Listening to Culture explores the rich world of everyday talk―in families, with children, between friends, at the work place―and shows the significance of this social activity in the understanding of culture.

Listening To Culture: Constructing Reality From Everyday Talk

Politics & Social Sciences

Chaudhary, Nandita

Anthropology

SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd

Listening to Culture explores the rich world of everyday talk-in families, with children, between friends, at the work place-and shows the significance of this social activity in the understanding of culture.

While postcolonial creative writing in English has come of age in South Asia, scholarly examination of this rich body of writing has remained largely confined to the narrow domain of literary criticism. This unusual and well-written book instead foregrounds issues relating to identity, nationalism and gender in contemporary literary writing. To do so, the author has analysed select works which are located within and grapple with four recent periods which have played a significant role in refashioning the nations in the region: the Emergency in India; the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka; the secession of Bangladesh; and Zia-ul-Haq`s regime in Pakistan.  In examining the literary representation of these critical junctures, Neluka Silva draws upon key aspects of postcolonial, nationalist and feminist theory, which have influenced both the understanding of the concerned episodes and the literary productions of the authors selected. By providing an implicit comparative frame of reference, the author succeeds in suggesting ways in which certain choices reinforce or subvert established power relations in the fraught arena of nationalist politics in the four South Asian countries.

The Gendered Nation: Contemporary Writings from South Asia

Literature & Fiction

Silva, Neluka

British & Irish

The economic reforms that began in the early 1990s brought many large multinational companies to India. A major challenge for these corporations was to manage the interface of global corporate culture and India′s powerful, traditional and widely varying cultural practices. Examining the Indian operations of five multinational organizations from three different cultural zones, this comparative analysis shows that each company brought to India its unique cultural imprint, while at the same time realizing the need to adapt management practices to the local setting.

Multinationals in India: Managing the Interface of Cultures

Business & Money

Sinha, Jai B.P.

International

Written by academics and activists from diverse fields, the book spells out the different dimensions of the problems involved in establishing the linkages, the responsibilities of universities as institutions, the issue of scholar versus activist and the growing networks between the faculty and the NGOs in India.

Transformative Links Between Higher and Basic Education: Mapping the Field

Social Sciences

Strategic Communication in the HIV/AIDS Epidemic

This book promotes the use of strategic communication to fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Focusing on strategic communication for positive and measurable behaviour change, the authors elaborate on a wide range of issues including: the importance of advocacy and community mobilization; comprehensive approaches to prevention and the use of communication in reducing stigma; communication programmes for a wide range of specific groups including intravenous drug users and refugees; the role of communication in support of clinical and social services; the care and support of vulnerable children; and selected communication approaches such as entertainment-education, telephone hotlines and digital communication.  Case studies are employed to illustrate the concepts and show how strategic communication has been used in different developing countries for training and in designing communication programmes.

Medical Books

McKee, Neill

Bertrand, Jane

Becker-Benton, Antje

Administration & Medicine Economics

This book promotes the use of strategic communication to fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Focusing on strategic communication for positive and measurable behaviour change, the authors elaborate on a wide range of issues including: the importance of advocacy and community mobilization; comprehensive approaches to prevention and the use of communication in reducing stigma; communication programmes for a wide range of specific groups including intravenous drug users and refugees; the role of communication in support of clinical and social services; the care and support of vulnerable children; and selected communication approaches such as entertainment-education, telephone hotlines and digital communication. Case studies are employed to illustrate the concepts and show how strategic communication has been used in different developing countries for training and in designing communication programmes.

Human movement - and how it should be controlled - has become a major political issue in recent years. This volume reopens discussions on movement both within rural areas, and between villages, towns and cities - aspects and types of migration on which contemporary anthropology and sociology are largely silent - in South Asia. The book demonstrates how economic considerations apart, migrations are `projects of transformation′, in which migrants forge new identities and challenge the existing order.

Migration, Modernity and Social Transformation in South Asia (Contributions to Indian Sociology series)

Reflections and Mobilizations: Dialogues With Movements and Voluntary Organizations

`There has been an unprecented flourishing of new social movements around the world in recent years. This revival has opened our eyes to wider horizons, and strengthened our confidence in the fact that "another world is possible". Giri's book gives inspiring glimpses of this process' - Jean Dreze, Visiting Professor, Delhi School of Economics    `A book that gives voice to the unsuing heroes of the worldwide strugle for social justice... and which the huge reservoir of creativity that resides in contemporary social movements' - John Clammer, Professor of Comparative Culture, Sophia University, Tokyo  This unusual book is about a more humane world in the making. It describes the visions, experiments, struggles and aspirations of several social movements and voluntary organizations from India and other parts of the world which are striving to realize new modes of human development in various fields—education, religion, human rights, tribal development and community development. The author shows how these movements and organizations touch on many key contemporary issues—self-development, reconstitution of public space and reconstruction of government.  The book is structured as a series of dialogues where the participants critique their lives, as also their organizations or movements. The objective of putting together these dialogues is to facilitate a learning process between scholars and activists and across movements and organizations.

Giri, Ananta Kumar

This volume is an introduction to the idea (and the political project) of the `Right to Development′ (RTD). It defines the concept of RTD as it is understood internationally, and describes its practical application in an Indian setting. It begins by taking a brief look at the genesis and development of the idea of right to development, the General Assembly′s proclamation of development as a human right in its 1986 Declaration on the Right to Development and the subsequent evolution of the right through the debates of the open-ended working group of the UNHRC which monitored and reviewed the progress on promotion and protection of the right to development. PART ONE of the book focuses individually on the three fundamental components of RTD: the Right to Food, the Right to Education and the Right to Health, and describes how these rights are mutually interdependent. It also devotes a separate section to Women′s Rights, another key component of RTD. PART TWO of the book describes the Indian experience of RTD. It gives an overview of the legal and institutional framework for the protection of human rights including women′s rights, as well as the rights to food, education and health. It also places RTD in the context of Indian policy and gives a status report on the implementation of its component rights. There is a separate chapter on Public Interest Litigation, the tool for social justice that enables RTD to be pursued as a political project. RTD is much debated but not very widely understood concept in international relations. This book is based primarily on detailed studies carried out by an independent expert on RTD. These studies were aimed at bringing theoretical clarity to the concept of RTD by integrating the disciplines of law, economics, international cooperation and philosophy. The book carries this aim forward and complements it with analyses of practical issues in the implementation of RTD in India.

The Right to Development: A Primer

and Human Rights, Centre for Development

Economics

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Listening To Culture: Constructing Reality From Everyday Talk

Listening To Culture: Constructing Reality From Everyday Talk

The Gendered Nation: Contemporary Writings from South Asia

Multinationals in India: Managing the Interface of Cultures

Transformative Links Between Higher and Basic Education: Mapping the Field

Strategic Communication in the HIV/AIDS Epidemic

Strategic Communication in the HIV/AIDS Epidemic

Migration, Modernity and Social Transformation in South Asia (Contributions to Indian Sociology series)

Reflections and Mobilizations: Dialogues With Movements and Voluntary Organizations

The Right to Development: A Primer