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    Katy Gardner’s account of her fifteen-month stay in the small Bangladeshi village of Talukpur has become a classic study of rural life in South Asia.Through a series of beautifully crafted narratives, the villagers and their stories are brought vividly to life and the author’s role as an outsider sensitively conveyed in her descriptions of the warm friendships she makes.Above all Songs at the ... Leer más

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  • Anthropology and Development

    Challenges for the Twenty-First Century

    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    Western aid is in decline. Non-traditional development actors from the developing countries and elsewhere are in the ascendant. A new set of global economic and political processes are shaping the twenty-first century.This book engages with nearly two decades of continuity and change in the development industry. In particular, it argues that while the world of international development has ... Leer más

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  • Discordant Development

    Global Capitalism and the Struggle for Connection in Bangladesh

    de Katy Gardner ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    What happened when Chevron, a multinational mining company, opened a gas plant right next to densely populated villages in rural Bangladesh?This book reveals contradictory ways that local people attempt to connect to, and are disconnected by, foreign capital. Commentators on the situation have different frameworks, whether of dispossession and scarcity, the success of Corporate Social ... Leer más

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  • Losing Gemma

    de Katy Gardner ...
    This is the story of Gemma and me: how I lost her, I suppose. I don't usually tell it to anyone but myself;I save it for the darkest moments.Losing Gemma, Katy's Gardners debut novel about adventure, losing your best friend, and self-discovery, has been translates into twelve languages and compared to Alex Garland's breakthrough novel, The Beach, among many others. This time, the backpacking ... Leer más

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  • Age, Narrative and Migration

    The Life Course and Life Histories of Bengali Elders in London

    de Katy Gardner ...
    Whilst the vast majority of recent research on identity and ethnicity amongst South Asians in Britain has focused upon younger people, this book deals with Bengali elders, the first generation of migrants from Sylhet, in Bangladesh. The book describes how many of these elders face the processes of ageing, sickness and finally death, in a country where they did not expect to stay and where they do ... Leer más

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  • Connecting Africa and Asia

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  • Intercultural Communication & Ideology

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  • The Political Origins of Inequality

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  • The South Asia to Gulf Migration Governance Complex

    Edición de Crystal A. Ennis, Nicolas Blarel ...
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