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Globalization and Standards: Concerns in a Large Transforming Economy, India -- Standards and Consumer Behaviour of the Rising Middle Class in India -- Impact of the Retail FDI Policy on Indian Consumers and the Way Forward -- Environmentally Sensitive Goods in India's Trade: Emerging Challenges and Prospects -- Indian Microfinance and Codes of Conduct Regulation: A Critical Examination -- Automotive Industry Response to Its Global QMS Standard ISO/TS-16949 -- Regulatory Standards in Pharmaceuticals and Consumers: Missing Links -- Medical Consumption and Clinical Practice: India at the Crossroads -- From Reverse Engineering to Reverse Innovation: GPNs and the Emerging Powers -- Institutions and Innovation: A Study of ICT-MSMEs in India -- Promoting Cluster Development Through Decent Work: Case of the Surat Diamond Processing Cluster -- Regulating Industrialization through Public Action and Legal Intervention: Interpreting an On-going Experiment in Tamil Nadu -- Small Industry in India: Are CETPs an Appropriate Response towards Pollution Control? -- Has the Indian Tea Plantation Industry Weathered the Crisis during Reforms? -- India's Organic Guarantee System: Novelty or Facsimile?.

Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Industrial Clustering in India: Local Dynamics and the Global Debate -- 2 An Italian Model and an Indian Reality: Searching for a Way-Out of Deteriorating Sweatshop Conditions -- 3 Flexible Accumulation and Labour Markets: Case of the Tiruppur Knitwear Cluster -- 4 Industrial Clusters and Labour in Rural Areas: The Brick Kiln Industry in Three States -- 5 Competition and Response in Small Firm Clusters: Two Cases from Gujarat -- 6 Organizational Forms, Technological Change and Income Generation: Handloom and Conch Shell Product Clusters in West Bengal -- 7 Variations on the Classical Model: Forms of Cooperation in Leather Clusters of Palar Valley, Tamil Nadu -- 8 Industrial Clustering and Cooperation: The Kanpur Saddlery Cluster -- 9 Flexible Specialization for Rural Industries? A Study of the Bamboo and Rattan Subsector -- 10 The Silver Filigree Cluster in Cuttack, Orissa: What Ails It? -- 11 Handicrafts and 'Cluster Development Approach': The Hand Block Printed Textiles Cluster of Jaipur -- 12 Transforming Artisans to Entrepreneurs through Group Enterprise: The Footwear Cluster of Athani, Karnataka -- 13 Classifying Small Enterprise Clusters: A Conceptual Enquiry in Ahmedabad -- Index

Ding Ke. 2012. Market Platforms, Industrial Clusters and Small Business Dynamics: Specialized Markets in China. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, ix+238 pp.

Extant research links forced marriage and sexual violence in rebel groups with their respective political projects, social control, and group cohesion. However, forced marriage and sexual violence are rare in many rebel groups, including the Maoists in Nepal who claimed to have a "progressive," "scientific," and "modern" framework for governing marriage and sexuality. In the light of this puzzle, I ask, what does a noncoercive/nonviolent rebel governance of marriage and sexuality mean for a rebel group's political project of social control and power? What is the gendered impact of such governance? Importantly, how does it impact female combatants at the intersection of multiple oppressions? Using abductive analysis of extensive interviews with female ex-combatants and their leaders, I build a theoretical explanation about the noncoercive/nonviolent governance of marriage and sexuality that is not just linked to the formation, consolidation, and legitimation of political agendas, but also enabled social control and political power for the Maoists. However, this further marginalized those female combatants who were already disadvantaged. I employ a feminist intersectional framework while critically reflecting on my own positionality. The implications of these findings extend beyond Nepal, illuminating dynamics of rebel governance and the complexity of war and postwar social organization.

This article systematically explores key theoretical and political, and epistemological and methodological considerations regarding men undertaking feminist fieldwork and research. This has become increasingly relevant as men working on exploring the gendered analysis of armed conflict and peacebuilding has become relatively routine recently. Yet, there is a dearth of systematic research on this topic. To fill this gap, this article asks two central questions: Can men do feminist fieldwork and research in conflict/post-conflict settings? What are the requirements for this? Drawing from my experience as a heterosexual cis male doing fieldwork on female combatants in a post-conflict setting in Nepal (2017–2018) and building on the long-standing robust scholarly conversation on desirability and possibility of men in feminist research and activism, the article argues that critical self-reflexivity with honesty on limitation and partiality of research, situated knowledge, and positionality and power including ethics of care, moral responsibility, and reciprocity are key considerations for men to engage in feminist fieldwork and research. While gender is a primary concern for men researching on women, there is "multiplex subjectivity" (race, class, caste, ethnicity, nationality, and education) interacting with gender creating complex relational power dynamics before/during/after the fieldwork to influence the research process and outcome.