criticizing the drawbacks of modern societies, lyotard glorifies the changing of meta-narration to show lack of such narrations totally. for him such a condition or changing of sub-narrations to periphery ones gives him an opportunity to self-expression and survival chance, which by intention to solidarity, stability, etc. they have been deprived of their identity, but keeping eternality of suc...

In medical pluralism, issues of the selective use of one sort of healer over another and what makes people opt for a specific source of health care are important. In this article, we discuss the availability of different health-care alternatives, the conditions that lead the health-care seeker to choose them and ‘therapeutic itineraries’ among a migrant tribal community living in an eastern Ind...

The relationship between critical geography and geoinformatics has recently entered a new phase of cordiality and constructive discourse, exemplified by the NCGIA Initiative 19 [27], the Varenius project [21] and a variety of journal special issues on the topic of GIS and society (eg [28]). This new-found entente has opened the way to the re-evaluation of existing GIS-based research and to much...