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1. Whatever Happened to Class?

   Reflections from South Asia

   Edited by Rina Agarwala, Ronald J. Herring

   Class explains much in the differentiation of life chances and political dynamics in South Asia; scholarship from the region contributed much to class analysis. Yet class has lost its previous centrality as a way of understanding the world and how it changes. This outcome is puzzling; new...

   Published March 30th 2008 by Routledge
2. Transgenics and the Poor

   Biotechnology in Development Studies

   Edited by Ronald J. Herring

   Genetic engineering is changing the terrain of development studies. Technologies with unprecedented potential - the capacity to move genes across species - have created widely politicized phenomena: ‘Frankenfoods’, ‘GMOs’, and ‘The Terminator’. En masse, the public has reacted with...

   Published December 26th 2007 by Routledge