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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Chennai"”.
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Thinking with Groundwater from Chennai: Materials, Processes, Experimental Knowledge
… practices as ways of knowing groundwater in Chennai, South India. First, I ask what groundwater is, and how I might approach it. Through a series of case studies, I develop a methodology for researching groundwater, confronting the problem of how to research and write something that I cannot …
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Confusion in the Karnatic Capital: Fusion in Chennai, India
… carried out in the South Indian city of Chennai between 2006-8, I attended countless concerts, interviewed dozens of people involved with musical production, and performed with musicians. I observed how musicians and audiences perpetuated the idea that fusion was contested and I …
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Ery Urbanism: Framework for Water Inclusive Urban Growth in Chennai
Chennai’s urban history has evolved and flourished around an elaborate cascading system of water tanks, locally known as ‘Erys’. Traditionally, as an agrarian society these erys were ecological commons that engendered biodiversity, and community building. They served as essential water reservoirs …
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Barriers to Implementation of a Health, Hygiene, & Sanitation Program: Chennai, India
… will focus on one pilot program conducted in Chennai, India over the summer of 2014. This program was designed to teach school children safe sanitation and hygienic habits by providing a guiding tool to teachers. The study analyzed qualitative observational data collected over the seven-week …
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Real-time flood mapping for disaster management decision support in Chennai
… the traditional channels of emergency response. Chennai, the capital city of Tamil Nadu, is located in the southeastern India on the shores of the Bay of Bengal. With its low elevation coastal zone, inadequate provision for storm water runoff, and unregulated growth over wetlands (Parkash 2016), …
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The politics and anti-politics of shelter policy in Chennai, India
… the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board in Chennai, India, and examining the evolution of the Board's policies towards slums and slum clearance from 1970 to the present. In its early years, state level political party incentives determined the shelter policies of the Board. The World Bank …
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Pedagogical shifts in Bharathatyam, Durban: Case studies in Durban-South Africa and Chennai-India (2019 & 2020)
… in Bharathanatyam in Durban, South Africa and Chennai, India in the 2000s. It questions the state of Bharathanatyam teaching in South Africa today in order to understand its role in a multicultural context. Chapter One forms the rationale and background to the study. It begins by offering a …
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Sanitation Realities in Peri-Urban Communities: Unfreedoms, Capabilities and the Conscious Mind - A Case of Chennai, India
… experienced by peri-urban slum dwellers in Chennai, India, to investigate whether rapid economic growth translates into pervasive safe sanitation, otherwise a threat to human security. This is in line with the Sustainable Development Goals of ‘leaving no one behind’. The empirical …
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The effects of mobile phones in social and economic development : the case of female microentrepreneurs in Chennai, India
… phone use by 335 female microentrepreneurs in Chennai, India, this dissertation found that: (1) microentrepreneurs who are highly motivated to grow their businesses experience higher business growth, demonstrating a fairly strong link between attitudes and desired outcomes; (2) business growth …
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Comparative assessment of flood resilience in urban and rural environments: a case study of Chennai City and Wardha River Sub-basin, India
… of urban and rural flooding, focusing on Chennai as a case study for urban flooding and the Wardha River sub-basin for rural flooding. By examining the role of land use changes, urbanization, and hydrological factors, it provides insights into the differing mechanisms, impacts, and …
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Struggle and solidarity in transforming urban futures: The fisher fight for Ennore wetlands in Tamil Nadu, India
… India. Stretching from the northern edge of Chennai, the Ennore wetlands have been a colonial frontier since the 18th century: first targeted by British empire-building, then by post-independence industrialisation, and later by neoliberal reforms that turned them into an industrial sacrifice …
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Affective Roots: Memory, emotions and viscerality within organic agri-food networks in Tamil Nadu, India
For activists I met in Chennai, the capital city of Tamil Nadu in India, organic food and farming was a ‘way of life’. Stemming from my curiosity about this statement and what it meant for different actors in the regional organic agri-food networks, this research explores the interconnected lives …
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Examination of Emotion Socialization in Early Childhood: Indian vs. U.S. White Families
… dyads in the US (New York; n = 39) and India (Chennai, n = 38); study 2 includes 217 parents of preschoolers residing in India (native Indian parents, n = 98) and the US (White parents, n = 119). As hypothesized, Indian parents of toddlers and preschoolers endorsed more balanced (i.e. with …
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What Makes a Modern Indian Profession? Corporate Policies and Middle-Class Subjectivities in Chennai's Information Technology Industry
… (IT) industry in the South Indian city of Chennai, and its impact on middle-class identity formation. It adopts a distinctly gendered approach in its analysis, while also commenting on themes that travel beyond conventional feminist research. It draws on a variety of qualitative sources, …
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Open government data intermediaries : mediating data to drive changes in the built environment
… data intermediaries, 596 Acres and Transparent Chennai, who as urban actors facilitate the conversion of open government data into actionable information for communities to effect changes in the built environment. In describing and assessing the tools, practices, and methods developed by open …
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Assessing the feasibility of a circular economy for 3D printed tactile educational aids for visually impaired (VI) students in India
… economy model has been piloted at Bengaluru and Chennai, India, in the past nine months. Finally, there is a recount of the challenges encountered, suggestions on future work, and a commentary on the more extensive socio-technical system.
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Single-Center Experience of Providing Congenital Heart Surgery to Low- and Middle-Income Countries
… Hospital (FLL), a specialty cardiac center in Chennai, India, and identify the barriers and limitations they faced. METHODS: This two-part retrospective study analyzed International Quality Improvement Collaborative (IQIC) data from Boston Children's hospital and FLL data of CHD patients who …
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Essays on the Economics of Mental Illness and Belief Formation
… learning between spouses using an experiment in Chennai, India. We vary whether individuals discover information themselves or must instead learn what their spouse discovered via a discussion. Women treat their `own' and their husband's information the same. In sharp contrast, men's beliefs …
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Essays on Worker Productivity and Labor Supply
… objectively, we find that low-income adults in Chennai, India sleep only 5.5 hours per night on average despite spending 8 hours in bed. Their sleep is highly interrupted, with sleep efficiency—sleep per time in bed—comparable to those with disorders such as sleep apnea or insomnia. A randomized …