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Part I `Devil' in the Deep Blue Sea? |
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1 Warming World, Threatened Poor |
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3 | (32) |
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1.1 Cursed Waters and Sifting Soils in Indian Sundarbans |
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4 | (3) |
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1.2 The Third World: Battling Environmental Marginalisation and Discursive Alienation |
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7 | (10) |
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1.2.1 Does the Ecologically Subalternised Want to Adapt? |
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9 | (3) |
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1.2.2 Governing Adaptation: What About Vulnerability? |
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12 | (4) |
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1.2.3 Human Security Framework: Subjectivities and Spatialities of Vulnerabilities |
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16 | (1) |
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1.3 Sustainable Rationalities: Economic vs. Ecological |
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17 | (3) |
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1.4 The Sundarbans: A Living Theatre, Not a One-Act Play |
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20 | (3) |
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1.5 Romancing Theory and the Burden of Injustice |
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23 | (12) |
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27 | (8) |
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2 Recipe of a Disaster: Peripheral Lives in the Epicentre of Changing Climate |
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35 | (34) |
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2.1 Infinite Waters, Floating Land, Vanishing Tigers and Submerging Humans |
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35 | (2) |
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2.2 Subsisting Sustainability? |
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37 | (10) |
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2.2.1 Diminishing Gain from Grains: Anomalies of Agriculture |
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41 | (1) |
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2.2.2 Fishing in Troubled Waters |
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42 | (1) |
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2.2.3 Forest That Feeds: Harangued for Honey |
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43 | (1) |
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2.2.4 Working Away from the Nature: `Other Work' |
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44 | (1) |
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2.2.5 Unaccounted and Underpaid: Gender Biases in Livelihood |
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45 | (2) |
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2.3 Organised Chaos: Administering Sundarbans |
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47 | (2) |
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2.4 Incapacitated: Everyday Agonies from Unmet Entitlements |
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49 | (14) |
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2.4.1 Public Health: Stillborn |
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51 | (2) |
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2.4.2 Education: Capital Divestment? |
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53 | (4) |
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2.4.3 Transportation: Journeys Through Risks and Fate |
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57 | (6) |
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2.5 Conclusion: From `Frames of Explanation' to `Webs of Relation' |
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63 | (6) |
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64 | (5) |
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Part II Digging Deep: Evidence and Empiricism |
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3 Dusting the Layers: Evolution of Vulnerabilities |
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69 | (16) |
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3.1 From the British to the Babus |
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69 | (13) |
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3.1.1 Flight of Fancy and `Fascination': Imperial Imaginings vs. Local Histories |
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71 | (5) |
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3.1.2 Post-colonial Policies: Control and Conserve |
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76 | (4) |
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3.1.3 Placental Fluid: Embankments and Water Management |
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80 | (2) |
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82 | (3) |
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82 | (3) |
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85 | (42) |
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4.1 `Everybody Loves a Good Disaster' |
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85 | (11) |
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4.1.1 Everyday Disasters in the Delta |
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86 | (6) |
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4.1.2 Calamities by the Bay: Aila (The Fabled Cyclone) |
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92 | (2) |
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4.1.3 Disaster Risk Reduction and Development: Shall the Twain Ever Meet? |
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94 | (2) |
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4.2 Slow Poisoning of a Socioecological System |
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96 | (9) |
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4.2.1 Rains, Heats and Salts |
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96 | (1) |
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4.2.2 Sea Levels, Submergence and Erosion |
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97 | (5) |
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4.2.3 Cocreating Climate and Catastrophe, Locally! |
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102 | (1) |
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4.2.4 `Political', Science? |
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103 | (2) |
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4.3 Capital Erosion: The Cost of (Un)Sustainability and (Mai)Adaptation? |
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105 | (11) |
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4.3.1 Soaring Marginality: When Climate Change Constricts Carrying Capacity |
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106 | (3) |
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4.3.2 Aspiring the White-Collar: A Climatic Push? |
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109 | (3) |
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4.3.3 `Human' Tragedies and Tribulations |
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112 | (4) |
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4.4 Conclusion: Surreal Risks and Real Losses |
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116 | (11) |
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4.4.1 When Man Meets Risks Daily |
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116 | (1) |
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4.4.2 Subjectivities and Social Framing of Risks |
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117 | (2) |
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4.4.3 Governmentality of Risk Mitigation |
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119 | (1) |
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4.4.4 Post-normal Pragmatism for Sustainability |
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120 | (1) |
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121 | (6) |
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5 Discursive Dissonance in Socioecological Theatre |
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127 | (54) |
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5.1 `Hungry Tides', Human Sacrifices and Hopes: The Local Discourse |
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128 | (20) |
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5.1.1 Existential Narratives |
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134 | (3) |
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137 | (6) |
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5.1.3 Aspiration, Adaptation and Sustainability: Unholy Trinity? |
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143 | (3) |
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5.1.4 A Sundarban in Kolkata? Spatial Extension and Convergence of Unsustainability Between Socioecological Systems |
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146 | (2) |
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5.2 Delinquent Delta, Carbon Sinks and Tiger Territory: Expert Opinions, Conservation Economics and Global Discourse |
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148 | (5) |
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5.3 Government Rationalities, Socioecological Defiance and Complicity |
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153 | (19) |
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5.3.1 Embankments: Maintaining or Messing Up the Fluid Balance? |
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154 | (9) |
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5.3.2 Do Co-benefits Work? Case Study of NREGA |
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163 | (6) |
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5.3.3 Is Ecotourism the Panacea? |
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169 | (3) |
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5.4 Conclusion: Constructivist Hyper-Realities of Mistrust and Pride |
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172 | (9) |
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5.4.1 Discursive Elitism and Custodial Conflicts |
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172 | (2) |
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5.4.2 Willing to Adapt Ignominiously? |
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174 | (1) |
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175 | (6) |
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6 `Are Comments Free'? Where `Consents Manufacture' |
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181 | (36) |
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6.1 The Discursive Grail: Media Manipulations of the Public Sphere |
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181 | (2) |
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6.2 Moderating Discontents and Selective Omissions: Media Trials of Climate Change |
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183 | (3) |
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6.3 Sundarbans in the Media: `Hierarchy of Needs' |
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186 | (1) |
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6.4 A Human Crisis: Local Language and Local Disasters |
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187 | (6) |
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6.5 Elite's Ecopoetics: Call for Conservation |
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193 | (5) |
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6.5.1 `Tiger Burns Bright': Linking Local Elites with the Global |
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194 | (1) |
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6.5.2 Discursive Shift: When Pride Turns Prejudice |
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194 | (3) |
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6.5.3 Between the Technologically Tangible and Ideologically Invisible |
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197 | (1) |
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6.6 Lost in Translation or Speaking Different Languages? |
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198 | (2) |
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6.7 Actors and Their Appeals: Sound Bites on the Sundarbans |
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200 | (8) |
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201 | (3) |
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204 | (1) |
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205 | (3) |
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6.8 Conclusion: Discursive Hegemony for Neo-colonising Ecologies? |
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208 | (9) |
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210 | (7) |
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Part III Joining the Isles |
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7 For the `Comfortably Numb': Conclusion |
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217 | (17) |
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7.1 Perplexing `Breadth' of Entanglements |
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218 | (2) |
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7.2 Rejecting Adaptation to Confront Sustainability? |
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220 | (3) |
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7.2.1 Intergenerational Justice: Delayed or Denied? |
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220 | (1) |
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7.2.2 Institutional Justice: An Oxymoron? |
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221 | (2) |
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7.3 Post-colonialising Political Ecology for Sustainable Development |
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223 | (3) |
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7.3.1 Importance of Local, Humanistic Epistemologies |
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223 | (1) |
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7.3.2 A Tightrope Walk: Ethical and Moral Rationalisations |
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224 | (1) |
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7.3.3 The Subaltern Sustainability |
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225 | (1) |
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7.4 People's Research, Social Learning and Technoscience Assistance: Tripartite Co-production of Knowledge |
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226 | (3) |
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7.4.1 Everyday Disasters and Unmaking of Man |
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227 | (1) |
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7.4.2 From Scientific and Bounded to Social and Spatially Realigned |
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228 | (1) |
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7.4.3 Discursive Localisation: From Anglophone to Proximal |
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229 | (1) |
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7.5 Trajectories of Transformation |
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229 | (5) |
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7.6 Contributions to Methodology |
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234 | (1) |
| References |
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234 | (5) |
| Postscript |
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239 | (2) |
| Index |
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