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Zustand: New. pp. 147.

Zustand: New. pp. xvi + 263 4 Maps.

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. This collection of essays addresses the neglected issues of space, border and statelessness in international politics and contributes a much needed 'view from the South'. Importantly, it asserts that chasms created by borders (including those between India and Pakistan) can be bridged by dialogue, a little analyzed tool in international relations.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Contents: Preface. 1. The problem of the nationalist time. 2. Before the nationalist hour. 3. History and the historical moment. 4. Reflexive time. 5. After the time of nationalism. 6. Metaphors after the nationalist hour. Index. "These essays show that contrary to the widespread belief, nationalism is not all about the celebration of territory as a marker of identity and power; it is also about time in a fundamental way. The anxiety over time is as fundamental as the one over space. Indeed space appears as one in the distribution of the elements that go into making the time of nationalism. The author contends that, each time the nationalist destiny of Muslim Bengal took a clearly discernible turn, it seemed to the actors as final and irrevocable--the actors of 1937, 1947, 1954, 1957, or 1971. But in each instance it was a case of time playing with its finality, taunting it, mocking it, bringing forth in front of its final version its earlier and later incarnations. In this sense, the history of nationalism is not something that can be termed as the "the foreshadowing of the nation." Samaddar argues, if what preceded 1971 could be viewed as foreshadowing the great event, there was many convolutions as opposed to evolution. What foreshadowed 1971 was not only in terms of an outcome, but its future--the exasperating uncertainties of the nationalist destiny in its encounter with democracy. Democracy has always presented a different set of morals that have interrogated nationalism. Nationalism can never escape this encounter for its greatest claim has been that it is democratic. All this is evident from the recent history of Bangladesh--the most singular, the most recent, and the most homogenous nation in the region. Also it is a country where the moral interrogation of the ideal of nationalism has gone farthest. Therefore in these essays, time before 1947 and after, and the time when icons were not icons and the time when icons lay under the blows of the iconoclasts, lie wrapped in a single format often indistinguishable from each other." (jacket).

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine.

Zustand: New. pp. 182.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. Over one hundred million infections, and two million deaths, worldwide, with more than ten million cases and a lakh-and-a-half deaths in India. A Pandemic and the Politics of Life unravels the specifics of the Indian experience of battling COVID-19, while adopting an international perspective, in order to analyse the why and how of this public health emergency; the neoliberal response by the state; the production of an unanticipated politics of life; and the dramatic desire for a new kind of public power. Written during an intense time, this monograph closely follows the progress of the virus, focusing on three themes: (i) the outbreak as an epidemiological crisis compounded by an economic crisis, a migrant crisis, and a political crisis; (ii) the presence of the marching migrant as the figure of this crisis; and (iii) the emergence of bio-politics from below as a reaction of the lower classes. Over twelve months into 'fighting' this deadly virus, we now have a remedy in the form of a vaccinebut is that all the remedy we need? The author raises and answers some critical questions around the way issues of life and death are negotiated in a neoliberal order, and on what we mean by care, protection and solidarity in a post-COVID-19 world.

Heft. Zustand: Gut. 78 Seiten; Das hier angebotene Heft stammt aus einer teilaufgelösten wissenschaftlichen Bibliothek und trägt die entsprechenden Kennzeichnungen (Rückenschild, Instituts-Stempel.); der Zustand ist ansonsten ordentlich und dem Alter entsprechend gut. ENGLISCH. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 120.

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Hardcover. Zustand: GOOD. 216 pp. Extensive color coded highlighting. Reading copy only.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 328p hardback with white illustrated laminated jacket, as new, pages clean with index, very good Language: English.

Zustand: New. pp. 328.

Zustand: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

Zustand: New. pp. 352.

Zustand: New. pp. 328.

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Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Introduction by Madhurilata Basu, Rajat Roy and Ranabir Samaddar. 1. Floods and Migration along the Kosi River/Mithilesh Kumar. 2. Ecology and Livelihood in the Sundarbans/Sutirtha Bedajna. 3. Death of a River and Other Accounts from Nadia/Milan Datta and Madhurilata Basu. 4. Rivers, River Bank Erosion and Survival in Murshidabad/Madhurilata Basu. 5. The Non-existent Population in the Chars of Malda/Milan Datta. 6. Watery Zones of Refuge: State Practices, Popular: Politics and Land in the Chars of Assam/Gulshan Parveen. 7. Watery Zones of Refuge: State Practices, Popular: Politics and Land in the Chars of Assam/Gulshan Parveen. 8. A People s History of the Barak River/Sajal Nag. 9. Water Laws, Treaties and Conventions/Shuvro Prosun Sarker.Bibliography. Index. The world over, resource extraction and an extractive mode of economy have impacted on various population groups, and consequent conflicts over natural resources have damaged earlier modes of resource sharing. The river lands are one such resourceful space where conflicts relating to the development discourse are played out. These once economically-viable lands have become sites of unplanned growth, rampant commercialisation, administrative apathy and the politics of resource extraction. Drawing on intensive field studies and research, Political Ecology of Survival studies how people living along the river banks, and with the rivers , of Bihar, deltaic Bengal and the North-East negotiate nature on the one hand, and the economy, politics and administration on the other. It presents a close look at a landscape that is the battleground of environment, economy, and politics, and offers a fresh look at how best to preserve river systems so as to continue with the life and livelihood of humankind. The communities studied here, heavily dependent on natural resources and hailing from the lowest rungs of society, are forced to negotiate environmental and developmental challenges and related displacements and migration. The essays explore, among others, the problem of floods and erosion in the Brahmaputra valley, resource crises, resource sharing, large scale displacements of population groups in deltaic Bengal and the pressing problem of migration around Barak river in the North-East. This unique collection will interest students and scholars of migration studies, environmental studies, political science and anthropology. It will also be invaluable for development activists, journalists, policymakers and NGOs working in the field. (jacket).

Zustand: New. pp. 592.

Zustand: New. pp. 376.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. A sudden announcement was made by the government on 24 March 2020 of a complete lockdown of the country, due to the spectre of Coronavirus. India's Migrant Workers and the Pandemic was being written as the crisis was unfolding with no end in sight. Migrant workers from different parts of India had no choice but to trek back hundreds of kilometres carrying their scanty belongings and dragging their hungry and thirsty children in the scorching heat of the plains of India to reach home.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. First published in 1998, Memory, Identity, Power is a full-length study of the Junglemahals, an area lying at the margins of the Indian state of West Bengal. Rather than folding into frontier forgetfulness, Junglemahals has seen frenetic administrative and political activity and has been the focus of scholarly attention because of continuous struggles by the indigenous peasants of that area. Spanning the period between 1890 and 1950, this book describes in rigorous detail the transition of Junglemahals from being a frontier region administered by custom and local power to its coming under the full-scale rule of colonial Bengal. This transition fractured communities and forced its people to provide evidence of ownership of their own soil. It caused widespread unrest and unleashed a series of political mobilisations. Samaddar analyses how these mobilisations, centred around festivals and rites, fictive genealogies and origin myths, helped present a collective culture , one which transcended the tensions and fissures marking the fabric of this region. Narrated through inter-textual observations on a variety of texts (such as witness and affidavit accounts, census handbooks and colonial survey reports), the book presents this region as one that grappled for a historical identity in the face of colonial settlement operations. Since 2005, violence has revisited the Junglemahals. Revised, and carrying a new Preface and a discerning Postscript, this book asks the historian to be innovative in tracking sources of so-called obscure histories, reminds the social scientist of the complex way in which memory works in our time, implores the cautious administrator to seek reason, and cautions everyone of us against the violence that has visited areas and regions like the Junglemahals in the Past and in the present.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:9780719099557.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:9780719099557.

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hardcover. Zustand: Very Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Introduction/Ranabir Samaddar. Part I: KOLKATA. 1. Taking Refuge in the City: Migrant Population and Urban Management in Post-Partition Calcutta/Kaustubh Mani Sengupta. 2. Urban Planning, Settlement Practices and Issues of Justice in Contemporary Kolkata/Iman Mitra. 3. Migration, Street-dwelling and City Space: Women Waste-pickers in Calcutta/Debarati Bagchi. 4. Migration and Care-giving in Kolkata in the Age of Globalisation/Madhurilata Basu. Part II: MUMBAI. 5. Homeless Migrants in Mumbai: Life and Labour in an Urban Space/Manish K. Jha and Pushpendra Kumar. 6. The Emergence of the Migrant as a Problem Figure in Contemporary Mumbai: Chronicles of Violence and Issues of Justice/Simpreet Singh. 7. The Cutting Edge: Death and Life of Safai Karmacharis and Elderly Security Guards in Mumbai/Mouleshri Vyas. 8. Migrants, Vigilantes and Violence: The Making of New Urban Spaces in Mumbai/Ritambhara Hebbar and Mahuya Bandyopadhyay. Part III: DELHI. 9. The Capital City: Discursive Dissonance of Law and Policy/Amit Prakash. 10. The Terra Firma of Sovereignty: Land, Acquisition and the Making of Migrant Labour/Mithilesh Kumar. 11. Intimacy, Domesticity and Migrant Labour/Ishita Dey. 12. From Kosi to Delhi: Life and Labour of the Migrants/Pushpendra Kumar and Manish K. Jha. Bibliography. Notes on Contributors. Index. India nurtures a contradiction between two images of its cities-they are the engines of economic growth and, at the same time, an inadequate and contested space for its various residents and subjects. Migrants and the Neoliberal City, a culmination of the research conducted by the Calcutta Research Group on rural migrants as the core of the urban poor in India, shows us why and how this contradiction plays out in the lives of migrants, on whose labour the city thrives. This collection of twelve essays, based on extensive research and fieldwork, investigates the experience of migrating to three of India s populous metropolitan cities: Kolkata, Mumbai and Delhi. They focus on the interrelations between urban policy, governance, forms of labour, migration, and neoliberalism as the political ideology motivating increasing urbanisation of India. It also shows how cities are increasingly turning into sites of conflict, fragmentation and gentrification, fragmentation and acute class conflict. Since the migrant is central to neoliberal urban development and migrant labour is critical to the transformation of the city, their position in the informal, unorganised sector and their vulnerability to violence makes migrant labour and life precarious. This book documents and examines the coping strategies of such migrants, new forms of urban struggles, and resistances to legal and policy regimes. Focusing on the connections between the material conditions of labour and specific issues such as old age, rent, wage forms, etc., this book also shows how the recruitment and dispersal of this migrant labour in turn restructures urban spaces. An important addition to the growing literature on Indian urbanism and urbanisation, this book will interest policy analysts and students and scholars of sociology, migration studies, development studies, urban studies and geography.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. Contents: Introduction. I. The Black Hole of the Origin of Populism. 1. Classes, People and Populism. 2. The Figure of the Citizen has Always been a Problem. 3. The Constitution and the Popular. II. Power, Politics and the Populists in West Bengal. 4. The Verdict of Elections, the Verdict of Politics: 2016 Ballot for Bengal. 5. Civility, Politics and the Language of the Bengal Populists. 6. A New Model of Power and Populist Resistance: West Bengal vs the Rest. 7. The Economic Sense of the Bengal Populists. III. Imprints of the Populist Time. 8. Populists and a Footloose Society. 9. Global Populisms. 10. Populists as a Subject of the Global Time of Chaos. 11. Primitive Accumulation, Urban Dystopias and Protests: A Discussion. Afterword. Bibliography. Index. The crisis of liberal democracy in the neoliberal world marked by massive labour flows, migrations, and informal conditions of work has led to the emergence of new forms of claim-making and a new sense of rights even as governments try to garner popular support and legitimacy through strategies termed as populist gestures. Today, populism is integral to the daily discourse of politics and discussions of democracy, governance, and people. Imprints of the Populist Time investigates populism as a historical phenomenon, examining its dynamic nature and role as a set of specific political practices. Lending a postcolonial perspective to the global study of populism, Ranabir Samaddar examines the trajectory that West Bengal politics took following the end of Left Front rule in 2011. Through a fragmented narrative structure that builds on commentaries on contemporary events ,which highlight the recent history of populism in West Bengal, the volume explores how populism works around the crisis of representation in democracy by centring the subaltern and constructing a people ; the problematic figure of the citizen ; popular engagements with the Constitution; the city as a crucial site of contemporary populism; the role of gender in populist governance; and the counter-intuitive economic logic of the populists. The volume studies various modes of populism elections, the language of populist politics, and the rampant illegalism in populist conduct, and asks key questions: Has there ever been any democracy without populism, or any nationalism without its populist articulation? Can we think of the popular and the people without the populist? Is populism a form of subaltern resistance to neoliberal depredations? Scholars and students of Indian politics, political historians, journalists, policy makers, and informed readers will find this volume riveting.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 216 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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