Discussions of chronic poverty emphasize the extent to which poverty endures because of the social relationships and structures within which particular social groups are embedded. In this sense chronic poverty is a socio-political relationship rather than a condition of assetless-ness. Understood as such, processes of social mobilization become central to any discussion of chronic poverty becau...

Contentious events often come in waves, but they are seldom homogeneous. A series of contentious events over the past two years were the result of the global financial crisis that began in the United States in 2008 and ultimately diffused around the world. But it was in Greece and the European Union that the crisis hit hardest. There, conventional protest, violence, and political contention com...

Despite widespread political conspiracy theories about Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush, a majority of partisans continue to distance themselves from such beliefs. Even so, the ideological biases that drive conspiratorial thinking may be hard to overcome. In this study, we examine the unintentional endorsement of conspiratorial beliefs as revealed in movement dynamics. We track the cu...

In this article the emergent paradigm of media ecologies is distinguished from the ‘actually existing’ media ecology emerging out of the work of McLuhan, Postman and the media ecology association. The appearance of Fuller’s book was understandably unsettling for members of the latter and certainly marks at least a profound rupture in the media ecological paradigm if not a total break. The artic...

This paper examines the nature and historical trajectories of student politics in India. In doing so, it seeks to centrally carry forward argument that students represent a powerful informed political agency, motivated along axes either ushering large scale changes or addressing minor campus issues. It also lay out background dissects factors have led beginnings, decline resurgence movements po...

This article talks about four Indian women--Sonia Gandhi, Jayalitha, Mayawati, and Mamta Banerjee--in contrast with India's stereotypes in the political realm. India is a land of mind-boggling diversity. Yet stereotypes about India, which reduce the Indian reality to a unidimensional monolith, hold powerful sway. One such powerful stereotype is that Indian women are brutally oppressed, denie...

How did India make the transition from an economic laggard to one of the fastest growing economies in the world? India’s sluggish economic growth has been pejoratively described as the “Hindu rate of growth”. Industrial modernization and the green revolution could muster a mere 3.4% average annual rate of growth between 1956 and 1974, at a time when many economies of Asia had boomed. Economic g...

Development of energy systems, based on forest biomass, is a challenging issue in India. The study investigated perceptions of fifty-five Indian Forest Service (IFS) officers in relation to the potential benefits and challenges associated with the development of forest-based bioenergy (FBE) projects in India when they participated in two training programs in Finland during 2010. They generally ...

Since India gained independence from the British in 1947, they have made steady progress in economic growth and poverty reduction. There has been political unrest and tension with Pakistan. However, there have not been substantial shocks to the economy. The most recent crisis was in 1991, but was not a major crisis when compared to Asia or Mexico. GDP did not decline in 1991 or 1992. Despite th...