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ThirdWorlds eBook Series

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  • The Social Life of Skills in the Global South

    Edited by Trent Brown, Geert De Neve ...
    Series series ThirdWorlds
    This book expands understandings of how skills are defined, acquired, and utilized in Global South contexts. ‘Skills’ and ‘skill development’ are increasingly prominent focal points for governments in the Global South and international development bodies. Yet, policymakers and practitioners promoting skill development often overlook the everyday realities of how skills are learned and acquired, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • Participation in Community Work

    International Perspectives

    Edited by Anne Karin Larsen, Vishanthie Sewpaul, Grete Oline Hole ...
    Participation is a key community work method and this text, written by an international selection of authors, covers innovative approaches in community based education and practice. Including real-life case studies of participatory practice, it offers new definitions of community work, organisation and development and will challenge and inspire all those involved in community work practice and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Adventures in Aidland

    The Anthropology of Professionals in International Development

    Edited by David Mosse ...
    Series Book 6 - Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology
    Anthropological interest in new subjects of research and contemporary knowledge practices has turned ethnographic attention to a wide ranging variety of professional fields. Among these the encounter with international development has perhaps been longer and more intimate than any of the others. Anthropologists have drawn critical attention to the interfaces and social effects of development’s ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Revolutions in Development Inquiry

    by Robert Chambers ...
    Robert Chambers returns with a new book that reviews, together for the first time, some of the revolutionary changes in the methodologies and methods of development inquiry that have occurred in the past forty years, and reflects on their transformative potential for the future.This book breaks new ground by describing and analysing the evolution of a sequence of approaches. Starting with the ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Leadership for Disaster Resilience

    Lessons from India

    by Jacquleen Joseph, Suchita Awasthi, Zubin R. Mulla ...
    This book comprehensively conceptualises disaster resilience leadership within the macro context of a risk society. Leadership for disaster resilience has gained prominence in the face of global environmental change, and the need for collaboration, integration, and synergy in addressing this crisis is starker than ever. Drawing on case studies from across India, the volume focuses on leaderships ... Read more

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  • Reimagining Institutions

    Collaborative Pathways to Social Development in India

    Edited by Pushpinder Puniha, Aarushi Jain ...
    Series series Public Policy in India
    This book unpacks the complexities of social development in India, focusing on the institutional bottlenecks that hinder effective policy implementation.While governments and organizations design ambitious policies for economic growth, human capital development, education, agriculture, and social welfare, their impact is often diluted due to governance inefficiencies, bureaucratic inertia, and ... Read more

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  • Governing Biodiversity through Democratic Deliberation

    Edited by Mikko Rask, Richard Worthington ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Biodiversity Politics and Management
    This book discusses political controversies involved in global biodiversity policy, and the practical opportunities that are opened up in solving them through increased citizen participation and democratic deliberation. It examines the emerging practice of deliberative global governance and its political consequences.The collection focuses on the intersection of global biodiversity policy and the ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Gender, Culture, and Development in India

    Edited by N. B. Lekha, Pradeep Kumar M. ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Lekha, Kumar M., and their team of contributors embark on a transformative exploration of 'Intersectionality' in the Indian context, where gender, culture, and development intersect to shape the destinies of diverse groups. Drawing from extensive research and nuanced analyses by scholars across the country and a few scholars on India from outside the country, the handbook uncovers the intricate ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Crafting India's Skill Ecology

    Reproductions, Recalibrations, and Reimaginations

    Edited by Saikat Maitra, Sebastian Schwecke ...
    Series series Politics and Society in India and the Global South
    This volume traces how the discourse of skill evolved in colonial and postcolonial India, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present neoliberal era. It introduces the concept of skill ecology to capture the broader political, economic, and social environment within which skills emerge, transform, and acquire meaning. Skill is examined here not merely as a technical attribute but as a ... Read more

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  • Corporate Social Responsibility in India

    by Bidyut Chakrabarty ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    Presenting an analysis of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in India, this book looks at the unique roots of the concept in India. It examines Gandhi’s philosophical moorings that inform India’s approach to CSR, and the role of civil society in setting an agenda for championing the rights of the stakeholders. The book goes on to focus on the role of the government in grooming the Indian ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Education and Inequality in India

    A Classroom View

    by Manabi Majumdar, Jos Mooij ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    Universalization of primary education has been high on the policy agenda in India. This book looks at the reproduction of social inequalities within the educational system in India, and how this is contested in different ways. It examines whether the concept of `education for all’ is just a mechanically conceived policy target to chasing enrolment and attendance or whether it is a larger social ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Atmosphere of Collaboration

    Air Pollution Science, Politics and Ecopreneurship in Delhi

    by Rohit Negi, Prerna Srigyan ...
    This book discusses air pollution in Delhi from scientific, social and entrepreneurial perspectives. Using key debates and interventions on air pollution, it examines the trajectories of environmental politics in the Delhi region, one of the most polluted areas in the world. It highlights the administrative struggles, public advocacy, and entrepreneurial innovations that have built creative new ... Read more

    $33.99 USD