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Through staging dialogues between scholars, activists, and artists
from a variety of disciplinary, geographical, and historical
specializations, Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues explores
the possible resonances and dissonances between the postcolonial
and the postsocialist in feminist theorizing and practice. While
postcolonial and postsocialist perspectives have been explored in
feminist studies, the two analytics tend to be viewed separately.
This volume brings together attempts to understand if and how
postcolonial and postsocialist dimensions of the human condition -
historical, existential, political, and ideological - intersect and
correlate in feminist experiences, identities, and struggles. In
the three sections that probe the intersections, opacities, and
challenges between the two discourses, the authors put under
pressure what postcolonialism and postsocialism mean for feminist
scholarship and activism. The contributions address the emergence
of new political and cultural formations as well as circuits of
bodies and capital in a post-Cold War and postcolonial era in
currently re-emerging neo-colonial and imperial conflicts. They
engage with issues of gender, sexuality, race, migration,
diasporas, indigeneity, and disability, while also developing new
analytical tools such as postsocialist precarity, queer
postsocialist coloniality, uneventful feminism, feminist opacity,
feminist queer crip epistemologies. The collection will be of
interest for postcolonial and postsocialist researchers, students
of gender studies, feminist activists and scholars.
Provides exhaustive coverage of Biochar and its production and
properties. Highlights use of biochar in pollution control and
environment protection. Covers use of agricultural waste /waste
biomass for dye decolorization and degradation. Explores
synergistic approaches for contaminants removal for better insights
into basic and advanced biotechnological applications. Describes
how biochar treatment can be successfully applied for reuse of
wastewater and contaminated soil eco-restoration and environment
protection.
Through staging dialogues between scholars, activists, and artists
from a variety of disciplinary, geographical, and historical
specializations, Postcolonial and Postsocialist Dialogues explores
the possible resonances and dissonances between the postcolonial
and the postsocialist in feminist theorizing and practice. While
postcolonial and postsocialist perspectives have been explored in
feminist studies, the two analytics tend to be viewed separately.
This volume brings together attempts to understand if and how
postcolonial and postsocialist dimensions of the human condition -
historical, existential, political, and ideological - intersect and
correlate in feminist experiences, identities, and struggles. In
the three sections that probe the intersections, opacities, and
challenges between the two discourses, the authors put under
pressure what postcolonialism and postsocialism mean for feminist
scholarship and activism. The contributions address the emergence
of new political and cultural formations as well as circuits of
bodies and capital in a post-Cold War and postcolonial era in
currently re-emerging neo-colonial and imperial conflicts. They
engage with issues of gender, sexuality, race, migration,
diasporas, indigeneity, and disability, while also developing new
analytical tools such as postsocialist precarity, queer
postsocialist coloniality, uneventful feminism, feminist opacity,
feminist queer crip epistemologies. The collection will be of
interest for postcolonial and postsocialist researchers, students
of gender studies, feminist activists and scholars.
Written by one of India’s best-known public
intellectuals,  this book is essential reading
for anyone interested in India’s fascinating history as well as
the direction in which the nation is headed. People have argued
since time immemorial. Disagreement is a part of life, of human
experience. But we now live in times when any form of protest in
India is marked as anti-Indian and met with arguments that the very
concept of dissent was imported into India from the West. As Romila
Thapar explores in her timely historical essay, however, dissent
has a long history in the subcontinent, even if its forms have
evolved through the centuries. Â In Voices of Dissent: An
Essay, Thapar looks at the articulation of nonviolent dissent and
relates it to various pivotal moments throughout India’s history.
Beginning with Vedic times, she takes us from the second to the
first millennium BCE, to the emergence of groups that were jointly
called the Shramanas—the Jainas, Buddhists, and Ajivikas. Going
forward in time, she also explores the views of the Bhakti sants
and others of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and brings us
to a major moment of dissent that helped to establish a free and
democratic India: Mahatma Gandhi’s satyagraha. Then Thapar places
in context the recent peaceful protests against India’s new,
controversial citizenship law, maintaining that dissent in our time
must be opposed to injustice and supportive of democratic rights so
that society may change for the better. Â Â Â
Synergistic Approaches for Bioremediation of Environmental
Pollutants: Recent Advances and Challenges focuses on the
exploitation of various biological treatment technologies and their
use to treat toxic contaminants present in industrial effluent and
in restoring contaminated sites, which lacks in a more
comprehensive manner in existing titles on similar topics available
on the global market. The book comprises advanced biotechnologies
and updated information, along with sustainable waste management
developments and future directions for researchers and scientists
working in the field of microbiology.
Nations need identities. These are created from perceptions of how
societies have evolved. In this, history plays a central role.
Insisting on reliable history is therefore crucial to more than
just a pedagogic cause. Delicate relationships between the past and
present or an exacting understanding of the past, call for careful
analyses. Understanding India's past is of vital importance to the
present. Many popularly held views about the past need to be
critically enquired into before they can be taken as historical.
Why is it important for Indian society to be secular? When did
communalism as an ideology gain a foothold in the country? How and
when did the patriarchal system begin to support a culture of
violence against women? Historian Romila Thapar has investigated,
analyzed, and interpreted the history that underlies such questions
throughout her career. Through the incisive essays in The Past as
Present, she argues that it is of critical importance for the
Indian past to be carefully and rigorously explained if the
legitimacy of the present, wherever it derives from the past, is to
be portrayed as accurately as possible. This is particularly
crucial given the attempts by unscrupulous politicians, religious
fundamentalists, and their ilk to wilfully misrepresent and
manipulate the past in order to serve their present-day agendas.
The Past as Present is an essential and necessary book at a time
when sectarianism, false nationalism, and the muddying of
historical facts are increasingly becoming a feature of our public,
private, and intellectual lives.
Development in Waste Water Treatment Research and Processes:
Innovative Microbe-Based Applications for Removal of Chemicals and
Metals in Wastewater Treatment Plants focuses on the exploitation
of various biological treatment technologies and their use to treat
toxic and hazardous contaminants present in industrial effluent and
restore the contaminated sites, a topic which lacks discussion in
existing titles on the global market. This book encompasses
advanced technologies and updated information as well as future
directions for young researchers and scientists who are working in
the field of wastewater treatment or effluent treatment plants and
biodegradation of environmental contaminants for environmental
safety and sustainable development.
Every society has its cultures: patterns of how people live and
express themselves and how they value objects and thoughts.
Recently, there has been considerable debate about what constitutes
Indian culture and heritage and about how much diversity those
categories ought to contain. Romila Thapar begins by explaining how
definitions of culture have changed over the past three centuries.
She suggests that cultures can be defined as a shared understanding
of selected objects and thoughts from the past, but this
understanding is often stripped of its historical context. Thapar
touches on a few of these illuminating contexts, such as social
discrimination, the role of women, and attitudes toward science and
knowledge. This thought-provoking book is sure to spark productive
debate about some current shibboleths in India’s culture.
People have argued since time immemorial. Disagreement is a part of
life, of human experience. But we now live in times when any form
of protest in India is marked as anti-Indian and met with arguments
that the very concept of dissent was imported into India from the
West. As Romila Thapar explores in her timely historical essay,
however, dissent has a long history in the subcontinent, even if
its forms have evolved through the centuries. In Voices of Dissent:
An Essay, Thapar looks at the articulation of nonviolent dissent
and relates it to various pivotal moments throughout India's
history. Beginning with Vedic times, she takes us from the second
to the first millennium BCE, to the emergence of groups that were
jointly called the Shramanas-the Jainas, Buddhists, and Ajivikas.
Going forward in time, she also explores the views of the Bhakti
sants and others of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and
brings us to a major moment of dissent that helped to establish a
free and democratic India: Mahatma Gandhi's satyagraha. Then Thapar
places in context the recent peaceful protests against India's new,
controversial citizenship law, maintaining that dissent in our time
must be opposed to injustice and supportive of democratic rights so
that society may change for the better. Written by one of India's
best-known public intellectuals, Voices of Dissent will be
essential reading not for anyone interested in India's fascinating
history, but also the direction in which the nation is headed.
Integrative Strategies for Bioremediation of Environmental
Contaminants, Volume Two: Avenues to a Cleaner Society focuses on
the exploitation of various biological treatment technologies and
their use to treat toxic contaminants present in industrial
effluent to restore contaminated sites. The book includes coverage
of combined treatments of microbes for reuse of wastewater and
contaminated soil to successfully achieve eco-restoration,
environment protection and sustainable development. In 14 chapters,
this reference compiles current and advanced biotechnologies as
well as future directions for research. This is a valuable resource
for researchers in microbiology, biotechnology, environmental
engineering and environmental science, and all those who wish to
broaden their knowledge in the field of applied microbiology to
develop sustainable waste management.
Written in Karan's inimitable style, the articles in this book are
a real treat - racy, fun and enlightening at the same time. It is a
must read for anyone who is interested in creative writing and
journalism.
Rutter's Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is the leading textbook in
its field. Both interdisciplinary and international, it provides a
coherent appraisal of the current state of the field to help
researchers, trainees and practicing clinicians in their daily
work. Integrating science and clinical practice, it is a
comprehensive reference for all aspects of child and adolescent
psychiatry. New to this full color edition are expanded coverage on
classification, including the newly revised Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), and new chapters on
systems neuroscience, relationship-based treatments, resilience,
global psychiatry, and infant mental health. From an international
team of expert editors and contributors, this sixth edition is
essential reading for all professionals working and learning in the
fields of child and adolescent mental health and developmental
psychopathology as well as for clinicians working in primary care
and pediatric settings. Michael Rutter has contributed a number of
new chapters and a Foreword for this edition: "I greatly welcome
this new edition as providing both a continuity with the past and a
substantial new look." -Professor Sir Michael Rutter, extract from
Foreword. Reviews of previous editions: "This book is by far the
best textbook of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry written to
date." -Dr Judith Rapoport, NIH "The editors and the authors are to
be congratulated for providing us with such a high standard for a
textbook on modern child psychiatry. I strongly recommend this book
to every child psychiatrist who wants a reliable, up-to-date,
comprehensive, informative and very useful textbook. To my mind
this is the best book of its kind available today." -Journal of
Child Psychology and Psychiatry
The claim, often made, that India--uniquely among
civilizations--lacks historical writing distracts us from a more
pertinent question, according to Romila Thapar: how to recognize
the historical sense of societies whose past is recorded in ways
very different from European conventions. In The Past Before Us, a
distinguished scholar of ancient India guides us through a
panoramic survey of the historical traditions of North India.
Thapar reveals a deep and sophisticated consciousness of history
embedded in the diverse body of classical Indian literature. The
history recorded in such texts as the Ramayana and the Mahabharata
is less concerned with authenticating persons and events than with
presenting a picture of traditions striving to retain legitimacy
and continuity amid social change. Spanning an epoch of nearly
twenty-five hundred years, from 1000 BCE to 1400 CE, Thapar
delineates three distinct historical traditions: an Itihasa-Purana
tradition of Brahman authors; a tradition composed mainly by
Buddhist and Jaina scholars; and a popular bardic tradition. The
Vedic corpus, the epics, the Buddhist canon and monastic
chronicles, inscriptions, regional accounts, and royal biographies
and dramas are all scrutinized afresh--not as sources to be mined
for factual data but as genres that disclose how Indians of ancient
times represented their own past to themselves.
In this delightful sequel to Aditi and the One-Eyed Monkey, the
postal parrot brings a cryptic letter for 'Aditi and Friends' -- an
urgent call for help from London! There's an urgent call for help
from London, and Aditi and her friends--the One-eyed monkey,
Elephant and Ant--fly off on the back of their new friend, the
Dragon. There they discover that the River Thames is being slowly
poisoned... and the River Dragon who lives in it is dying.
Something has to be done quickly. And what they do lands them on
primetime television news! How do you explain things to those who
won't listen? Are "real" dragons different than "unreal" ones?
Suniti Namjoshi weaves fantasy, philosophy and feeling deftly into
a story that will keep readers enthralled.
'I came away from this book enraged, enlightened and with a sense
of urgency to do something' Annie Mac 'Lays down a transformative
path to peace' David Lammy MP 'Compelling' The Sunday Times;
'Assured' Observer; 'Brilliantly written' Nikesh Shukla
_________________________ Demetri wants to study criminology at
university to understand why people around him carry knives. Jhemar
is determined to advocate for his community following the murder of
a loved one. Carl's exclusion leaves him vulnerable to the sinister
school-to-prison pipeline, but he is resolute to defy expectations.
Tony, the tireless manager of a community centre, is fighting not
only for the lives of local young people, but to keep the centre's
doors open. Drawing on the latest research and interviews with
experts, this refreshingly nuanced and beautifully written book
interweaves the stories of a cast of characters at the sharp end of
the UK's serious youth violence epidemic, with chapters on subjects
such as social media, gentrification and criminal justice. Showing
how we are all connected to this tragedy, Cut Short is a gripping,
urgent, sympathetic and often painful portrait of a society
fracturing along lines of race, class and postcode. It is a
blueprint for positive change, and a book we desperately need.
_________________________ 'A devastating and beautifully-drawn
tribute to the young boys that the media turns into statistics of
knife crime' Candice Carty-Williams 'Makes you stop and think' Nick
Robinson, BBC R4's Today programme 'This book strongly gives a
voice to the voiceless . . . essential reading' Kenny Allstar
'Angry, impassioned, informed, accurate - the story behind the
cutting short of public health and young lives' Danny Dorling
'Ciaran's work is informed by lived experience at the frontline of
social change. It takes a sensitive and respectful look at the
truths less often told' George the Poet
An ant, a monkey, an elephant and a young girl set out to tame a
fiery dragon! There is fun and adventure in this 'fairytale' that
stands convention on its head. A dragon is scorching the
countryside, and will stop only if the king and queen send their
granddaughter Aditi to him. So Aditi must go. But a one-eyed
monkey, an ant, and an elephant decide to accompany her. Armed with
a cloak of invisibility, a ball of magic clay, and a Sword of
Courage, the four friends set off to look for this fierce dragon.
Is it fair to slay a sleeping dragon? Can you make friends if you
aren't friendly? Infused with magic realism, the Aditi Adventures
series features Aditi and her Friends - an ant, a one-eyed monkey,
an elephant and two dragons. Their adventures take them to
different countries, even to outer space and cyberspace, and also
raise questions about identity, character and friendship.
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