Meenakshi Thapan
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Education and Society: Themes, Perspectives, Practices concerns itself with the social issues and contexts that underpin education and learning in India. It begins with a focus on the possibilities opened up by education, whether these concern the individual, society, or the world at large. Through an excellent selection of essays arranged in six thematic sections, this volume provides an overview of the major underlying concepts in the sociology of education, as ...
Individuals and groups negotiate increasingly complex relationships between the local, the national and the global. Contested Spaces: Citizenship and Belonging in Contemporary Times focuses on the everyday experience of divided or contested allegiances, and foregrounds the experiential, the embodied and the emotional, while also examining the social and the cultural.Divided into three sections, this volume is broadly grouped around the themes of exclusionary ...
The collection of papers raises methodological issues and questions concerning the traditional nature of anthropology, and addresses current issues and debates in sociology and social anthropology. As a discipline social anthropology grew out of the colonial interaction between western colonisers and the colonised 'others'. Increasingly, social anthropologists especially from the once colonised world have questioned the appropriateness of a discipline that ...
"The woman's body is the foundation on which gender inequality is built, established and legitimized, and understanding it in different contexts, settings and situations is therefore the primary objective of this book. All the essays, in different ways examine gender inequalities which are revealed in the complex interplay between society, gender and body. Subjects covered include Indian feminist movements, western views on prostitution, the notion of ...
Transnationalism can be defined as a social process whereby migrants operate in social fields that transgress geographic, political and cultural borders. As a conceptual tool, it offers an alternative framework to the earlier assimilation model and has transformed our understanding of the process of incorporation of the immigrant. It allows us to view the immigrant as one who straddles two world, the past and the present, through the attachment and commitment to ...
Transnationalism can be defined as a social process whereby migrants operate in social fields that transgress geographic, political and cultural borders. As a conceptual tool, it offers an alternative framework to the earlier assimilation model and has transformed our understanding of the process of incorporation of the immigrant. It allows us to view the immigrant as one who straddles two worlds, the past and the present, through the attachment and commitment to ...
This book explores the development of a sociology of embodiment in the context of women's lives in contemporary urban India. Through a critical analysis of gender and class, the author unravels the complexities that are intrinsic to the multi-layered and fluid construction of woman's identity in relation to embodiment. Living the Body: Embodiment, Womanhood and Identity in Contemporary India unfolds an understanding of women's experience of embodiment by a ...