Manoj Jinadasa

This book is a timely very productive contribution to public relation. Opening a range of new insights is one of the appreciated points of this text.

Very useful discussion and analysis that renders timely crucial interpretations along with the contemporary practices of psychoanalytic discourses.

Encountering Development is one of the key vehicles in which we can pinpoint the real picture of what is given as "development", by the Eurocentric- US-UK myth for development. Escober enlighten us by deconstructing the fake reality of "what is development" within the space of post-structuralist argumentation. In nutshell, Development is a pseudo fabrication made by the supporters of capitalism and those who have been largely broken up by the industrial revolution and the followers of that of the leading notion - technological determinism. Thus, development itself is an unreality of reality as it has a hegemonic power play that intersectionally projects on the economy, politics, education, knowledge, ideology, and natural resources.

This three-year online ethnography flesh outs an insightful analysis about how men are created and recreated through their passion, beauty, identity, and digital embodiment as those who appreciate and love for corporeal practices as romances and desires, particularly in North American - Western gay cultures. Also, this book provides a critical analysis of how men are created and re-created through the impact of heteronormative and homophobic threats as men are physically and virtually pressed through the said cultural dominations. Therefore, the book concludes, that although men come to virtual platforms to negotiate who they are, these men themselves have been worsened by their gay male practices as the body has been the matter as ' gay muscle being top prioritized

One of the interesting reader to whom involve with exploring men's broader aspects of intimate relationship making, courship, dating , particularly in the age of digital online communication. Also Masculinity , peculiarly on hegemonic masculinity ( Connell) how men's sexuality and identity has been reconfigured in the era of neoliberalism and authenticity and marketisation has been insightfully explored in this original and empirical academic work

This book provides an interesting critical view on feminist research methodology through and/ or in culture, society and discourse.

This book is very useful for doctoral level research studies in identifying key areas of how to handle effective qualitative studies in congruent with the practical issues that are mostly emergent in the filed level as well.