Month: December 2010

THE HEART OF THE MATTER – Development, Identity and Violence: Reconfiguring the Debate

THE HEART OF THE MATTER – Development, Identity and Violence: Reconfiguring the Debate Edited by Ravi Kumar (Aakar Books, Delhi, 2010) Contents Acknowledgement Introduction – Ravi Kumar Thinking through Urban Debris: Violence, Terror and the State    – Nandita Badami and Anirban Nigam Through and Beyond: Identities and Class Struggle – Paresh Chandra “No Rehabilitation” is… Read More THE HEART OF THE MATTER – Development, Identity and Violence: Reconfiguring the Debate

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Ghetto and Within: Class, Identity, State and Politics of Mobilisation

Ghetto and Within: Class, Identity, State and Politics of Mobilisation by Ravi Kumar (Aakar Books, Delhi, 2010) http://www.aakarbooks.com/ Contents Acknowledgement Context of the Study Secularism, Nationalism and the Problematic of Religious Identity Formation Identity Formation and the Class Question Identity Politics and Ghettoisation Why Study the Ghettos: Some Methodological Considerations Identity Formation and the Ghetto:… Read More Ghetto and Within: Class, Identity, State and Politics of Mobilisation

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The Crisis of Elementary Education in India

Publication Announcement The Crisis of Elementary Education in India (Sage: New Delhi, 2006) http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book230629 Contents Introduction
 – RAVI KUMAR Equality, Quality and Quantity – The Challenges of Education in India Dilution, Distortion and Diversion
 – ANIL SADGOPAL A Post-Jomtien Reflection on Education Policy: Child Rights to Elementary Education – 
VASUDHA DHAGMWAR National and International Provisions:… Read More The Crisis of Elementary Education in India

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Global Neoliberalism and Education and its Consequences

Publication Announcement Global Neoliberalism and Education and its Consequences, Edited by Dave Hill and Ravi Kumar (Routledge: London and New York, 2009) http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415957748/ Contents Foreword – NICK GRANT Introduction: Neoliberal Capitalism and Education
 – RAVI KUMAR AND DAVE HILL Neoliberalism and its Impacts
 – DAVE HILL AND RAVI KUMAR Neoliberalism, Youth, and the Leasing of… Read More Global Neoliberalism and Education and its Consequences

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Neoliberalism, Education and the Politics of Capital: Searching Possibilities of Resistance

That the instruments of imparting education extend beyond the classical notions of classroom learning is a fact few can disagree with today. It is, however, not enough to realise that the process of educating a human being transcends the limited universe of whatever form of formalised institution of teaching-learning transactions and is finally linked to… Read More Neoliberalism, Education and the Politics of Capital: Searching Possibilities of Resistance

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