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UNINA9910484640503321 |
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Bhatt S. R (Siddheswar Rameshwar), <1939-> |
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Jainism for a new world order / / Siddheshwar Rameshwar Bhatt |
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Singapore : , : Springer, , [2021] |
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©2021 |
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[1st ed. 2021.] |
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1 online resource (XXIX, 145 p. 3 illus.) |
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Jainism |
Jainism and politics |
Philosophy |
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Monografia |
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Chapter 1. Jain view towards Right Modes of Thinking and Harmonious Ways of living -- Chapter 2. Jain Ethics, Environmental Crises and Remedial Measures -- Chapter 3. Ahimsā as Overriding principle of Jain Ethos -- Chapter 4. Ethics of Knowledge, Value-entropy and Terrorism -- Chapter 5. Anekāntavāda perspective on Harmony of Religions -- Chapter 6. Model of Cultural encounters, confluences and Coexistence -- Chapter 7. Role of Jainism in evolving new Paradigm of Global Economy -- Chapter 8. Onto Perfection. |
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This book analyses global issues holistically and offers pragmatic solutions from a Jainism perspective. Accordingly, it presents a fresh vision of individual development, social transformation and cosmic wellbeing based on the central tenets and practices of Jainism. Through this book, readers learn viable solutions to the current problems of environmental disharmony, economical distress, and religious and cultural conflicts. It deals with religious pluralism and brings to fore the need for harmony of religions and interfaith dialogues. The book is interesting for people from varied walks of life who are looking forward to a world that is established in peace, harmony and wellness. It is of immense value and interest for people from all walks of life to the Jain community to revisit the basic tenets propounded in classical literature. |
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UNINA9910330707003321 |
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Edkins Jenny |
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Change and the politics of certainty / / Jenny Edkins |
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Manchester, UK, : Manchester University Press, 2019 |
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Manchester, UK : , : Manchester University Press, , 2019 |
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©2019 |
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1 online resource (245 pages) : illustrations (black and white); digital, PDF file(s) |
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Social change - Political aspects |
Change - Social aspects |
Political science |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Despite the imperative for change in a world of persistent inequality, racism, oppression and violence, difficulties arise once we try to bring about a transformation. As scholars, students and activists, we may want to change the world, but we are not separate, looking in, but rather part of the world ourselves. The book demonstrates that we are not in control: with all our academic rigour, we cannot know with certainty why the world is the way it is, or what impact our actions will have. It asks what we are to do, if this is the case, and engages with our desire to seek change. Chapters scrutinise the role of intellectuals, experts and activists in famine aid, the Iraq war, humanitarianism and intervention, traumatic memory, enforced disappearance, and the Grenfell Tower fire, and examine the fantasy of security, contemporary notions of time, space and materiality, and ideas of the human and sentience. Plays and films by Michael Frayn, Chris Marker and Patricio Guzmán are considered, and autobiographical narrative accounts probe the author’s life and background. The book argues that although we might need to traverse the fantasy of certainty and security, we do not need to give up on hope. |
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UNINA9910369906903321 |
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Autore |
Harry Beth |
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Childhood Disability, Advocacy, and Inclusion in the Caribbean : A Trinidad and Tobago Case Study / / by Beth Harry |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020 |
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[1st ed. 2020.] |
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1 online resource (XXIII, 283 p. 22 illus., 21 illus. in color.) |
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Palgrave Studies in Disability and International Development, , 2945-6622 |
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America - Politics and government |
Economic development |
Education and state |
American Politics |
Development Studies |
Education Policy |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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1. Chapter 1 Historical and Cultural Influences on Education Policy and Disability Services -- 2. Chapter 2 The Immortelle: Planting, Nurturing, and Growing -- 3. Chapter 3 Original Parents' Stories: From "Something not right here" to "She's wonderful!" -- 4. Chapter 4 Forty Years Later: Current Parents - From "Something not Right Here to "We Need Systems!" -- 5. Chapter 5 "Trinidad is Nice, Trinidad is a Paradise": Navigating negativity and creating love -- 6. Chapter 6 Sustaining the Immortelle: "You Have to Love What You Do" -- 7. Chapter 7 Building a Community of Advocates: Seeking Unity in Diversity -- 8. Chapter 8 Health and Education: Seeking an Explicit Place on the Agenda -- 9. Chapter 9 Trinidad and Tobago in a Liminal Space. . |
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"Skillfully places the 40-year history of the Immortelle Children's Center within the larger context of Trinidad/Tobago's post-colonial development and its current state of 'liminal' in-between-ness, poised |
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to enter the next stage of pursuing the moral imperatives of development by ensuring educational services for children with disabilities." -Maya Kalyanpur, Professor, University of San Diego, USA "A penetrative ethnographic case study that skillfully weaves the voices of parents, caregivers, teachers, and community activists into a study pierced through with empathy." -Paula Morgan, Professor, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago "Grounded in the rigor of ethnography and the authority forged by lived experience, Harry offers a multifaceted historical portrait of unsettling questions about human rights and competence, in a young nation of the South with a deep commitment to equality." -Alfredo Artiles, Professor, Arizona State University, USA This book presents an ethnographic case study of the personal motivations, advocacy, and activation of social capital needed to create and sustain the Immortelle Children's Centre, a private school that has served children with disabilities in Trinidad/Tobago for four decades. Based on narratives by parents from the 1980's, current parents, teachers, community advocates, and the author, who was the founder of Immortelle in 1978, the study views the school within the context of a nation standing in a liminal space between developed and developing societies. It argues that the attainment of equity for children with disabilities will require an agenda that includes a legal mandate for education of all children, increased public funding for education, health and therapeutic services, and an on-going public awareness campaign. Relating this study to the global debate on inclusion, the author shows how the implementation of this agenda would have to be adapted to the social, cultural, and economic realities of the society. Beth Harry is Professor of Special Education at the Department of Teaching and Learning, University of Miami, USA. |
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