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Women Reclaiming Sustainable Livelihoods
This volume highlights women's work sustaining local economies and environments, particularly in response to the current food, fuel and climate crises. It includes women's role in the green entrepreneurship, women's reproductive and productive work in the care economy, and a further examination of eco feminist debates.
Land Conflicts Across Frontiers
Land Conflicts Across Frontiers compares Myanmar’s journey with North East India on the critical and contested issue of land. It examines concerns related to land in pre-colonial and colonial history, causes and consequences of land conflicts today, the socioeconomic dynamics attached to land, along with attempted community-based institutional interventions and rural activism. As Myanmar takes its steps towards a democratic future, it becomes critical for the country to be aware of North East India’s experiences, as they could provide valuable lessons of what to ‘implement’ and what to ‘avoid’. Loss of common property resources, non-recognition of customary rights, ambiguous land laws and inadequate attention to people’s grievances have led to a rural landscape which has witnessed livelihood vulnerability, displacement and conflict. The book not only tries to capture cross-border experiences in order to have a better understanding of land alienation, agrarian discontent and peripheral marginalization but also notes recent trends in rural spaces and suggests policy measures.
Development and Justice
Restoring the health of the land is indispensable not only because it is the ground of our sustenance and survival, but also land has in itself the inherent worth. This book challenges humanity's indulgence, and activities of development, science and technology, and insists for human responsibility and moral duties towards the land, the sustaining mother earth, which is abused, ransacked of its wealth, and ignored of its intrinsic value. The study attempts to bring together perspectives and values that are important for preserving the rights of the land, and proposes the contour of a land ethic.
Cookstove Chronicles
Stove improvers have been designing and promoting “clean” or “efficient” biomass cookstoves in India since the 1940s and have been frustrated to find their carefully engineered stoves abandoned in trash heaps or repurposed as storage bins, while the traditional mud chulha retains a central place in the kitchen. Why do so many Indian women continue to use wood-burning, smoke-spewing stoves when they have other options? Based on anthropological research in Rajasthan, Cookstove Chronicles argues that the supposedly obsolete chulha persists because it offers women control over the tools needed to feed their families. Their continued use of old stoves alongside the new is not a failure to...
Environmental Politics
Providing an analysis of the ideology of environmentalism, this book studies the environmental movement in contemporary India, with a focus on why these concerns have had little impact on people′s lives or on development policy. Through the use of case studies the author reflects the successes and limitations of both institutional management and populist ecology, and the roles that tradition, caste, women and local community play in environmental issues are analyzed. Sumi Krishna argues that environmentalism should be redirected towards a broader agenda aimed at progressive changes in the structure of society.
Globalization, Liberalization, and Environmentalism
This book looks at environmentalism in India in the era of globalization. Following an interdisciplinary approach, it interprets environmentalism in the light of the larger social, economic, and political issues relevant in the context of India's bid to integrate into the global economy. Logically, this approach leads to a brief discussion of the discourse and practice of alternatives to the mainstream political and development processes.
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Working a Democratic Constitution
Austin's magnum opus tells the very human story of how the social, political, and day-to-day realities of the Indian people have been reflected in and directed the course of constitutional reforms since 1950.
Mapping Canadian Federalism for India
This Anthology Of Papers By Some Leading Political Scientists In Canada And India, Including One From Germany, Perceptively Analyses The Canadian Federal Experience In Its Major Dimensions. This Book Would Be Of Interest To Comparativists, Indianists And Canadianists As Well As To The General Reading Public.
