scholarly journals Conceptualization and Measurement of Energy Index (EI) Use in the South Asian Context

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-53
Author(s):  
K. V. Bhanumurthy ◽  
Sakshi Gambhir
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Energy Index ◽  
The South ◽  
Asian Context

scholarly journals Research Ethics: A Perspective of South Asian Context

Edukacja ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2020 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-20
Author(s):  
Bibek Dahal ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Research Ethics ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
The South ◽  
Ethical Practices ◽  
Research Context ◽  
Asian Context ◽  
Process Context

Research ethics is concerned with ethical issues that can arise while conducting research. Social science research entails a combination of three equal entities: process, context and human agency. In each study, these entities demand rich interaction with each other. Generally, research ethics questions the interrelation between the research context and the human involvement established within that context. The research context and interaction between researcher and research participants lead to variations in the construction of knowledge, while research ethics plays a major role throughout all undertakings. In this narrative review paper, I have critically reflected my arguments on behalf of research ethics as a context-specific issue. I argued that the one-size-fits-all approach of research ethics is not viable by presenting ethical practices from the South Asian perspective. The paper is organized in three specific sections – ethical theories, research ethics and its contextual practices. Research ethics is very much a private affair and directly linked to the personal outlook of the researcher towards others. The ethical issue in research is not generic, but specific to the research context, i.e. the context of the research determines what form of behaviour is ethical and what is not. I explore the idea that the South Asian context may have its own system to conduct research ethically, as in euro-western and indigenous systems.

Dispositional traits influence on mentoring relationships

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 306-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ridhi Arora ◽  
Santosh Rangnekar
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
South Asian ◽  
North India ◽  
Mentoring Relationships ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
The South ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Private Sector Organizations ◽  
Asian Context

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of personality factors in influencing mentoring relationships in the South-Asian context. Design/methodology/approach The sample included 363 subjects from public and private sector organizations in North India. Findings Results revealed that in the Indian context, conscientiousness acts as significant predictor of perceived psychosocial mentoring, agreeableness acts as significant predictor of perceived career mentoring support, and emotional stability acts as significant predictor of both categories of mentoring relationships. Further, managers employed in public sector organizations were found to be high on all the Big Five personality factors and mentoring functions in contrast to managers from private sector organizations. Research limitations/implications Overall, the results suggest that mentoring relationships should operate in organizations with a firm understanding of employees’ personality traits. Implications and future research directions were also discussed. Further, suggestions have also been given for incorporating various interventions in order to handle employees with different personality attributes such as counseling for helping emotionally unstable employees manage their emotions and stress. Originality/value To the knowledge, this is the first study that seeks to examine impact of personality factors on mentoring relationships in the South-Asian context.

Peaceful Nuclear Tests, Eco-friendly Reactors, and the Vantage Point of Tamasha

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-223
Author(s):  
Fathima Nizaruddin
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
State Violence ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The South ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Nuclear Tests ◽  
Asian Context ◽  
Epistemological Violence

The article analyzes the role of the documentary form in building pronuclear narratives around the Indian nuclear project. It situates the nuclear films made by two state institutions, Films Division of India (Films Division) and Vigyan Prasar, as part of a network of expert statements, documentary assertions, and state violence that bring into being a pronuclear reality. Through the insights gained from my practice-based enquiry, which led to the production and circulation of a film titled Nuclear Hallucinations, I argue that the certainty of the pronouncements of such documentaries can be unsettled by approaching them as a tamasha. I rely on the multiple connotations of the word tamasha in the South Asian context and its ability to turn solemn assertions into a matter of entertainment or a joke. This vantage point of tamasha vis-à-vis the Indian nuclear project builds upon the strategies of antinuclear documentaries that resist the epistemological violence of pronuclear assertions. In this article, I explore the role of comic modes and irony in forming sites of tamasha to create trouble within the narratives that position nonviolent antinuclear protestors as “antinational” elements. The article also expands on how the point of view of tamasha can engender new solidarities, which can resist the violence of the Indian nuclear project by forming new configurations of possibilities.

scholarly journals Role of gender in health disparity: the South Asian context

BMJ ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 328 (7443) ◽  
pp. 823-826 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fariyal F Fikree ◽  
Omrana Pasha
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Health Disparity ◽  
The South ◽  
Asian Context

scholarly journals The making of modernity: violence and social revolution in the South Asian context

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (48) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Prakash Kona
Keyword(s):  
South Asian ◽  
Social Revolution ◽  
The South ◽  
De Se ◽  
Asian Context

O presente artigo examina a inter-relação entre violência e modernidade no contexto do sul da Ásia. Uma revolução social não é nem espontânea nem é um projeto cuidadosamente planejado, com uma linha do tempo preparada com antecedência, mantendo a situação política em mente. Existem condições objetivas a serem atendidas para qualquer transformação social em larga escala; além dessas condições, o papel da intervenção humana deve ser enfatizado para que a mudança seja realizada. O argumento central do artigo é que, no contexto da pobreza em massa, torna-se imperativo que os pobres se unam e se revoltem com a intenção de adquirir ganhos materiais resultantes do crescimento econômico. Até que ponto as vítimas das sociedades de classe sentem a necessidade de se revoltar contra seus opressores é uma questão em aberto. O fato, no entanto, é que existe um potencial de revolução incorporado à natureza da opressão. Onde os pobres são a grande maioria, há uma possibilidade real de que uma faísca seja suficiente para criar uma reação em cadeia que leve a mudanças ao longo de vários níveis. É importante examinar situações aparentemente não relacionadas em que um grupo de pessoas que lutam por uma causa imediata seja capaz de defender suas idéias através de lutas organizadas. O artigo examina a região do sul da Ásia, onde as contradições coloniais estão entrelaçadas com as desigualdades estruturais, a fim de entender o que os pobres fazem no processo de se revoltar contra uma condição desigual; como eles são capazes de se modernizar através do uso da violência que está paradoxalmente emergindo como resultado de uma modernidade desequilibrada

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