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History and Psychoanalysis in the Columbus Centre The Meaning of Evil

The North the South and the Environment

Shakespeare and Indian Nationalism The Bard and the Raj

Turkism and the Soviets The Turks of the World and Their Political Objectives

Articulating The Global And The Local Globalization And Cultural Studies

The Environment And Marxismleninism The Soviet And East German Experience

Chilika The Fishermen the Catch and the Challenges

Chilika The Fishermen the Catch and the Challenges

From Chilika India's largest coastal lake the echoes of poetry the reflections of festive lamps its ever-present turmoil and biodiverse bounty have come together to portray livelihoods and lives half full and half empty. After a broad conceptual framework about fish fishery and fishing livelihoods this book has explicitly focused on the lake's ecosystem in Odisha and sustainability in fishing communities. The voices of the fishers have lent credence to the socio-cultural belief systems right of commons and disputes over conservation at individual and community levels. The volatility over the common user rights is underscored by lack of protection to the locals absence of guiding principles and powerful usurpers. The disruption of livelihoods through insufficient economic support is underlined by the lack of viable equitable and regulated credit structures in the region. Issues of mechanization ecological hazards adverse impact of climate change and environmental degradation are explained through their own bearing on bionomic and traditional livelihood disruptions and in-situ footprints on common property resources. In the final countdown the sustained coexistence of Chilika lake and its varied community is narrated through an integrated socio-economic lens that accommodates extant challenges into its field of vision. This book is co-published with Aakar Books New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the print versions of this book in India Pakistan Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. | Chilika The Fishermen the Catch and the Challenges

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The Informal Sector and the Environment

The Informal Sector and the Environment

The informal economy – broadly defined as economic activity that is not subject to government regulation or taxation – sustains a large part of the world's workforce. It is a diverse complex and growing area of activity. However being largely unregulated its impact on the environment has not been closely scrutinised or analysed. This edited volume demonstrates that the informal sector is a major source of environmental pollution and a major reason behind the environmental degradation accompanying the expansion of economic activity in developing countries. Environmental regulation and economic incentive policies are difficult to implement in this sector because economic units are unregistered geographically dispersed and difficult to identify. Moreover given their limited capital base they cannot afford to pay pollution fees or install pollution abating equipment. Informal manufacturing units often operate under unscientific and unhealthy conditions further contributing to polluting the environment. The book emphasizes and examines these challenges and their solutions encountered in various sectors of the informal economy including urban waste pickers small-scale farmers informal workers home-based workers street vendors and more. If the informal sector is to Leave no one behind (as the Sustainable Development Goals promise) and contribute to inclusive growth (an objective of the green economy) then its impact on the economy as well as the environment has to be carefully considered. This book marks a significant contribution to the literature on both the informal economy and sustainable development and will be of great interest to readers in economics geography politics environment studies and public policy more broadly. Chapter 4 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www. routledge. com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license | The Informal Sector and the Environment

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The Rushdie Affair The Novel the Ayatollah and the West

The Rushdie Affair The Novel the Ayatollah and the West

The publication in 1988 of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses triggered a furor that pitted much of the Islamic world against the West over issues of blasphemy and freedom of expression. The controversy soon took on the aspect of a confrontation of civilizations provoking powerful emotions on a global level. It involved censorship protests riots a break in diplomatic relations culminating in the notorious Iranian edict calling for the death of the novelist. In The Rushdie Affair Daniel Pipes explains why the publication of The Satanic Verses became a cataclysmic event with far-reaching political and social consequences. Pipes looks at the Rushdie affair in both its political and cultural aspects and shows in considerable detail what the fundamentalists perceived as so offensive in The Satanic Verses as against what Rushdie's novel actually said. Pipes explains how the book created a new crisis between Iran and the West at the time-disrupting international diplomacy billions of dollars in trade and prospects for the release of Western hostages in Lebanon. Pipes maps out the long-term implications of the crisis. If the Ayatollah so easily intimidated the West can others do the same? Can millions of fundamentalist Muslims now living in the United States and Europe possibly be assimilated into a culture so alien to them? Insightful and brilliantly written this volume provides a full understanding of one of the most significant events in recent years. Koenraad Elst's postscript reviews the enduring impact of the Rushdie affair. | The Rushdie Affair The Novel the Ayatollah and the West

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Integrating the Individual and the Organization

Integrating the Individual and the Organization

The emphasis on organizational change in the corporate life of recent years-including job redesign autonomous groups high performance work systems and the redesign of control systems-owes a great deal to the pioneering work of Chris Argyris. This book examines how individuals in organizations can become more effective in turn making organizations more effective. It explores the conventional pyramidal structure of organizations in which there is top-down control by managers over workers and examines their negative consequences. These include organizational injustice and eventually irrational decision-making. Argyris also discusses the characteristic learning system of the modern organization which he describes as single-loop in character. This system he argues is only adequeate enough to permit the organization to implement existing policies. It does not permit the more difficult and comprehensive task of questioning underlying goals and assumptions which he terms doubt loop learning. In this kind of learning the organization is able to confront the more difficult problems that affect organizations in a time of transition. In his new introduction Argyris reviews the strengths and limitations of the argument advanced in Integrating the Individual and the Organization. He describes why the pyramidal structure endures and why creating a self-learning organization is an even more challenging task than he has imagined. The book will be of interest to professionals with a long-standing interest in organizational development as well as those just entering the field managers confronting the challenge of organization change and researchers in organizational behavior and theory.

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The Monarch and the (Non)-Human in Literature and Cinema Western and Global Perspectives

Statism and the Economy The Deadliest Virus

Pamuk's Istanbul The Self and the City

The Interplay Between Gender Markets and the State in Sweden Germany and the United States

Blockchain and the Commons

Blockchain and the Commons

Recent years have seen a surge of interest in ‘the commons’ based on a simple yet radical idea: great improvements in production and management could be achieved by reducing barriers to knowledge exchange and power-sharing. Ranging from meadows forests and parks to language open-source software (FLOSS and Blockchain) and 3D printers the commons are distributed or common property resources/infrastructures that are self-managed by their user communities. While acknowledging the significant contributions that can be made through commons-based peer production this book provides a critical examination of the commons with the aim of contributing to their long-term sustainability. In particular the book examines the relation of Blockchain to the commons by illustrating the case study of the Commons Stack. Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary ideas and methodologies the book argues that there are a number of economic and social barriers that are obstructing the wider reproduction of the commons. Problems with access to capital and training the lack of entrepreneurial and managerial skills and the absence of institutional support from governments larger co-ops and NGOs are some of the external difficulties facing the commons today. Meanwhile localism gated communities vested interests atavism traditionalism ideology conflict neo-conservatism and techno-elitism represent some of the internal contradictions inherent in the commons. Through overcoming these contradictions the ultimate goal is to transform capitalism into the postcapitalism of the commons: the creation of a social economy self-organised around the commons. This book provides vital reading for anyone interested in the commons from economics techno-politics and across the social sciences. | Blockchain and the Commons

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Politics and the Airlines

The Internet and the Customer-Supplier Relationship

The Arab Spring The Hope and Reality of the Uprisings

Planning and the Politicians and Other Essays