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  • Dislocating Cultures

    Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism

    de Uma Narayan ...
    Series series Thinking Gender
    Dislocating Cultures takes aim at the related notions of nation, identity, and tradition to show how Western and Third World scholars have misrepresented Third World cultures and feminist agendas. Drawing attention to the political forces that have spawned, shaped, and perpetuated these misrepresentations since colonial times, Uma Narayan inspects the underlying problems which "culture" poses for ... Leer más

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  • The Idea of Justice

    de Amartya Sen ...
    Is justice an ideal, forever beyond our grasp, or something that may actually guide our practical decisions and enhance our lives? In this wide-ranging book, Amartya Sen presents an alternative approach to mainstream theories of justice which, despite their many specific achievements have taken us, he argues, in the wrong direction in general.At the heart of Sen's argument is his insistence on the ... Leer más

    $247 MXN

  • The Idea of Justice

    Social justice: an ideal, forever beyond our grasp; or one of many practical possibilities? More than a matter of intellectual discourse, the idea of justice plays a real role in how - and how well - people live. And in this book the distinguished scholar Amartya Sen offers a powerful critique of the theory of social justice that, in its grip on social and political thinking, has long left ... Leer más

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  • Red Tape

    Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India

    de Akhil Gupta ...
    Series series A John Hope Franklin Center book
    Red Tape presents a major new theory of the state developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and widespread poverty in India, the world's fourth largest economy, Gupta conceives of the relation between the state in India and the poor as one of structural violence. Every year this violence kills between two and three million people, especially women and ... Leer más

    $497 MXN

  • Theorizing Empowerment

    Canadian Perspectives on Black Feminist Thought

    Theorizing Empowerment: Canadian Perspectives on Black Feminist Thought is a collection of articles by Black Canadian feminists centralizing the ways in which Black femininity and Black women’s experiences are integral to understanding political and social frameworks in Canada. What does Black feminist thought mean to Black Canadian feminists in the Diaspora? What does it means to have a feminist ... Leer más

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  • An Analysis of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's Can the Subaltern Speak?

    de Graham Riach ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    A critical analysis of Spivak's classic 1988 postcolonial studies essay, in which she argues that a core problem for the poorest and most marginalized in society (the subalterns) is that they have no platform to express their concerns and no voice to affect policy debates or demand a fairer share of society’s goods.A key theme of Gayatri Spivak's work is agency: the ability of the individual to ... Leer más

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  • The Imaginary Institution of India

    Politics and Ideas

    For decades Sudipta Kaviraj has worked with and improved upon Marxist and subaltern studies, capturing India's social and political life through its diverse history and culture. While this technique has been widely celebrated in his home country, Kaviraj's essays have remained largely scattered abroad. This collection finally presents his work in one convenient volume and, in doing so, reasserts ... Leer más

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  • Feminism and Ecology

    de Mary Mellor ...
    The relationship between feminism and ecology has grown in importance in recent years. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the ecofeminist movement and its history, as well as an extended analysis of the main perspectives within it.Mellor examines the connections between feminism and the green movement, and outlines the contributions of the major participants, while contextualizing ... Leer más

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  • Queer Activism in India

    A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics

    In Queer Activism in India, Naisargi Dave examines the formation of lesbian communities in India from the 1980s to the early 2000s. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with activist organizations in Delhi, a body of letters written by lesbian women, and research with lesbian communities and queer activist groups across the country, Dave studies the everyday practices that constitute queer ... Leer más

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  • Gendered Citizenship

    Historical and Conceptual Explorations

    de Anupama Roy ...
    Adopting a historical conceptual approach, this book examines the gendering of citizenship. It argues that through successive historical periods, `becoming a citizen has involved a gradual extension of the status, to more and more persons and groups, in particular, women, which resulted in a more inclusive and egalitarian structure. But, the promise of equal membership in the politcal community ... Leer más

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  • The Enchantment of Democracy and India

    Politics and Ideas

    Sudipta Kaviraj has long been recognized as among India’s most thoughtful and wide-ranging political thinkers and analysts, one of the subtlest and most learned writers on Indian politics. Paradoxically, this has remained something of a state secret, because Kaviraj’s writings have remained scattered in journals difficult to access.The essays in this volume try to approach Indian democracy from ... Leer más

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  • The Future of Human Rights

    de Upendra Baxi ...
    This book critically examines the contemporary discourses on the nature of 'human rights', their histories, the myths that are embedded in them, and contributes an alternative reading of those histories by placing the concerns and interests of the 'people in struggle and communities of resistance' at centre stage. The work analyses the significance of the United Nations (UN) and the Universal ... Leer más

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