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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