Innovation as Social Change in South Asia

Innovation as Social Change in South Asia
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 111
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ISBN-10 : 9781317516828
ISBN-13 : 1317516826
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Book Synopsis Innovation as Social Change in South Asia by : Minna Säävälä

Download or read book Innovation as Social Change in South Asia written by Minna Säävälä and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines innovation as social change in South Asia. From an anthropological micro-perspective, innovation is moulded by social systems of value and hierarchy, while simultaneously having the potential to transform them. Peterson examines the printing press’s changing technology and its intersections with communal and language ideologies in India. Tenhunen explores mobile telephony, gender, and kinship in West Bengal. Uddin looks at microcredit and its relationship with social capital in Bangladesh. Jeffrey surveys imbalanced sex ratios and the future of marriage payments in north-western India. Ashrafun and Säävälä investigate alternative dispute resolution as a social innovation which affects the life options of battered young wives in Sylhet, Bangladesh. These case studies give insights into how the deeply engrained cultural models and values affect the forms that an innovative process can take. In the case of some South Asian societies, starkly hierarchical and holistic structures mean that innovations can have unpredictable sociocultural repercussions. The book argues that successful innovation requires taking into account how social hierarchies may steer their impact. This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary South Asia.

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