by admin | Dec 9, 2016 | Articles
‘Hotspots’ are areas with high cumulative environmental burdens and high social vulnerability. Using an index-based approach, the paper attempts to assess the multiple burdens and benefits in combination with vulnerability factors at an intra-urban level in the city...
by admin | Dec 9, 2016 | Articles
This paper draws on a large scale survey conducted in Beijing in 2013 and examines how environmental hazards and health, as perceived by the residents are distributed in urban Beijing. They also attempt to find the association between hazards, health and geographic...
by admin | Nov 25, 2016 | Articles, Further Readings
The paper attempt to explore and document the lived experiences of being in unwed motherhood among a tribal population of South India using qualitative methods. The analysis brings out the stigma related to the experience, the diverse emotional and psychological...
by admin | Nov 25, 2016 | Articles
The paper explores the process of social transformation among the Santal tribes of India using a combination of secondary data analysis and ethnography. It also tries to describe the ethno history of the tribes, with emphasis on their struggle for national identity,...
by admin | Nov 25, 2016 | Articles
This paper by Kannabiran discusses the nature of Adivasi engagement with the law and the constitution of the country, which has been primarily determined by their relations of land. The attempt has been to cull out these connections which have emerged from some of...
