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This book explores how public and cinematic personas merge in the political landscape of Tamil Nadu in India. Using the films of MGR and Rajinikanth, it reveals the intricate warp and the weft of political and cultural life of the Tamils, while examining Dravida identity, caste and language.

Globalization and migration have led to a new era of populism and racism in Western countries, rekindling traditional forms of discrimination through innovative means. This book investigates how discriminatory stereotypes are built online, and how media education can help to deconstruct hate speech and promote young people's full participation in media-saturated societies.

This book draws on research by archaeologists, numismatists and historians on the social and cultural construction of landscapes in India. It deals with the perception, use and representation of the landscape as an essential dimension of life in the early medieval period.

This book argues that it is important to understand spirituality as a unifying concept that has the potential to be meaningful in its application to the lives of children and young people in areas of learning and wellbeing. Chapters show why and how spiritual learning should be addressed across the curriculum, with implications for the design of learning programs and environments.

This book focuses on the response of the military in Nepali polity which tried to practice a multi-party system along with the concept of the 'king in Parliament' after the restoration of democracy. It discusses the democratic struggle in Nepal, and the response of the military to such struggle.

This book details the discrimination and unfavourable treatment that Dalit entrepreneurs encounter in the functioning of markets in modern India. It refutes the optimistic notion that the process of modernization in India will automatically undermine the significance of social identities.

This book explains how the early historic archaeological record of Punjab was put to use in the process of identity formation in the colonial and postcolonial periods. It focuses on the archaeological material with an eye towards how it was shaped by ancient identities.

This book will be of interest to roboticists and HRI researchers, as well as those studying or working in areas of artificial intelligence and interactive technologies more generally.

This book discusses modern philosophical treatments of fashion, and of "anti-fashion". Pappas argues that the fashion/anti-fashion debate applies to antiquity, that nudity at the gymnasia was an anti-fashion. Thus anti-fashion provides a way of viewing ancient philosophy¿s orientation toward a social world in which philosophy also has to live.

In this book, Reiss argues in favor of a tight fit between evidence, concept and purpose in our causal investigations in the sciences. There is no doubt that the sciences employ a vast array of techniques to address causal questions such as controlled experiments, randomized trials, statistical and econometric tools, causal modeling and thought experiments. But how do these different methods relate to each other and to the causal inquiry at hand? Reiss argues that there is no "gold standard" in settling causal issues against which other methods can be measured. Rather, the various methods of inference tend to be good only relative to certain interpretations of the word "cause", and each interpretation, in turn, helps to address some salient purpose (prediction, explanation or policy analysis) but not others. The main objective of this book is to explore the metaphysical and methodological consequences of this view in the context of numerous cases studies from the natural and social sciences.

This full-length biography, the first for forty years, draws upon feminist approaches to biography writing to place Christabel Pankhurst within a network of supportive female friendships. It is based upon an unrivalled range of previously untapped primary sources.

The Fascist Nature of Neoliberalism offers a brief, provocative analysis with special reference to the most visible executioners of its will: the much-misunderstood managerial class. This group simply happens to hold power, and hence visibility, but they do what everybody else does, and would do, all the time. This is because capitalism is an intellectual outlook that thoroughly directs individual actions through fascist and non-fascist repression. This book argues that the only way to escape capitalism is to recover individual intellectual and sentimental emancipation from capitalism itself in order to produce radical solutions.

Since his emergence from the Flemish avant-garde of the 1980s, Ivo Van Hove's directorial career has crossed international boundaries, challenging established notions of theatre-making. Ivo van Hove Onstage presents a comprehensive, multifaceted account of Van Hove's extraordinary work, including key productions, design innovations, revolutionary approach to text and ambience, and relationships with specific theatres and companies. One of theatre¿s most prominent iconoclasts, Van Hove has brought radical interpretations of the classics to America and organic acting technique to Europe. His extraordinary, transatlantic career has long warranted what is the first full English language study of his achievements.

This book analyzes the ideology of populism in the context of democracy, by investigating the farmers' movement in Western India, especially in Maharashtra.The author contrasts the fundamentals of democracy with the prevailing power structures and highlights it as a cause for the apparent agrarian crisis in the region.

This book is a pioneering study of geographical indications (GIs) in the Indian context. Through the unique concept of 'place goods', it unfolds the diversity of India. This futuristic book charts the scope for India to search for more goods with GIs.

This book provides an English translation of the descriptive parts of Char Bagh-i-Panjab. Written by Ganesh Das after the annexation of Lahore by the British, the text is the only surviving contemporary work with significant information on the social, religious, and cultural life of Punjab (present-day India and Pakistan) the early nineteenth century.

Despite substantial economic growth, India still has one of the highest undernutrition rates in the world; it is home to almost 40 per cent of the world's stunted children. This volume assesses the status and causes of undernutrition in India and examines the effectiveness of policies designed to address it.

This volume engages with the topical issue of land rights in neo-liberal India. It reviews government policies, laws, land governance, land reforms from the social justice perspective and people¿s response to dispossession of land from the citizens¿ point of view. It also focuses on critical themes like expanding right to land, its management and control, through people-centric governance rather than state-centric management.

This volume engages with the major socio-political issues in Northeast India, especially ethnicity, conflict and development. It discusses a range of themes from migration, insurgency, ethnic conflict, peace accords, policy issues, to resource exploitation within the topical issue of development in the region.

This book studies the politics surrounding Indian emigration from the nineteenth century to present day. It moves beyond the oft-cited economic and social movers of migration, and explores the role of politics-both local and global-in shaping diaspora at a deeper level.

This book provides a new approach to the study of colonialism and politics of resistance in Northeast India, especially in Manipur, critiquing its dominant historiography. Bringing together scholars from across disciplines, the volume deals with a wide range of issues including constructions of the Northeast, process of ethnicisation, resistance, rebellions and social movements, tribes, literature, imperial strategies, Christian missionaries, and geopolitics.

This volume serves as a roadmap for cultural studies in India. Drawn from varied areas including literature, linguistics, history, political science, media/theatre studies, and cultural anthropology, it foregrounds cultural pluralism in the context of caste, adivasis, vernacular languages, and folklore in the making of historical consciousness. It traces contemporary debates and interpretations and looks at the future directions this emerging area is likely to take.

This book is a ground-breaking intervention on Dalit politics in India. It challenges the dominant understanding of Dalit mobilisations for political power, social equality and justice. Drawing on extensive field research, the book traces the emergence of Dalit consciousness and its different strands in north and south India from colonial to contemporary times.

Northeast India has been fraught with unrest and conflict since Independence. This book discusses the role of government institutions in dealing with development and security issues in the region and reflects upon conflict resolution, justice and peace building in the context of development challenges.

Politics, Landlords and Islam in Pakistan explores the linkages between politics, religion, class, and caste in politics in rural Pakistan. It documents how landlords continue to wield arbitrary and despotic power over much of Pakistan's rural population in the 21st century, and how participatory democracy has been subverted and has largely benefitted rural elites.

This is one of the first books to explore Nepali diaspora in a global context. The articles cover South Asia, South-east Asia, Europe and discuss the social, political and economic status and aspirations of the Nepali community across the world.

This book offers a social¿scientific interpretation of the Hindu and Buddhist traditions of Tantra dating back 15 centuries. Using personal praxis to inform his research, the author examines three core themes within Tantra ¿ a `holonic¿/mandalic individuality that conduces to mystical experience; a positive valorisation of pleasure and play; and cultural attitudes of gender-mutuality and complementarity, as neatly encapsulated in the icon of Shiva as Ardhanariswara. This analysis, as captured by the Tantric mandalas of deities in intimate union, leads to his compelling metathesis that Tantra serves as a permanent counterculture within the Indic civilization.

Exploring thoughts, feelings and sensations experienced by children with depression, this book has been created for key adults, including teachers, therapists and parents. It provides practical tools and strategies to support the child and those around them, and improves understanding of a child's needs to promote empathy and acceptance.

This is the first collection to illustrate humanitarian work psychology in action. The book examines how the latest research from organizational psychology can support people working in developing economies, as well as in humanitarian work itself.

The Amazon region is the focus of intense conflict between conservationists concerned with deforestation and advocates of agro-industrial development. This book focuses on the contributions of environmental organizations to the preservation of Brazilian Amazonia.