Social Sciences & Behavioural Studies: Recent submissions

  • Between the region and the World: Understanding India's ‘complex’ multilateral diplomacy 
    Tripathi, R. (World Focus. 444; 2016; 17-25.)
    India faces a very complex foreign policy dilemma concerning its regional and multilateral diplomacy today. On one hand it is logical that it should see strengthened regionalism as part of its global push for greater ...
  • Is there a global South? A perspective from South Asia 
    Tripathi, R. (South Asian Survey. 21(1-2); 2014 (published in 2017); 138-150.)
    Much of the writings on the Global South in recent years have focused on the role that some of the emerging economies within the developing world might play in the unfolding global scenario. It is asserted that the rise ...
  • Land, development and resistance: An issue of Mopa International Airport 
    Shringare, A. (mySociety. 10(1n2); 2016; 11-27.)
    The changing development paradigm in the post-reform period brought along with growth new challenges and concerns. The pressure on land, the question of rehabilitation and resettlement, environmental degradation, growing ...
  • 50 Years of Panchayat Raj in Goa: Retrospect and Prospects 
    Shringare, A.; Desai, P.S.; Tripathi, R. Eds. (Broadway Publishing House, Panaji. 2016; 207pp.)
  • Perspectives on self-governance or local-governance in India: From Gandhi to new social movements 
    Desai, P.S. (50 Years of Panchayat Raj in Goa: Retrospect and Prospects, Ed. by: Alaknanda Shringare, P.S. Desai and Rahul Tripathi. Broadway Publishing House, Panaji. 2016; 7-20.)
    Self-governance or local-governance is an idea that received attention from various thinkers from ancient India to modern India. The very presence of continuous discussion on it makes it an important idea in the realm of ...
  • Challenges to decentralized governance in Goa 
    Shringare, A. (50 Years of Panchayat Raj in Goa: Retrospect and Prospects, Ed. by: Alaknanda Shringare, P.S. Desai and Rahul Tripathi. Broadway Publishing House, Panaji. (); 2016; 195-207.)
    Very recently Goa celebrated 50 years of Panchayati Raj. Government decision to organized year long events to celebrate 50 years of Panchayati Raj triggered many debates over powers and functions of the Panchayat. No doubt ...
  • Politics in Goa: Instability, identity and capitalist transformation 
    Parobo, P.D. (State Politics in India, Ed. by: Himanshu Roy, M.P. Singh and A.P.S. Chauhan. Primus, Delhi. 2017; 243-271.)
  • Fissures of a blue revolution: The Ramponkars' response to mechanised fishing in Goa 
    Somayaji, G.; Coelho, J.P. (Social Change. 47(2); 2017; 200-213.)
    This article is a critique of the project modernity from the vantage point of an indigenous occupational community of Goa which for centuries has been pursuing sustainable livelihood practices. It revolves around the ...
  • The politics of beauty: What's not looking good about 'beauty' in India 
    Desouza, S. (Nivedini: Journal of Gender Studies. 21; 2016; 65-84.)
    This paper focuses on the stresses and controversies surrounding the contemporary 'beauty' culture in India. It highlights the politics and economics of the promotion of physical appearance alteration techniques and products, ...
  • Including the excluded: Collective action and decentralisation - An account of two tribes in Goa 
    Somayaji, G. (Marginalisation and Deprivation Studies on Multiple Vulnerabilities. Proc. of Int. Conf. on Marginalisation, Poverty and Decentralisation, 19-22 Nov 2016. Ed. by: P.P. Balan; Sunny George and T.P. Kunhikannan. Kerala Institute of Local Administration (KILA). 2016; 115-134.)
    During the hey days of independence in India, the concerns of the first government and the framers of the Constitution were to create an atmosphere of equal opportunity for all Indian citizens to enjoy the fruits of modernity ...

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