In the absence of formal employment opportunities and with increasing urban and rural
poverty, the informal recycling sector has become a means of survival for the past two …

Social exclusion is not random, but concentrated in already marginalised groups and often
related to the “frozen accidents” of particular forms of thinking about education and …

Motivation is fundamental for user engagement in applications. In particular, in educational
software systems, gamification is widely used to try to increase student performance and …

This essay makes a case for embedding the analysis of institutions for technological change
in an understanding of the politics of markets. In turn, this needs knowledge of institutions …

This article presents the Indian electricity sector as a case study of the evasion of
responsibility in public policy. India's electricity policy repeatedly fails to meet its own targets …

Abstract Harriss-White, Mishra, and Prakash argue that citizenship is a universal concept
that might have a tenuous bearing on reality. There is no consensus about the concept of …

Abstract In Technology and Underdevelopment, the far-sighted and far-reaching book she
published in 1977, Frances Stewart explored technological transfers which were …

How has the Indian state changed with economic liberalization? While many scholars have
explored the altered party politics and class basis of the liberalization-era state, few have …

This article examines the micropolitics of state-directed women's collectives in India called
self-help groups. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a setting where development becomes …