Hi Rico Compliments of the season and wish you all a very happy 2008. Also best wishes for your upcoming Goanetter event.
cheers Mario --- "Frederick [FN] Noron ha * फà¥à¤°à¥à¤¡ रिठन à¥à¤°à¥à¤à¤¯à¤¾" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://wwwlib.umi.com/dxweb/search > > Bibliography > > Mobile consciousness, flexible culture: Notes on the > rise and fall of Goa Trance > Elliott, Luther C.. Proquest Dissertations And > Theses 2006. Section > 0146, Part 0326 377 pages; [Ph.D. > dissertation].United States -- New > York: New York University; 2006. Publication Number: > AAT 3221945. > > This dissertation charts a period of anthropological > research into a > minor stream of Western cultural production > mobilized around an > emergent form of dance music exotica and a history > of "alternative" > Western travel and consumption practices. Drawing on > ethnographic > field research in New York City, Southern Africa, > India, and > Australia, the work offers a multi-sited historical > and cultural > anthropological analysis of the global proliferation > of a music and > drug subculture with origins in Goa, India. Tracking > both the > commercial emergence of the Goa Trance musical genre > and the > international traffic in "psychedelic" and > "empathogenic" chemical > substances for which Goa Trance communities of > practice are known, the > dissertation moves between discursive, historical, > and experiential > sites at which a distinct embodied politics and > spatial imagination > have been articulated. In exploring a highly > networked social movement > that has deployed late-capitalism's chief > tropes---flexibility, > mobility, and instantaneity---in constructing spaces > of affective and > experiential value held to transcend of mundane > forms of > capital-driven sociality, the work centers Goa > Trance's rapidly > shifting social and economic form as a valuable case > study into the > dynamic interplay of ephemerality and continuity in > the contemporary > (re)production of cultural difference. In an age of > anxious > speculation about the fate of durable cultural > emplacements of all > varieties, this dissertation argues that highly > mobile (and seemingly > transient) social forms represent critical sites at > which to examine > both existing strategies for combating and policing > cultural > objectification and the reproductive logics by which > these forms of > resistance are so rapidly incorporated at the > vanguard of > transnational culture industries. > > The invisible man: Examining AIDS and men at risk in > India > Fernandes, Sangeeta. Proquest Dissertations And > Theses 2006. Section > 0208, Part 0459 85 pages; [Ph.D. > dissertation].United States -- > California: University of Southern California; 2006. > Publication > Number: AAT 3257842. > > This dissertation deals specifically with the > HIV/AIDS pandemic in > India, insofar as it examines the socio-cultural > impact on risk > perception of HIV/AIDS and on performance of safe > sex behavior. The > studies focus on behaviorally homosexual men who are > excluded from the > major health information dissemination campaigns due > to stigma, > poverty, and low literacy levels. Reaching > behaviorally homosexual men > in India with safe sex messages, albeit extremely > important, is > difficult since these individuals are rendered > imperceptible due to > social stigma and lack of legal protection. Not only > are these people > at risk left untargeted by AIDS messages, but they > are further > alienated due to differences in language, culture, > values and > religion. > > A pair of studies were conducted to assess (1) a > more clear definition > of MSM categories in India and to provided evidence > for perceived > differences among these MSM categories; (2) how > behavior and risk are > affected by stigma; (3) the nature of media use and > dependency > patterns among the different groups of MSM; (4) > attitudes to condom > use and negotiation skills. The first study > consisted of 8 focus > groups involving four groups of MSM in Mumbai and > Goa. (kothis : > self-identified gay men, hijras : transgenders, > panthis : men married > to women who have sex with men, and MSWs : Male sex > workers). The > second study was conducted in Mumbai, Delhi and Goa > and involved 210 > subjects. This study was informed by the results of > the focus groups > and sought primarily to support the findings of the > qualitative study > with quantifiable results. > > Results indicate that differences in sexual identity > reflect > differences between group differences in terms of > knowledge, > susceptibility to risk and perceived self-efficacy. > > Education, economic participation, and women's > status in India > Kenkre, Tanya S.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses > 2005. Section > 0176, Part 0938 184 pages; [Ph.D. > dissertation].United States -- > Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University; > 2005. Publication > Number: AAT 3172982. > > The concern with women's status worldwide has often > focused on the > regularity with which women occupy the lowest rungs > of the social > hierarchy and the impact that formal education can > potentially have on > improving women's social condition. However, despite > the increasing > attention that is paid to women's status in social > scientific > research, much remains to be understood about this > complex concept. We > also still have much to learn about education and > exactly what female > schooling does for women. This study examines the > effects of education > on measures of women's status and further explores > the impact that > paid work activity has on the relationship between > women's education > and their social status. This objective is carried > out by studying > women in India, a place where considerable emphasis > continues to be > placed on their domestic role. Traditional measures > of women's status > are analyzed along with measures of women's > education, employment > experience, and socio-demographic characteristics, > recorded in the > second installment of the National Family Health > Survey collected in > India in 1998-1999. The responses of women who > participated in focus > group discussions and interviews, in Mumbai and Goa, > India in > 2002-2003 concerning their experiences with formal > education and their > thoughts on status are also analyzed in order to > more fully understand > the nuances in the relationship between education > and status. Results > indicate that while the measures in large scale > demographic surveys > tap into manifest power dynamics, these survey > instruments are not > well suited to measuring latent and hidden power > dynamics. Formal > schooling has a positive effect on improving women's > status as it is > commonly defined by these manifest power measures. > Paid work activity > also has effects that are commonly defined as > positive, though it is > also associated with an increased risk of physical > violence. Analyses > === message truncated === ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
