About the Book
This book is the last of the four-volume Festschrift Modernization, Globalization and Social Transformation in honour of one of the stalwarts of sociology in India, Professor Yogendra Singh.
In this volume entitled Gender, Identity and Multiple Marginalities papers have been placed in two sections: women/gender and identity and multiple marginalities. The first part of the volume looks at the gender dimension of globalization covering issues such as women in cyberspace, women in sciences, safety of women, economic equality and gender neutrality, women in urban space etc.
Gender being the central issue of discussion in the first part, the second part touches upon important issue of identity and marginalization of tribals, dalits, minorities, aged, children and the disabled. Essays included in this volume are written by academics from myriad disciplines. Providing a good discussion on the ongoing debates, this collection will give a deeper understanding on gender, identity and the issue of marginalization in the globalizing society.
Contents
1 Women-in-science and Women’s-science / Haribabu Ejnavarzala and Naga Lakshmi Chelluri
2 Gendered New Technology / Bula Bhadra
3 Exploring the Sita-Myth / Renuka Singh
4 ‘Chilling Out’ in Night Clubs of Kolkata / Piyali Sur
5 From Androcentrism to Gender Neutrality / Mita Bhadra
6 Value Added Microfinance / Anurekha Chari Wagh
7 Towards Deprivation and Dependent Economic Development / S.N. Chaudhary
8 On Classification / Vinay Kumar Srivastava
9 Modernization and Cultural Identity of Tribals in India / Sukant K. Chaudhury
10 Ethnic Issues and Human Rights / Ranajit K. Bhadra
11 Change in Concept of Economic Culture Interface / Pragya Sharma
12 Urban Migrant Tribal Dwellers / J. Borbora and S.V. Borbora
13 Multiple Marginalities / Nilika Mehrotra
14 Modernization and Ethnicity / D.V. Kumar
15 Social Transformation and Reconstitution of Identity in India / Yukiko Takagi
16 Globalization and Minorities in India / Bhagwan Singh Bisht
17 Globalization, Social Exclusion and Social Justice / Bibhuti Bhushan Malik
18 Globalization and Social Change Among the Dalits / Shruti Singh
19 Caste Dynamics in the Periphery / G. Ram and Pheiroijam Sanathoi Devi
20 Trends, Causes and Consequences of Child Labour in India / Subhash Sharma
21 Globalization / Sudeshna Basu Mukherjee
22 Global Transformations / Ananya Chatterjee and Sudeshna Basu Mukherjee
23 Visual Media / Somrita Sengupta and Sudeshna Basu Mukherjee
About the Author / Editor
Ishwar Modi, a pioneer of Leisure Studies in India and a former Director, Centre for Leisure and Tourism Studies, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, is presently the Director, India International Institute of Social Sciences. A former President of the Indian Sociological Society, he is also an Executive Committee Member of the International Sociological Association and President of its Research Committee on Sociology of Leisure. He has authored, co-authored and edited several books and is also on the editorial board of several national and international journals.
