Télécharger le livre :  Neoliberalism and Hindutva in the Making of an Indian Smart City
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Neoliberalism and Hindutva in the Making of an Indian Smart City


Rakib Akhtar


This book studies the intersection of neoliberalism and right-wing Hindu nationalism through smart city projects which are often advertised as solutions for sustainable development. Globally, the rise of right-wing nationalism has progressively shaped urbanization...

Parution : 2025-06-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Ancient Mythologies of the Wilderness
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Ancient Mythologies of the Wilderness


Laura Feldt


Ancient wilderness mythologies have been criticised for their role in forming anthropocentric outlooks on the natural world, and idealising human separateness from the rest of the living world. Laura Feldt here challenges these ideas and presents a new approach to the...

Parution : 2025-04-17
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Télécharger le livre :  The Pottery Industries of the Roman East
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The Pottery Industries of the Roman East


Elizabeth A. Murphy


What was the social experience of work in the ancient world? In this study, Elizabeth Murphy approaches the topic through the lens offered by a particular set of workers, the potters and ceramicists in the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire. Her research exploits the...

Parution : 2025-04-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Syndicates and Societies
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Syndicates and Societies


David Jackman


When you work on the streets of Dhaka, crime is part of everyday life. Rackets are ubiquitous, political muscle widespread, and territory often fought over. Locals refer to the syndicate that lie behind the façade of the city, controlling who works where, how services...

Parution : 2025-03-06
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Télécharger le livre :  The Social Life of Islam
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The Social Life of Islam


Amen Jaffer


How do Islamic discourses, practices and symbols become a concrete and meaningful facet of the lives of individuals and communities in the cities of contemporary Pakistan?How do they constitute relationships between neighbors, friends, relatives, strangers, and various...

Parution : 2025-02-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Camille Bulcke
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Camille Bulcke


Ravi Dutt Bajpai , Swati Parashar


This is the first English biography of the Belgian Jesuit, Padma Bhushan recipient and renowned scholar of Hindi, Awadhi and Sanskrit: Father Camille Bulcke (1909–1982). Father Bulcke came to India when it was still a British colony, found spiritual inspiration in the...

Parution : 2025-02-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Sacrifice and Violence
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Sacrifice and Violence


Marie Lecomte-Tilouine


Violence is at the heart of the sacrifice, despite its denial in the texts. For the participants and observers, it materialises in the exposure of everyone and everything to the 'fountains of blood'. The specificity of this public and holistic violence, orchestrated in...

Parution : 2025-02-20
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Télécharger le livre :  After the Exodus
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After the Exodus


Farhana Afrin Rahman


After the Exodus examines how forced migration of the Rohingya from Myanmar to Bangladesh has affected the gendered subjectivities and lived experiences of Rohingya refugee women, and transformed gender relations and roles in displacement. Based on 14 months of feminist...

Parution : 2025-01-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Questioning Migrants
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Questioning Migrants


Tahir H. Naqvi


The Muhajir Qaumi Movement (MQM), propelled by ethnic violence and led by university students with lower-middle-class backgrounds, transformed the cities of the southern Pakistani province of Sindh into an ethnic majoritarian stronghold at the unlikely height of a...

Parution : 2025-01-23
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Télécharger le livre :  ‘New’ Women
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‘New’ Women


Liz Mount


Recent global attention to transgender issues and new opportunities for trans people can appear as positive and progressive social change. 'New' Women challenges this assumption through an ethnography of emerging trans women and traditional gender non-conforming hijras...

Parution : 2025-01-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Young and Restless in China
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Young and Restless in China


Xiaoshuo Hou


At a time when precarious labor is on the rise on a global scale, Young and Restless in China explores both the institutional and the individual processes that lead to informal employment and the clustering of the 'great gods' (dashen) – migrant workers, mostly male and...

Parution : 2024-12-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Aboriginal Rock Art and the Telling of History
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Aboriginal Rock Art and the Telling of History


Joakim Goldhahn , Gabriel Maralngurra , Sally K. May , Laura Rademaker


The rock art of Australia is among the oldest, most complex, and most fascinating manifestations of human creativity and imagination in the world. Aboriginal people used art to record their experiences, ceremonies, and knowledge by embedding their understanding of the...

Parution : 2024-12-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Prophylactic Rights
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Prophylactic Rights


Simanti Dasgupta


Based on ethnographic work with Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee in Sonagachi, the iconic red-light district in Kolkata, Prophylactic Rights examines the emergence of labour rights at the intersection of HIV/AIDS and anti-trafficking. The primary disciplinary...

Parution : 2024-11-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Sovereign Atonement
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Sovereign Atonement


Md Azmeary Ferdoush


The former border enclaves of Bangladesh and India existed as extra-territorial spaces since 1947. They were finally exchanged and merged as host state territories in 2015. Sovereign Atonement focuses on the protracted territorial exchange and experiences of the newly...

Parution : 2024-11-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Cretan Hieroglyphic
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Cretan Hieroglyphic


Matilde Civitillo , Silvia Ferrara , Torsten Meissner


Nearly 4000 years ago a hieroglyphic script was used on Crete which predates Linear A and Linear B, indeed any other writing in Europe, but remains undeciphered since its discovery at the beginning of the twentieth century. This is the first comprehensive account of...

Parution : 2024-10-31
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Télécharger le livre :  India Population Report
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India Population Report


K. S. James , T. V. Sekher


India has become the largest populated country in the world in 2023 which has resulted in an increasing attention on India's population and its changing age structure, demo-graphic transitions, and their long-term implications.India Population Report is developed based...

Parution : 2024-06-27
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Antioch on the Orontes


Andrea U. De Giorgi


Antioch on the Orontes was one of the most important cities of the ancient Mediterranean world.  A hinge between the Mediterranean, Central Asia, and the Far East, its commercial and cultural prominence spanned centuries, from its Seleucid foundation to the Islamic...

Parution : 2024-06-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Minoan Zoomorphic Culture
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Minoan Zoomorphic Culture


Emily S. K. Anderson


Since the earliest era of archaeological discovery on Crete, vivid renderings of animals have been celebrated as defining elements of Minoan culture. Animals were crafted in a rich range of substances and media in the broad Minoan world, from tiny seal-stones to...

Parution : 2024-06-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Greek Iron Age Pottery in the Mediterranean World
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Greek Iron Age Pottery in the Mediterranean World


Stefanos Gimatzidis


Greek pottery is the most visible archaeological evidence of social and economic relations between the Aegean and the Mediterranean during the Iron Age, a period of intense mobility. This book presents a holistic study of the earliestGreek pottery exchanged in Greek,...

Parution : 2024-06-06
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Télécharger le livre :  From Ritual to God in the Ancient Near East
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From Ritual to God in the Ancient Near East


Nicola Laneri


Human belief systems and practices can be traced to ca. 10,000 BCE in the Ancient Near East, where the earliest evidence of ritual structures and objects can be found. Religious architecture, the relics of human skeletons, animal symbolism, statues, and icons all...

Parution : 2024-05-09
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