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Author: Ananta Kumar Giri Publisher: Orient Blackswan ISBN: 9788125021810 Category : Housing Languages : en Pages : 340
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This Unusual Study Combines Anthropology And Theories Of Global Transformations In Novel And Creative Ways, The Author Describes The Global Work Of Habitat For Humanity, A U.S.-Based Transnational Socio-Religious Movement. It Describes How Habitat Builds In The Margins Of Shacks In Communities In The U.S.A. And In India, One Of More Than Fifty Countries Around The Globe Where This Movement Is At Work. This Book Is A Significant Contribution To The Study Of Religion, Social Movements And Globalization.
Author: Ananta Kumar Giri Publisher: Orient Blackswan ISBN: 9788125021810 Category : Housing Languages : en Pages : 340
Book Description
This Unusual Study Combines Anthropology And Theories Of Global Transformations In Novel And Creative Ways, The Author Describes The Global Work Of Habitat For Humanity, A U.S.-Based Transnational Socio-Religious Movement. It Describes How Habitat Builds In The Margins Of Shacks In Communities In The U.S.A. And In India, One Of More Than Fifty Countries Around The Globe Where This Movement Is At Work. This Book Is A Significant Contribution To The Study Of Religion, Social Movements And Globalization.
Author: Francis Shor Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135262446 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 227
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By the 1970s the global hegemony established by an American Empire in the post-World War II period faced increasing resistance abroad and contradictions at home. Contextualizing that hegemony, resistance and contradictions is the focus of Dying Empire. Presenting a wide-ranging synthesis of approaches, the book attempts to shed light on the construction of and challenges to the military, economic, and cultural imperial projects of the United States in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Opposing US imperialism and global domination, Francis Shor combines academic and activist perspectives to analyze the crises endemic to empire and to propose a vision for the realization of another more socially just world. The text incorporates the most recent critical discussions of US imperialism and globalization from above and below to illuminate the practices and possibilities for global resistance. Offering insights into the political and cultural convulsions of recent decades whilst raising profound and compelling questions, this book will be of interest to activists, students, and scholars of American political culture, US foreign policy, globalization, imperialism, international relations, and social movements.
Author: Ananta Kumar Giri Publisher: Lexington Books ISBN: 9780739103227 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 380
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In this work, the author issues a call for scholars of contemporary social history and practice to grapple with late modernity's most pressing social and political issues. He counterposes Western thought with Indian social theory across an array of Indian texts and ideas.
Author: Hanna Hilbrandt Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1119540909 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 192
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Housing in the Margins offers a theoretically informed and empirically detailed exploration of unruly housing practices and their governance at the periphery of Berlin. An original empirical contribution to understanding housing precarity in the context of the German housing crisis A novel approach to theorizing the nexus of informality and the state in ways that bridge analytical divides between debates about Northern and Southern states An innovative account of urban development in Berlin that contributes to the limited discussions of urban informality in Euro-American cities A theoretical understanding of the ways in which negotiations and transgressions are embedded in the making of urban order A historically informed narrative of the development of allotment gardens in Berlin with a particular focus on housing practices at these sites
Author: Elizabeth Swart Publisher: Canadian Scholars’ Press ISBN: 0889615888 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 261
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Women’s Voices from the Margins explores the coping strategies, agency, and resilience of women living in Kibera, Kenya—one of Africa’s largest slums. Based on a multi-year research project in which the author analyzed the diaries of 20 young women from Kibera, this thought-provoking book describes the women’s lives, the realities of gender-based violence, and their responses and coping strategies. Drawing on both qualitative journal accounts and quantitative surveys, Elizabeth Swart reveals the agency and strength of these women, who create opportunities for themselves and their children despite the violence and extreme poverty that are a daily actuality of life in Kibera. Taking a global feminist perspective, the author considers the women’s lives in the larger context of urbanization, globalization, and neo-liberal social policies. By presenting the voices of the young women alongside rich scholarly analysis, this engaging text will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of gender and women’s studies, sociology, international social work, and global studies.
Author: Estella B. Leopold Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190463244 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 256
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In 1934, conservationist Aldo Leopold and his wife Estella bought a barn - the remnant of a farm - and surrounding lands in south-central Wisconsin. The entire Leopold clan - five children in all - worked together to put into practice Aldo's "land ethic," which involved ecological restoration and sustainability. In the process, they built more than a pleasant weekend getaway; they established a new way of relating to nature. In 1948, A Sand County Almanac was published, and it has become a beloved and foundational text of the conservation movement. Decades later, Estella B. Leopold, the youngest of the Leopold children - she was eight when they bought the land - now reflects on the "Shack," as they called the repurposed barn, and its inhabitants, and recalls with clear-eyed fondness the part it played in her and her siblings' burgeoning awareness of nature's miracles, season by season. In Stories from the Leopold Shack: Sand County Revisited, she unforgettably recalls the intensity of those days: the taste of fresh honey on sourdough pancakes; the trumpeting arrival of migrating Canada geese; the awesome power of river ice driven by currents - and each description is accompanied by stunning photographs by her brother, A. Carl Leopold. As the Leopolds worked to restore degraded farmland back to its original prairie and woods, they noted and celebrated all of the flora and fauna that came to share the Shack lands. As first evoked in A Sand County Almanac, and now revisited in Stories from the Leopold Shack, the Leopold family's efforts of ecological restoration were among the earliest in the United States, and their work, collectively and individually, continues to have a profound impact on land management and conservationism. All of Aldo and Estella Leopold's children went on to become distinguished scientists and to devote themselves to a life of conservation; their work continues through the Aldo Leopold Foundation. Estella B. Leopold book offers a voyage back to the place where it all began.
Author: Yair Zalmanovitch Publisher: State University of New York Press ISBN: 0791489604 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 277
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Who makes public policy in vital services that are paid for by the government but provided by autonomous non-governmental agencies? This book explores this question through the prism of Israel's unique not-for-profit health system, drawing heavily on unpublished archival sources and interviews with key players. Starting with the system's roots in Israel's pre-state period, it traces the almost century-long struggle between the country's largest healthcare provider, Kupat Holim, and successive Israeli governments for control of the tools of policy making: allocation, regulation, and restructuring. It analyzes how Kupat Holim acquired and exercised a veto over healthcare policy, and then, how, under the pressure of changing social developments and party politics, its veto was eroded and finally lost in the health reform of the 1990s. Entering the current debates on health reform and government by proxy, the author questions whether the reform actually improved healthcare, as promised, or allowed the government to renege on its responsibilities.
Author: Ananta Kumar Giri
Author: Ananta Kumar Giri
Author: Francis Shor
Author: Ananta Kumar Giri
Author: Ananta Kumar Giri
Author: Hanna Hilbrandt
Author: Elizabeth Swart
Author: Indian Sociological Society
Author: Estella B. Leopold
Author: Indian Anthropological Society
Author: Yair Zalmanovitch