KEYWORDS
Series Editor: Nadia Tazi
The Keywords series – for a different kind of globalisation – comprises four books dealing respectively with Truth, Gender, Identity and Experience. The books are designed to foster an inter-cultural dialogue, presenting multiple understandings of these key concepts. They seek to present a diversity of cultural traditions in an era characterised by the homogenising effects of globalisation. The series brings together writings and commentary from eminent authors, philosophers and academicians.
Publisher: Vistaar Publications, New Delhi; Price: Rs 195 (for each book in the series)
ONE HUNDRED YEARS ONE HUNDRED VOICES
The mill workers of Girangaon: an oral history
Authors: Meena Menon and Neera Adarkar
Comprising over 100 testimonies by inhabitants of Central Mumbai’s textile area, the book reconstructs the history of a city that was once a colonial port city and is now a global metropolis. Today, Mumbai’s organised working class form the textile areas as well as other areas, face displacement after over a century of habitation, a process that has wrought havoc in their lives and permanently altered social and cultural identities.
Publisher: Seagull Books, Kolkota, New Delhi; Price: Rs 695
CHANGING THE STREAM
Backgrounder on the Women’s Movement in India
Author: Shubha Chacko
The story of the women’s movement in India is a complex and compelling one. This book dwells on some of the themes, campaigns, issues and struggles that have shaped the movement, outlining its nature, engagement with the State, various institutions and strands that make up the women’s movement, before setting out some of the challenges facing it.
Publisher: Centre for Education and Documentation, Mumbai and Bangalore; Price: Rs 190
THE UNHEARD SCREAM
Reproductive health and women’s lives in India
Ed: Mohan Rao
This collection of articles chronicles the paradigm shift in the way population is conceptualised – involving going beyond maternal health and family planning and including the broader framework of reproductive health and rights. The 13 essays by journalists, all winners of the Panos Reproductive Health Media Fellowships, explore a range of issues – from the quinarcine sterilisation scandal, the declining age of marriage among Muslim girls in the Malabar, AIDS, Punjab’s vanishing girls due to selective abortions, sex education, menopause, gulf widows etc
Publishers: Zubaan, Kali for Women and Panos Institute, India; Price: Rs 400
HANDBOOK OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION FOR EDUCATORS, ADMINSTRATORS AND PLANNERS
Within walls, without boundaries
Eds: Madhumita Puri, George Abraham
This volume is a valuable introduction to the issues governing inclusive education and provides interesting pointers for teachers and administrators for dealing with day-to-day issues that crop up in the implementation of inclusive education. Covering the gamut of issues – from legal and policy initiatives, innovating practices in implementation of inclusive education and a picture of an ideal inclusive school.
Publisher: SAGE publications, New Delhi, London; Price: Rs 450
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