1st Edition
Innovation as Social Change in South Asia Transforming Hierarchies
1. Introduction: Innovation: transforming hierarchies in South Asia
Minna Säävälä and Sirpa Tenhunen
2. Katibs and computers: innovation and ideology in the Urdu newspaper revival
Mark Allen Peterson
3. Microcredit and building social capital in rural Bangladesh – drawing the uneasy link
Mohammad Jasim Uddin
4. Mobile telephony, mediation, and gender in rural India
Sirpa Tenhunen
5. Supply and demand demographics: dowry, daughter aversion and marriage markets in contemporary north India
Patricia Jeffrey
6. Domestic violence made public: a case study of the use of alternative dispute resolution among underprivileged women in Bangladesh
Laila Ashrafun and Minna Säävälä
Biography
Minna Säävälä is an adjunct professor of social anthropology in the University of Helsinki, Finland and works as a senior researcher in the Population Research Institute, Finland. Her current research projects relate to family formation in India and reproductive health of migrant populations in Europe.
Sirpa Tenhunen is an anthropologist who teaches in the University of Jyväskylä, Finland as a professor (interim) and university lecturer. She has also taught anthropology in the University of Helsinki, Finland and worked as a researcher in the Academy of Finland. In addition to new media, her research interests cover gender, work and politics in India.
