Sociology Of South Asia

Author : Sara Rizvi Jafree
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030502041

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The Sociology of South Asian Women’s Health by Sara Rizvi Jafree Pdf

This contributed volume is the first-known collection of essays that brings together scholarly review, critiques, and primary and secondary data to assess how sociocultural factors influence health behavior in South Asian women. The essays are authored by working scholars or healthcare practitioners from Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. In the chapters, the contributors acknowledge social, economic, and environmental factors to recommend improved interventions and health policy for women of the region. Studies on South Asian women’s health have targeted clinical evidence, with less attention on social and environmental factors driving health recovery and health outcomes. The South Asian region, more than any other part of the world, is driven by traditional and cultural forces that are possibly the most significant factors determining a woman’s health awareness and her rights to adopt healthy behavior or pursue health recovery. Women of the region share a common culture and political history, and there are benefits to understanding their problems collectively in order to design joint improvements in health policy for women. Salient, but neglected, socio-political areas that influence health behavior and health outcomes in women of the region are covered in the chapters including: Oral Narrations of Social Rejection Suffered by South Asian Women with Irreversible Health Conditions Women’s Role in Decision-Making for Health Care in South Asia Poverty, Health Coverage, and Credit Opportunities for South Asian Women Refugee, Displaced, and Climate-Affected Women of South Asia and Their Health Challenges The Political Sociology of South Asian Women’s Health The Sociology of South Asian Women’s Health is a useful resource for students, researchers, and academicians, especially those interested in public health, gender, social policy, and occupational management, as well as healthcare practitioners, administrators, health and public policy-makers, government officers, and scholars of South Asian studies.

Author : Smitha Radhakrishnan,Gowri Vijayakumar
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030970307

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Sociology of South Asia by Smitha Radhakrishnan,Gowri Vijayakumar Pdf

This edited volume moves the study of South Asia to the center of sociological analysis, bringing together recent scholarship across sites in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Pakistan, as well as in Ethiopia and the USA. This book situates the project of decolonizing the discipline within a rich transnational intellectual legacy and reveals how South Asia offers a uniquely generative site from which to rethink sociological practice. Recognizing local and global influences at their specific sites, the contributing authors highlight the historical ravages of colonialism and imperialism, modernization projects of the postcolonial era, and the kaleidoscopic ways in which gender, caste, class, and sexuality structure everyday life under neoliberalism today. The sociology of South Asia centers the voices and experiences of those marginalized by local and global systems of power in order to produce knowledge that advances interconnected projects of liberation.

Author : Sasanka Perera,Dev Nath Pathak,Ravi Kumar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789389812336

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Against the Nation by Sasanka Perera,Dev Nath Pathak,Ravi Kumar Pdf

Against the Nation invites readers to explore South Asia as a place and as an idea with a sense of reflection and nuance rather than submitting to conventional understanding of the region merely in geopolitical terms. The authors take the readers across a vast terrain of prospects like visual culture, music, film, knowledge systems and classrooms, myth and history as well as forms of politics that offer possibilities for reading South Asia as a collective enterprise that has historical precedents as well as untapped ideological potential for the future.

Author : Victor T. King
Publisher : NIAS Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788791114601

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The Sociology of Southeast Asia by Victor T. King Pdf

One of the main problems faced by teachers and students who have a scholarly interest in Southeast Asia is the lack of general, user-friendly texts in the social sciences. The absence of an introduction to the sociology of Southeast Asia is especially unfortunate. This volume attempts to meet these needs. This is, then, the first sole-authored introductory sociology text on Southeast Asia that focuses on change and development in the region, provides an overview of the important sociological and political economy writings, and considers the key concepts and themes in the field since 1945. Some multiauthored works do exist but these either are outdated or focus on specialized topics. Aimed primarily at undergraduates up to the final year, it will also be a useful reference work for post-graduates and researchers who lack such a general work.

Author : Dev Nath Pathak,Biswajit Das,Ratan Kumar Roy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000563573

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Seeing South Asia by Dev Nath Pathak,Biswajit Das,Ratan Kumar Roy Pdf

This book critically examines the cultural politics of visuals in South Asia. It makes a key contribution to the study of visuals in the social sciences in South Asia by studying the interplay of the seen and unseen, and the visual and nonvisual. The volume explores interrelated themes including the vernacular visual and visuality, ways of seeing in South Asia and the methodology of hermeneutic sensorium, anxiety and politics of the visuals across the region and the trajectory of visual anthropology, significance of visual symbols and representations in contemporary performances and folk art, visual landscapes of loss and recovery and representation of refugees, visual public in South Asia and making of visuals for contemporary consumptions. The chapters unravel the concepts of visual, visibility, visuality while attending to determinant meta-ideas, such as memory and modernity, trajectories of tradition, fluidity and hybridity, and visual performative politics. Based on interdisciplinary resources, the chapters in this volume present a wide array of empirical findings across India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh, along with analytical readings of the visual culture of the subcontinent across borders. The book will be useful to scholars and researchers of visual and cultural studies, social and cultural anthropology, sociology, political studies, media and communications studies, performance studies, art history, television and film studies, photography studies, and South Asian studies. It will also interest practitioners including artists, visual artists, photographers, filmmakers and media critics.

Author : Rina Agarwala,Ronald J. Herring
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317850786

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Whatever Happened to Class? by Rina Agarwala,Ronald J. Herring Pdf

Class explains much in the differentiation of life chances and political dynamics in South Asia; scholarship from the region contributed much to class analysis. Yet class has lost its previous centrality as a way of understanding the world and how it changes. This outcome is puzzling; new configurations of global economic forces and policy have widened gaps between classes and across sectors and regions, altered people’s relations to production, and produced new state-citizen relations. Does market triumphalism or increased salience of identity politics render class irrelevant? Has rapid growth in aggregate wealth obviated long-standing questions of inequality and poverty? Explanations for what happened to class vary, from intellectual fads to global transformations of interests. The authors ask what is lost in the move away from class, and what South Asian experiences tell us about the limits of class analysis. Empirical chapters examine formal and informal-sector labor, social movements against genetic engineering, and politics of the "new middle class." A unifying analytical concern is specifying conditions under which interests of those disadvantaged by class systems are immobilized, diffused, coopted -- or autonomously recognized and acted upon politically: the problematic transition of classes in themselves to classes for themselves.

Author : Swatahsiddha Sarkar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000581300

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Contours of South Asian Social Anthropology by Swatahsiddha Sarkar Pdf

This book presents a conceptual and methodological framework to understand South Asia by engaging with the practices of sociology and social anthropology in India and Nepal. It provides a new imagination of South Asia by connecting historical, political, religious and cultural divides of the region. Drawing from the experiences of Indian and Nepali social anthropology, the book discusses the presence of Nepal studies in Indian social anthropology and vice versa. It highlights Nepal or South Asia as a subject for social anthropological research and stresses on pluriversal knowledge production through regional scholarship, dialogic social anthropology, South Asian episteme, post-Western social anthropology and the decolonisation of disciplines. In exploring the themes and problems of doing social anthropology in Nepal by Indian scholars, the book assesses the scope of developing the South Asian social anthropological worldview. It explains why social anthropological and sociological inquiry in India has failed to surpass its focus beyond the territorial limits of the nation state. The book examines the issues of methodological nationalism and social anthropological research tradition in South Asia. By using the Saidian framework of travelling theory and Bhambra’s idea of connected sociologies, it shows how social anthropology can develop disciplinary crossroads within South Asia. This book will be of interest to students, teachers and researchers of South Asian studies, anthropology, sociology, social anthropology, South Asian sociology, cultural anthropology, social psychology, area studies, cultural studies, Nepal studies and Global South studies.

Author : Partha Nath Mukherji,N. Jayaram,Bhola Nath Ghosh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811303876

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Understanding Social Dynamics in South Asia by Partha Nath Mukherji,N. Jayaram,Bhola Nath Ghosh Pdf

This volume includes fourteen essays by eminent sociologists in memory of Ramkrishna Mukherjee (1919–2017), the last of the founding architects of sociology in India. It also includes two interviews with Ramkrishna Mukherjee by senior sociologists. The essays cover a variety of themes and topics close to the works of Ramkrishna Mukherjee: the idea of unitary social science, methodology of social research, the question of facts and values, rural society and social change, social mobility, family and gender, and nationalism. In the two interviews included here Mukherjee clarifies his intellectual trajectory as well as issues of methodology and methods in social research. Overall, this volume endorses his emphasis on the need for social researchers to transcend the ‘what’ and ‘how’ to ‘why’ in the pursuit of sociological knowledge. The volume is a valuable addition to the history of sociology in India. Students of sociology and other social sciences will find it useful as a book of substantive readings on social dynamics; those researching the social world will find in it a useful guide to issues in designing and execution of social research projects.

Author : Kenneth David
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110807752

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The New Wind by Kenneth David Pdf

Author : Sadan Jha,Dev Nath Pathak
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000563535

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Neighbourhoods and Neighbourliness in Urban South Asia by Sadan Jha,Dev Nath Pathak Pdf

This volume examines urban South Asia through the ideas of neighbourhood and neighbourliness. With a focus on the affective socio-spatial and sensorial experiences of non-metropolitan, small and intermediate cities, the chapters in the volume look at neighbourhoods as a key to exploring the textures of urban life. Bringing together scholars from a variety of disciplines including sociology, anthropology, urban studies, planning, and social history, the book highlights urban heterogeneity and contemporary transformations in South Asia. It discusses the linkages between urban lived spaces and social life; memory, migration, and exile; and the city and its society through practices of everyday life in neighbourhoods. With studies from Sri Lanka, Nepal, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and India, the volume addresses a wide range of issues pertaining to urban experiences in their regional specificities and in a broader context of the Global South. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of urban sociology, anthropology, urban studies, planning and development, social history, political studies, cultural studies, geography, and South Asian studies. It will also interest practitioners and policymakers, architects, planners, civil society organisations, and thinktanks.

Author : Dev Nath Pathak,Sasanka Perera
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351656139

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Culture and Politics in South Asia by Dev Nath Pathak,Sasanka Perera Pdf

This volume looks at the politics of communication and culture in contemporary South Asia. It explores languages, signs and symbols reflective of current mythologies that underpin instances of performance in present-day India and its neighbouring countries. From gender performances and stage depictions to protest movements, folk songs to cinematic reconstructions and elections to war-torn regions, the chapters in the book bring the multiple voices embedded within the grand theatre of popular performance and the cultural landscape of the region to the fore. Breaking new ground, this work will prove useful to students and researchers in sociology and social anthropology, art and performance studies, political studies and international relations, communication and media studies and culture studies.

Author : Dev Nath Pathak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : South Asia
ISBN : 9386552582

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Another South Asia! by Dev Nath Pathak Pdf

What does the idea/concept of South Asia mean in a time when borders have become absolute, predetermining our sense of self, culture, and politics? In a critical and creative engagement with this question, Another South Asia! attempts to explore novel possibilities beyond the stratagem of nation states. Amidst the shrinking utopias in the various disciplinary discourses due to the predominance of cartographic reason, the essays in this book propose a new lease to the utopian imagination of the region. Grounded in history, civilization, culture, and people across boundaries, located in the domain of post-disciplinary enquiries, this book enables a dialogue among the Sociologists and Social Anthropologists, students and scholars of International Relations, Literary and Performance studies, Art History, Diaspora studies, Historical and Civilizational studies and South Asian studies to name a few. This book will interest scholars as well as ordinary readers and persuade them to imagine another South Asia to ensure a better future of the region.

Author : Ravi Kumar,Dev Nath Pathak,Sasanka Perera
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 9352873815

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Sociology and Social Anthropology in South Asia by Ravi Kumar,Dev Nath Pathak,Sasanka Perera Pdf

Author : Bardwell L. Smith
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004477957

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Religion and Social Conflict in South Asia by Bardwell L. Smith Pdf

Author : Achla Pritam Tandon,Gopi Devdutt Tripathy,Rashi Bhargava
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000214949

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Social Scientist in South Asia by Achla Pritam Tandon,Gopi Devdutt Tripathy,Rashi Bhargava Pdf

This book is a collection of autobiographical narratives by leading social scientists working across South Asia. It explores the linkages between their personal experiences and academic pursuits and analyzes how personal, political, and professional choices shape knowledge production and affect social transformation. The narratives revisit long-standing debates on objectivity, subjectivity, self, and other and attempt to collapse the binaries that have informed the social sciences until now. Highlighting the state of research and pedagogy in the social sciences in the region, the book questions the conventional understanding of the task of the social scientist and, in doing so, blurs the distinction between theory, research, pedagogy, and activism. A unique and compelling contribution, this volume will be indispensable to students and researchers of sociology, anthropology, history, creative writing, education, politics, biography studies, and South Asian studies. It will also be of interest to general readers.