Safe as Houses

Safe as HousesOur relationship with our homes changed in 2020 when the pandemic known as Covid 19 led to enforced periods of self isolation, called 'lockdown'. We got to know our living spaces intimately and learned the greatest risk of infection was indoors through the breath we shared in poorly ventilated spaces, where microbial atmospheres could work their way inside, through every door, window and with every visitor. Our fear of such invisible threats will

The analyses of policy worlds presented by the contributors to this volume open up new possibilities for understanding systems of knowledge and power and the positioning of academics within them

Western India's Brahman communities have played a key role in the shaping of India's modern caste system

Through extensive archival research and conversations with renowned publicists

Segalovitz illustrates its underlying pedagogical objective: to cultivate close readers capable of momentarily suspending subjectivity through focused attention

Builds upon the narratives of community development activists to describe how they bring about affordable

The contributors examine the links between this historical context and the emergence of specific intellectual traditions

giving up her job as a machinist to become a mother

some of whom have clear ulterior motives

educational leaders and practitioners

German mystics

Against this conception

the city has come under complete totalitarian control