Author: Teju Behan
Publisher: Tara Books
ISBN: 9789383145966
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Folk singer and self-taught artist draws her incredible journey from rural poverty to a life in art.
Drawing from the City
Author: Teju Behan
Publisher: Tara Books
ISBN: 9789383145966
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Folk singer and self-taught artist draws her incredible journey from rural poverty to a life in art.
Publisher: Tara Books
ISBN: 9789383145966
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Folk singer and self-taught artist draws her incredible journey from rural poverty to a life in art.
Reaching for the Sky: Empowering Girls Through Education
Author: Urvashi Sahni
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 081573039X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Transforming the Lives of Impoverished Girls in Patriarchal Societies Since 2003 a privately funded high school in India has provided desperately needed education for girls from impoverished families in Lucknow, the capital and largest city in Uttar Pradesh. Urvashi Sahni, the founder of Prerna Girls School, has written a compelling narrative of how this modest school in northeast India has changed the lives of more than 5,000 girls and their families. Most important, it is through the perspectives of the girls themselves, rather than through a remote academic viewpoint, that Prerna’s success unfolds. The book focuses on the importance of education in bringing about gender equality in a patriarchal society. It shows how girls learn to be equal and autonomous persons in school as part of their official curriculum and how they use this learning to transform their lives and those of their families. The book’s central argument is that education can be truly transformative if it addresses the everyday reality of girls’ lives and responds to their special needs and challenges with respect and care. The example of just one relatively small school in one corner of India, the message and the stories it tells will inspire anyone concerned about the necessity of girls’ education, especially in developing countries. The lives of the girls at Prerna Girls School are largely representative of those of millions living in poor regions in countries where patriarchal structures and norms prevail.
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 081573039X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Transforming the Lives of Impoverished Girls in Patriarchal Societies Since 2003 a privately funded high school in India has provided desperately needed education for girls from impoverished families in Lucknow, the capital and largest city in Uttar Pradesh. Urvashi Sahni, the founder of Prerna Girls School, has written a compelling narrative of how this modest school in northeast India has changed the lives of more than 5,000 girls and their families. Most important, it is through the perspectives of the girls themselves, rather than through a remote academic viewpoint, that Prerna’s success unfolds. The book focuses on the importance of education in bringing about gender equality in a patriarchal society. It shows how girls learn to be equal and autonomous persons in school as part of their official curriculum and how they use this learning to transform their lives and those of their families. The book’s central argument is that education can be truly transformative if it addresses the everyday reality of girls’ lives and responds to their special needs and challenges with respect and care. The example of just one relatively small school in one corner of India, the message and the stories it tells will inspire anyone concerned about the necessity of girls’ education, especially in developing countries. The lives of the girls at Prerna Girls School are largely representative of those of millions living in poor regions in countries where patriarchal structures and norms prevail.
Contesting the Indian City
Author: Gavin Shatkin
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118295846
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Contesting the Indian City features a collection of cutting-edge empirical studies that offer insights into issues of politics, equity, and space relating to urban development in modern India. Features studies that serve to deepen our theoretical understandings of the changes that Indian cities are experiencing Examines how urban redevelopment policy and planning, and reforms of urban politics and real estate markets, are shaping urban spatial change in India The first volume to bring themes of urban political reform, municipal finance, land markets, and real estate industry together in an international publication
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118295846
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Contesting the Indian City features a collection of cutting-edge empirical studies that offer insights into issues of politics, equity, and space relating to urban development in modern India. Features studies that serve to deepen our theoretical understandings of the changes that Indian cities are experiencing Examines how urban redevelopment policy and planning, and reforms of urban politics and real estate markets, are shaping urban spatial change in India The first volume to bring themes of urban political reform, municipal finance, land markets, and real estate industry together in an international publication
Indian Books in Print
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1118
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1118
Book Description
Toward Empowerment
Author: Leslie J Calman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000010554
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Analyzing Indian women's groups as one sector of a complex of new grass-roots, non-party political movements, Dr. Caiman considers why and how a women's movement evolved in India when it did. She describes the nature, origins, and meanings of the movement for Indian women and discusses the movement's significance for Indian politics in general as w
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000010554
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Analyzing Indian women's groups as one sector of a complex of new grass-roots, non-party political movements, Dr. Caiman considers why and how a women's movement evolved in India when it did. She describes the nature, origins, and meanings of the movement for Indian women and discusses the movement's significance for Indian politics in general as w
Community Empowerment, Sustainable Cities, and Transformative Economies
Author: Taha Chaiechi
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811652600
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 699
Book Description
This edited volume presents the conference papers from the 1st International Conference on Business, Economics, Management, and Sustainability (BEMAS), organized by the Centre for International Trade and Business in Asia (CITBA) at James Cook University. This book argues that the orthodox methods of external risks, climate change adaptation plans, and sustainable economic growth in cities are no longer adequate. These methods, so far, have not only ignored the ongoing structural changes associated with economic development but also failed to account for evolving industries’ composition and the emergence of new comparative advantages and skills. Specifically, this book looks at the vulnerable communities and exposed areas, particularly in urban areas, that tend to experience higher susceptibility to external risks (such as climate change, natural disasters, and public health emergencies) have been largely ignored in incremental adaptation plans. Vulnerable communities and areas not only require different adaptive responses to climate risk but also possess unlocked adaptive capacity that can motivate different patterns of sustainable development to achieve the goals of the 2030 Agenda. It is essential, therefore, to view transformative growth and fundamental reorientation of economic resources as integral parts of the solution. Social disorganisation and vulnerability are other undesired outcomes of the unpredictable and widespread external economic shocks. This is due to a sudden and tough competition between members of society to acquire precious resources, most of which may be depleted during unprecedented events such as natural disasters or pandemics resulting in an even more chaotic and disorganised conditions.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 9811652600
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 699
Book Description
This edited volume presents the conference papers from the 1st International Conference on Business, Economics, Management, and Sustainability (BEMAS), organized by the Centre for International Trade and Business in Asia (CITBA) at James Cook University. This book argues that the orthodox methods of external risks, climate change adaptation plans, and sustainable economic growth in cities are no longer adequate. These methods, so far, have not only ignored the ongoing structural changes associated with economic development but also failed to account for evolving industries’ composition and the emergence of new comparative advantages and skills. Specifically, this book looks at the vulnerable communities and exposed areas, particularly in urban areas, that tend to experience higher susceptibility to external risks (such as climate change, natural disasters, and public health emergencies) have been largely ignored in incremental adaptation plans. Vulnerable communities and areas not only require different adaptive responses to climate risk but also possess unlocked adaptive capacity that can motivate different patterns of sustainable development to achieve the goals of the 2030 Agenda. It is essential, therefore, to view transformative growth and fundamental reorientation of economic resources as integral parts of the solution. Social disorganisation and vulnerability are other undesired outcomes of the unpredictable and widespread external economic shocks. This is due to a sudden and tough competition between members of society to acquire precious resources, most of which may be depleted during unprecedented events such as natural disasters or pandemics resulting in an even more chaotic and disorganised conditions.
Empowering Indian Country
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- )
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The Search for Empowerment
Author: Anthony Bebbington
Publisher: Kumarian Press
ISBN: 1565492153
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
* Exploration of the nature of bureaucracy and bureaucratic change * Comprehensive examination of debates about social capital within the World Bank * Contributors include both long-time Bank insiders as well as external analysts and observers of the Bank’s development policies The contributors to this collection examine the vast bureaucracy of the World Bank and explore the possibilities of internally generated change. The book focuses on the debates within the Bank about the efficacy of social capital concepts for the encouragement of more participatory and empowering forms of development. These debates reach to the heart of the bank and its mission. Indeed, the debate over social capital is less an argument about definitions, and more a struggle between competing paradigms of development. The Search for Empowerment is simultaneously a fascinating account of the concept of social capital, a powerful ethnography of a huge development organization, and a profoundly insightful exploration into the nature of bureaucracy and organizational change. Other contributors: Julie Van Domelen, Michael Edwards, Jonathan Fox, John Gershman, Jeffrey Hammer, David Lewis, Deepa Narayan, Martien Van Nieuwkoop, Lant Pritchett, M. Shameen Siddiqi, and Jorge Uquillas.
Publisher: Kumarian Press
ISBN: 1565492153
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
* Exploration of the nature of bureaucracy and bureaucratic change * Comprehensive examination of debates about social capital within the World Bank * Contributors include both long-time Bank insiders as well as external analysts and observers of the Bank’s development policies The contributors to this collection examine the vast bureaucracy of the World Bank and explore the possibilities of internally generated change. The book focuses on the debates within the Bank about the efficacy of social capital concepts for the encouragement of more participatory and empowering forms of development. These debates reach to the heart of the bank and its mission. Indeed, the debate over social capital is less an argument about definitions, and more a struggle between competing paradigms of development. The Search for Empowerment is simultaneously a fascinating account of the concept of social capital, a powerful ethnography of a huge development organization, and a profoundly insightful exploration into the nature of bureaucracy and organizational change. Other contributors: Julie Van Domelen, Michael Edwards, Jonathan Fox, John Gershman, Jeffrey Hammer, David Lewis, Deepa Narayan, Martien Van Nieuwkoop, Lant Pritchett, M. Shameen Siddiqi, and Jorge Uquillas.
Cartographies of Empowerment
Author: Vimala Ramachandran
Publisher: Zubaan
ISBN: 9383074167
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Mahila Samakhya is as much a story of a government programme for women's education and empowerment as it is of the celebration of the struggles of poor women for gender just rights. Spread across eight states and more than 150 districts in India, the Mahila Samakhya programme grew out of a unique partnership between the women's movement and the government. In this collection of essays, concerned scholars from different parts of India chart Mahila Samakhya's fascinating journey of setting up poor women's collectives and women's agency in establishing an equal space and voice in the public domain - a radical departure from the more common approaches of organising women around economic concerns. The writers explore broad gender issues grounded within the field experience of Mahila Samakhya, providing insights into the workings of the programme at different levels, its conceptual challenges, strategic choices, the opportunities and pitfalls of partnership with government and above all the willingness of poor women to come together voluntarily to address and overcome gender barriers.
Publisher: Zubaan
ISBN: 9383074167
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Mahila Samakhya is as much a story of a government programme for women's education and empowerment as it is of the celebration of the struggles of poor women for gender just rights. Spread across eight states and more than 150 districts in India, the Mahila Samakhya programme grew out of a unique partnership between the women's movement and the government. In this collection of essays, concerned scholars from different parts of India chart Mahila Samakhya's fascinating journey of setting up poor women's collectives and women's agency in establishing an equal space and voice in the public domain - a radical departure from the more common approaches of organising women around economic concerns. The writers explore broad gender issues grounded within the field experience of Mahila Samakhya, providing insights into the workings of the programme at different levels, its conceptual challenges, strategic choices, the opportunities and pitfalls of partnership with government and above all the willingness of poor women to come together voluntarily to address and overcome gender barriers.
Empowering Indian Women (Prabhat Prakashan)
Author: Vivasvan Shastri
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN: 9352669770
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Embark on a transformative journey of empowerment and inspiration with "Empowering Indian Women" by Vivasvan Shastri and Yesha Bhatt, a groundbreaking exploration of the achievements, challenges, and aspirations of women in India. Join Shastri and Bhatt as they celebrate the resilience, ingenuity, and contributions of Indian women across all walks of life. Step into the lives of Indian women from diverse backgrounds, regions, and professions as Shastri and Bhatt shine a spotlight on their stories of triumph and resilience. From grassroots activists fighting for social justice to pioneering entrepreneurs breaking barriers in the business world, this book showcases the indomitable spirit and boundless potential of Indian women. Throughout "Empowering Indian Women," readers will encounter a wealth of inspiring anecdotes, insightful interviews, and thought-provoking commentary that shed light on the unique challenges and opportunities facing women in India today. From gender inequality and discrimination to economic empowerment and political participation, Shastri and Bhatt offer a comprehensive analysis of the factors shaping the lives of Indian women and the strategies for overcoming them. The overall tone and mood of "Empowering Indian Women" are one of hope, optimism, and empowerment, as Shastri and Bhatt celebrate the progress made by Indian women while acknowledging the work that remains to be done. With its blend of personal narratives, statistical analysis, and policy recommendations, this book serves as a rallying cry for gender equality and social justice in India. While critical reception may vary, one thing remains clear: "Empowering Indian Women" has been hailed as a timely and important contribution to the ongoing conversation about gender equality and women's empowerment in India. With its compelling stories and insightful analysis, this book offers a valuable resource for scholars, activists, policymakers, and anyone interested in advancing the rights and opportunities of women in India. As you delve into the pages of "Empowering Indian Women" by Vivasvan Shastri and Yesha Bhatt, you'll find yourself inspired by the resilience, courage, and determination of Indian women who are breaking barriers and reshaping society. Whether you're a feminist activist, a social entrepreneur, or simply someone who believes in the power of women to change the world, this book offers a powerful reminder of the transformative potential of gender equality. Don't miss your chance to join the movement for gender equality and women's empowerment in India. Let "Empowering Indian Women" be your guide to understanding the challenges and opportunities facing Indian women today and finding inspiration in their stories of courage, resilience, and hope.
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN: 9352669770
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Embark on a transformative journey of empowerment and inspiration with "Empowering Indian Women" by Vivasvan Shastri and Yesha Bhatt, a groundbreaking exploration of the achievements, challenges, and aspirations of women in India. Join Shastri and Bhatt as they celebrate the resilience, ingenuity, and contributions of Indian women across all walks of life. Step into the lives of Indian women from diverse backgrounds, regions, and professions as Shastri and Bhatt shine a spotlight on their stories of triumph and resilience. From grassroots activists fighting for social justice to pioneering entrepreneurs breaking barriers in the business world, this book showcases the indomitable spirit and boundless potential of Indian women. Throughout "Empowering Indian Women," readers will encounter a wealth of inspiring anecdotes, insightful interviews, and thought-provoking commentary that shed light on the unique challenges and opportunities facing women in India today. From gender inequality and discrimination to economic empowerment and political participation, Shastri and Bhatt offer a comprehensive analysis of the factors shaping the lives of Indian women and the strategies for overcoming them. The overall tone and mood of "Empowering Indian Women" are one of hope, optimism, and empowerment, as Shastri and Bhatt celebrate the progress made by Indian women while acknowledging the work that remains to be done. With its blend of personal narratives, statistical analysis, and policy recommendations, this book serves as a rallying cry for gender equality and social justice in India. While critical reception may vary, one thing remains clear: "Empowering Indian Women" has been hailed as a timely and important contribution to the ongoing conversation about gender equality and women's empowerment in India. With its compelling stories and insightful analysis, this book offers a valuable resource for scholars, activists, policymakers, and anyone interested in advancing the rights and opportunities of women in India. As you delve into the pages of "Empowering Indian Women" by Vivasvan Shastri and Yesha Bhatt, you'll find yourself inspired by the resilience, courage, and determination of Indian women who are breaking barriers and reshaping society. Whether you're a feminist activist, a social entrepreneur, or simply someone who believes in the power of women to change the world, this book offers a powerful reminder of the transformative potential of gender equality. Don't miss your chance to join the movement for gender equality and women's empowerment in India. Let "Empowering Indian Women" be your guide to understanding the challenges and opportunities facing Indian women today and finding inspiration in their stories of courage, resilience, and hope.