Vulnerable India

Vulnerable India
Author: Anu Kapur
Publisher:
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2010
Genre: Natural disasters
ISBN: 9788132112884

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This work presents a national-level analysis of disasters in the backdrop of the vulnerability of the Indian population. The book reconceptualizes the discourse on disaster and argues persuasively for the necessity of examining socio-economic vulnerability in relation to geography.

Vulnerable Communities in Neoliberal India

Vulnerable Communities in Neoliberal India
Author: Deepanshu Mohan
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2024-08-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1040097065

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Mohan, Chindaliya, and Thomas offer an ethnographic critique of modern, neoliberal India from the perspective of studying the daily lives-livelihoods of marginalised, unsecured, informal vulnerable communities residing in the urban, peri-urban spaces across the nation. With case studies ranging from groups of pastoralists, fisher-folk, and handicraft workers of Kashmir to the weavers of Kutch, and the factory workers and artisans of the Delhi capital, this edited volume of feminist ethnographies cover previously undocumented geographical and socio-cultural contexts of vulnerable groups, put together by the Centre for New Economics Studies, O.P. Jindal Global University. The diverse range of ethnographic case studies further explore the invisibilisation of the growing informal sector in India’s labor market, studied through the applied concepts of Gayatri Spivak’s othering, Doreen Massey’s power geometries and Pierre Bourdieu’s (fractured) habitus. In addition to providing visual narratives of daily lifestyle, livelihoods of identified communities, our ethnographic analysis is rooted in discussing feminist paradigms from each study’s respondents. A useful read for scholars and policymakers interested in understanding intersectional applications of development studies in context of the unsecured workforce in India, with application across disciplines of social-economic anthropology of South Asia, using the methodological lens of experimental ethnography.

Vulnerable India: A Geographical Study of Disasters

Vulnerable India: A Geographical Study of Disasters
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Publisher: Sage
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2010-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9789353281724

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This book de-myths the oft repeated claim of 'natural disaster' and puts forward socio-economic factors as the cause for the recurrence of disasters. With this framework, the author examines the popular notion of the Vulnerable India in psycho-geographical terms and unmasks the dimensions of vulnerability itself. In doing so the author foregrounds the factors that create and perpetuate vulnerability of the marginalized sections of the society and of the nation and redefines the phrase Vulnerable India. Presenting a national level inquiry, the three sections of the book called the Fact, Response, and Reality, spell a convincing argument for why disasters recur in India. To provide a historical understanding of India's continued failure to adequately contain damage to life and property, the book unravels the perceptions of disasters in traditional, colonial and modern India. It redefines the debate on new terms such as 'disasterscape', 'the killed', 'disaster index', 'disaster divide' and 'vulnerability cluster', to better represent the patterns that engender vulnerability. With the aid of exhaustive research, comparative statistical analyses and illustrative maps, it provides incisive insight into 16 different geophysicals across 594 districts of the country. This book is ideal for students of geography, environmental sociology, development studies, social work and disaster management, and also for policy makers.

Vulnerable India

Vulnerable India
Author: Anu Kapur
Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2010-03-09
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

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Among a host of events and processes, India is vulnerable to a spectre of disasters. Here is a snapshot of area spanning India's 3.29 million square kilometers.... These are not natural disasters but purely human constructs originating from the country's weak infrastructure, corrupt leadership and a complacent civil society...

Vulnerable Daughters in India

Vulnerable Daughters in India
Author: Mattias Larsen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2012-07-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136515992

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In India, girls are aborted on a massive scale merely because they are girls. Underlying this widespread problem is the puzzling fact that daughters have become vulnerable in a time of general improvement of welfare, female status and deep economic and social changes. The findings centre on a contradiction between the continued importance of the cultural factors which for so long have established that a son is necessary, and socio-economic changes that are challenging the importance of these very same factors. This contradiction entails an uncertainty over sons fulfilling expectations which has, rather than tilt the balance in favour of daughters, instead increased the relative importance of sons and intensified negative consequences for daughters. The original findings are based on set theoretic systematic comparisons of eight villages in Himachal Pradesh that facilitate a reconceptualization and an alternative analysis that takes contextual differences into account. It builds on extensive fieldwork and collection of both qualitative and quantitative data.

Vulnerable Daughters in India

Vulnerable Daughters in India
Author: Mattias Larsen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2012-07-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136515984

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In India, girls are aborted on a massive scale merely because they are girls. Underlying this widespread problem is the puzzling fact that daughters have become vulnerable in a time of general improvement of welfare, female status and deep economic and social changes. The findings centre on a contradiction between the continued importance of the cultural factors which for so long have established that a son is necessary, and socio-economic changes that are challenging the importance of these very same factors. This contradiction entails an uncertainty over sons fulfilling expectations which has, rather than tilt the balance in favour of daughters, instead increased the relative importance of sons and intensified negative consequences for daughters. The original findings are based on set theoretic systematic comparisons of eight villages in Himachal Pradesh that facilitate a reconceptualization and an alternative analysis that takes contextual differences into account. It builds on extensive fieldwork and collection of both qualitative and quantitative data.

Vulnerable Groups in India

Vulnerable Groups in India
Author: Chandrima B. Chatterjee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 22
Release: 2007
Genre:
ISBN: 9788189042523

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The Vulnerable Andaman and Nicobar Islands

The Vulnerable Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Author: Punam Tripathi
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2018-03-14
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1351059459

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This first full-length book addresses disasters in the context of vulnerability of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands that comprise 572 islands in the Bay of Bengal. It looks at the disasters that the islands have experienced in the last 200 years and analyzes major disasters since colonization by the British. Raising some critical questions, this book attempts to understand the overall profile of disasters – the facts, causes, damage, response and recovery – in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. It discusses earthquakes, cyclones, tsunami and epidemics, as well as impacts of World War II, the penal colony and the post-Independence resettlement on the tribal population. The work will serve as a rich resource with its detailed tables, figures, maps and diagrams; appendices; and database ranging from travelogues, Census of India reports and fieldwork to Right to Information (RTI) petitions that collect hitherto unknown facts. The book will be useful to students of geography, disasters and disasters management, climate and environmental studies, history, sociology, island and ocean studies, and South Asian studies.

Vulnerable India

Vulnerable India
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Release: 2010
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