About the Book
Today, we are living in the heightened era of globalisation. There are widespread movements of capital, humans, goods, and ideas across the globe resulting in transformations in the quality of socio-cultural life of the common men and women of all societies. As a concept and an empirical process, globalisation has been attracting much social scientific attention in recent years, so much so that the word has attained the notoriety of being a buzzword.
There is a tendency to look at such overarching and divergent processes of globalisation from the narrower perspective of capital flow from the North to the South. Though this volume does not aim to be a corrective to such perspective, it is surely different from it. “Most contributions to this volume closely examine the nature of ‘globalisation’ as a very ancient historical phenomenon and how its structures and processes have changed in the present avatar of globalisation. There are convincing arguments on the reverse direction of the global flow which otherwise goes unnoticed by many: e.g., globalisation may originate from below” (quoted from Prof. Yogendra Singh’s foreword). Through contributions from researchers from divergent disciplinary backgrounds, this volume adds hitherto unexplored dimensions to the discourse of globalisation. As it contains articles written in lucid and jargon-free language, the volume makes an understandable reading for teachers, students and all those who are interested in knowing the socio-cultural reality of present-day world.
Contents
Introduction / Sakarama Somayaji and Ganesha Somayaji
1 Globalisation and Socio-Cultural Change in India / Roy
2 Globalisation, Modernisation and Development: Northern Discourses and Southern Reality / Ganesha Somayaji
3 Globalisation, Culture and Fundamentalism: Impact on Northeastern India / Walter Fernandes
4 Globalisation, Nationalism and Ethnic Identities: The Future of the Nation-State / Leela D’Souza
5 Globalisation from Below and the Global Indian Diaspora / Aditya Raj
6 A Child-Friendly World / G. Pankajam
7 The Shrinking Sovereign Space: Globalisation and Health Policy / K.B. Saxena
8 Unpacking Globalisation: Historicising the Globalising Brahmin / Ramesh Bairy T.S.
9 Reaching the Rural Poor under Globalisation and Structural Adjustment Regimes in India: The Institutional Dimensions / Sukhpal Singh
10 Globalisation, Poverty and Agricultural Labourers / Satya Prakash Dash
11 The Hindi Commercial Cinema in the Days of Globalisation / Susmita Dasgupta
12 Ageing: A Conceptual Clarification in the Backdrop of Globalisation / L. Thara Bhai
13 Globalisation and India’s Trade in Services / P.K. Sudarsan
14 Globalisation and the Urban Poor: Lessons from Delhi Slums / Sabir Ali
15 Globalisation and Regional Inequalities / N. Sridharan
16 Globalisation and Family Change in India / Sakarama Somayaji
17 Globalisation and Educational Change in India: A Case of Higher Education / K. Vidyasagar Reddy
18 Transforming Spaces or Refashioning Hierarchies?: Some Preliminary Reflections on Gender Relations, Media and Globalisation / Ravi Kumar and Rama Paul
19 Globalisation, Food Security and the Poor in India / Chaya Degaonkar
20 Globalisation and the Migrating Tribal Women / Kali Nath Jha and Vinita Singh
21 Harnessing Globalisation: People’s Participation and Empowerment / Ranji George
22 Promotion of Equality or Perpetuation of Inequality: Revisiting Globalisation and Educational Development of Tribes / Afonso Botelho
23 Impact of Globalisation on a Small Town: A Study of Bidar District of Karnataka / B.R. Konda
About the Author / Editor
Sakarama Somayaji obtained his initial training in Sociology from the Mangalore University, Karnataka and had later on studied in the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. After working as social development consultant for more than three decades in agencies like NDDB, Anand and TERI, New Delhi now he is engaged in voluntary service among the excluded peoples in a village of Udupi District in Karnataka.
Ganesha Somayaji has been teaching Sociology at the Sociology Programme of Goa University for the last 22 years. Sociology of Language, Developmental Issues, and Sociology of Food are his key areas of interest. He is currently the Dean, D.D. Kosambi School of Social Sciences and Behavioural Studies, Goa University, Goa.
