's India never quite fulfilled this promise, but more recently his vision of India has been challenged by two "revolts of the elites": those of economic liberalization and Hindu nationalism. These revolts ... Read more

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  • Health Crises and Media Discourses in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Edited by Carol Azungi Dralega, Angella Napakol ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This is an open access book which brings together leading scholars and critical discourses on political, economic, legal, technological, socio-cultural and systemic changes and continuities intersecting media and health crises in Sub-Saharan Africa. The volume extensively discusses COVID-19 but it also covers other epidemics, such as malaria, HIV/AIDS as well as “silent” health crises such as ... Read more

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