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This stimulating introduction to the sociological perspective now in its first Canadian edition acquaints students with the classic foundations of sociological analysis. Informed throughout by sociological theory and historical background, the book addresses controversial issues and key questions concerning the human condition. The Social Condition of Humanity is a critical yet generous and even-handed treatment of classical and modern theorists that constitutes a vigorous and satisfying presentation of sociology as a discipline. This new Canadian edition updates the text and discusses Canadian research, providing new material on subjects such as race and ethnicity, the family, economic development, cities, crime, and social stratification, particularly concerning Canadian society, as well as a new final chapter on the most pressing social issue of the day: the environmental crisis.

This new anthology for university students in both general courses and courses devoted to the short story presents the short-story form through classic texts in the English language. From early writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, and Sara Jeannette Duncan, through twentieth-century figures such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, and Flannery O'Connor, to contemporary voices like Mavis Gallant and Alice Munro, The Short Story in English shows the development of a major literary form. Half of its stories are by men, half by women, and one-third of the thirty writers included are Canadian. By representing writers with two stories, the anthology permits in-depth comparisons and stylistic analysis. The Short Story in English will become an indispensable textbook.

Beginning with the sketch, from which the English-Canadian short story originated in the nineteenth century, this survey traces the development and outlines the flowering of what is perhaps our strongest and most distinctive literary genre, one that has won international recognition and praise in the short stories of Mavis Gallant, Alice Munro, and Margaret Atwood, which are considered here in separate chapters. Michelle Gadpaille also explores the beginnings of a tradition of realism in the stories of early writers, including Sir Charles G.D. Roberts and Duncan Campbell Scott, and examines its consolidation in the work of Morley Callaghan, Hugh Garner, and others. Michelle Gadpaille provides an interesting and perceptive commentary that all lovers of short fiction will enjoy.

André Laurendeau was the most widely respected French-Canadian nationalist of his generation. The story of his life is to a striking degree also the story of French-Canadian nationalism from the 1930s to the 1960s, that period of massive societal change when Quebec evolved from a traditional to a modern society. The most insightful intellectual voice of the nationalist movement, he was at the tumultuous centre of events as a young separatist in the 1930s; an anti-conscription activist and reform-minded provincial politician in the 1940s; and an influential journalist, editor of the Montreal daily Le Devoir, in the 1950s. At the same time he played an important role in Quebec's cultural life both as a novelist and playwright and as a well-known radio and television personality. In tracing his life story, this biography sheds indispensable light not only on the development of Laurendeau's own nationalist thought, but on his people's continuing struggle to preserve the national values that make them distinct.

Discoveries in Non-Fiction is a unique collection of contemporary non-fiction for high school students in Grades 9 and 10. Based on the broad theme of discovery, the anthology is organized into seven themes (plus a "More to Discover" section) which encourages students to discover for themselves new ideas and connections among subjects, people, themselves, and the world. The selections cover a wide variety of subject areas, formats, sources, and exemplary writing styles. Activities following each selection, and in the Teacher's Resource, prompt students to reflect and make connections.

This book consists of nine analytical essays on the New Democratic Party and its precursor, the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, each one providing a distinct perspective on the six-decade history of the party. Topics range from the party's manifestos, national conventions, and election campaigns-including a special case study of the 1988 election-to biographical profiles of federal leaders T.C. Douglas, David Lewis, and Ed Broadbent, to the future of socialism. Based on extensive archival research, content analysis of key manifestos and election pamphlets, surveys of the party's activists, and interviews with its strategists and leaders, this comprehensive study will be an essential reference work on the CCF-NDP.

This is the first selection of Margaret Avison's poems, spanning a distinguished career from the 1950s to the present. One of Canada's greatest poets, twice winner of the Governor-General's Award for poetry, Avison is an introspective modern poet with roots in the 17th-century traditions of metaphysical and meditational poetry. Her complex and demanding work is admired by a younger generation of poets and critics for its originality and versatility. Her recent work records her conversion to Christianity, which now informs all her poetry. Selected Poems is an essential book for anyone interested in Canadian literature and modern poetry.

Delhi's Meatscapes brings together rare archival documents, vernacular sources, and ethnographic insights gleaned from several years of immersion in the city's meatscapes and is the first of its kind for urban anthropologists, economists, political scientists, policy planners and readers who wish to take a hard look at their own (non-) meat choices.

This book situates Bollywood dance and dance reality shows at the center of the changing visual culture in India, and builds upon theories from the fields of anthropology, dance studies, philosophy, media studies, gender studies, and postcolonial theory to tell the story of the transformation of contemporary Indian dance.

This book documents the layout of the city and the author's observations regarding the buildings, habitations, bazars, localities, residences, individuals, as well as anecdotes of city life and expressions of rich local cultures.

Making a decisive shift from the 'top down' approach, the chapters in this volume treat law as a process that entails constant exchange, conflict, and adjustment between the rulers and the governed. Contributors to the volume look at the ways in which colonized subjects shape the contours of legal spaces and demonstrate that the process of establishing a legal regime in colonial South Asia was marked by continuous negotiation and mutual exchange.

The politicization of migration of Bangladeshis into India operates at the intersection of religion, ethnicity, and discourses on nationalism in India. For the Hindu nationalists operating at the All-India level Muslims are 'infiltrators' and Hindus are 'refugees', for the Assamese ethnic nationalists both Hindu and Muslim Bengalis are 'foreigners'. For the Bengalis in West Bengal the ethnicity 'Bengaliness' comes to the fore. This book argues that the perception ofBangladeshi migrants in Assam, West Bengal, and Delhi varies greatly due to the historical, ethnic and religious affinities of the people in each of the three states.

This book presents a comparative analysis of multicultural advertising through an empirical study of advertisements in two geographically diverse commercial regions-Europe and India. Showing that there has been a significant increase in multicultural images, symbols, and texts in advertisements across consumer goods-for the 'elite' as well as the 'less elite'-this book argues that there is a growing congruence of values among different cultures. It suggests that inspite of our differences, we are moving, at least in the corporate world, toward a larger unity.

This book analyses labour market reforms in India under conditions of globalization. Through a study of subnational variations in labour markets, the book emphasizes on the continued relevance of politics in shaping public policy, despite the structural-institutional constraints attributed to globalization and policy convergence. It shows that the role of partisan governments, dynamics of interest group negotiations, and party competition in the states can largelyinfluence public policy decisions for domestic socio-economic interests.

This book explains how the Taliban, who view themselves as guardians of God, think it is their holy mission to protect Islam from the armies of the 'wrong' faiths. Paradoxically, their violent defence of the sacred encompasses worldly concerns such as social justice, peace, and political order. Guiding us to a finer understanding of the Taliban worldview, Sheikh builds a case for dialogue with an enemy that may choose to lay down arms if its grievances are correctlyunderstood.

The idea of citizenship goes beyond a legal-formal framework to denote substantive membership in the political community. While citizenship is identified with an ideal condition of equality of status and belonging, it gets challenged in societies marked by inequalities. As an idea that inspires struggle, citizenship remains an institution that is unbounded, changing, and always incomplete. This short introduction lucidly describes the history of citizenship in India,before moving on to the pluralities and the contemporary landscapes of citizenship. It traces the amendments in the Citizenship Act, 1955 and argues that the legal enframing of the citizen involves a simultaneous production of its other-the non-citizen. This book looks at the multiple margins thatconstitute the sites of constant churnings, releasing powerful new idioms, imaginaries, and practices of citizenship.

The work demonstrates through a comparative study of Gandhi's thoughts with systems of thought generally considered antithetical to his central beliefs and is able to bring out in sharp relief the central motifs of his life and philosophy.

This book provides an insight into the functioning of formal, legal, and political institutions in the Indian democracy. It discusses the role and the importance of the rule of law, constitutional morality, and the opposition in its functioning.

This contribution to Political Anthropology, Migration Research, and Postcolonial Studies fills a gap in the hitherto under-represented scholarship on the settler society of the Andaman Islands, called Mini-India. The main actors of the book are migrants from criminalised, low-class, low-caste, landless, refugee, repatriated, and Adivasi backgrounds. While some achieved social mobility through their movement to this ''new world'' for South Asians, others continued toremain disenfranchised and marginal. This holds especially true for the Ranchis, Adivasi labour migrants from Chotanagpur, who are at the centre of an ethnographic case study in the second part of the book.Employing the concept of subalternity to investigate political negotiations of island history, collective identity, ecological sustainability, and resource access, the author analyses various shades of inequality arising from communities'' material and representational access to the state. Far from merely representing them as vulnerable victims of external domination, the author emphasizes subaltern agency in migration, settlement, and place-making processes. Representing characteristic views,practices, consciousness and voices of subaltern interlocutors, the book demonstrates particular strategies to achieve autonomy, autarchy, and peaceful cohabitation through movement, appropriation, and multi-layered means of resistance.

This is a study of the different architectures of decentralization using empirical evidence from the forestry and water sector of Uttarakhand. It examines the political economy of how institutional designs for environmental governance are created and the important role of politics in shaping institutions and their outcomes.

This unique book analyses how further economic reforms and closer relations with East Asian countries could enhance economic growth and integration in South Asia. It makes a powerful and realistic case for a two-pronged strategy in South Asian countries to (i) complete the economic reform process that they had begun in the 1980s and 1990s and (ii) implement the second round of "Look East" policies (LEP2). The book also identifies the unfinished policy reform agendafor each South Asian country and the components of the LEP2 that they should implement.

India is a country of increasing domestic complexity and mounting international importance. As she rises to prominence, this Oxford India Short Introduction provides an invaluable introduction to both the internal and external aspects of her national security. In an increasingly inter-dependent and globalizing world, appreciating the interests and principles structuring Indias national security has never been so important, in particular how they relate tointer-national security issues.

This book engages with the idea of emerging forms of families and meanings of kinship in a transnational world through ethnographic research, kinship, gender studies and science and technology studies. The ethnography draws from a context that is enmeshed in the local-global politics of reproduction, including the ways in which the transnational commercial surrogacy arrangement has led to an engaging and ongoing debate regarding ethics and morality in the sphere of reproductive rights.

This book addresses pertinent issues around the role and status of caste in the new private occupational IT sector that boasts of merit as the ultimate equalizer. The author finds that in spite of the narrative of equality and justice, caste and gender status continues to influence access to IT education and in the new IT occupations in India.

The present book is a story of three roads of Calcutta which at various historical stages had produced diverse political and socio-economic currents, and led to the growth of institutions that had shaped the minds of Calcutta's citizens.

This is a revealing account of the Hindustani classical music maestro Bharat Ratna Pandit Bhimsen Joshi's (1922-2011) little-known personal life, as told by his eldest son, Raghavendra Bhimsen Joshi.