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This edited volume offers a comprehensive revaluation of Trauma and Memory Studies, foregrounding perspectives from India and beyond. It critically interrogates the prevailing Euro-centric paradigm within the field, advocating for the amplification and contextualization of voices originating from South Asian spatial and temporal contexts. Departing from conventional West/North-centric narratives, the text prioritizes the narratives of historically marginalized survivor groups, encompassing individuals affected by pivotal events such as the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai, the Bengal famine, the dispersion of the Indian diaspora, and the experiences of incarcerated populations in Iran, Kenya, ...
Every year, “Honour Killings” connected to forced marriages claim the lives of thousands of young people in India, and the nation has to enact strict laws to tackle the horrible crime with ruthlessness. On the instructions of so-called “khap panchayats,” at least 100 juvenile boys and girls were likely slain in the Delhi, Rajasthan, and Haryana regions. Even the most basic facilities are not available for female athletes, despite the fact that they are not recognised as athletes in their own country but become celebrities when they win gold in foreign competitions. For the position of women's sports to improve, significant action is needed. Corporate organisation, Additionally, working women must be informed of their rights. Lastly, but certainly not least, it is crucial that Indian businesses adopt clear guidelines against sexual misconduct in the workplace, ought to establish a complaint department that handles sexual harassment issues.
The volume addresses the pertinent need to examine childhood trauma revolving around themes of war, sexual abuse, and disability. Drawing narratives from spatial, temporal, and cultural contexts, the book analyses how conflict, abuse, domestic violence, contours of gender construction, and narratives of ableism affect a child’s transactions with society. While exploring complex manifestations of children’s experience of trauma, the volume seeks to understand the issues related to translatability/representation, of trauma bearing in mind the fact that children often lack the language to express their sense of loss. The book in its study of childhood trauma does a close exegesis of select literary pieces, drawings done by children, memoirs, and graphic narratives. Academicians and research scholars from the disciplines of childhood studies, trauma studies, resilience studies, visual studies, gender studies, cultural studies, disability studies, and film studies stand to benefit from this volume. The ideas that have been expressed in this volume will richly contribute towards further research and scholarship in this domain.
This book addresses certain existing issues related to different types of security and identity and how they can be resolved by global governance in contemporary times and its peaceful dimensions including security concerns relevant to the national interest. This book is also an effort to examine the present security situation by identifying variant existing perception that leads to serious problems of vulnerability of sovereign nation- India and the World. The issues discussed here have vital implications over the region’s security that raises pertinent questions related to human security and human survival. The papers are contributed by eminent academicians and scholars and it is present...
Comparative politics students will benefit from CQ Researcher's award-winning, non-partisan reporting that looks at today’s most important problems, ranging from democratization and regime change to policies on immigration, welfare, and religion. Each essay identifies key players, explores what’s at stake, and shows how past and current developments impact the future.
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