Book description
Globalization in India: Contents and Discontents reviews the importance of the term ‘globalization’ through an examination of the social, political, economic and cultural contexts in which globalization exists and influences our everyday lives. With the economics of globalization at the core, the essays chart the contents and discontents of globalization in India.Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- About the Editors and the Contributors
- List of Tables
- Introduction
- 1. Economic Globalization, Cultural Identity and Social Conflict
- 2. The Origins and Impact of Outsourcing: Reconfiguring the Post-Colonial City
- 3. Lethal Documents: An Anatomy of the Bhopal Crisis
- 4. Globalizing Hinduism, Hinduizing India: The Paradoxical Purposes of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad
- 5. Revisiting the Migration Debate: Congress, Opposition and Reality
- 6. Globalization and Women's Identities: New Forms of Work, Survival Strategies and Images of Migrant Women
- 7. ‘What the Heart Says’: Same-Sex Unions in the Context of Globalized Homophobia and Globalized Gay Rights
- 8. The Locals Visit the Global
- 9. Culture, Media and Identity Shifts in the Era of Globalization
- 10. Desire in the Diaspora: Gender, Memory and Nostalgia in British South Asian Cinema
- 11. In Print, On the Net: Tamil Literary Canon in the Colonial and Post-Colonial Worlds
- 12. Pennuezhuthu: ‘Women's Writing’ and the Politics of Gender in Contemporary Kerala
- 13. ‘Swords into Shovels’: Some North American and Indian Media Responses to the South Asian Earthquake
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Globalization in India
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2009
- Publisher(s): Pearson India
- ISBN: 9788131775530
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