Sage Publications Pvt Ltd imprint: 873 books
Fieldwork in South Asia
Memories, Moments, and Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Fieldwork in South Asia is a valuable attempt to listen and learn from the memories and significant moments of fieldwork done by anthropologists, sociologists, and even historians from South Asia. The essays lead towards a deeper understanding of concerns of fieldwork located in various field sites...
Packaging Life
Cultures of the Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Packaging Life: Cultures of the Everyday is a study of the cultural politics of four aspects of everyday life-health, comfort, risk and mobility-as manifest in public culture. The book explores the commodification of these aspects, arguing that our experience and perception of these are mediated by...
Seeing Stars
Spectacle, Society and Celebrity Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2009
Seeing Stars: Spectacle, Society and Celebrity Culture explores the ways in which celebrities are 'manufactured', how they establish their hold on the public imagination and how social responses enable them to be what they are.
Celebrity culture is marked by three main responses: adulation,...
Understanding India
Cultural Influences on Indian Television Commercials
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Understanding India: Cultural Influences on Indian Television Commercials is a book about Indian television commercial production. It focuses on how key production decisions shape a television commercial’s visual language. The larger goal of the book is to delineate the link between this visual...
Organizing for Social Change
A Dialectic Journey of Theory and Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
`The body of work this book represents is clearly important both theoretically and in terms of encouraging scholars and practitioners in continuing efforts of large-scale change and social justice. The cases considered are fascinating, and the authors' analyses of them are enlightening' - Katherine...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Instead of segregating children with special needs from the rest, Diversity, Special Needs, and Inclusion in Early Years Education argues for inclusiveness in educational institutions, through changes in curriculum and teaching methods.
The book presents case studies from various countries...
Powerless
India’s Energy Shortage and Its Impact
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
This is a book about India’s energy shortage, its causes, and consequences.
Powerless details how much coal, oil, gas, uranium, and power the country uses, and for what purposes. It examines the quantity of these things the country produces and where. The book looks at the sizes of the gaps...
by Maya Ranganathan, Usha M. Rodrigues
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
This book explores the transformation of Indian media in the context of two major developments: globalisation (which Sociologist Anthony Giddens terms as being ‘revolutionary’) and advances in communication technologies. It is rich in empirical details of how the Indian media has evolved in the...
Researching Families and Children
Culturally Appropriate Methods
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
Researching Families and Children: Culturally Appropriate Methods highlights methodological issues that arise while conducting research on human development in India. This compilation deals with the dynamics of transacting research in the field, instead of providing formalized instructions on how...
Embodying Motherhood
Perspectives from Contemporary India
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
Embodying Motherhood examines motherhood discourse in urban India, in the context of prevailing motherhood ideologies from a feminist perspective. The authors’ particular location as mothers and feminist scholars within an urban Indian setting and their diverse disciplinary backgrounds in social...
India Policy Forum 2016–17
Volume 13
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
The India Policy Forum (IPF) is India’s most prominent annual economic policy conference in the summer season of New Delhi and is organized by NCAER, the National Council of Applied Economic Research. The primary goal of the IPF is to promote original policy and empirical research on India, including...
Land Reforms in India
Computerisation of Land Records
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2005
This is the tenth volume in a major series which studies the status of land reforms throughout the country. It examines the progress achieved and the difficulties encountered in the computerisation of land records in various states.
In 1988, the central government sponsored the Computerisation...
International Relations in South Asia
Search for an Alternative Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
This collection explores 'state of the art' methods to understand International Relations in South Asia, from disciplinary, pedagogic and epistemological standpoints. It probes alternative methods to comprehend international politics in the region: through constructivism, critical theories, post-colonial...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Migration, Remittances and Development in South Asia explores the impact of migration on development in South Asian countries, compiling extensive information on the migration flows and trends, migrant remittances and migration policies. It discusses a number of proposals for effective cooperation...