Health Dimensions of COVID-19 in India and Beyond

This open access book addresses the multiple health dimensions posed by the COVID-19 pandemic in India and other countries including nine in Asia, five in Sub-Saharan Africa, and New Zealand. It explores the impact of the pandemic on mental health, sexual and reproductive health and rights, health financing, self-care, and vaccine development and distribution. The contributing authors discuss its impact on vulnerable populations, including interstate migrants and female sex workers. The significant role of media and communications, rapid dissemination of information in social media, and its impact during the COVID-19 pandemic era are discussed. It closes with lessons learned from the experiences of countries that have contained the pandemic. With contributions from experts from around the world, this book presents solutions of problems that relate to COVID-19. It is a valuable resource appealing to a wide readership across the social sciences and the humanities. Readers include governments, academicians, researchers, policy-makers, program implementers, as well as lay persons

Health Dimensions of COVID-19 in India and Beyond

This open access book addresses the multiple health dimensions posed by the COVID-19 pandemic in India and other countries including nine in Asia, five in Sub-Saharan Africa, and New Zealand. It explores the impact of the pandemic on mental health, sexual and reproductive health and rights, health financing, self-care, and vaccine development and distribution. The contributing authors discuss its impact on vulnerable populations, including interstate migrants and female sex workers. The significant role of media and communications, rapid dissemination of information in social media, and its impact during the COVID-19 pandemic era are discussed. It closes with lessons learned from the experiences of countries that have contained the pandemic. With contributions from experts from around the world, this book presents solutions of problems that relate to COVID-19. It is a valuable resource appealing to a wide readership across the social sciences and the humanities. Readers include governments, academicians, researchers, policy-makers, program implementers, as well as lay persons

Culture & Money in the Nineteenth Century: Abstracting Economics

Since the 1980s, scholars have made the case for examining nineteenth-century culture—particularly literary output—through the lens of economics. In Culture and Money in the Nineteenth Century: Abstracting Economics, two luminaries in the field of Victorian studies, Daniel Bivona and Marlene Tromp, have collected contributions from leading thinkers that push New Economic Criticism in new and exciting directions. Spanning the Americas, India, England, and Scotland, this volume adopts an inclusive, global view of the cultural effects of economics and exchange. Contributors use the concept of abstraction to show how economic thought and concerns around money permeated all aspects of nineteenth-century culture, from the language of wills to arguments around the social purpose of art. The characteristics of investment and speculation; the fraught symbolic and practical meanings of paper money to the Victorians; the shifting value of goods, services, and ideas; the evolving legal conceptualizations of artistic ownership—all of these, contributors argue, are essential to understanding nineteenth-century culture in Britain and beyond. Contributors: Daniel Bivona, Suzanne Daly, Jennifer Hayward, Aeron Hunt, Roy Kreitner, Kathryn Pratt Russell, Cordelia Smith, and Marlene Tromp.https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/oupress/1002/thumbnail.jp

Tailor Made in India: Jaipur\u27s Masters of Cloth, Doctors of Clothing

This dissertation is about Jaipur’s tailors, making custom-crafted clothing for individual customers in a rapidly changing and globally fashion-informed India. Indian-crafted clothing and textiles are a source of pride domestically and have long been used and admired throughout the world. So how is that India’s tailors, the people whose knowledge, abilities, and hard work form the backbone of this industry, receive so little thought or recognition? Although tailors are a seemingly well-respected and integral part of shaping Jaipur’s cultural landscape, my inquiries often revealed that tailors and their labor are popularly characterized as mundane. While considerable attention gets paid to India’s rich craft heritage, and its influence on contemporary Indian fashion design is celebrated, I find that tailors, as highly skilled craftspeople and the creators of desirable fashion, are rarely acknowledged and even less understood, particularly by those who depend on them. Based on thirteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in Jaipur, Rajasthan, this dissertation demonstrates how India’s vibrant tailoring traditions and contemporary tailoring practices are a versatile cultural form that relies heavily on the knowledge and participation of an often overlooked, low-paid, and arguably highly creative and influential human-powered labor force. At a time when mass-produced readymade and branded clothing is increasingly available and attractive to an aspiring middle class, I seek to illuminate the unrecognized expanse of tailors’ craft as practiced daily within the creative constraints of satisfying the desires of their customers. I also examine the challenges tailors face in commanding the recognition and value that their labor deserves. These often stem from deeper limitations rooted in the uneven power dynamics of gender, class, caste, religion and educational background. By focusing a microethnographic lens on tailors and the everyday processes of their making, I seek to magnify the nexus of craft as a form of labor, status, and value. I also offer an intimate view of some of the material conditions and social relations of production that structure the human experience of work––and the ways inequalities inform the meanings and values of work––within the confines, opportunities, and extensions of global capitalism

Global Digital Cultures: Perspectives from South Asia

Digital media histories are part of a global network, and South Asia is a key nexus in shaping the trajectory of digital media in the twenty-first century. Digital platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, and others are deeply embedded in the daily lives of millions of people around the world, shaping how people engage with others as kin, as citizens, and as consumers. Moving away from Anglo-American and strictly national frameworks, the essays in this book explore the intersections of local, national, regional, and global forces that shape contemporary digital culture(s) in regions like South Asia: the rise of digital and mobile media technologies, the ongoing transformation of established media industries, and emergent forms of digital media practice and use that are reconfiguring sociocultural, political, and economic terrains across the Indian subcontinent. From massive state-driven digital identity projects and YouTube censorship to Tinder and dating culture, from Twitter and primetime television to Facebook and political rumors, Global Digital Cultures focuses on enduring concerns of representation, identity, and power while grappling with algorithmic curation and data-driven processes of production, circulation, and consumption

Meeting the challenges of information disorder in the Global South

The research was conducted collaboratively, with regional reports provided by local teams from Research ICT Africa, InternetLab (Latin America and the Caribbean), LIRNEasia (Asia), and Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (Middle East and North Africa). This detailed study provides an overview of the entities that are active in the fight against information disorder in the MENA region, and the methods and responses they use. It also discusses and analyzes legal and human rights issues and the context of freedom of opinion and expression in which they operate

Leader Type and Responses to State-Sponsored Terrorism

State-sponsored terrorism (SST) has for long been used as a tool by countries to inflict costs on rival states without direct confrontation, as the latter risks inviting limited to full-scale war. The literature on SST has so far focused primarily on the motivations, facilitating factors, and the timing of state sponsorship. What has been insufficiently studied, however, are the responses of victim states to SST. Why does state response to SST vary spatio-temporally in different countries, under different governments, and even under different leaders of the same ruling political dispensation in a country? Under what conditions does a state respond militarily or in a Rapoport-esque tit-for-tat fashion with their own SST as opposed to responding more mildly through economic sanctions, the use of diplomatic tools, and lodging grievances with IOs? I argue that an important reason for this variation in response to SST attacks occurs because of leader type, i.e. whether a leader is a hawk or a dove. Basing my characterization of hawk-dove leader type on Brown (2017), Snyder and Diesing (1977), and Keller (2005), this dissertation controls for other confounding variables and explores the above relationship empirically using a small-n research design by examining cases from several countries worldwide. In the first chapter, I analyze the decision-making of 12 leaders, from five different countries, responding to 19 separate terrorist attack incidents by groups supported by rival states. In the second chapter, I take a deep dive into the India-Pakistan rival dyad, examining responses by three different Indian leaders to five instances of alleged Pakistan-sponsored terrorism between 2000-2019. Finally, in my third chapter, I evaluate three responses of the Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan and one by his predecessor, Turgut Ozal, to SST attacks orchestrated by the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK), an organization backed by multiple states (namely, Iran, Iraq, and Syria). While the response is often the result of complex calculations by the top decisionmakers in the victim state, I empirically demonstrate that variation in response occurs because of leader type

The Need of “Y” and “Z” Generations Soft Skills Development in Higher Education as a Requirement of the Modern Job Market

The population born in 1998-2003 is gradually entering into the labor market. According to the theory of generations, such a population is simultaneously concerned with Generations “Y” and “Z”. Employers will find it challenging to hire employees of these generations, as their values and attitudes have been formed under the influence of information technologies. Most domestic enterprises and organisations are not ready or able to work in the information society. On the other hand, already today, employers are experiencing a shortage of labor, because the main reasons for its increase are the rapid pace of population ageing and the high migration flows of the working population in Ukraine. This situation causes the intensity of employment of “Y” and “Z” Generations employees, despite the fact that they have no work experience and developed professional skills, as evidenced by the results of research [8]. The representatives of the employers' companies have been noted that Generation “Y” had problems with practical (59%) and theoretical (36%) training, lack of important skills (32%), 72% of employers emphasised that this generation had higher salary expectations, 53% had exaggerated ideas about their abilities, and 51% had higher career expectations. Moreover, this indicates that the level of education does not form the skills and competencies required by employers today