Lectures on jurisprudence

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Ursula Rao

The ubiquity of media across the globe has led to an explosion of interest in the ways people around the world use media as part of their everyday lives. This series addresses the need for works that describe and theorize multiple, emerging, and sometimes interconnected, media practices in the contemporary world. Interdisciplinary and inclusive, this series offers a forum for ethnographic methodologies, descriptions of non-Western media practices, explorations of transnational connectivity, and studies that link culture and practices across fields of media production and consumption. "More than just a fascinating description of newsmaking and practice in an Indian city, this book has implications for theories of news and communication that make it a timely and significant contribution to the literature on journalism and newsmaking in the changing global environment.'--Mark Peterson, Miami University. At the turn of the millennium, Indian journalism underwent significant changes. The rapid commercialisation of the press, together with an increase in literacy and political consciousness, led to swift growth in the newspaper market but also changed the way newsmakers mediate politics. Positioned at this historical junction during which India is clearly feeling the effects of market liberalisation, this study demonstrates how journalists and informants interactively create new forms of political action and consciousness. Exploring both English and Hindi newsmaking, this book investigates the creation of news relations and how they affect political images and leadership traditions. It moves beyond the newsroom to outline the role of journalists in urban society, the social lives of news texts and the way citizens bring their ideas and desires to bear on the news discourse. This important volume contributes to an emerging debate about the media's impact on Indian society and convincingly demonstrates the inseparable link between the media and dynamic cultural practices. --Book Jacket.

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Sultan-i-Rome

"The book discusses the nomenclature, geography, climate and natural vegetation, regional ethnicity and lineages and historical perspective of Swat, Pakistan. It evaluates and analyzes the genesis of the once Princely State of Swat in the historical, geo-political and strategic context. It deals with the consolidation and expansion of the former State holistically. Moreover, it evaluates the State's relations with the British Government and later Pakistan, and with the neighboring states of Dir and Amb. The book evaluates and analyzes the administrative system including the civil, military, financial and judicial spheres. It also deals with the socio-cultural milieu and changes brought about in Swat in respect of education, language, religion, health, permanent settlement, communication, trade and industry, agriculture, tourism, leadership, and women's rights. It looks at the merger of the former state into Pakistan, the constitutional status of the State, causes of the merger, the Wali's role in the merger, and both positive and negative effects and impacts of the merger."--Jacket.

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Esdras Kambale Bahekwa

Que s'est-il réellement passé les 11 et 12 mai 1990 au campus de l'Université de Lubumbashi, au Katanga ? L'auteur rassemble minutieusement toutes les pièces du puzzle pour reconstituer la trame de l'histoire mouvementée de cette province congolaise. Son récit donne un éclairage d'un intérêt historique certain sur le Katanga des années 1990 et permet de comprendre quelque peu le Katanga d'aujourd'hui.

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Humberto Vélez Ramírez

"Twelve informative essays discuss topics such as democracy, the political regime, violence, neoliberalism, State intervention in social life, and the 1991 constituent assembly. Essays together provide valuable insight on the political environment in early 1990s when democratic movements appeared to be growing, while violence continued to escalate"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.