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Reflections: Handicrafts, Sustainability, and Livelihoods
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

Reflections: Handicrafts, Sustainability, and Livelihoods

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-12-02
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  • Publisher: Notion Press

Reflections: Handicrafts, Sustainability, and Livelihoods is a collection of the author’s previously published essays on arts, crafts, traditions, and anecdotal imagery inspired by nature. The work attempts to amalgamate the author’s observations from her field experiences with some of her interpretations, as those have evolved over the years. The contents of this collection have previously appeared in various fora such as Down to Earth, and the online editions of publications such as Hindustan Times, and The Indian Express. Primarily, the work attempts to showcase the potential of artisans and the self-help groups (SHGs), their human and creative capital using the principles of entrepre...

Potency of the Vernacular Settlements
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 680

Potency of the Vernacular Settlements

The 11th ISVS (International Seminar for Vernacular Settlements) that was hosted by the School of Environmental Design and Architecture, Navrachana University brought together some important ideas and concerns as related to questions of development at large and vernacular settlements. From questions of ecological balance, use of resources and the way of the pastoral to the ones concerning technology, design and materiality of built environment. The 11th ISVS will be remembered as one that brought whole generation of young and talented scholars in the foreground. Many of them had carried out extensive field work to support their research. The seminar was also remarkable from the point of view of extensive representation of vernacular traditions in different part of the Indian Sub-continent and Southeast Asia along with a range of theoretical concerns.

Precarious Eating
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 214

Precarious Eating

The role of food and hunger in contemporary South African and Indian environmental writing From GMOs to vegetarianism and veganism, questions of what we should (and shouldn’t) eat can be frequent sources of debate and disagreement. In Precarious Eating, Ben Jamieson Stanley asks how recentering global South representations of food might shift understandings of environmental precarity. Precarious Eating follows the lead of writers and thinkers in South Africa and India who are tracing the production and consumption of food, exploring ways to reconnect our narratives about climate change, global capitalism, and social justice. Taking up a diverse range of novels, films, scholar/activist writ...

Resonating Ripples
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 234

Resonating Ripples

Looking back, the book is an abridgement of English poems preluded by a true story and beautifully connected with a bouquet of poems, by the author. His close observation of people and places, in his hometown, Kashmir or during his wide travels in plains, deserts, high hill mountain ranges, including the icy land of Antarctica and his understanding of what goes through a soldier heart and mind, have contributed substantially to the creation of this book. The author takes you on a gripping journey through his poems on romance, unrequited love, motherhood, relations, battlefield, personal loss and social concerns that presently pose a great challenge to humanity.

Many Layers of Ecocentrism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

Many Layers of Ecocentrism

This book unveils the myriad streams of ecocentric thoughts that have been flowing through the human mind – in indigenous communities, in the wisdom of philosophers, in the creative expressions of poets and writers – sometimes latent, but sometimes more explicit. The strength of this book lies in the fact that it attempts to show that ecocentrism had not emerged suddenly as a distinct line of philosophical thought or found its place among the various normative approaches toward nature, but the seeds of ecocentrism had always been running through human societies. Thus, this book not only emphasizes the “unity of life” but also reveals the inherent unity of all hues of ecocentrism. The...

The Spatial Dynamics of Juvenile Series Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 206

The Spatial Dynamics of Juvenile Series Literature

Where we come from, where we are, where we have been, and where we are going all have a huge impact on who we are. Theories of space and place also hold that the converse is equally true—that we have an impact on those spaces and places we inhabit or dwell within. We make space: our agencies, our cultures, our beliefs and values and understandings shape the macro- and micro-environments around us. Just as much, however, those places we inhabit shape us, causing us to adapt ourselves to them. Children exist in spaces that are crafted for them by adults—by parents, by school administrators and teachers—and, as such, their impact on space can be somewhat limited. Space is made for them, b...

COVID 19 and Migrant Health
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 148

COVID 19 and Migrant Health

COVID 19 impacted the migrant population significantly compared to the general population. The increased vulnerability is due to several factors such as precarious living conditions and working environment; inaccessibility of healthcare services; exclusion of migrants in the pandemic plan of states and countries; mass movement of migrants back to their homes; and loss of employment, and economic impact. Thus, there have been multiple risks attached to labour migration and migrant health during the spread of CVOD 19. The book on COVID 19 and Migrant Health is a compilation of papers presented during the National E-conference on Migrant Health and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), organize...

Indian Tribes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 174

Indian Tribes

Tribal people throughout the world sit on the "frontlines" of globalization's expansion; they occupy the last pristine places on earth, where resources are still abundant: forests, minerals, water, and genetic diversity. So now it's time for society to arise, awake and step ahead. It is being widely seen today that the traditional features of tribal life is gradually changing from being deeply ingrained in tribal customs and traditions to something that is more modernized, in a developmental sense, due to adaptation of modern ways of living and altered lifestyle pattern. This book mainly focuses on the following tribal issues : · Movements before Independence · Human Rights · Forces of Changes · PESA Act · Education · Globalization · NGO's etc. Contents 1. Tribes in India 2. Tribal People and Forces of Change 3. Pre-Independence Tribal Movements 4. Indian Tribes: Challenges and Remedies 5. Tribal Women and The Human Rights 6. Panchayat Act (PESA) 1996: An Overview 7. Educational Status of Tribal Women 8. Higher Education in Tribes 9. Impact of Globalization on Tribal Culture 10. Tribal Development and NGOs

Some of the Whole
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 95

Some of the Whole

Some of the Whole

Breaking the Mold
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

Breaking the Mold

The new path for economic development that India must create The whole world has a stake in India’s future, and that future hinges on whether India can develop its economy and deliver for its population—now the world’s largest—while staying democratic. India’s economy has overtaken the United Kingdom’s to become the fifth-largest in the world, but it is still only one-fifth the size of China’s, and India’s economic growth is too slow to provide jobs for millions of its ambitious youth. Blocking India’s current path are intense global competition in low-skilled manufacturing, increasing protectionism and automation, and the country’s majoritarian streak in politics. In Bre...