Globalizing India (eBook, PDF)

Perspectives from Below
Redaktion: Assayag, Jackie; Fuller, Chris

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This is one of the first books to present a collection of writings on the effects of globalization on India and Indian society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 245
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857287243
• Artikelnr.: 44360998

Autorenporträt

Jackie Assayag is Senior Research Fellow at the National Centre of Scientific Research (CNRS), Maison française, Oxford, UK, and affiliated to the Centre for Indian and South Asian Studies at EHESS, Paris. Chris Fuller is Professor of Anthropology at London School of Economics.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; Part One: Economy
and Agriculture: 2. On the History of Globalization and India: Concepts;
Measures and Debates; 3. In Search of 'Basmatisthan': Agro-nationalism and
Globalization; 4. Seeds of Wrath: Agriculture, Biotechnology and
Globalization; 5. Weaving for IKEA in South India: Subcontracting, Labour
Markets and Gender Relations in a Global Value Chain; Part Two: Education
and Language: 6. 'Children are Capital, Grandchildren are Interest':
Changing Educational Strategies and Parenting in Caclcutta's Middle-class
Families; 7. Of Languages, Passions and Interests: Education, Regionalism
and Globalization in Maharashtra, 1800-2000; Part Three: Culture and
Religion: 8. Maps of Audiences: Bombay Films, the French Territory and the
Making of an 'Oblique' Market, 9. Malabar Gods, Nation-Building and
World-Culture: Our Perceptions of the Lcoal and the Global; 10. Globalizing
Hinduism: A 'Traditional' Guru and Modern Businessmen in Chennai