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
The Worlds of Public Health: Anthropological Excursions
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, consider how public health emerges as ?a mirror held up to society and the reflection society returns to that mirror?.
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
Thing: Inside the Struggle for Animal Personhood
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 transferred to a sanctuary, and that her right to liberty be recognized, a US court ruled that elephants have no constitutional rights.
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
Unearthing the Underworld: A Natural History of Rocks
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. As he jokily advises: Ignore rocks at your peril. But then surely continental drift deserved proper discussion
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
Universities as Transformative Social Spaces: Mobilities and Mobilizations from South Asian Perspectives
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 lens of this work, the university, like the modern flyovers, metros, airports, and fuel stations, constitutes the immobile and mobile infrastructure for globalisation. In a research article on the drawing power of foreign students towards the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi, the researcher Claudia Baumann finds that the institution is perceived as a globally eminent place for pursuing an education in the humanities and social sciences in South Asia. Its significance transcends territorial boundedness, and the institution acts as a portal of globalisation comparable to any other elite institution from the global North.
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
Viruses: A Natural History
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 illustrated analysis, she emphasizes viral complexity, noting: ?There is no simple answer to the question ?Are viruses alive???
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
Dynamics of Difference: Inequality and Transformation in Rural India
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 agrarian pattern. In India, this is accompanied by family farming gaining in strength. Structural transformation in the West historically involved transformation of traditional agriculture into the capitalist one with an enhanced dependence on hired labour Structural transformation is both a cause and effect of economic growth and is manifested through interrelated processes, notably, declining share in agricultural employment and income, rural to urban migration, urbanisation, demographic transition, and increase in the size of the secondary and tertiary economy. The drivers are often cited to be non-economic, such as dreams of a better life. The combined effect is scarcity of hired workers in agriculture. The pull exerted by urban jobs owing to unequal incomes in the farm versus non-farm sectors set the stage for rural change. The neglect suffered by the farm sector and the pervasive agrarian questions combined with the real and perceived income inequalities create conditions for indebtedness that proves detrimental to the farmers well-being. The ameliorative conditions have to integrate the agrarian policies with those for urbanisation and rural enterprises that will regulate the pace of the labour movement and create adequate income avenues for the landless and small peasantry. Rural as well as agrarian India is undergoing transformation and the Dynamics of Difference: Inequality and Transformation in Rural India looks at inequality in the context of this dynamic situation. It is an edited volume divided into four sections comprising 15 chapters that are devoted to the themes visualising inequality, inter-personal and inter-group inequalities, intra-personal inequalities and negotiations of inequality, respectively.
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
Food for All
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 growing differentiation among developing countries in terms of domestic agricultural and industrial performance How to have global institutions, established during the post-World War Two period, helped developing countries to deal with the past economic fallout of food, fuel, and financial crises Food for All explores how developments since these organizations were established have led to changes in the provision of international financial and technical assistance in support of the global food and agriculture system and how developing countries' own efforts have helped transform them These developments, and the increase in the number of global actors, have expanded and complicated global governance, presenting both opportunities for as well as challenges to the improvement of food systems. This volume provides an analysis of the structure, coordination, and management of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and the World Food Programme (WFP). It also looks at the World Bank, the largest international funder of policy advice and investment projects, and CGIAR, a leading funder of international agricultural research This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
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
Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom
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.
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
Uneasy Translations Self, Experience and Indian Literature
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 glass ceiling which only a handful of female scholars have managed to do. Her academic journey and the body of scholarship show the light of picturesque storytelling and theoretical depth around complex socialities that characterise India's literary world and the politics revolving around the question of translatability and untranslatability. Her book adds a new dimension in practising translation and the way it has evolved through her personal and professional experience(s). This text brings a combination of analytical tools such as auto-ethnographic elaborations and textual interpretations. Simultaneously, the book is an analytical exercise in explaining such affects that have a bearing on doing, reading, and experiencing translation.
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
The disruptor : how Vishwanath Pratap Singh shook India
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 played an important role in bringing the opposition together and strengthened civil society movements on the right to information and against land grab, as he launched a movement against the Dadri power plant in UP, owned by Reliance and then supported the issues related to land acquisition in Nandigram. Unfortunately, these incidents have not been reported in length in the book, even when the author has definitely worked well to highlight the economic policies of Singh when he was the finance minister.
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