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Colonialism and Resistance Society and State in Manipur

Colonialism and Resistance Society and State in Manipur

Part of the ‘Transition in Northeastern India’ series this volume critically explores how Northeast India especially Manipuri society responded to colonial rule. It studies the interplay between colonialism and resistance to provide an alternative understanding of colonialism on the one hand and society and state formation on the other. Challenging dominant histories of the area the essays provide significant insights into understanding colonialism and its multiple effects on economy polity culture and faith system. It examines hitherto untouched areas in the study of Northeast and discusses how social movements are augmented constituted or sustained. This book will be of great interest to researchers and scholars of modern history sociology and social anthropology particularly those concerned with Northeast India. | Colonialism and Resistance Society and State in Manipur

GBP 46.99
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Indigenous Question Land Appropriation and Development Understanding the Conflict in Jharkhand India

Indigenous Question Land Appropriation and Development Understanding the Conflict in Jharkhand India

This book provides a first-hand account of land conflict and power relations in one of the most resource-rich states in India — Jharkhand. Through the eyes of the state corporate and indigenous actors it reveals how conflict over land in Jharkhand is firmly embedded in the ideological foundations of the key actors in the region. Based on thorough research on the ground and interviews with state corporate and indigenous actors the book explores a host of themes such as: the need and efficacy of state-led modernisation programmes the market as the best regulator and ‘ideas’ of development. The volume highlights how land conflicts in Jharkhand will persist until the ideological differences are recognised and welcomed in hopes of making way for collaborative governance. This work will be a key intervention in the fields of area studies especially South Asian studies public policy politics and development studies. | Indigenous Question Land Appropriation and Development Understanding the Conflict in Jharkhand India

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Delivering Justice Issues and Concerns

Delivering Justice Issues and Concerns

This book critically analyzes emerging issues and challenges in delivering timely justice to common people. It brings a wide range of contemporary and relevant issues relating to the gross violation of human rights and presents situation-based evidence from and first-hand experiences of behavioral social and legal professionals. It deals with themes such as holding administrations accountable and securing justice challenges for the judiciary in the early disposal of cases challenges to the forensic community green federalism and environmental justice current threats to human rights ethics in the criminal justice system and honor killing from socio-cultural perspectives. Topical and comprehensive this book will be an excellent read for scholars and researchers of political studies legal studies human rights psychology behavioural studies political sociology sociology development studies governance and public policy environmental studies and South Asian studies. It will also interest policymakers nongovernmental organizations activists and professionals in the field. | Delivering Justice Issues and Concerns

GBP 35.99
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Democratic Transition in Bhutan Political Contests as Moral Battles

Democratic Transition in Bhutan Political Contests as Moral Battles

This book studies how a modern monarchy transformed Bhutan into a parliamentary democracy. A political ethnography it focuses on the historic elections of 2007–2008 and studies democracy and its transformational processes from the ground up. It draws on historical as well as contemporary theories about kingship and regime change to analyse Bhutan’s nascent democratic process and reflect on the direction of political change both at the state and local levels in the aftermath of the elections. It also presents insights into the electoral and political process by giving a first-hand account of the author’s own participation in the elections and ponders on the larger political implications of this election for the region. A strong theoretical discussion situated in robust fieldwork and personal experience this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of politics especially comparative politics and political institutions South Asian and Himalayan Studies political sociology and social anthropology. | Democratic Transition in Bhutan Political Contests as Moral Battles

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Predictive Analytics in Human Resource Management A Hands-on Approach

Predictive Analytics in Human Resource Management A Hands-on Approach

This volume is a step-by-step guide to implementing predictive data analytics in human resource management (HRM). It demonstrates how to apply and predict various HR outcomes which have an organisational impact to aid in strategising and better decision-making. The book: Presents key concepts and expands on the need and role of HR analytics in business management. Utilises popular analytical tools like artificial neural networks (ANNs) and K-nearest neighbour (KNN) to provide practical demonstrations through R scripts for predicting turnover and applicant screening. Discusses real-world corporate examples and employee data collected first-hand by the authors. Includes individual chapter exercises and case studies for students and teachers. Comprehensive and accessible this guide will be useful for students teachers and researchers of data analytics Big Data human resource management statistics and economics. It will also be of interest to readers interested in learning more about statistics or programming. | Predictive Analytics in Human Resource Management A Hands-on Approach

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Women Refugee Voices from Asia and Africa Travelling for Safety

Women Refugee Voices from Asia and Africa Travelling for Safety

This book presents experiences of women refugees in a variety of contexts across Asia and Africa and builds a framework to ensure robust and effective mechanisms to safeguard refugees’ rights. It highlights the structural challenges that women who are forcibly displaced face and the inadequacies of the response of governments and other stakeholders irrespective of the country of origin ethnicity and religion of the refugee community. This volume: ● Focuses on contemporary issues such as the Rohingya and the Syrian crisis. ● Brings first-person accounts of women refugees from Asia and Africa. ● Draws on an interdisciplinary approach to analyse a host of issues including public policy cultural norms and economics of forced migration. Bringing together first-hand accounts from women refugees and interventions by activists academics journalists filmmakers humanitarian workers and international law experts this book will be a must read for scholars and researchers of migration and diaspora studies development studies sociology and social anthropology and politics and public policy. It will be of special interest to NGOs policymakers and think tanks. | Women Refugee Voices from Asia and Africa Travelling for Safety

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Social Sector Development and Governance Empirical Investigations for Countries and Groups

Social Sector Development and Governance Empirical Investigations for Countries and Groups

This volume explores the impact of good governance upon social sectors’ development in India and other selected economies of the world. Economic development in the true sense depends on the development of different social sectors like education healthcare gender equality etc. as well as economic factors. Good governance makes the sectors perform well on the one hand and helps in economic growth and development on the other. Conversely bad or weak governance in the form of corruption and low effectiveness of the governments may lead to poor performance of the sectors and low growth and backwardness of the economies. This book explores the associations between different social sectors’ performances with quality of governance and growth and development of different economies and groups in detail and establishes theoretical and empirical examinations for the individual economies and groups from the different corners of the globe with the help of new theories and latest data. This book will be useful for students and researchers in the fields of Economics Sociology Political Studies Public Finance International Relations Social Sciences as well as policy makers and think tanks. | Social Sector Development and Governance Empirical Investigations for Countries and Groups

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Learning without Burden Where are We a Quarter Century after the Yash Pal Committee Report

Learning without Burden Where are We a Quarter Century after the Yash Pal Committee Report

This book looks at education reforms planning and policy through an exploration of the Yash Pal Committee report (1993) in India which made recommendations to improve the quality of learning while reducing cognitive burden on students. It analyses the wide-ranging impact the report had on curriculum pedagogy teacher education reforms and the national policy on education. The book examines the legacy of the report tracing the various deliberations and critical engagements with issues around literacy language and mathematics learning curriculum reforms and classroom practices assessment and evaluation. It reviews contemporary developments in research on learning in diverse disciplines and languages through the lens of the recommendations made by the Learning without Burden report while engaging with challenges and systemic issues which limit inclusivity and access to quality education. Drawing on extensive research and first-hand academic and teaching experience this book will attract attention and interest of students and researchers of educational policy and analysis linguistics sociology and South Asian studies. It will also be of interest to policy makers think tanks and civil society organisations. | Learning without Burden Where are We a Quarter Century after the Yash Pal Committee Report

GBP 130.00
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Reversals of Fortune Why the Hierarchy Of Nations So Often Turns Topsy-Turvy

Reversals of Fortune Why the Hierarchy Of Nations So Often Turns Topsy-Turvy

Why has history so often turned the economic and political hierarchy of nations topsy-turvy? This book examines the evidence of the last 500 years to challenge the two dominant narratives on the answers to this question. It argues that the explanation lies neither in the quality of institutions that societies possess nor in their capacities for technological innovation. What matters for the economic and political success of a country it claims is the interaction between current technological knowledge and global demand on the one hand and its geography and the population it inherits from its past on the other. Those societies succeed whose endowments best fit the requirements of current technology and world demand. It hardly matters who developed the technology. In the process of examining the patterns that inform the fates of nations over time Reversals of Fortune charts the economic histories of Western Europe and Asia from the sixteenth century to the present day. A compelling tour de force this book reshapes and rethinks global history. The volume will be a fascinating read for scholars of history and economics especially economic history and human geography. | Reversals of Fortune Why the Hierarchy Of Nations So Often Turns Topsy-Turvy

GBP 42.99
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Sports Psychology Concepts and Applications

Sports Psychology Concepts and Applications

This book analyses the essential aspects of sports psychology by throwing light on issues related to the upkeep of athletes’ mental state and improving their performance in sports activities. On one hand it covers topics like anxiety stress conflicts overtraining and sports injuries and on the other it includes strategies helpful for managing and developing skills for better performance in various sports activities. In its wide coverage the volume discusses a range of key topics which include: Sports psychology: historical perspectives and the present position Contribution of heredity and environment the role of growth and development and the individual differences in sports psychology How factors like intelligence cognitive and emotional processes personality and motivation influence learning and the transfer of learning The role of attention concentration and focus in the performance of athletes Athletes’ mental and psyche levels displayed in the states of their anxiety stress and conflicts and aggression and violence Sports injuries and their management Overtraining and Burnout in Athletes Group dynamics and guidance and counseling in the learning and development of the athletes etc Engaging and reader friendly this book will be useful to students researchers and teachers of physical education psychology applied psychology and sports psychology. It will also be key reading for trainees of the various sport academies coaches sports associations managing bodies and sport psychologists. | Sports Psychology Concepts and Applications

GBP 34.99
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Tagore Einstein and the Nature of Reality Literary and Philosophical Reflections

Tagore Einstein and the Nature of Reality Literary and Philosophical Reflections

This volume consists of a selection of scholarly essays from literature philosophy and history on the conception of reality as understood by Rabindranath Tagore and Albert Einstein. The nature of reality has been a long-debated issue among scientists and philosophers. Tagore (1861–1941) met Einstein (1879–1955) at the latter’s house in Kaputh Germany on 14 July 1930 and had a long conversation on this issue. This conversation has been widely quoted and discussed by scientists philosophers and scholars from the literary world. The important question that Tagore and Einstein discussed was whether the world is a unity dependent on humanity or the world is a reality independent of the human factor. Einstein believed that reality is independent of the mind and the human factor. On the other hand Tagore adopted the opposite view. Nevertheless both Einstein and Tagore claimed to be realists — their conceptions of reality were obviously fundamentally different. Where does the difference lie? Can it be harmonized at a deeper level? This volume brings together for the first time a gamut of views on this subject from eminent scholars. It presents some key reflections on reality language poetry truth science personality human sciences virtue ethics intelligibility and creativity. It will be useful to scholars and researchers of philosophy literature history and political studies as also to those interested in Tagore. | Tagore Einstein and the Nature of Reality Literary and Philosophical Reflections

GBP 36.99
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India’s National Security Annual Review 2016-17

India’s National Security Annual Review 2016-17

The global security environment in the last five years has been characterised by a state of ‘no war no peace’ among major powers resulting in a state of uncertainty about their national security objectives. For instance the US has been concerned about the attitudes of Iran Russia North Korea China and others and yet did not expect a direct military conflict with them. On the other hand China has expanded its naval strategy from a mere ‘off-shore defence’ to ‘open seas protection’ and has called for both ‘defence and offence’ instead of merely ‘territorial air defence’ thereby indicating preparedness for the possibility of a military confrontation. The major powers have been thus groping for suitable responses to their threat perceptions. It is in this kind of a complex and confusing international environment that India as a rising power has been called upon to wade through its strategic partnerships with major powers and nurture friendships with various Asian and African countries. This sixteenth volume of India’s National Security Annual Review offers indispensable information and evaluation on matters pertaining to national security. It undertakes a thorough analysis of the trends to provide a backdrop to India’s engagement with various countries. The volume also discusses persisting threats from China and Pakistan. With contributions from experts from the fields of diplomacy academia and civil and military services the book will be one of the most dependable sources of analyses for scholars of international relations foreign policy defence and strategic studies and political science and practitioners alike. | India’s National Security Annual Review 2016-17

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Contextualising Educational Studies in India Research Policy and Practices

Contextualising Educational Studies in India Research Policy and Practices

This volume presents an interdisciplinary framework to map out contemporary educational studies in India. Based on conceptual tools quantitative methods and ethnographic accounts drawn from extensive fieldwork it addresses emerging discourses on educational policies their operation in the everyday functioning of institutions and actual practices in teaching and learning. Individual chapters discuss the intersectionality in the current educational system of region gender class caste and minorities. With comparative perspectives and case studies from across states including under-studied rural and urban regions of India the book explores a wide range of issues affecting the educational system including socioeconomic and gender inequalities; the educational status of tribal settlements in the hinterlands and their respective urban areas; the marginalisation of minorities; challenges in accessing educational avenues and choices; and the model for imparting vocational education and training. It navigates complex sites of discrimination and exclusion in the institutional spaces of the educational system and assesses the consequences of market dynamics and ideological undercurrents. Presenting first-hand information from the field it evaluates educational policies practices and research; investigates challenges and failures; provides suggestions and fosters critical thinking for a knowledge society. The findings in this book will be of interest to researchers scholars and teachers of education economics sociology urban education and the politics of education as well as of public policy governance and development studies. It will also be useful to research institutions policymakers educationists social scientists education professionals and governmental and non-governmental bodies working on education. | Contextualising Educational Studies in India Research Policy and Practices

GBP 38.99
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The Making of The Wandering Earth A Film Production Handbook

The Making of The Wandering Earth A Film Production Handbook

This handbook takes us through the making of The Wandering Earth one of the highest-grossing non-English films of all time. It is a rare in-depth behind-the-scenes study of the making of a masterpiece taking the reader through the entire production process of a landmark Chinese science fiction film. The book brings to life how The Wandering Earth was created from words to images by a young and innovative professional team assembled by director Frant Gwo. It discusses specialized details of the filmmaking process and the collaborative work of the crew and the cast involved to present an intuitive feeling of the film’s production. A step-by-step guide on the making of a radical large-scale film this handbook critically examines its various stages such as its development and production stages – the planning preparing recruiting setting up departments and processes; writing the screenplay; creating a visual style and the production design; and the principal photography; its challenging post-production stages – the editing visual effects production color mixing; dubbing sound editing; publicity etc. Further the chapters in volume also explore how Chinese science fiction films disrupt the Western narrative context and provide the larger discourse on Chinese science fiction. Richly illustrated with exclusive first-hand visuals from the making of the film this handbook part of the Studies in Global Genre Fiction series will be an essential read for professionals scholars researchers and students of film and media production film studies popular culture cultural studies Chinese studies world literature and science fiction. It will also be of interest to the general reader interested in filmmaking. | The Making of The Wandering Earth A Film Production Handbook

GBP 31.99
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Critical Humanities from India Contexts Issues Futures

Critical Humanities from India Contexts Issues Futures

The field of humanities generates a discourse that traditionally addressed the questions of what is proper to man rights of man crimes against humanity human creativity and action human reflection and performance human utterance and artefact. The university as a philosophical-political institution transmits this humanist account. This European humanistic legacy which is little more than Christian anthropology barely received any questioning from cultures that faced colonialism. In such a context this volume attempts to unravel the ‘barely secularized heritage’ of Europe (Derrida’s phrase) and its fatal consequences in other cultures. The task of Critical Humanities is to explore the ways in which the question of being human (along with non-human others) today from heterogeneous cultural ‘backgrounds’ can be undertaken. The future of the humanities teaching and research is contingent upon the risky task of configuring cultural difference from non-European locations. Such a task is inescapable and urgently needed when tectonic cultural upheavals have begun to show devastating effect on planetary coexistence today. It is precisely in such a context that this collection of essays on critical humanities affirms ‘without alibi’ the urgency of collective reflection and innovative research across the traditional disciplinary and institutional borders and communication systems on the one hand and Asian African and European cultural formations on the other. Critical Humanities are at one level little more than communities on the verge (critical) but whose centuries long survival and resilient creations of cultural (and /as natural) habitats are of deeply enduring significance to affirm the biocultural diversities of living that compose the planet. Topical and timely this book will be useful to scholars researchers and teachers of cultural theory literary studies philosophy cultural geography legal studies sociology history performance studies environmental studies caste and communalism studies postcolonial theory India studies and education. | Critical Humanities from India Contexts Issues Futures

GBP 38.99
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