Rahman / Tiwari Development, Governance and Gender in South Asia

Perspectives, Issues and Challenges
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-981-16-5109-0
Verlag: Springer Singapore
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 291 Seiten, eBook

This book offers a multidisciplinary and comprehensive approach to understand the trends and issues of development, governance, and dynamics of gender in the South Asian region. It familiarizes the reader with the quantitative as well as qualitative aspects of governance and development. Contributing authors pay close attention to the socio-political and economic developments in South Asia in their respective chapters. The book is divided into four parts. The first part analyzes the social and economic development of South Asia in the context of human development, state apparatus, and migration. The second part focuses on issues of good governance and human rights. Issues related to minorities and corporate governance are also discussed specifically. The third part deals with the role of media and literature in the development narratives of South Asia. The last part highlights the inter-linkages between gender narratives and development. It is a must-read for those interested in understanding the socio-economic fabrics, political dynamics, and trajectory of development in South Asia.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rahman, Anisur

Tiwari, Niharika

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Social and Economic Development.- Analysing the Status of Human Development in South Asia.- Repositioning South Asian States: Reinforcing Human Development.- Debt, Deficit and Economic Growth in South Asia: A Comparative Analysis.- Promoting South Asian Migration to the Gulf: Reducing Poverty and Inequality as the Strategy.- Skills for Employability and Development in South Asia: A Comparative Analysis.- Part-II: Governance and Human Rights.- Governance and Capability: Contemporary Issues for Citizens and governments.- Shrinking Space of Minorities in South Asia: A Comparative Study of India and Pakistan.- Corporate Governance in South Asian Countries: An Overview.- Good Governance and Human Rights: A South Asian Perspective.- Nuclear Weapons and Regional Cooperation in South Asia.- Part III: Media and Literature.- Role of Media in Conflict Management: A Case Study of 2016 Kashmir Unrest.- The Development Narratives in South Asia: A Case Study of Print Media.- Urdu Historiography, a Field of Urdu Literature in South Asia.- Contribution of Arabian Nepali Literature to ‘New Nepal’ Building.- Representation of Literature through Media: A Comparative Study of Sidhwa’s Ice Candy Man and Mehta’s Earth.- Part IV: Gender and Development.- Gendered Demonology: Women as Witches.- Masculinizing’ the Women: Strategic De/Reconstruction of Gender in the Fiction of South Asian Women Writers.- The “Third space” of Feminist Sensibility in South Asia Diaspora Literature.- Sharing the Destiny: Women’ Political Representation in India in the South Asian Perspective.

Über Autor(innen)

Anisur Rahman is currently Professor and Director, UGC-Human Resource Development Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He holds master’s in two disciplines—economics (AMU) and sociology, M. Phil and Ph.D. (JNU). Before he joined Jamia Millia Islamia in 1999, he worked at the Institute of Applied Manpower Research, Planning Commission, Government of India. His area of interest includes South Asian Migration and Diaspora, Gulf Social Demography, and Issues of Higher Education and Minorities. He has published 5 books and over 50 research papers in journals in India and abroad including his contributions as chapters in edited books by well-known scholars.  Niharika Tiwari, Ph.D.,  is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Govt. P.G. College Saidabad, Prayagraj, UP, India.