‘The Indian Maharaja under check…’: the abolition of privy purses and princely privileges, 1967-71 and the end of an era by Rakesh Ankit

“…This article attends to the abolition of the privy purses and princely privileges of ex-rulers achieved between May 1967 to December 1971 in a controversial constitutional episode, in a period of transition for Indian democracy. …”
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'Wet Paint 2': Visual culture in a changing Britain - a roundtable debate by Craig Richardson, Ysanne Holt, Murray Leith, Frances Fowle, Johnny Rodger, Dana Arnold, Rina Arya, Sarah Victoria Turner

“…For the re-launch of Visual Culture in Britain, the editors have invited, via the same process we went through in 2014, amounting to a series of ‘reflections on Visual Culture in Britain now, the role of journal to address some of these reflections, especially in an era of political upheaval and economic duress. …”
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Early Years Learning (EYL) and embodiment: a Bersteinian analysis by Julie Stirrup

“…The collected data were first analysed ethnographically to determine the organising categories and concepts of the setting, while second order analyses brought into to play the researcher s sociological interests in questions of equity, social reproduction and control, imposing another layer of questions on the study. A Bernsteinian theoretical lens was adopted to interrogate the transactions within EYL settings in relation to power and control, while those of others (namely habitus , physical capital and the corporeal device - pace Bourdieu, Shilling, Evans and Davies respectively) were used to embellish such understandings and bring processes of embodiment to the fore. …”
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