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Social and economic changes around the globe have propelled
increasing numbers of people into situations of chronic waiting,
where promised access to political freedoms, social goods, or
economic resources is delayed, often indefinitely. But there have
been few efforts to reflect on the significance of "waiting" in the
contemporary world.
"Timepass" fills this gap by offering a captivating ethnography of
the student politics and youth activism that lower middle class
young men in India have undertaken in response to pervasive
underemployment. It highlights the importance of waiting as a
social experience and basis for political mobilization, the
micro-politics of class power in north India, and the
socio-economic strategies of lower middle classes. The book also
explores how this north Indian story relates to practices of
waiting occurring in multiple other contexts, making the book of
interest to scholars and students of globalization, youth studies,
and class across the social sciences.
"Degrees Without Freedom?" re-evaluates debates on education,
modernity, and social change in contemporary development studies
and anthropology. Education is widely imputed with the capacity to
transform the prospects of the poor. But in the context of
widespread unemployment in rural north India, it is better
understood as a contradictory resource, providing marginalized
youth with certain freedoms but also drawing them more tightly into
systems of inequality. The book advances this argument through
detailed case studies of educated but unemployed or underemployed
young men in rural western Uttar Pradesh. This book draws on
fourteen months' ethnographic research with young men from middle
caste Hindu, Muslim, and ex-Untouchable backgrounds. In addition to
offering a new perspective on how education affects the rural poor
in South Asia, "Degrees Without Freedom?" includes in-depth
reflection on the politics of modernity, changing rural
masculinities, and caste and communal politics.
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Cosmopolitanism and Place (Paperback)
José M. Medina, John J Stuhr, Jessica Wahman; Contributions by Vincent M. Colapietro, Josep E. Corbi, …
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Addressing perspectives about who "we" are, the importance of place
and home, and the many differences that still separate individuals,
this volume reimagines cosmopolitanism in light of our differences,
including the different places we all inhabit and the many places
where we do not feel at home. Beginning with the two-part
recognition that the world is a smaller place and that it is indeed
many worlds, Cosmopolitanism and Place critically explores what it
means to assert that all people are citizens of the world,
everywhere in the world, as well as persons bounded by a universal
and shared morality.
Social and economic changes around the globe have propelled
increasing numbers of people into situations of chronic waiting,
where promised access to political freedoms, social goods, or
economic resources is delayed, often indefinitely. But there have
been few efforts to reflect on the significance of "waiting" in the
contemporary world. Timepass fills this gap by offering a
captivating ethnography of the student politics and youth activism
that lower middle class young men in India have undertaken in
response to pervasive underemployment. It highlights the importance
of waiting as a social experience and basis for political
mobilization, the micro-politics of class power in north India, and
the socio-economic strategies of lower middle classes. The book
also explores how this north Indian story relates to practices of
waiting occurring in multiple other contexts, making the book of
interest to scholars and students of globalization, youth studies,
and class across the social sciences.
"Degrees Without Freedom?" re-evaluates debates on education,
modernity, and social change in contemporary development studies
and anthropology. Education is widely imputed with the capacity to
transform the prospects of the poor. But in the context of
widespread unemployment in rural north India, it is better
understood as a contradictory resource, providing marginalized
youth with certain freedoms but also drawing them more tightly into
systems of inequality. The book advances this argument through
detailed case studies of educated but unemployed or underemployed
young men in rural western Uttar Pradesh. This book draws on
fourteen months' ethnographic research with young men from middle
caste Hindu, Muslim, and ex-Untouchable backgrounds. In addition to
offering a new perspective on how education affects the rural poor
in South Asia, "Degrees Without Freedom?" includes in-depth
reflection on the politics of modernity, changing rural
masculinities, and caste and communal politics.
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Cosmopolitanism and Place (Hardcover)
Jose M Medina, John J Stuhr, Jessica Wahman; Contributions by Vincent M. Colapietro, Josep E. Corbi, …
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Addressing perspectives about who "we" are, the importance of place
and home, and the many differences that still separate individuals,
this volume reimagines cosmopolitanism in light of our differences,
including the different places we all inhabit and the many places
where we do not feel at home. Beginning with the two-part
recognition that the world is a smaller place and that it is indeed
many worlds, Cosmopolitanism and Place critically explores what it
means to assert that all people are citizens of the world,
everywhere in the world, as well as persons bounded by a universal
and shared morality.
India is widely recognised as a new global powerhouse. It has
become one of the world's emerging powers, rivalling China in terms
of global influence. Yet people still know relatively little about
the economic, social, political, and cultural changes unfolding in
India today. To what extent are people benefiting from the economic
boom? Does caste still exist in India? How is India's culture
industry responding to technological change? And what of India's
rapidly changing role internationally? This Very Short Introduction
looks at the exciting world of change in contemporary India. Craig
Jeffrey provides a compelling account of the recent history of the
nation, investigating the contradictions that are plaguing modern
India and the manner in which people, especially young people, are
actively remaking the country in the twenty first century. One
thing is clear: India is a country that is going to become
increasingly important for the world over the next decades. ABOUT
THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford
University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every
subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get
ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts,
analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make
interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
The world is at a critical moment, when humans must grapple with
thinking about the planet’s oceans from ecological, physical,
social, and legal perspectives. Warming ocean temperatures,
changing currents, cultural displacement, Indigenous resilience,
melting polar ice, habitat loss, are but a few of the global issues
reflected in the planetary ocean as a front line in the unfolding
drama of climate change. Re-Envisioning the Anthropocene Ocean
brings together leading scientists, lawyers, humanists, and
Indigenous voices to tell of the ocean’s precarious position in
the twenty-first century. The contributors affirm that the
planetary ocean is crucial to our well-being and overdue for a
positive change in public action to enhance the world’s
resilience to climate change, ocean acidification, and other
stressors. These essays begin that crucial work of positively
re-imagining the ocean in the Anthropocene. This volume brings
diverse perspectives to the planet’s ocean future. New essays are
contextualized with narratives woven from earlier ocean writers,
showing readers how past perceptions of the ocean have led us to
where we are today in terms of both problems and potential new
visions. In this one volume, readers experience both the history of
humanity’s multi- and interdisciplinary interactions with the
ocean, find new perspectives on that history, and discover ideas
for looking forward.
The world is at a critical moment, when humans must grapple with
thinking about the planet’s oceans from ecological, physical,
social, and legal perspectives. Warming ocean temperatures,
changing currents, cultural displacement, Indigenous resilience,
melting polar ice, habitat loss, are but a few of the global issues
reflected in the planetary ocean as a front line in the unfolding
drama of climate change. Re-Envisioning the Anthropocene Ocean
brings together leading scientists, lawyers, humanists, and
Indigenous voices to tell of the ocean’s precarious position in
the twenty-first century. The contributors affirm that the
planetary ocean is crucial to our well-being and overdue for a
positive change in public action to enhance the world’s
resilience to climate change, ocean acidification, and other
stressors. These essays begin that crucial work of positively
re-imagining the ocean in the Anthropocene. This volume brings
diverse perspectives to the planet’s ocean future. New essays are
contextualized with narratives woven from earlier ocean writers,
showing readers how past perceptions of the ocean have led us to
where we are today in terms of both problems and potential new
visions. In this one volume, readers experience both the history of
humanity’s multi- and interdisciplinary interactions with the
ocean, find new perspectives on that history, and discover ideas
for looking forward.
Examines the changing political and social strategies of
contemporary young people around the globe
What have English terms such as 'civil society', 'democracy',
'development' or 'nationalism' come to mean in an Indian context
and how have their meanings and uses changed over time? Why are
they the subjects of so much debate - in their everyday uses as
well as amongst scholars? How did a concept such as 'Hinduism' come
to be framed, and what does it mean now? What is 'caste'? Does it
have quite the same meaning now as in the past? Why is the idea of
'faction' so significant in modern India? Why has the idea of
'empowerment' come to be used so extensively? These are the sorts
of questions that are addressed in this book. Keywords for Modern
India is modelled after the classic exploration of English culture
and society through the study of keywords - words that are 'strong,
important and persuasive' - by Raymond Williams. The book, like
Williams' Keywords, is not a dictionary or an encyclopaedia.
Williams said that his was 'an inquiry into a vocabulary', and
Keywords for Modern India presents just such an inquiry into the
vocabulary deployed in writing in and about India in the English
language - which has long been and is becoming ever more a
critically important language in India's culture and society.
Exploring the changing uses and contested meanings of common but
significant words is a powerful and illuminating way of
understanding contemporary India, for scholars and for students,
and for general readers.
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