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Masculinity, Consumerismand the Post-national Indian City
Masculine cultures define urban cultures and are defined by them. A multidisciplinary analysis that explores urbanism, masculine anxieties and gender relations.
Sexuality Studies
Sexuality in general and particularly in India remains an ever enigmatic phenomenon, giving rise to a vast field of academic study across the social and human sciences. Through in-depth theoretical analysis and an array of case studies, this volume establishes a firm analytical framework for sexuality studies in the country.
Entangled Urbanism
This text explores the city as a series of interconnections between spaces and processes. Combining fieldwork and historical analysis, it examines the city that is produced through overlaps between malls, gated communities, slums, Disney-fied temples, urban bureaucracies, residents welfare associations, slum pradhans, middle-class housewives, and bottom of the pyramid consumers.
Multiple Criteria Decision Making for Sustainable Energy and Transportation Systems
In the twenty-first century the sustainability of energy and transportation systems is on the top of the political agenda in many countries around the world. Environmental impacts of human economic activity necessitate the consideration of conflicting goals in decision making processes to develop sustainable systems. Any sustainable development has to reconcile conflicting economic and environmental objectives and criteria. The science of multiple criteria decision making has a lot to offer in addressing this need. Decision making with multiple (conflicting) criteria is the topic of research that is at the heart of the International Society of Multiple Criteria Decision Making. This book is based on selected papers presented at the societies 19th International Conference, held at The University of Auckland, New Zealand, from 7th to 12th January 2008 under the theme "MCDM for Sustainable Energy and Transportation Systems''.
Colossus
Colossus unpacks the intricacies and inequalities of economic, social and political life in India's capital, Delhi.
Global Bollywood
Bollywood movies and their signature song-and-dance spectacles are an aesthetic familiar to people around the world, and Bollywood music now provides the rhythm for ads marketing goods such as computers and a beat for remixes and underground bands. These musical numbers have inspired scenes in Western films such as Vanity Fair and Moulin Rouge. Global Bollywood shows how this currency in popular culture and among diasporic communities marks only the latest phase of the genre’s world travels. This interdisciplinary collection describes the many roots and routes of the Bollywood song-and-dance spectacle. Examining the reception of Bollywood music in places as diverse as Indonesia and Israel,...
The Boss Calls the Shots
Know all about military men’s lives and their wives? No. you don’t. Get an insider’s view, here and now. Read these excerpts: …reached the pinnacle of their teenage aspirations; freshly winged warriors, feted by T.V channels and the papers, lunched with the President, now back to the bottom of the pecking order - Under Trainee Operational Pilots - greenhorns. Mona had this thing about men in blue. Could never get anywhere near them. They were so near and yet so far. The fighter boy after a casual glance started the bike when Mona opened up, “Hi, going towards Brigades? Can you drop me there”? Oh! Ah! Ah! Gasped the crowd as a tall, busty blonde and her companion sashayed down the aisle. “Dharam Paaji’s fault; marrying that Hema Malini bridged the North-South divide. Sambar powder now added to chole .” Cyrus’s beach runs were between three landmarks. Schmidt memorial to the Olcott Kuppam and back onto the Governor’s Bungalow.
Bayesian Implementation
The authors present a basic model of the Bayesian implementation problem and then consider its application in areas including classical pure exchange economies, public goods provision, auctions and bargaining.
Religion and the Morality of the Market
This book focuses on how neoliberal market practices engender new forms of religiosity, and how religiosity shapes economic actions.
