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Social Innovations in Urban Sanitation in India Meeting Unmet Needs

Social Innovations in Urban Sanitation in India Meeting Unmet Needs

This book discusses effective social innovation strategies facilitated by civil society organisations (CSOs) to tackle India’s significant urban sanitation challenge. It presents the contours of an ecosystem that includes citizen participation and strengthening community-managed systems for improved sanitation and public health. The book analyses case studies of effective sanitation programmes as well as experiments with innovative ideas in different regional contexts by CSOs to meet the contextual needs of the community and to ensure access to safe sanitation especially among the urban poor. It highlights the challenges and the need for active participation of communities for change in behaviour increasing institutional capacities of municipalities for standardising and scaling up strategies which work. The authors highlight the need for designing low-cost solutions organising informal sanitation workers serving marginalised communities and building effective alliances between communities and institutions to influence public policy. Rich in empirical data this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of urban studies public policy governance political science development studies and sociology as well as for CSOs and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working on urban sanitation urban planning and public policy. | Social Innovations in Urban Sanitation in India Meeting Unmet Needs

GBP 130.00
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Governmentality Power and Counter Conduct in Northeast India’s Manipur and Nagaland

Governmentality Power and Counter Conduct in Northeast India’s Manipur and Nagaland

This volume examines how protest movement counter-conducts the ways in which the citizens have been governed. It studies the rationale forms technologies techniques practices and impact of two protest movements in Northeast India: the tribal movement led by the Joint Action Committee Against Anti-Tribal Bills (hereafter JACAATB) in Manipur and the anti-corruption movement led by the Against Corruption and Unabated Taxation (ACAUT) in Nagaland. The study is an ethnographic enquiry into three counter-conduct approaches: First the attempt at disciplining the local state government through the adoption and deployment of certain technologies of citizenship making individuals politically active and capable of self-governance Second the desire for truth through the usage of Right to Information Act and the judicial inquiry against the misconducts of the state governments Third counter-conduct activities through techniques of critique and self-examination to not only resist or evade the state but also usher in new subjectivities and forms of governance An in-depth look at citizenship and state in contemporary Northeast India this volume will be of interest to scholars and students of political science governance public policy Northeast Studies and South Asia studies. | Governmentality Power and Counter Conduct in Northeast India’s Manipur and Nagaland

GBP 130.00
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Teaching Competencies for 21st Century Teachers Practical Approaches to Learning

Teaching Competencies for 21st Century Teachers Practical Approaches to Learning

A must-read for every teacher in the 21st century this book provides a comprehensive guide to facilitating joyful sustainable holistic multidisciplinary and active learning. The book discusses different approaches principles techniques and activities for creating a classroom where different learning types can thrive. The methods outlined in this volume help teachers ensure that every learner regardless of background or orientation can engage in participatory reflective self-directed experiential entrepreneurial and collaborative learning and develop holistically. Essential for the 21st century the book highlights the significance of digital technologies and examines how teachers can easily use digital technologies to offer personalized and blended learning. This book is a vital resource for teachers who want to improve their teaching skills and create a positive and engaging learning environment for their learners. This book helps teachers across the globe to enhance learning outcomes in classrooms and subsequently develop the quality of their education systems. This volume is useful to students researchers and teachers in education psychology development studies social work and sociology. It is also an invaluable companion to policymakers and professionals from government and non-government organisations working in the education and social development sectors. | Teaching Competencies for 21st Century Teachers Practical Approaches to Learning

GBP 130.00
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Towards a New Philosophy The Unpublished Writings of K. Satchidananda Murty

Towards a New Philosophy The Unpublished Writings of K. Satchidananda Murty

Kotta Satchidananda Murty (1924–2011) was a vociferous writer and an iconoclast. In recognition of his contribution in the field of Philosophy he was awarded the highly coveted BC Roy Award in Philosophy and Padma Vibhushan by the Government of India. This volume is a collection of his unpublished writings. It presents Murty’s unpublished keynote addresses papers presented in seminars and lectures which show his reflections and arguments in contrast to contemporary philosophers with regard to recent developments in philosophy. The writings reveal Murty’s rejection of established theories by well-known eastern and western philosophers as well as his arguments in their support and present a new interpretation of their contention in the contemporary idiom. Murty critically evaluates the contemporary arguments of Malcolm James Ross Alvin Plantinga Charles Hawthorne Jean-Paul Sartre Anthony Flew EH Madden and PH Hare. An important contribution the book assesses K. Satchidananda Murty’s contribution to philosophy during sixty-one years of his engagement with active writing and teaching. It will be of great interest to scholars teachers and students of Indian philosophy Hindu philosophy Vedāntic philosophy Advaita Vedānta comparative philosophy religious studies and South Asian studies. | Towards a New Philosophy The Unpublished Writings of K. Satchidananda Murty

GBP 130.00
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Deciphering India's Services Sector Growth

Deciphering India's Services Sector Growth

This book addresses a range of issues relating to the nature and implications of growth of India’s services sector including factors contributing to the rise of services output measurement and heterogeneity growth of services exports and employment in services sectors. From service tax exchange rate and services exports policy interest employment potential and diversity of the sector to challenges in financial inclusion trajectories of ICT services and contribution of education to GDP it brings together diverse themes to highlight major concerns in the wake of the prominent role that services have played in placing India among the fast-growing economies in the world in recent years. The services sector in India accounts for more than 60 per cent of the GDP of the country and 28. 6 per cent of its employed across government private or state corporations and non-government organisations. The volume explores whether the services sector (beyond agriculture and industry) holds the promise of fulfilling the benefits from India’s demographic dividend for its economic transformation through sustainable growth. With key empirical analyses of household enterprise and macroeconomic data for India within both formal and informal sectors this topical book will be useful to scholars and researchers of economics Indian economy political economy development economics development studies public policy and South Asian studies and also to development professionals policy makers and industry specialists. | Deciphering India's Services Sector Growth

GBP 38.99
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