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Hardcover:
9780745333656 | Pluto Pr, June 15, 2015, cover price $99.00
Paperback:
9780745333649 | Pluto Pr, April 15, 2015, cover price $32.00
Product Description: What happens when a vast multinational mining company operates a gas plant situated close to four densely populated villages in rural Bangladesh? How does its presence contribute to local processes of âdevelopmentâ? And what do corporate claims of âcommunity engagementâ involve? Drawing from author Katy Gardnerâs longstanding relationship with the area, Discordant Development reveals the complex and contradictory ways that local people attempt to connect to, and are disconnected by, foreign capital...read more
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9780745331508, titled "Discordant Development: Global Capitalism and the Struggle for Connection in Bangladesh" | Pluto Pr, March 15, 2012, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: What happens when a vast multinational mining company operates a gas plant situated close to four densely populated villages in rural Bangladesh?
Paperback:
9780745331492, titled "Discordant Development: Global Capitalism and the Struggle for Connection in Bangladesh" | Pluto Pr, March 15, 2012, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: What happens when a vast multinational mining company operates a gas plant situated close to four densely populated villages in rural Bangladesh?
Product Description: A new mystery from this bestselling author - Ed and Sarah fall in love while doing aid work in Bangladesh, where they set up a campaign to prevent an oil giant from buying up local land. But their efforts prove unpopular in the village, and an atmosphere of mistrust envelops them...read more
Hardcover:
9780727867186 | Severn House Pub Ltd, March 1, 2009, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: A new mystery from this bestselling author - Ed and Sarah fall in love while doing aid work in Bangladesh, where they set up a campaign to prevent an oil giant from buying up local land.
Hardcover:
9780761932093 | Sage Pubns Pvt Ltd, May 25, 2004, cover price $109.00
Paperback:
9788478887651 | Salamandra Publicacions Y Edicions, November 1, 2002, cover price $30.95
Product Description: Whilst the vast majority of recent research on identity and ethnicity amongst South Asians in Britain has focused upon younger people, this book deals with Bengali elders, the âfirst generation' of migrants from Sylhet, in Bangladesh...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781859733134 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, June 1, 2002, cover price $109.95 | About this edition: Whilst the vast majority of recent research on identity and ethnicity amongst South Asians in Britain has focused upon younger people, this book deals with Bengali elders, the âfirst generation' of migrants from Sylhet, in Bangladesh.
Paperback:
9781573229333 | 1 edition (Riverhead Books, April 1, 2002), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Two young women head off for an adventure-filled backpacking trip through India, but a fateful visit to a secluded shrine spells disaster, and only one of the two will return home.
Katy Gardnerâs account of her fifteen-month stay in the small Bangladeshi village of Talukpur has become a classic study of rural life in South Asia. Through a series of beautifully crafted narratives, the villagers and their stories are brought vividly to life and the authorâs role as an outsider sensitively conveyed in her descriptions of the warm friendships she makes. Above all Songs at the River's Edge is written from a deep respect of Bangladesh and its country. (view table of contents)
Hardcover:
9780745310954 | Reprint edition (Pluto Pr, April 1, 1997), cover price $50.00
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9780745310947 | Pluto Pr, March 20, 1997, cover price $37.00 | About this edition: Katy Gardnerâs account of her fifteen-month stay in the small Bangladeshi village of Talukpur has become a classic study of rural life in South Asia.
9781853812491 | Virago Pr, August 1, 1992, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Part autobiography, part travelogue, part anthropological study, this is an account of a Western woman living in a Muslim Bangladeshi village for 18 months.
Hardcover:
9780745307466 | Pluto Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $104.00 | About this edition: Through detailed case studies and the issues raised by them, Gardner and Lewis outline key social issues and problems of development, and conclude that anthropological perspectives can contribute positively to development policy and practice.
Paperback:
9780745307473 | Pluto Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $34.00
Product Description: Long-term migration is one of the most important factors in the formation of cultural identities in the modern world. Katy Gardner looks at the 'sending' communities (neglected by academic research) and covers major aspects of Bangladeshi life (land, family structure, marriage, and religion) to show how out-migration has become a central economic and social resource--the route to social, as well as physical, mobility, transforming those who gain access to it...read more
Hardcover:
9780198279198 | Clarendon Pr, April 13, 1995, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: Long-term migration is one of the most important factors in the formation of cultural identities in the modern world.
Paperback:
9780860682844 | Revised edition (Virago Pr, March 1, 1983), cover price $3.95
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