Sage Publications Pvt Ltd imprint: 873 books
Identity, Society and Transformative Social Categories
Dynamics of Construction, Configuration and Contestation
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
Identity is central to the understanding of human social, cultural, and political expressions. In recent times, it has become a major topic for intellectual discourse to represent the processes of dynamic social change and transformation such as the expansion of information and communication technology...
Sociology of Gender
The Challenge of Feminist Sociological Thought
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2003
This invaluable reader maps the contributions made by feminist scholars towards engendering mainstream sociological discourse in India. It covers a broad range of issues relating to the lifespan of women in different social institutions such as the family, school and the workplace.
This book is one of the Indian Sociological Society: Golden Jubilee Volumes.
Community and Identities
Contemporary Discourses on Culture and Politics in India
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2001
This important volume of original essays interrogates contemporary debates, popular as well as academic, on the place of communities and cultural identities in India’s polity. In particular the contributors:
- analyse some of the emerging concerns in the social and political life of contemporary...
Politics of Post-Civil Society
Contemporary History of Political Movements in India
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Civil Society has emerged as one of the most celebrated concept of the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries. It offers practices that are the means and certain normative ideals that are the ends to be achieved for the preservation of democracy and expansion of the process of democratization. When...
Education for Sustainable Development
Challenges, Strategies and Practices in a Globalizing World
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
Education for Sustainable Development is an emerging field that is being addressed from transdisciplinary and transinstitutional perspectives, forging links between academic and non-academic institutions. It explores sustainable development as a process that embraces environmental issues, poverty,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
Presented here is a novel approach to understanding the relationship between the past and the present using the unique concept of re-use, wherein elements from the past are strategically adapted into the present, and thus become part of a new modernity. The book uses this method as a heuristic tool...
by Dr. Debarati Halder, K Jaishankar
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Cyber Crimes against Women in India reveals loopholes in the present laws and policies of the Indian judicial system, and what can be done to ensure safety in cyberspace.
The book is a significant contribution to socio-legal research on online crimes targeting teenage girls and women. It...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
A work by health and development experts and professionals, this well-researched compilation traces the evolving and highly dynamic nature of HIV/AIDS and its unprecedented health and development threat in Asia. Three decades of HIV/AIDS in Asia studies how the region has responded to this epidemic...
Innovations in Maternal Health
Case Studies from India
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Innovations in Maternal Health presents a compilation of twenty-three innovations from the area of Maternal and Newborn Health. These innovations have been written in the case-study style for teaching, which will be beneficial for capacity building initiatives for health-care professionals. These...
Economy, Democracy and the State
The Indian Experience
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2009
This book offers a comprehensive picture of how economic forces have emerged as being of central importance in India and the kind of economic growth that the Indian polity has been able to achieve within the framework of democratic politics. It proposes that the modern state is inextricably linked...
From Individual to Community
Issues in Development Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
From Individual to Community brings together a set of papers that provides critical commentaries on various facets of the ongoing process of development. The book addresses issues that concern developing countries—such as globalization, economic growth, rural transformation, gender equality, educational...
by K S Chalam
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
A comprehensive analysis of the dynamics of social economy in a traditionally fragmented Indian society
Drawing from the works of several eminent economists, this book elaborates on an alternative paradigm of development in the global context. It advocates reforms in social indicators and also...
Indigeneity and Universality in Social Science
A South Asian Response
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2004
Emerging out of the Renaissance and the industrial revolution, the set of disciplines that got institutionalised as the social sciences were fashioned in Europe. However, what were areas of scholarly inquiry responding to specifically Western problems and concerns, laid claim to universality in course...
Militarizing Sri Lanka
Popular Culture, Memory and Narrative in the Armed Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2007
Militarizing Sri Lanka is a study of the militarization that has buttressed the war between the Sri Lankan state and the LTTE for over two decades. It highlights militarization as a process through which the ideology of militarism is shaped and shared in a manner that makes militant solutions to conflict...