This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web-Graph, WAW 2010, held in Stanford, CA, USA, in December 2010, which was co-located with the 6th International Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE 2010).The 13 revised full papers and the invited paper presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions.

Mapping the development of social movements in South Asia, this book offers a penetrating study of the nature and modes of protest and dissent as manifest in people's struggles in securing equity, justice and security in labour, gender, human and environmental rights. Amid significant changes in society, economy and polity, combined with far-reaching consequences of globalization and neoliberalism, it situates the understanding of social movements within concrete experiences and examples of diversified resistances, collective dissensions and radical transformative mobilizations. Through case...

This volume examines the role of neoliberalism and its impact on education in South Asia. It contends that education is in a state of crisis across the world. This is reflected not only in the way the state has withdrawn to pave way for private capital but also in the manner in which knowledge and ways of understanding the world are being challenged by manipulation and adverse influences. A process of 'factoryisation' is underway as disciplining of human minds and redefinition of the purpose of human existence are being geared to fall in line with the needs of private capital.

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A reflection on the specific context of neoliberal capitalism and it's impact on education. The chapters establish the intersectionality of state, capital and education and engage with possibilities of transcending the onslaught of capital in different geographical locations from the Northern Hemisphere to the Southern Hemisphere."