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Life and Words

Violence and the Descent Into the Ordinary

By: Veena Das

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Life and Words

Violence and the Descent Into the Ordinary

By: Veena Das

Weaving anthropological and philosophical reflections on the ordinary into her analysis, Das points toward a new way of interpreting violence in societies and cultures around the globe.

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296

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Univ of California Press

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ISBN 10

0520247442

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9780520247444

Federalism in South Asia

By: Mahendra Prasad Singh,Veena Kukreja

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This book is one of the first in-depth and systematic studies on the functioning and aspiring federations of South Asia. It examines how federal dynamics in India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka are impinged on by the nature of their specific constitutions; their societal, political and cultural fabrics; composition of power elites and ruling classes; structures of political economy and market; electoral and party systems; mass media; and information technology. The authors offer a comparative, analytical, conceptual, and theoretical framework to understand patterns and trends as also experiences of and possibilities for federalism in South Asia. They highlight divergences and similarities, successes and key challenges, while indicating federalism’s wider regional relevance in the discourse on democracy and governance. The book concludes that the multicultural character of these societies — beset with ethnic and regional conflicts, separatist and military undercurrents — makes federal political solutions the only viable route. Providing a wealth of material, this will deeply interest scholars, students and teachers of comparative politics, political science, federal studies, area studies as well as those interested in political structures and processes in South Asia.

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242

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Routledge

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131755972X

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9781317559726

Affliction

Health, Disease, Poverty

By: Veena Das

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Affliction

Health, Disease, Poverty

By: Veena Das

Affliction inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty. Focusing on low-income neighborhoods in Delhi, it stitches together three different sets of issues. First, it examines the different trajectories of illness: What are the circumstances under which illness is absorbed within the normal and when does it exceed the normal—putting resources, relationships, and even one’s world into jeopardy? A second set of issues involves how different healers understand their own practices. The astonishing range of practitioners found in the local markets in the poor neighborhoods of Delhi shows how the magical and the technical are knotted together in the therapeutic experience of healers and patients. The book asks: What is expert knowledge? What is it that the practitioner knows and what does the patient know? How are these different forms of knowledge brought together in the clinical encounter, broadly defined? How does this event of everyday life bear the traces of larger policies at the national and global levels? Finally, the book interrogates the models of disease prevalence and global programming that emphasize surveillance over care and deflect attention away from the specificities of local worlds. Yet the analysis offered retains an openness to different ways of conceptualizing “what is happening” and stimulates a conversation between different disciplinary orientations to health, disease, and poverty. Most studies of health and disease focus on the encounter between patient and practitioner within the space of the clinic. This book instead privileges the networks of relations, institutions, and knowledge over which the experience of illness is dispersed. Instead of thinking of illness as an event set apart from everyday life, it shows the texture of everyday life, the political economy of neighborhoods, as well as the dark side of care. It helps us see how illness is bound by the contexts in which it occurs, while also showing how illness transcends these contexts to say something about the nature of everyday life and the making of subjects.

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365

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823261824

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9780823261826

Contemporary Pakistan

Political Processes, Conflicts and Crises

By: Veena Kukreja

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Contemporary Pakistan

Political Processes, Conflicts and Crises

By: Veena Kukreja

Veena Kukreja provides a rare reasoned analysis of the political processes at work in contemporary Pakistan and an objective understanding of the problems and crises confronting the country. The author points out that for 25 out of the 53 years of its existence, the military has been the arbiter of Pakistan`s destiny. The military, she maintains, regards its dominance of Pakistani politics not only as a right but as a duty. As a result, state security has taken precedence over the need to create participatory political processes and institutions. The book points out that the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 and the resulting US offensive in Afghanistan, has put the military regime in Islamabad in a tight spot. Caught between unyielding ulemas, a faltering economy, and American pressure to demolish militant networks in Pakistan, these recent developments combined with the dangerous cleavage within Pakistani society-could well push that country into another bout of instability and even anarchy. The situation is made more complex by the nexus between terrorism and drugs .

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372

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SAGE

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0761996834

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9780761996835

The Clinical Guide for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

A Practical Handbook

By: Veena K Singh

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The Clinical Guide for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

A Practical Handbook

By: Veena K Singh

The Clinical Guide for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery: A Practical Handbook offers to resident doctors and consultants a unique compilation of comprehensive and authenticated information in a format that would help them prepare for practical examinations as well as in treating cases successfully. To mirror the practical exam format, the content of its 23 chapters, comprising 5 long and 18 short cases, is structured as questions and answers. In addition, for easy grasp and retention by the readers, the content follows a specific chronological sequence in delineating each case: history, general and local examination, investigations, how to proceed, stepwise planning, and surgical procedures. Salient Features: Learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter enhance the content and help align a reader's thought process better. Photographs and illustrations depict every step of clinical examinations and surgical markings; flowcharts and algorithms depict the line of management. Covers questions posed to plastic surgery residents in examinations and viva voce.

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667

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Thieme

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8196691432

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9788196691431

Book's by Veena K Singh

Life and Words

Life and Words

Federalism in South Asia

Federalism in South Asia

Affliction

Affliction

Contemporary Pakistan

Contemporary Pakistan

The Clinical Guide for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

The Clinical Guide for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

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