Monsoon Marketplace

Author : Elmo Gonzaga
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781531505295

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Monsoon Marketplace by Elmo Gonzaga Pdf

Provides vivid accounts of commercial and leisure spaces that captivated the public imagination in the past but have since been destroyed, forgotten, or refurbished. Monsoon Marketplace uncovers the entangled vernacular cultures of capitalist modernity, mass consumption, and media spectatorship in two understudied postcolonial Asian cities across three crucial historical moments. Juxtaposing Manila and Singapore, it analyzes print and audiovisual representations of popular commercial and leisure spaces during the colonial occupation in the 1930s, national development in the 1960s, and neoliberal globalization in the 2000s. Engaging with the work of creators including Nick Joaquin, Kevin Kwan, and P. Ramlee, it discusses figures of female shoppers in 1930s Manila, languid expatriates in 1930s Singapore, street hawkers in 1960s Singapore, youthful activists in 1960s Manila, call center agents in 2000s Manila, and super-rich investors in 2000s Singapore. Looking at the historical transformation of Calle Escolta, Avenida Rizal, Raffles Place, and Orchard Road, it focuses on Crystal Arcade, the Manila Carnival, the Great World and New World Amusement Parks, and Change Alley, all of which had once captivated the public imagination but have since vanished from the cityscape. Instead of treating capitalism, media, and modernity as overarching systems or processes, the book examines how their configurations and experiences are contingent, variable, pluralistic, and archipelagic. Diverging from critical theories and cultural studies that see consumerism and spectatorship as sources of alienation, docility, and fantasy, it explores how they create new possibilities for agency, collectivity, and resistance.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : James Walter Steffes
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781465746214

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Operation Market Time by Anonim Pdf

Author : Uma Krishnaswami
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781466896703

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Monsoon by Uma Krishnaswami Pdf

"An expressive story about seasons, extremes, and waiting." - Kirkus Reviews Children play, birds call, and grownups go about their business during the hot days of summer in northern India. But in the bustle of street and marketplace, everyone is watching, waiting for those magical clouds to bring their gift of rain to the land. Through the observations of one young girl, the scents and sounds, the dazzling colors and the breathless anticipation of a parched cityscape are vividly evoked during the final days before the welcome arrival of the monsoon.

Author : Loren Brandt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521371961

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Commercialization and Agricultural Development by Loren Brandt Pdf

This book provides an assessment of China's recent reform of the foreign trade system and discusses the benefits of such reform.

Author : Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity (MAPSA)
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Rice productivity in Myanmar: Assessment of the 2021 monsoon and outlook for 2022 by Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity (MAPSA) Pdf

We analyze rice input and productivity data for the monsoon seasons of 2020 and 2021 from the Myanmar Agriculture Performance Survey (MAPS). The survey covers plots of 2,672 rice producers, spread over 259 townships in all states/regions of the country. We find that: 1. Rice productivity at the national level during the monsoon of 2021 decreased on average by 2.1 percent compared to the monsoon of 2020. Considering estimated area reductions, national paddy production decreased by 3.4 percent compared to the monsoon of 2020. 2. Some areas performed substantially worse. Rice yields were low and declined significantly in Kayah and Chin, two conflict-affected states that have shown the highest levels of food insecurity in recent assessments. 3. Prices for most inputs used in rice cultivation increased significantly between these two seasons. Prices of urea, the most important chemical fertilizer used by rice farmers, increased by 56 percent on average and mechanization costs increased by 19 percent. 4. Paddy prices at the farm increased by 8 percent, significantly less than input prices, squeezing rice farmers’ profits during the monsoon of 2021. Despite the substantial hurdles in production and marketing due to the political crisis and international market developments, the results of the Myanmar Agricultural Performance Survey show the overall resilience of rice production during the monsoon of 2021. While the rice sector has been a source of stability in the country, the situation for future crop seasons is however concerning given further increases in input prices (especially fertilizer), the overall reduced profitability of rice farming, the reduced coping strategies remaining for rice farmers, and currency policy changes by the military government.

Author : Lindsay Bremner,Beth Cullen,Christina Leigh Geros,Harshavardhan Bhat,Anthony Powis
Publisher : Actar D, Inc.
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781638408048

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Monsoon as Method by Lindsay Bremner,Beth Cullen,Christina Leigh Geros,Harshavardhan Bhat,Anthony Powis Pdf

An edited volume by Monsoon Assemblages, a European Research Council funded research project. The book presents the methods that Monsoon Assemblages has evolved for engaging the monsoon, a globally connected weather system, as a coproducer of urban life and space in South and Southeast Asian cities. It challenges views of climate as an inert backdrop to urban life, instead suggesting that it is materially and spatially active in shaping urban politics, ecologies, infrastructures, buildings and bodies. It combines critical texts with cartography, photography and ethnography to present the project’s methodology and its outcomes and invites urban practitioners to think differently about space, time, representation and human and non-human agency. It offers intra-disciplinary, intra-active methods for rethinking human and non-human relations with weather in ways that meet the challenges of climate change and the Anthropocene.

Author : Kashmira Sheth
Publisher : Peachtree Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Grandfathers
ISBN : 1561454559

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Monsoon Afternoon by Kashmira Sheth Pdf

A young boy and his grandfather find much they can do together on a rainy day during monsoon season in India.

Author : Paul A. Mayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Thailand
ISBN : UOM:39015037619809

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Thailand--a Market for U.S. Products by Paul A. Mayer Pdf

Thailand is an excellent market for American goods. Political stability, traditional friendship with the United States, popularity of American products, sound fiscal and economic management, and gradual industrialization with a resulting rise in individual purchasing power--all create a welcoming climate for sales of U.S. products. In recognition of this potential, Bangkok has been chosen as the site for a new U.S. Trade Center serving the entire Southeast Asian area. This study is part of the Department of Commerce's continuing effort toward increasing U.S. exports and the general stimulating of our international trade. The expansion of American-Thai economic relations will not only assist in improving our balance of payments and thus aid American economic growth, but can also contribute substantially to the well-being of the Thai people.

Author : Joanna Boileau
Publisher : Springer
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319518718

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Chinese Market Gardening in Australia and New Zealand by Joanna Boileau Pdf

This book offers a fresh perspective on the Chinese diaspora. It is about the mobilisation of knowledge across time and space, exploring the history of Chinese market gardening in Australia and New Zealand. It enlarges our understanding of processes of technological change and human mobility, highlighting the mobility of migrants as an essential element in the mobility and adaptation of technologies. Truly multidisciplinary, Chinese Market Gardening in Australia and New Zealand incorporates elements of economic, agricultural, social, cultural and environmental history, along with archaeology, to document how Chinese market gardeners from subtropical southern China adapted their horticultural techniques and technologies to novel environments and the demands of European consumers. It shows that they made a significant contribution to the economies of Australia and New Zealand, developing flexible strategies to cope with the vagaries of climate and changing business and social environments which were often hostile towards Asian immigrants. Chinese Market Gardening in Australia and New Zealand will appeal to students and scholars in the fields of the Chinese diaspora, in particular the history of the Chinese in Australasia; the history of technology; horticultural and garden history; and environmental history, as well as Asian studies more generally.

Author : Qazi,Shaz Sharqi Qazi
Publisher : APH Publishing
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN : 8131300889

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Natural Resource Conservation by Qazi,Shaz Sharqi Qazi Pdf

Author : Ramendra Singh
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781787145559

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Bottom of the Pyramid Marketing by Ramendra Singh Pdf

BOP marketing practices are new and still evolving, despite the ground-level challenges, and several failures. This edited book extends the knowledge on bottom of pyramid (BOP) through contributions by leading scholars in this domain, and embodies the knowledge that would be useful for marketing practice coming from top BOP marketing scholars.

Author : Robert D. Kaplan
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812979206

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Monsoon by Robert D. Kaplan Pdf

On the world maps common in America, the Western Hemisphere lies front and center, while the Indian Ocean region all but disappears. This convention reveals the geopolitical focus of the now-departed twentieth century, but in the twenty-first century that focus will fundamentally change. In this pivotal examination of the countries known as “Monsoon Asia”—which include India, Pakistan, China, Indonesia, Burma, Oman, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Tanzania—bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan shows how crucial this dynamic area has become to American power. It is here that the fight for democracy, energy independence, and religious freedom will be lost or won, and it is here that American foreign policy must concentrate if the United States is to remain relevant in an ever-changing world. From the Horn of Africa to the Indonesian archipelago and beyond, Kaplan exposes the effects of population growth, climate change, and extremist politics on this unstable region, demonstrating why Americans can no longer afford to ignore this important area of the world.

Author : H. Philip,T. Rathakrishnan,Ravi Kumar Theodore
Publisher : New India Publishing
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9381450544

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Extension Management in the Information Age Initiatives and Impacts by H. Philip,T. Rathakrishnan,Ravi Kumar Theodore Pdf

The book has been divided into the 5 major sections covering the following: Section I: Covers on the articles focused towards the major themes of strengthening Technology Application and Delivery systems, ICT, BLESS, NRM and women empowerment.

Author : Nathan W. Childs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Rice trade
ISBN : UIUC:30112104105488

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The World Rice Market--government Intervention and Multilateral Policy Reform by Nathan W. Childs Pdf

Author : Constance Lever-Tracy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 671 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781135998493

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Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society by Constance Lever-Tracy Pdf

As the time-scales of natural change accelerate and converge with those of society, Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society takes the reader into largely uncharted territory in its exploration of anthropogenic climate change. Current material is used to highlight the global impact of this issue, and the necessity for multidisciplinary and global social science research and teaching to address the problem. The book is multidisciplinary and worldwide in scope, with contributors spanning specialisms including agro-forestry, economics, environmentalism, ethics, human geography, international relations, law, politics, psychology, sociology and theology. Their global knowledge is reflected in the content of the text, which encompasses chapters on American, European and Chinese policies, case studies of responses to disasters and of the new technological and lifestyle alternatives that are being adopted, and the negotiations leading up to the Copenhagen conference alongside a preface assessing its outcomes. Starting with an initial analysis by a leading climatologist, key issues discussed in the text include recent findings of natural scientists, social causation and vulnerability, media and public recognition or scepticism, and the merits and difficulties of actions seeking to mitigate and adapt. This accessible volume utilizes a wealth of case studies, explains technical terms and minimises the use of acronyms associated with the subject, making it an essential text for advanced undergraduates, postgraduate students and researchers in the social sciences.