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| March 2008 |
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| ‘Crisis of
Cognition’ |
| Debating with the Ideology of Globalisation.
Rahul Varman and Manali Chakrabarti share their experiences in
attempting to critically engage young people on their understanding
of the present regime of globalisation through a semester-long
course on Globalisation, State and Corporations in an elite
technology university in India. [eSS Working Paper] |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1423 |
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| Beyond Economic Fundamentalism. Ricardo
Baldissone argues that alternatives to the
neoclassic/neoliberal mode of thinking come from the reconsideration
of the distinction between economics and economy, and from the
recognition of the performativity of science. [Real-world Economics
Review]. |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1434 |
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| Politics of
Knowledge Production and Dissemination |
| Pramod K. Nayar contends that The
‘Sexual Internet’ is clearly a social space where multiple
economies – commercial, political and libidinal – intersect, a
phenomenon that requires exploration from multiple angles: economic,
psychological and discursive. [eSS Working Paper] |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1391 |
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| Ethics in Indian
Journalism: The Context for Discussion by Sukumar
Muralidharan. Can journalists afford, as a professional
community, to leave the job of enforcing ethical standards to either
bureaucrats or business lobbies? Discussion note for the
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). [eSS
Commentary] |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1461 |
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| India, Democracy
and the Press by James Mutti. The
impressive growth of the Indian media is largely taking place
outside of the voting classes, ensuring that the media are not
playing a significant public service role. [SAJA Forum] |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1459 |
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| A 21st Century
Alternative to 20th-Century Peer Review. Grazia
Ietto-Gillies begins with a brief review of some criticisms
of the Peer Review system and proposes an alternative system for
evaluation of academic works: an Open Access system [Real-world
Economics Review, issue no. 45] |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1443 |
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| Pulling the
Strings of China’s Internet by David Bandurski The Beijing
Association of Online Media (BAOM) formed three years ago
byYahoo!, Intel, Nokia and Ericsson, ostensibly to ensure a check on
media content has today become an active agent of the Chinese
government’s initiatives to stifle discussion of political
issues.[FEER ] |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1331 |
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| His and Her
Economics. Brian Snowdon In Mark Blaug’s mid-1980s surveys
of great economists before and after Keynes, only three females –
Rosa Luxemburg, Irma Adelman and Joan Robinson – appear among his
200 subjects. For too long economics has been viewed as a “male
subject” that is unattractive to most women. |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1428 |
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| In Girls,
Educational Equity and Mother Tongue-based Teaching Carol
Benson discovers that the learner’s mother tongue holds the
key to making schooling more inclusive for all disadvantaged groups,
especially for girls and women. |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1304 |
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| Of Products,
Productivity and Prices |
| Risk,
Informational Asymmetry and Product Liability: An Enquiry into
Conflicting Objectives by Ram Singh
Economic analysis of product liability has been extended by
considering both types of costs that risky products cause society:
accident costs and insurance costs. [CDE WP] |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1466 |
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| Information
Technology and Productivity: Evidence from India's Manufacturing
Sector. |
| K.J.
Joseph examines how has India has fared in terms of
harnessing IT for enhancing manufacturing productivity by analyzing
an unpublished industry-level CSO data sets on investment. [CDS WP]
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| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1418 |
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| Missing the Wood
for the Trees? Ill-thought Moves on Drugs and Drug Industry
S Srinivasan Nothing less than price regulation with ceiling prices
is going to achieve lower drug prices. Excise duty cuts eventually
end up enriching the manufacturers as what will be ‘passed on’ to
the consumer is often merely a gesture, and makes little difference
to the consumer. [eSS Budget Commentary] |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1440 |
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| Numb3rs |
| The Evolutionary
and Developmental Foundations of Mathematics by
Michael J. Beran. Recent behavioral and
neuroimaging studies with humans and monkeys provide compelling
evidence of shared numerical capacities across species.. [PloS
Biology]. |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1386 |
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| People’s
Movements: Documentation and Analyses |
| eSS hosted the
conference pages of the 31st Indian Social Science
Congress in Mumbai. |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/conferencePapers/conferenceDetails.asp?conferenceid=29 |
| eSS also hosts the
website of the Indian Social Science Academy http://www.issaindia.in |
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| Environment and
Economy |
| Capitalisation
of Nature and Accumulation by Dispossession: At the Heart and the
Frontier of Capitalism. Suhas Paranjape elaborates on why
the concept of `capitalisation of nature’ put forward by Martin
O’Connor is fruitful in bringing together many red and green
concerns into a single abstract concept. [31st ISSC on
eSS]. |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1311 |
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| Environmentally
Sound Technologies for Sustainable Development of China and
India by Sankar U. The high actual and
planned rates of growth in GDP in China and India and their
commitment to sustainable development require adoption of
STs.[FGKS]. |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1384 |
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| Estimating the
Economic Benefits of Arsenic Removal in India: A Case Study from
West Bengal From a primary household survey in North 24
Parganas and Midnapore Joyashree Roy finds that
half the districts in West Bengal are exposed to arsenic
contaminated water. [SANDEE WP] |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1380 |
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| Mangroves - A
Natural Defence against Cyclones: An Investigation from Orissa,
India |
| Saudamini
Das examines whether indeed the the high levels of mangrove
forest destruction in the area had contributed to the high impact of
the cyclone. [SANDEE] |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=129 |
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| In Playing in
Invisible Markets: Toilet Innovations and Empowerment Shyama V.
Ramani describes the innovations in the market for toilets
targeting the group at the bottom of the income pyramid and the
factors that influence the adoption and usage of toilets in an
Indian coastal village. [UNU Cooper Memorial Lecture] |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1410 |
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| Urban
India |
| Access and
Utilisation of Health Care Services in Urban Low-income Settlements
in Surat, India. Akash Acharya reports on the findings of a
systematic household survey in urban Gujarat to designed to assess
the extent of failure to provide health care services. |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1425 |
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| Municipal
Finance in India: An Assessment. P K Mohanty analyses the
reasons for the differential performance of metro municipal
corporations examining the data from 35 Urban Local Bodies (ULBs)
[DRG Study Series]. |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1357 |
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| Public Private
Partnership in Drinking Water Supply of Greater Mumbai by
Sanjay Rode How can the demand-supply gap for
drinking water in Mumbai be solved? [eSS Working Paper] |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1385 |
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| Defining Middle
Class |
| What is Middle
Class About the Middle Classes Around the World? Abhijit
Banerjee uses household surveys from 13 developing
countries to describe consumption choices, health and education
investments, employment patterns and other features of the of the
economic lives of the “middle classes”. |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1363 |
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| Estimating the
Economic Benefits of Arsenic Removal in India: A Case Study from
West Bengal From a primary household survey in North 24
Parganas and Midnapore Joyashree Roy finds that half the districts
in West Bengal are exposed to arsenic contaminated water. [SANDEE
WP] |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1380 |
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| Mangroves - A
Natural Defence against Cyclones: An Investigation from Orissa,
India Saudamini Das examines whether indeed the the high
levels of mangrove forest destruction in the area had contributed to
the high impact of the cyclone. [SANDEE] |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=129 |
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| In Playing in
Invisible Markets: Toilet Innovations and Empowerment Shyama V.
Ramani describes the innovations in the market for toilets
targeting the group at the bottom of the income pyramid and the
factors that influence the adoption and usage of toilets in an
Indian coastal village. [UNU Cooper Memorial Lecture] |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1410 |
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| Book Review
Selections |
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| N.S. Siddharthan reviews
Vivek Chibber’s Locked in Place: State-building and Late
Industralization in India Princeton University Press, Princeton and
Oxford. |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1400 |
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| Pramod K. Nayar on
Militarizing Sri Lanka: Popular Culture, Memory and Narrative in the
Armed Conflict by Neloufer de Mel (Sage, New Delhi) |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1338 |
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| Radhika Gajjala’s Cyber
Selves: Feminist Ethnographies of South Asian Women reviewed by
Christine Tulley AltaMira Press. |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1406 |
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| Erez Manel’s The
Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins
of Anti-Colonial Nationalism reviewed by Pankaj Mishra (London
Review of Books) |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1396 |
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| Loren Lerner reviews
Erika Langmuir’s Imagining Childhood. (Yale University
Press) |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1339 |
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| Population Council’s South Asia Papers are
now being posted on eSS |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/institutionalPapers/institutionalPapersDetails.asp?instituteid=120§ionid |
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| Documents |
| Divided
Destinies, Unequal Lives: Economic, cultural and Social rights and
the Indian State. A review of India’s performance as a
signatory of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights (ICESCR) signed in 1979 is due in May 2008. An
independent report submitted by the People’s Collective for
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1458 |
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| Report by the
South Asians for Human Rights of Fact Finding Mission to the North
and East of Sri Lanka to Assess the State of Displaced
Persons |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1460 |
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| Institutions of
Democracy |
| Police Firing on
Adivasis in Gujarat: Report of Fact Finding Committee, PUCL
Gujarat Report of an enquiry into the police firing on the
Adivasis demonstration on the February 13, 2008 in Sabarkantha
district. |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1409 |
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| Islam at the
Ballot Box by Amir Taheri. So far, no
Islamist party has managed to win a majority of the popular vote in
any of the Muslim countries where reasonably clean elections are
held.[FEER] |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1398 |
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| India, Democracy
and the Press. James Mutti points out that the impressive
growth of the Indian media is largely taking place outside of the
voting classes, with the media hardly playing a significant public
service role. [SAJAforum.org] |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1459 |
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| Transport in
History |
| Transport: Then,
now, and Tomorrow Ralph Harrington’s timely pointer that a
combination of collective and individual enterprise has always been
needed to make transport systems work. [Carmen Lecture]
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| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1367 |
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| Of Products,
Productivity and Prices |
| Risk,
Informational Asymmetry and Product Liability: An Enquiry into
Conflicting Objectives by Ram Singh
Economic analysis of product liability has been extended by
considering both types of costs that risky products cause society:
accident costs and insurance costs. [CDE WP] |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1466 |
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| Information
Technology and Productivity: Evidence from India's Manufacturing
Sector. K.J. Joseph examines how has India has fared in
terms of harnessing IT for enhancing manufacturing productivity by
analyzing an unpublished industry-level CSO data sets on investment.
[CDS WP] |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1418 |
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| Missing the Wood
for the Trees? Ill-thought Moves on Drugs and Drug Industry
S Srinivasan Excise duty cuts eventually end up enriching the
manufacturers as what will be ‘passed on’ to the consumer is often
merely a gesture, and makes little difference to the consumer. [eSS
Budget Commentary] |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1440 |
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| Credit
Supply |
| Inclusive
Growth: the Role of Banks in Emerging Economies by
Usha Thorat. Of the several factors for inclusive
growth, uppermost is the need for raising the allocative efficiency
of investment and resource use that can be met by addressing two
basic supply-side issues viz. (i) effective credit delivery system
and (ii) large scale investment in infrastructural
facilities. |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1426 |
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| Regulation of
Informal Financial Institutions: A Study of Money Lenders in Kerala
P D Jeromi estimates the volume of deposits and credits
extended by money lenders in Kerala showing the undesirable aspects
of their dealings.[RBI] |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1387 |
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| Introducing |
| Journal Of Health Studies |
| Vol
1:No.1: January-April 2008 |
| Table
of Contents |
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Old Concerns, New
Spaces
Padma Prakash |
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| Focus: Urban Health |
Issues in Urban
Health
by
Leni Chaudhuri and Chandrima
Chatterjee |
Health Services as Analyser of
Urban Governance: A Study of Delhi
by Stéphanie Tawa
Lama-Rewal |
Preventive Health Care and
Indian Industry: Roles and Responsibilities
by Alka Chadha, Ali Mehdi
and Garima Malik |
Sexual and Reproductive Health
Awareness Among Adolescents: Case Study in Two Slums in
Delhi
by
Chittaranjan Mishra |
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| Perspectives |
Utilisation, Expenditure and
Financing of Obstetric Services
by Denny John. |
Making a Case for Cultural
Competence: Arab-Bedouin Women in Inter-cultural Encounters with
Pre-natal Services
by Hagit Peres |
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| Book Rviews |
Sex- Selective Abortion in
India -Gender, Society, and New Reproductive
Technologies
by Tulsi Patel
Reviewed by Sayeed Unisa,
and R. S. Reshmi |
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| Women’s
Empowerment |
| Women’s Economic
Empowerment as the “Magic Potion” of Development? Rae Lesser
Blumberg Boosting women’s relative control of economic
resources has so many consequences that positively enhance gender
equality that female economic empowerment may be close to being a
“magic potion.” |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1390 |
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| ICT and
Employment Promotion Among Poor Women: How Can We Make It Happen?
Some Reflections On Kerala's Experience. Mohanan Pillai P.
deals with the integration of gender in policies relating to
information and communication technology to empower socially
excluded poor women as producers of this technology. [CDS
WP]. |
| http://www.esocialsciences.com/Articles/displayArticles.asp?Article_ID=1446 |
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