Wednesday 16:00-16:30 Laurie Taylor discusses the latest social science research.
09 April 2008
repeat 13 April
PETS AS KIN Researchers looking into people’s support groups and family networks were surprised to find that people kept mentioning their pets; twenty three per cent of the participants put their pets as part of the network of ‘people’ who helped them out.
Professor Nickie Charles is co-author of a paper My Family and Other Animals. Pets as Kin; she explains the recent findings about the relationship between the British and their pets.
INDIA and SPIRITUALITY India is one of the world’s fastest growing economies, with burgeoning cities and modernising technology. Perhaps surprisingly religion is growing as well.
Laurie Taylor is joined by Professor Meera Nanda the author of a new book entitled God and Globalisation in India and Professor Nigel Harris, author of The Return of Cosmopolitan Capital to discuss the apparent paradox of the simultaneous rise of scientific modernity and traditional religiosity.
Additional information:
Nickie Charles
Professor and Director of the Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at the Department of Sociology at Warwick University
The paper My Family and other Animals: Pets as Kin
was presented at the British Sociological Association Conference at the University of Warwick on 28-30 March 2008.
Meera Nanda
Philosopher of Science and author of the forthcoming book God and Globalisation in India
God and Globalisation in India
(Forthcoming publication)
Article:Rush hour of the gods
By Meera Nanda
Published in the New Humanist magazine
Volume 123 Issue 2 March/April 2008
Nigel Harris
Emeritus Professor of the Economics of the City (retired), University College, London
The Return of Cosmopolitan Capital: Globalization, the State and War
Publisher: I B Tauris & Co Ltd
ISBN-10: 1860647863
ISBN-13: 978-1860647864
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