{"title":"Series: ThirdWorlds","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eThirdWorlds\u003c\/strong\u003e series invites readers on a journey across diverse disciplines, blending thoughtful exploration with practical insights. From philosophy and psychology through business strategies and investment wisdom, each title offers a unique lens on understanding our complex world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVenture beyond the familiar with books that span history, technology, travel, and storytelling, including engaging children’s tales and graphic novels. This collection is perfect for curious minds eager to expand their horizons in both knowledge and imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"identity-inequity-and-inequality-in-india-and-china-9780415859691","title":"Identity, Inequity and Inequality in India and China","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume explores how \u003ci\u003edifference\u003c\/i\u003e is constructed, manifested, mobilised, and obscured in socially uneven societies, particularly those fuelled by neoliberal economic growth in recent years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book approaches difference as a double-edged concept that allows one to make sense of the tensions that are played out between ‘cosmopolitan’ convergence and ‘multicultural’ diversity, between expanding middle classes and increasingly disenfranchised poor groups, between the global and the local. The chapters in this volume present a series of empirical explorations of how difference is articulated, desired, levelled, governed, and even subverted in the socio-economically uneven landscapes of India and China. They examine how difference emerges out of daily practice, categorisation processes, dividing practices, nation-building efforts, and identity projects.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough these empirical studies, we see how difference is articulated along a number of axes: differentiations of groups or persons according to hierarchies of superiority\/inferiority; the demarcation of difference as something that is potentially disruptive and therefore in need of containment; the ‘celebration’ of difference as diversity; and finally, the ways in which difference comes to be internalised in the shaping of individual identities. Another common theme that binds a number of contributions is the exploration of the role of the state in \u003ci\u003econstructing\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003econtrolling\u003c\/i\u003e these differences, and the ways in which these interventions rearrange the social-political landscapes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book was published as a special issue of \u003ci\u003eThird World Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47588825399532,"sku":"9780415859691","price":353.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780415859691-identity-inequity-and-inequality-in-india-and-china.jpg?v=1777597750"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/series-thirdworlds.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}