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Opinion | My New Year's resolution is to get around to reading all these books

A dirty and smelly sofa is my favourite place in the world, and the right titles give me the perfect excuse to lie down all day and do nothing.

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An Educated Core | Harvard Magazine

An Educated Core | Harvard Magazine
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Sociology:  Guide To Analysis Or To Action In The Global Climate Change Crisis? A Call For Action By The Social Sciences And The Humanities

Climate change and environmental destruction is becoming an increasing threat to the well-being if not survival of a growing number of people around the

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Solidarity with animals

Solidarity with animals and solidarity with humans are entangled imperatives and strategies in the search for a Great Transition.

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The Archaeology of 'Age' in Colonial India | Economic and Political Weekly

Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891–1937 by Ishita Pande, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020; pp xvi + 322, price not indicated.

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A Subversion of the Dominant Paradigm

With time, many of Karachi's residents have found alternative ways to express themselves

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Conversations on South Asia with Durba Mitra


Conversations on South Asia with Durba Mitra
Join us for the next Conversations on South Asia event to hear Durba Mitra discuss her book, Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought.
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
https://dartgo.org/indiansexlife
Sponsored by: Asian Societies, Cultures and Languages, History Department, Society of Fellows, Women s Gender and Sexuality Studies
Intended Audience(s): Public
Registration required.
How did deviant female sexuality become foundational to the colonial knowledge-production project? And how did the “prostitute” emerge as a key concept in attempts by British and elite Indian men to “know” India?
Durba Mitra (Harvard University) tackles these puzzles in her latest book, I

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