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"This book interrogates representations - fiction, literary motifs, and narratives- of the Partition of India. Delving into the writings of Khushwant Singh, Balachandra Rajan, Attia Hosain, Abdullah Hussein, Rahi Masoom Raza and Anita Desai, among many others, it highlights the modes of 'fictive' testimony that sought to articulate the inarticulate - the experiences of trauma and violence, of loss and longing, and of diaspora and displacement. The author discusses representational techniques and formal innovations in writing across three generations of twentieth-century writers in India and Pakistan, invoking theoretical debates on history, memory, witnessing and trauma. With a new Afterword, the second edition of this volume draws attention to recent developments in Partition studies and sheds new light as regards ongoing debates about an event that still casts a shadow on contemporary South Asian society and culture. A key text, this is essential reading for scholars, researchers, and students of literary criticism, South Asian studies, cultural studies, modern history, and the general reader"--

In several countries of Eastern Europe, the sex ratio at birth is abnormally high. This is especially the case in the Southern Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia) where it has sometimes exceeded 115 boys per 100 girls (a normal sex ratio is 105), and to a lesser extent in the Western Balkans, around Albania, where it hovers around 110. The persistence of traditional patriarchal values is central to the son preference observed in these regions, but the fertility decline and the development of modern healthcare services under the new political and economic regimes have raised demand for prenatal sex selection.

In this introduction to the eight reports on different sectoral dialogues, the coordinators of this issue provide an inventory of the different forms of social dialogue in the EU. It is argued that trade unions have hitherto made insufficient use of the opportunities offered by social dialogue but that the sectoral social dialogue offers a forum for unions to cooperate with employers to develop policies to safeguard Europeanised industries. Two fields of action are identified as being particularly suitable for Europe-wide campaigning: common rules for the European labour market, including a European minimum wage system, and a 'citizens insurance' to sustain social security systems.

Chapter 1: Police Stops: a comparative perspective on governance -- Chapter 2: Stop in the name of the law: the legal regulation of police stops in Europe -- Chapter 3: Internal Governance of police stops: an unresolvable challenge? -- Chapter 4: External accountability: the limited influence of oversight bodies on the governance of police stops -- Chapter 5: Civil oversight practices in Europe: exploring the impact of civil movement against police stops -- Chapter 6: Legal remedies for victims of unlawful police stops: European and domestic contexts -- Chapter 7: The role of data in enhancing the governance of Police Stops in Europe -- Chapter 8: The possibilities and pitfalls of the use of accountability technologies in the governance of police stops -- Chapter 9: Conclusion: the three levels of governance of police stops.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to analyze whether and to what extent households living in southern Europe, i.e. Greece, Portugal, Spain and Italy, experience similar conditions of financial vulnerability, considering that in comparative research these countries are often grouped together because of the substantial instability of their economies and the similarity of social and welfare model.Design/methodology/approachThe authors use data from Household Finance and Consumption Survey, a quite novel data set that covers the whole balance sheet of a sample of households. The authors compute four indicators of debt burden and in order to study households' risk of default the authors apply two-part model, which is a valuable alternative to the application of conventional regression models with zero-inflated data.FindingsAnalysis reveals that the burden of debts and the risk of default are very different among the four countries, in particular Spain and Portugal have the highest proportion of financially vulnerable households.Originality/valueThe study is one a few that have directly compared objectives indicators of households' financial vulnerability in all Southern European countries. Moreover, the authors employ a two-part model, a valuable alternative to the application of conventional logit or linear regression models. In the first part of the model the authors estimate the probability that households suffer financial vulnerability; in the second part, the authors estimate households' level of vulnerability only for vulnerable families.

Morley, J.: Unemployment in the EU - an American or a European solution? - S. 1-18. Storm, A. ; Cullmann, O.: Jobs for Europe. Labour market policy options. - S. 19-38. White, M.: Are active labour market polies enough? - S. 39-54