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Human Nature and Politics in Utopian and Anti-Utopian Fiction

By: Nivedita Bagchi

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Human Nature and Politics in Utopian and Anti-Utopian Fiction

By: Nivedita Bagchi

While the interest in anti-utopias has exploded over the years, issues of human nature rarely make it into the discussion of these works of literature. Yet conceptions of human nature play a key role in both the utopian belief that the perfect political system can be achieved and in the anti-utopian conviction that an ideal state is neither possible nor desirable, and would simply lead to a repressive state. This book examines two well-known utopias and two anti-utopias to draw out their conceptions of human nature and show that these conceptions are directly related to their views on politics. It shows that utopians emphasize that human nature is knowable, predictable, and therefore, open to manipulation and/or suppression. Anti-utopians, on the other hand, make the claim that human nature is not entirely knowable or predictable. While they worry about the power of the state to manipulate human nature, they also make the case that the natural recalcitrance and unpredictability of human beings would lead inevitably to a search for freedom and individuality and, therefore, to a clash between the state and the individual in the supposedly ideal state. Ultimately, therefore, these anti-utopians suggest a new conception of human beings as people who value the power to choose their own ends and are unable to entirely suppress their desire for freedom. These two conceptions of human nature lead to two dramatically different conceptions of politics. Utopians see the possibility of manipulating human nature to create an ideal political system which synthesizes all political values and issues while anti-utopians reject both the possibility and desirability of an ideal political system and make the case for providing freedom of choice for all people.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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149855167X

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9781498551670

Family, School and Nation

The Child and Literary Constructions in 20th-Century Bengal

By: Nivedita Sen

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Family, School and Nation

The Child and Literary Constructions in 20th-Century Bengal

By: Nivedita Sen

This seminal work examines the concurrence of childhood rebellion and conformity in Bengali literary texts (including adult texts), a pertinent yet unexplored area, making it a first of its kind. It is a study of the voice of child protagonists across children’s and adult literature in Bengali vis-à-vis the institutions of family, the education system, and the nationalist movement in the ninenteenth and twentieth centuries.

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242

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Routledge

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1317410629

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9781317410621

Emerging Dairy Processing Technologies

Opportunities for the Dairy Industry

By: Nivedita Datta,Peggy M. Tomasula

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Emerging Dairy Processing Technologies

Opportunities for the Dairy Industry

By: Nivedita Datta,Peggy M. Tomasula

Fluid milk processing is energy intensive, with high financial and energy costs found all along the production line and supply chain. Worldwide, the dairy industry has set a goal of reducing GHG emissions and other environmental impacts associated with milk processing. Although the major GHG emissions associated with milk production occur on the farm, most energy usage associated with milk processing occurs at the milk processing plant and afterwards, during refrigerated storage (a key requirement for the transportation, retail and consumption of most milk products). Sustainable alternatives and designs for the dairy processing plants of the future are now being actively sought by the global dairy industry, as it seeks to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and comply with its corporate social responsibilities. Emerging Dairy Processing Technologies: Opportunities for the Dairy Industry presents the state of the art research and technologies that have been proposed as sustainable replacements for high temperature-short time (HTST) and ultra-high temperature (UHT) pasteurization, with potentially lower energy usage and greenhouse gas emissions. These technologies include pulsed electric fields, high hydrostatic pressure, high pressure homogenization, ohmic and microwave heating, microfiltration, pulsed light, UV light processing, and carbon dioxide processing. The use of bacteriocins, which have the potential to improve the efficiency of the processing technologies, is discussed, and information on organic and pasture milk, which consumers perceive as sustainable alternatives to conventional milk, is also provided. This book brings together all the available information on alternative milk processing techniques and their impact on the physical and functional properties of milk, written by researchers who have developed a body of work in each of the technologies. This book is aimed at dairy scientists and technologists who may be working in dairy companies or academia. It will also be highly relevant to food processing experts working with dairy ingredients, as well as university departments, research centres and graduate students.

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360

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118560531

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9781118560532

Power and Contestation

India since 1989

By: Nivedita Menon,Aditya Nigam

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Power and Contestation

India since 1989

By: Nivedita Menon,Aditya Nigam

1989 marks the unraveling of India's 'Nehruvian Consensus' around the idea of a modern, secular nation with a self-reliant economy. Caste and religion have come to play major roles in national politics. Global economic integration has led to conflict between the state and dispossessed people, but processes of globalization have also enabled new spaces for political assertion, such as around sexuality. Older challenges to the idea of India continue from movements in Kashmir and the North-East, while Maoist insurgency has deepened its bases. In a world of American Empire, India as a nuclear power has abandoned non-alignment, a shift that is contested by voices within. Power and Contestation shows that the turbulence and turmoil of this period are signs of India's continued vibrancy and democracy. The book is an ideal introduction to the complex internal histories and external power relations of a major global player for the new century.

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235

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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184813164X

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9781848131644

Human Nature and Politics in Utopian and Anti-Utopian Fiction

By: Nivedita Bagchi

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Science Fiction and Political Philosophy

From Bacon to Black Mirror

By: Nicholas Anderson,Nivedita Bagchi

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Science Fiction and Political Philosophy

From Bacon to Black Mirror

By: Nicholas Anderson,Nivedita Bagchi

This edited collection uses works of science fiction to illustrate and explore the fundamental themes and concepts of political philosophy, including freedom, justice, and the advantages and disadvantages of progress.

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250

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Lexington Books

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1498586430

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9781498586436

Book's by Nivedita Bagchi

Human Nature and Politics in Utopian and Anti-Utopian Fiction

Human Nature and Politics in Utopian and Anti-Utopian Fiction

Family, School and Nation

Family, School and Nation

Emerging Dairy Processing Technologies

Emerging Dairy Processing Technologies

Power and Contestation

Power and Contestation

Human Nature and Politics in Utopian and Anti-Utopian Fiction

Human Nature and Politics in Utopian and Anti-Utopian Fiction

Science Fiction and Political Philosophy

Science Fiction and Political Philosophy

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