Sage Publications Pvt Ltd imprint: 873 books
The Knowledge Translation Toolkit
Bridging the Know-Do Gap: A Resource for Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
The Knowledge Translation Toolkit provides a thorough overview of what knowledge translation (KT) is and how to use it most effectively to bridge the "know–do" gap between research, policy, practice, and people. It presents the theories, tools, and strategies required to encourage and...
The Politics of the (Im)Possible
Utopia and Dystopia Reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2012
This volume brings together articles on utopia and dystopia in a breadth of disciplines-history, literature, gender studies, political science, sociology, anthropology, and Native American Studies.
Utopia and dystopia are modes and resonances present in all parts of the world, not just Europe...
The Writer, the Reader and the State
Literary Censorship in India
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
This book offers a comprehensive account of the censorship of literature in India since Independence and the recent trends in literature banning
The author recalls the literary censorship of books in India, both in English and in regional languages, and the impact of Emergency on banned books. ...
School Worlds
An Ethnographic Study
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
*An in-depth analysis of how social constituents of identity influence and are influenced by the processes of a specific social site—a school.
School Worlds* addresses debates on:
• The role that a school plays in the construction of gender, social class and religious attitudes...
by Professor Sujit Kumar Chattopadhyay
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Gender Socialization and the Making of Gender in the Indian Context discusses what gender is, its formation and effects, and how children form gender identities by conforming to social expectations and imitating gender-specific behaviour. As they grow older, they learn to assimilate this behaviour...
Reform of the International Monetary System
The Palais Royal Initiative
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
September 2008 saw the United States financial system at the edge of collapse, with the tightly integrated global financial system following close behind. But that was only a symptom of the problems that generated the ensuing crisis. The more fundamental cause lay in some of the practices that had...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Professionals, academics, and policy makers in the field of child and adolescent development tend to use theoretical frameworks stemming from traditional classified disciplines of psychology, sociology, political science, economics, education, and social work. This book creates an opportunity for...
Is the Personal beyond Private and Public?
New Perspectives in Social Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
Is everything personal also private? The modern world is neatly compartmentalized into the private and the public, and the personal is often used interchangeably with the private as if they are the same. But are they? The book starts a new discourse by distinguishing the two and analyzing existing...
Improving Access and Efficiency in Public Health Services
Mid-term Evaluation of India's National Rural Health Mission
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
This book presents a systematic mid-term evaluation of the processes of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), India's biggest rural health programme. Data from District Level Health Surveys (DLHS), National Family Health Surveys (NFHS) and Sample Registration System (SRS) as well as primary data...
The Nation Form
Essays on Indian Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Most writings on the theme of the nation confine themselves to discussions of ideology and thoughts on nationalism, leaving out the question of the form of the nation. This selection of writings by Ranabir Samaddar fills in that void and presents a whole range of dimensions, perspectives, and controversies...
Pluralism and Equality
Values in Indian Society and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2000
With the end of the Cold War, interest in the core-values of state, pluralism, secularism and equality have intensified. This important volume examines these principal values in the differing historical and socio-cultural contexts of Europe and India, emphasising their fundamental role in democratic...
Rethinking Pluralism, Secularism and Tolerance
Anxieties of Coexistence
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
How can people who speak different languages, worship different gods and subscribe to different conceptions of the good live together with a degree of civility, dignity and mutual respect? It is not easy to find an answer to this troubled question, given recent political developments in many parts...
Reading Literature Today
Two Complementary Essays and a Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Reading Literature Today is a path-breaking intervention in current debates on reading and literature. This is a book of criticism that attempts to rescue literature from both the materialism of the market and the convoluted dryness of academia.
The two complementary essays-one on literature...
Old China's New Economy
The Conquest by a Billion Paupers
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2009
This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the rise and growth of the Chinese economy since the beginning of the country's transition to a socialist market economy, and captures the growth story in its historical backdrop. It sequentially unveils the story, and highlights the critical role of...