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Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia /

Table of Contents: “…Mishra -- The micropolitics of borders : the issue of Greater Nagaland (or Nagalim) / Vibha Joshi -- Nodes of control in a South(east) Asian borderland / Nicholas Farrelly -- Histories of belonging(s) : narrating territory, possession, and dispossession at the India-Bangladesh border / Jason Cons -- Geographies and identities : subaltern partition stories along Bengal's southern frontier / Annu Jalais -- Afterword: Making the most of "sensitive" borders / Willem van Schendel.…”
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Anthropology, Film Industries, Modularity /

Table of Contents: “…Rossoukh -- Journalists as Cultural Vectors: Film as the Building Blocks of News Narratives in India / Amrita Ibrahim -- "This is Not a Film": Industrial Expectations and Film Criticism as Censorship at the Bangladesh Film Censor Board / Lotte Hoek -- "This Most Reluctant of Romantic Cities": Dis-location Film Shooting in the Old City of Sana'a / Steven C. …”
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Gender, development, and climate change /

Table of Contents: “…Skutsch -- Kyoto protocol negotiations: reflections on the role of women / Delia Villagrasa -- Gender and climate hazards in Bangladesh / Terry Cannon -- Uncertain predictions, invisible impacts, and the need to mainstream gender in climate change adaptations / Valerie Nelson ... …”

International political earthquakes by Brecher, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Conflict and crisis: concepts and overview findings on earthquakes I -- Protracted conflict-crisis model and findings on earthquakes II -- Crisis escalation to war: concepts, model, and findings on earthquakes III -- Crisis severity and impact: concepts and model -- Crisis intensity and fallout: findings on earthquakes IV -- Structure and stability: concepts and model -- Findings on the polarity-stability nexus -- Ethiopian (Abyssinian) War 1934-36, multipolarity, Africa -- Berlin Blockade 1948-49, bipolarity, Europe -- Bangladesh 1971, bipolycentrism, Asia -- Gulf War I 1990-91, unipolycentrism, Middle East -- Coping/crisis management: findings on earthquakes V -- What have we learned?…”
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International political earthquakes by Brecher, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Conflict and crisis: concepts and overview findings on earthquakes I -- Protracted conflict-crisis model and findings on earthquakes II -- Crisis escalation to war: concepts, model, and findings on earthquakes III -- Crisis severity and impact: concepts and model -- Crisis intensity and fallout: findings on earthquakes IV -- Structure and stability: concepts and model -- Findings on the polarity-stability nexus -- Ethiopian (Abyssinian) War 1934-36, multipolarity, Africa -- Berlin Blockade 1948-49, bipolarity, Europe -- Bangladesh 1971, bipolycentrism, Asia -- Gulf War I 1990-91, unipolycentrism, Middle East -- Coping/crisis management: findings on earthquakes V -- What have we learned?…”
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Gender, development, and climate change /

Table of Contents: “…Skutsch -- Kyoto protocol negotiations: reflections on the role of women / Delia Villagrasa -- Gender and climate hazards in Bangladesh / Terry Cannon -- Uncertain predictions, invisible impacts, and the need to mainstream gender in climate change adaptations / Valerie Nelson ... …”

Traitors suspicion, intimacy, and the ethics of state-building /

Table of Contents: “…Xiconhoca: Mozambique's ubiquitous post-independence traitor / Lars Buur -- Denunciatory practices and the constitutive role of collaboration in the Bangladesh War / Nayanika Mookherjee -- Intimacy, loyalty, and state formation: the specter of the "anti-national" / Richard W. …”
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Traitors suspicion, intimacy, and the ethics of state-building /

Table of Contents: “…Xiconhoca: Mozambique's ubiquitous post-independence traitor / Lars Buur -- Denunciatory practices and the constitutive role of collaboration in the Bangladesh War / Nayanika Mookherjee -- Intimacy, loyalty, and state formation: the specter of the "anti-national" / Richard W. …”
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Megacities and global health

Table of Contents: “…Conceptual framework : megacities and public health / Greg Pappas -- The urban ecology of megacities / David Vlahov -- Housing, crowding, migration : case study of Dhaka, Bangladesh / Omar Rahman -- Emerging infectious disease threats in megacities : case study of Brazil / Mary Wilson -- Developing health indicators for megacities : case study of the European Urban Health Indicator System (EURO-URHIS) / Arpana Verma -- Environmental and occupational hazards : case study of Karachi, Pakistan / Greg Pappas & Zafar Fatmi -- Forced displacement of African-Americans in New York City and the international diffusion of MDR-HIV / Rodrick Wallace -- Megacities and disaster preparedness / Irshad Shaikh & Greg Pappas -- Tackling health issues in a megacity : case study from London / Neil Blackshaw -- Emergency response : case study of NYC / Linda Landesman -- Suburbs of megacities : case study of Los Angeles / Dennis Andrulis, Najia Siddiqui -- Public health impacts of megacities and primary care responses / Omar Khan, Tom Peterson.…”
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Megacities and global health

Table of Contents: “…Conceptual framework : megacities and public health / Greg Pappas -- The urban ecology of megacities / David Vlahov -- Housing, crowding, migration : case study of Dhaka, Bangladesh / Omar Rahman -- Emerging infectious disease threats in megacities : case study of Brazil / Mary Wilson -- Developing health indicators for megacities : case study of the European Urban Health Indicator System (EURO-URHIS) / Arpana Verma -- Environmental and occupational hazards : case study of Karachi, Pakistan / Greg Pappas & Zafar Fatmi -- Forced displacement of African-Americans in New York City and the international diffusion of MDR-HIV / Rodrick Wallace -- Megacities and disaster preparedness / Irshad Shaikh & Greg Pappas -- Tackling health issues in a megacity : case study from London / Neil Blackshaw -- Emergency response : case study of NYC / Linda Landesman -- Suburbs of megacities : case study of Los Angeles / Dennis Andrulis, Najia Siddiqui -- Public health impacts of megacities and primary care responses / Omar Khan, Tom Peterson.…”
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Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction and Summary to Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia -- Part One: Poverty Alleviation with Microfinance -- Chapter 2: Poverty Alleviation with Microfinance: Bangladesh Evidence -- Chapter 3: Does Microcredit Help the Poor and Financially Marginalized Communities? …”
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Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction and Summary to Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia -- Part One: Poverty Alleviation with Microfinance -- Chapter 2: Poverty Alleviation with Microfinance: Bangladesh Evidence -- Chapter 3: Does Microcredit Help the Poor and Financially Marginalized Communities? …”
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Trans-Himalayan linguistics /

Table of Contents: “…Post -- The Tibetic languages and their classification / Nicolas Tournadre -- Internal diversity in the Tamangic lexicon / Isao Honda -- A preliminary reconstruction of East Bodish / Gwendolyn Hyslop -- Burushaski kinship terminology of Indo-European origin / Ilija Čašule -- Subject and object agreement in Shumcho / Christian Huber -- The tone patterns of numeral-plus-classifier phrases in Yongning Na : a synchronic description and analysis / Alexis Michaud -- Rengmitca : the most endangered Kuki-Chin language of Bangladesh / David A. Peterson -- Initial grammatical sketch of Tilung / Jean Robert Opgenort -- Tshangla phonology and a standard Tshangla orthography / Tim Bodt.…”
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Trans-Himalayan linguistics /

Table of Contents: “…Post -- The Tibetic languages and their classification / Nicolas Tournadre -- Internal diversity in the Tamangic lexicon / Isao Honda -- A preliminary reconstruction of East Bodish / Gwendolyn Hyslop -- Burushaski kinship terminology of Indo-European origin / Ilija Čašule -- Subject and object agreement in Shumcho / Christian Huber -- The tone patterns of numeral-plus-classifier phrases in Yongning Na : a synchronic description and analysis / Alexis Michaud -- Rengmitca : the most endangered Kuki-Chin language of Bangladesh / David A. Peterson -- Initial grammatical sketch of Tilung / Jean Robert Opgenort -- Tshangla phonology and a standard Tshangla orthography / Tim Bodt.…”
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Borders and Mobility in South Asia and Beyond /

Table of Contents: “…Figure 2.2 Locations of Border Haats along the India-Bangladesh BorderFigure 3.1 The Chittagong Hill Tracts; Figure 3.2 The Sajek Valley; Figure 7.1 Typical Afghan Transportation; Figure 7.2 Akbar's Route to Europe; Figure 10.1 Ramjibha's Identity Tangent…”
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Borders and Mobility in South Asia and Beyond /

Table of Contents: “…Figure 2.2 Locations of Border Haats along the India-Bangladesh BorderFigure 3.1 The Chittagong Hill Tracts; Figure 3.2 The Sajek Valley; Figure 7.1 Typical Afghan Transportation; Figure 7.2 Akbar's Route to Europe; Figure 10.1 Ramjibha's Identity Tangent…”
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Tracking gender equity under economic reforms continuity and change in South Asia /

Table of Contents: “…Non-conventional indicators of gender disparities under structural reforms / Shobna Sonpar and Ravi Kapur -- Household response to gender issues : a survey on households of female EPZ workers in Bangladesh / Salma Chaudhuri Zohir -- Status of women under economic reforms : the Indian case / Swapna Mukhopadhyay -- Economic reform and the status of women in Nepal / APROSC -- Gender and adjustment policies : evidence from Pakistan / Rehana Siddiqui, Shahnaz Hamid, Rizwana Siddiqui, and Naeem Akhtar -- Continuity and change : women workers in garment and textile industries in Sri Lanka / Swarna Jayaweera -- Family structure, women's education and work : re-examining the high status of women in Kerala / Mridul Eapen and Praveena Kodoth -- Trade, gender, and employment issues / Manju Senapaty -- Gender in a macroeconomic framework : a CGE model analysis / Anushree Sinha and Sangeeta N. -- Towards integration? …”
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Tracking gender equity under economic reforms continuity and change in South Asia /

Table of Contents: “…Non-conventional indicators of gender disparities under structural reforms / Shobna Sonpar and Ravi Kapur -- Household response to gender issues : a survey on households of female EPZ workers in Bangladesh / Salma Chaudhuri Zohir -- Status of women under economic reforms : the Indian case / Swapna Mukhopadhyay -- Economic reform and the status of women in Nepal / APROSC -- Gender and adjustment policies : evidence from Pakistan / Rehana Siddiqui, Shahnaz Hamid, Rizwana Siddiqui, and Naeem Akhtar -- Continuity and change : women workers in garment and textile industries in Sri Lanka / Swarna Jayaweera -- Family structure, women's education and work : re-examining the high status of women in Kerala / Mridul Eapen and Praveena Kodoth -- Trade, gender, and employment issues / Manju Senapaty -- Gender in a macroeconomic framework : a CGE model analysis / Anushree Sinha and Sangeeta N. -- Towards integration? …”
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Women and the contested state religion, violence, and agency in South and Southeast Asia /

Table of Contents: “…Contesting traditions : religion and violence in South Asia / Peter van der Veer -- The citizen as sexed : women, violence, and reproduction / Veena Das -- The nuclear fetish : violence, affect, and the postcolonial state / Betty Joseph -- Overcoming the silent archive in Bangladesh : women bearing witness to violence in the 1971 Liberation War / Yasmin Saikia -- The watch of Tamil women : women's acts in a transitional warscape / Patricia Lawrence -- Mothers and wives of the disappeared in southern Sri Lanka : fragmented geographies of moral discomfort / Alex Argenti-Pillen -- The other body and the body politic : contingency and dissonance in narratives of violence / Mangalika de Silva -- Buddha's mother and the billboard queens : moral oower in contemporary Burma / Monique Skidmore -- With patience we can endure / Ingrid Jordt -- To marry a man or a spirit? …”
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Women and the contested state religion, violence, and agency in South and Southeast Asia /

Table of Contents: “…Contesting traditions : religion and violence in South Asia / Peter van der Veer -- The citizen as sexed : women, violence, and reproduction / Veena Das -- The nuclear fetish : violence, affect, and the postcolonial state / Betty Joseph -- Overcoming the silent archive in Bangladesh : women bearing witness to violence in the 1971 Liberation War / Yasmin Saikia -- The watch of Tamil women : women's acts in a transitional warscape / Patricia Lawrence -- Mothers and wives of the disappeared in southern Sri Lanka : fragmented geographies of moral discomfort / Alex Argenti-Pillen -- The other body and the body politic : contingency and dissonance in narratives of violence / Mangalika de Silva -- Buddha's mother and the billboard queens : moral oower in contemporary Burma / Monique Skidmore -- With patience we can endure / Ingrid Jordt -- To marry a man or a spirit? …”
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