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The Worlds of Public Health: Anthropological Excursions

The Worlds of Public Health: Anthropological Excursions

Fassin, Didier | 2023 | Wiley | 9781509558285

Subject: Healthcare


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Review: Trained as a physician, Didier Fassin is an anthropologist and sociologist working in public health. In the eight lectures recounted in this book, he analyses moral and political issues at stake in current practice. The final lecture directly addresses the COVID-19 pandemic. The others, on national crises such as AIDS in South Africa, maternal mortality in Ecuador and lead poisoning in France, con...Read More

Thing: Inside the Struggle for Animal Personhood

Thing: Inside the Struggle for Animal Personhood

Machado, Sam | 2023 | Island Press | 9781642830859

Subject: Science and Technology


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Review: A contemplative-looking Asian elephant opens and closes this thought-provoking graphic novel about animal rights by two artists working with the president of the Nonhuman Rights Project. Happy has been in a New York City zoo since 1977, and alone since 2006. She is the first elephant known to recognize herself in a mirror, a test of self-awareness. But when the project demanded that she be transfe...Read More

Unearthing the Underworld: A Natural History of Rocks

Unearthing the Underworld: A Natural History of Rocks

McNamara, Ken | 2023 | Reaktion Books | 9781789147186

Subject: History


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Review: Earth scientist Ken McNamara focuses on palaeontology and evolution. His appealing book about rocks and their lessons illustrated with fine photographs of fossils leaves aside igneous and metamorphic rocks, and the wonders of mineralogy. It concentrates instead on sedimentary rocks: mudstones, siltstones, sandstones and limestones, scattered over three-quarters of Earth's surface in endless piles....Read More

Universities as Transformative Social Spaces: Mobilities and Mobilizations from South Asian Perspectives

Universities as Transformative Social Spaces: Mobilities and Mobilizations from South Asian Perspectives

Klbel, Andrea | 2023 | Oxford University Press | 9780191956188

Subject: Education


Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Review: The neo-liberal journey in South Asia as elsewhere is a complex process. The volume Universities as Transformative Social Spaces: Mobilities and Mobilizations from South Asian Perspectives offers a critical introduction to the proliferating scholarship on the dramatic growth and accompanying internationalisation of the higher education industry in South Asia. From the descriptive and analytical le...Read More

Viruses: A Natural History

Viruses: A Natural History

Roossinck, Marilyn J. | 2023 | Princeton University Press | 9780691237596

Subject: Science and Technology


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Review: Viruses were unknown to Charles Darwin. They were discovered to be a source of infection in the 1890s, and named with the Latin for poison. But, as virus ecologist Marilyn Roossinck stresses, not all are agents of disease: some benefit their hosts by helping to protect them from other microorganisms, or helping them to perform new functions. Throughout her infectiously enthusiastic, irresistibly i...Read More

Dynamics of Difference: Inequality and Transformation in Rural India

Dynamics of Difference: Inequality and Transformation in Rural India

Pani, Narendar | 2022 | Routledge | 9781032307404

Subject: Social Science


Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Review: Contemporary agricultural transformation involves pluriactivity or the propensity of rural households to engage in multiple income sources, besides the cultivation of inherited land. Thus, the dichotomy of primary and subsidiary income is rather unclear (Djurfeldt and Sircar 2019; Bhavani et al 2019). In fact, India (like East and South East Asia) is moving towards a pluriactive smallholder agrari...Read More

Food for All

Food for All

International Organizations and the Transformation of Agriculture | 2022 | Oxford University Press | 9780198755173

Subject: Economics


Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Review: Many developing countries are falling behind sustainable development goals: food and nutrition levels have deteriorated due to conflict, climate change, and the Covid pandemic, while global ambitions for achieving sustainable food security and adequate nutrition have increased. But what are the prospects of achieving sustainable, healthy food for all What is the best response to concerns about gro...Read More

Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom

Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom

Nagorski, Andrew | 2022 | Simon & Schuster | 9781982172831

Subject: Psychology


Source: The New York Times

Review: In Kirsty Mannings's scenic and lively The Paris Mystery it's the summer of 1938. World War II has not yet begun, but its prospect looms. Party-givers have taken to writing INW on invitations as well as RSVP: If no war. But Parisians carry on in style. This city shimmers with optimism, says Lady Ashworth, the American-born wife of a British diplomat. It's possible to find magic here in Paris....Read More

Uneasy Translations Self, Experience and Indian Literature

Uneasy Translations Self, Experience and Indian Literature

Kothari, Rita | 2022 | Bloomsbury Publishing | 9789389165623

Subject: Literature


Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Review: The book under review titled Uneasy Translations: Self, Experience and Indian Literature by Rita Kothari is an important addition to the field of translation studies at its core and the discipline of humanities at large. Kothari, with her scholarly articulations, is able to break the patriarchal hegemonic Indian academic set-up and subsequently dismantle the structural implications of the academic...Read More

The disruptor : how Vishwanath Pratap Singh shook India

The disruptor : how Vishwanath Pratap Singh shook India

Mukerji, Debashish | 2021 | HarperCollins | 9789354894138

Subject: Biography


Source: Economic and Political Weekly

Review: Debashish Mukerji's The Disruptor: How Vishwanath Pratap Singh Shook India is an essential reading for all those who are interested to know the politics and decision-making in the turbulent period of not merely his 11 months. Tenure but also his tenure as chief minister and, most importantly, his stint in the Ministry of Finance, as the book also covers his life after demitting office when he play...Read More

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