ABOUT US
BOOKS
SUBJECTS
SERIES
PUBLISH WITH US
CONTACT
LOGIN
PROFILE
ORDERS
LOGOUT
0
vikramjain@sanctumbooks.com
×
x
x
LOGIN
PROFILE
ORDERS
LOGOUT
x
ABOUT US
BOOKS
SUBJECTS
SERIES
PUBLISH WITH US
CONTACT
Home:
Subjects:
History, Culture & Politics
x
Front Cover
Back Cover
Earthquake Disaster Management: Focussing on the Earthquake of September 30, 1993 in Latur and Osmanabad Districts, Maharashtra, India and the Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Project at Gubal Village where Geodesic Domes were Constructed as Earthqu
Author:
Horst Friedrich Rolly
ISBN:
9783631560945
Binding:
Paperback
Year:
2007
Pages:
239
Size:
15 x 21 cm
Weight:
340 grams
Price:
INR
1710.00
eBook available at:
Amazon.in:
https://tinyurl.com/yjmt2xyh
Google Books:
https://tinyurl.com/ec2ec2r8
Kobo:
https://tinyurl.com/yrz37bzp
About the Book
This documentation gives a detailed account on the involvement of the government, army and civil society in the rescue and relief operations following the Latur/Killari earthquake of September 30, 1993 in Maharashtra, India and the Reconstruction and Rehabilitation of Gubal village which was completely destroyed by the quake. Written twelve years after the disaster struck, this documentation provides insight into the long-term implications of administrative decisions on resettlement and reconstruction, the durability of the geodesic dome as an earthquake resistant housing design built for the survivors and the social sustainability and cultural acceptance of rehabilitation measures. The study is complemented by theoretical guidelines on humanitarian aid and a general introduction to Global Governance in disaster management in the framework of human rights, codes of conduct, and ethical standards.
About the Author
Horst Friedrich Rolly
Horst Friedrich Rolly, Professor of Comparative Education, lived and worked in India from 1987 to 1995 while serving as Head of the Department of Development Studies and Social Service at Spicer Memorial College, Pune, Maharashtra. Besides planning and co-managing a number of development projects, he was Director of the Gubal Village Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Project.
Editorial Reviews
“This remarkable study of nineteenth-century capitalist and colonial workplace paternalism combines diverse historiographies with a dizzying range of cross-disciplinary knowledges and approaches, including literary theory, studies of affect and emotions, science and technology studies, feminist theory, and Marxism (classical and contemporary). The result is a brilliantly executed analysis of the consequences of capitalist industrialization for particular gender regimes, patterns of social authority, modes of racialist understanding, and the rise of a liberal-imperial governing order. Mattie Armstrong-Price is that rarest of intellectuals: the historian’s historian who is simultaneously a theory head. This book is compelling confirmation that the largest-scale problems can be meticulously brought down to imaginatively conceived, empirically focused, and concretely illuminated microhistorical ground.”
—Geoff Eley, author of
History Made Conscious: Politics of Knowledge, Politics of the Past
“A rich, comparative history of how ideologies of labor and management shaped histories of gender and social reproduction across political and racial hierarchies.
Respectability on the Line
tells a compelling story about how paternalism, colonialism, and capitalism materialized in the intimate and domestic lives of railway workers to shape collective action and class formation in India and Britain.”
—Ritika Prasad, author of
Tracks of Change: Railways and Everyday Life in Colonial India
“This is a timely and welcome addition to the history of railway labor and capitalism. Intertwining histories of metropolitan Britain and colonial India, this empirically rich narrative uses respectability as a conceptual category to understand how labor relations were shaped across railway sites.
Respectability on the Line
uniquely converges otherwise analytically disparate terrains of colonial/imperial and British history as a ‘unified, if uneven field of historical activity.’ The focus on gender, race, and labor underlines the fault lines through which railway capitalism and labor relations were shaped at ‘home’ and in a colonial milieu. Rigorously researched, this book provides a unique lens for understanding complex and intertwined accounts of labor and capitalism.”
—Aparajita Mukhopadhyay, author of
Imperial Technology and “Native” Agency: A Social History of Railways in Colonial India, 1850–1920
“Armstrong-Price brilliantly reshapes labor history to show a gendered and racialized tradition of paternalism operating in imperial and metropolitan spaces of the Victorian state, where managers cultivated respectability, workers stretched the parameters of respectability in non-heteronormative ways, and local workers turned to Indian nationalist leaders to denounce the fictions of this respectable paternalism and expose discrimination.”
—Judith R. Walkowitz, author of
Nights Out: Life in Cosmopolitan London
Customer Reviews
Books of related interest
Asians ahead after the first round?: Indo-British ...
Against Heritage: The Reinvention of Traditional F...
Across the Color Line: Indians, Blacks, and Landsc...
Clearing a Space: Reflections on India, Literature...
Visions of Empire and Other Imaginings: Cinema, Ir...
Education and Training in a Globalized World Socie...
Determinants, Consequences and Perspectives of Lan...
Islamic Law on Trial: Contesting Colonial Power in...
A Post-Liberal Peace: How Emergent Powers Are Resh...
Nationhood and Identity in Indian Adaptations of S...
Under Osman’s Tree: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and...
A Story of Ambivalent Modernization in Bangladesh ...
South Asian Technospaces
Under Osman’s Tree: The Ottoman Empire, Egypt, and...
Lineages of the Global City: Occult Modernism and ...
Education, Labour & Science: Perspectives for ...
Economic Dimensions of Buddhism in Early India: Fr...
Globalisation and the Changing Face of Port Infras...
Songs of Home & Loss: Reconstructions of a Tam...
Clearing a Space: Reflections on India, Literature...
Comparative Constitutional Traditions
Literarische Selbstverortung als historische Handl...
Warriors after War: Indian and Pakistani Retired M...
Haram in the Harem: Domestic Narratives in India a...
Artificially Intelligent: The Very Human Story of ...
Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves: America and the I...
Versailles Meets the Taj Mahal: François Bern...
Media, Knowledge, and Contemporary India
Myth and History in Ancient Persia: The Achaemenid...
The Socialist Opposition in Nehruvian India 1947–1...
The Supreme Refuge, Volume 2: History, Myths, Wors...
The Rise of the Modern West: Europe, 1600-1799
Democracy’s Second Act: Why Politics Needs the Pub...
The Guardian of the Hills: Devata Culture and Livi...
The Retrospective Raj: Medicine, Literature and Hi...
Turning Wind into Power Effects of Stakeholder Net...
License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passp...
Women, Wealth and the State in Early Colonial Indi...
Locating Hybridity: Creole, Identities and Body Po...
Un-Disciplining Literature: Literature, Law, and C...
Medieval Worlds: Origins, Nature, Debates, and Exc...
L’idee separatiste dans la presse anglo-musulmane ...
Motilal Tejawat: Life and Work
Shelter for the Night: On Afghanistan, Language, a...
US Hegemony Global Ambitions and Decline- Emergenc...
The Book of Monasteries
Machiavelli on War
God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, an...
Indian Agents: Rulers of the Reserves
Insecurities of Expulsion: Afro-Asian Entanglement...
The Literary Thing: History, Poetry and the Making...
Killing in the Name of the State: State-Sponsored ...
Colonial Indology: Sociopolitics of the Ancient In...
Meditation, Vol. I: History And Present Time
Sacred Sovereignty: Kingship, Heritage, and Politi...
Serendipitous Translations: A Sourcebook on Sri La...
From Ravidas and Nanak to Waris Shah: Texts, Langu...
God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, an...
Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at th...
Taking Territory: The Persistence of Conquest Sinc...
Muslim Cultures of the Indian Ocean: Diversity and...
Ancient India: Insights into Social & Economic...
Images of India in British Fiction: Anglo-India vs...
The Politics of Muslim Identities in Asia
The Greater Second World War: Global Perspectives
Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of World Histor...
The Physics of Capitalism: How a New Political Eco...
Negotiating Historical Change Hindu Style
Religion, Orientalism and Modernity: Mahdi Movemen...
Ireland: Looking East
Civilisation, Education and School in Ancient and ...
Fictionalising Trauma: The Aesthetics of Marguerit...
Rule-extension Strategies in Ancient India: Ritual...
Die Rani von Jhansi – Rebellin wider Willen: Biogr...
Pakistan and the New Nuclear Taboo: Regional Deter...
Exile and the Nation: The Parsi Community of India...
Global South Rising?: BRICS and the Reconfiguratio...
India in the World since 1947: National and Transn...
J.S. Mill’s Encounter with India
The Breakup of India and Palestine: The Causes and...
Reading across Borders: Afghans, Iranians, and Lit...
The Discovery of Insulin: Special Centenary Editio...
Between Life and Death: Governing Populations in t...
Female Militants in South Asia: Fighters and Facil...
An Environmental History of Postcolonial North Ind...
A Physician on the Nile: A Description of Egypt an...
The Islamic State in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Str...
The Japanese Image of India: From the Heavenly Wor...
The Rise of the Modern West: Europe, 1400-1599
Origin and Growth of Satī in Early Medieval India:...
Respectability on the Line: Gender, Race, and Labo...
The Political Economy of Education in South Asia: ...
The Road to Empire: The Political Education of Kha...
Old Stacks, New Leaves: The Arts of the Book in So...
Federalism and Second Chambers: Regional Represent...
The Rise of a Multipolar World: Papers presented a...
The Discourses: Reflections on History, Sufism, Th...
Fictions of 1947: Representations of Indian Decolo...
City of Lyrics: Ordinary Poets and Islamicate Popu...
Decolonization and the Struggle for National Liber...
"The Ethos of Britain": Delderfieldʼs Sw...
Literary Orientalism, Postcolonialism, and Univers...
Emotion, Mission, Architecture: Building Hospitals...
Independent Kashmir: An Incomplete Aspiration
The House of the Satrap: The Making of the Ancient...
South Asian Technospaces - Hardcover
The Audacious Raconteur: Sovereignty and Storytell...
Strategic Dynamics and Nuclear Weapons Proliferati...
Contemporary Global Governance: Multipolarity vs N...
Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern Sout...
Against Heritage: The Reinvention of Traditional F...
The Center of the World: A Global History of the P...
The Supreme Refuge, Volume 2: History, Myths, Wors...
Remembering Empire: Power, Memory, & Place in ...
Kings and Dervishes: Sufi World Renunciation and t...
Life at a Distance: Medicine and Nationalism in In...
Outsiders and Insiders: Perspectives of Third Worl...
After Belsen: Christian Encounters with Holocaust ...
ADD REVIEW
Review Title
Review
Reviewer Name
Email