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The paper highlights the changing scenario of the healthcare financing in India in the wake of globalisation process initiated during early 1990s and the structural changes taking place in the health sector. It attempts a status report of the health sector in India and raises issues related to accessibility, efficiency, and quality of the health delivery in the face of glaring inter-state variations and discouraging healthcare financing situation. The rising health needs particularly in the backward and low income states, sluggish health outcomes, dwindling budgetary allocations and heavy household out-of-pocket expenditure on health pose serious challenges to healthcare financing in India. The paper also discusses the issues likely to be further compounded as global institutions (such as the WTO) are supposed to ensure compliance to Intellectual Property Rights; but, unfortunately, can not provide for the healthcare needs of the poor in India in the face of rising health risks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While the Bourdieusian concepts of capital and relational configurations of positions and position-takings have recently been fruitfully employed to theorize global fields, this paper argues that the concepts of illusio and doxa are especially conducive to analyzing the globalization of a field as an expansion into and transformation of formerly independent national arenas. In deploying the concept of illusio as a (quasi-libidinous) investment in the game, globalization is here first and foremost framed as a process in which more and more actors in various contexts ‘succumb’ to specific field logics that orient them to transnational structures. By emphasizing the concept of doxa as the taken-for-granted fundamentals of a field, the paper furthermore calls attention to the mechanisms that help forge and globalize the tacit presuppositions and shared ontologies on which such logics build. Focusing on a field of global Christian missions that emerged during the nineteenth century, the paper illustrates how its competitive logic of proselytization was introduced into the religious arena of India. It highlights how Western notions of religion gained ground among local traditions and pulled them into a game in which numerical relations of adherents mattered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article uses the theory of articulation to analyze the debate surrounding the decision by the Government of India to open up the Indian print media to foreign investment. The decision was preceded and followed by intense wrangling within the pages of the very newspapers that were to be affected by it, thus resulting in a contentious debate around the move. Using the theory of articulation to explore the mechanism of discursive power exercised by each side within the debate the paper argues that each side articulated the same four themes with culturally specific meanings to shape the government’s decision in their favor. This exploration seeks to emphasize the discursive dimension of globalization as a key site where power struggles are played out and consensus about policy choices is created. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Films are one of the oldest medium of entertainment. Human civilization has witnessed sea change in film creation-production-distribution-consumption processes in last few decades. This paper examines the question whether globalization of Bollywood has taken place in terms of markets as well as audiences, the forms and shapes of the process of globalization and if the process has led to gain of markets and/or loss of audiences. It uses an Indian cinema-hall-going audience survey, content of Bollywood productions and Box office figures across markets to argue that the process of globalization of Bollywood has neither lead to gain of markets nor loss of audiences. It is an inevitable development creating hypo-real markets whereas audiences connect only to culturally proximate contents. Analysis indicates that while on one hand Bollywood films creating 'global' markets, it is losing 'local' audiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The contemporary global consumptionscape is characterized by a vast array of global economic, technological and cultural flows. These flows connect different consumer cultures in complex ways. One outcome of global cultural flows is the re-appropriation of cultural practices in their places of origin after a process of sanctioning in (most often) the western hotbed of consumer culture production. In this paper we explore how the crossing and re-crossing of boundaries has fundamentally transformed the practices and ideas behind local consumption practices in the Indian marketplace; specifically, yoga. We uncover six ways in which middle class yoga consumers in India interpret glocal yoga as it becomes a fashionable practice: yoga as a resource management technique, yoga as a health practice, market oriented yoga, global yoga, global yoga as cultural domination, and yoga as national heritage. We discuss the implications of this re-appropriation process for our understanding of marketplace globalization. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Discussions of cosmopolitanism in Bombay often focus on the rubrics of communal tension, tolerance, and violence, and frequently report the decline of a once cosmopolitan city, especially as a result of the communal riots and bombings that occurred in the early 1990s. However, claims that the city has undergone a general social transformation since the 1990s need to be tempered by the multiple forms of cosmopolitan imaginations and practices that exist in the city. There is a wide variety of alternative cosmopolitan formations—not all of them progressive—reflected in civil society organizations and lifestyle changes for different groups, and often vividly reflected in film. This paper will chart two examples of contemporary cosmopolitanism. The first part of the paper explores the cautious optimism of film in the promise of cosmopolitan Bombay during the early years of Independence, before briefly discussing how cinema later attempted to reflect the destabilizing of the postcolonial vision of urban national development. The second part of the paper begins with discussion of the contemporary cinematic portrayal of elite-oriented global cosmopolitan modernity, and then contrasts this with a different form of global cosmopolitan modernity articulated through the work of the Slum/Shack Dwellers International network. This discussion conceives of cosmopolitanism as social, marking a counterpoint to the tendency in discourses of liberal cosmopolitanism that emphasizes the agency of the globally aware individual. Methodologically, the paper seeks to demonstrate that relating often analytically separate realms such as film and civil society can provide a wider politicocultural lens through which to examine urban change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article engages with the history of television and television studies in South Asia to reflect on how "media" can be re-imagined as an object of analysis and critique. Questioning the analytic primacy accorded to film, we develop the concept of televisual drag and argue that bringing television to the fore can reveal different temporalities, modalities, and logics for the evolution of South Asian screen media, both in their past forms and current constitution. We critically engage with recent studies—of Indian women filmmakers, Pakistani comic shows and YouTube videos, and small-town video circulation in India—to illuminate the currents of televisual drag at work in contemporary media scholarship. We conclude by reflecting how how televisual drag might be a critical method for drawing insights from media histories, practices, and environments that do not or will not follow an easily comprehensible path toward a seemingly inevitable digital horizon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Anthropology has the unique distinction of integrating both the scientific as well as the humanistic traditions into a single domain of institutionalized academic teaching. Speaking within the academic parlance, it has almost become a tautological truth to define the scope of anthropology as the "study of man" in all its totality. The word "totality" has turned out to be a problematic, especially when it comes to reforming our education systems. The current spate of globalization challenging this totality of mankind has brought with itself a rapidly burgeoning body of knowledge, endemic with enormous contradictions, discrepancies, potentialities and dangers; creating a maze, a predicament for people at-large who come from varying cultural backgrounds. Under these circumstances, there is an urgent need to not only to propagate the meaning and scope of this "study of man" to our peer group, but also emphasize the need for each and every man of the society to study anthropology. The reason being that, anthropology has something profoundly relevant and vitally significant to offer, by providing a well rounded and balanced perspective for man, that is sustainable enough to take care of his future on earth. Therefore, an attempt is being made in the present paper to bring out the importance of sensitizing and engaging, not just the students but also the teachers and administrators who run our education system, in making the anthropological perspective an integral part of their training, at all the three levels of the system, that is, school, college and university, wherein an individual's personality is in its formative stages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In today's globalised world, people are interacting with different cultural streams every day, which can challenge the individual's rootedness in regard to their identity. The purpose of the present study is to examine the relationship between social identity and well-being in terms of satisfaction with life, and to examine whether the individual's reaction to cultural globalisation mediates this relationship. The individual's reaction to cultural globalisation was operationalised as a proactive (multicultural acquisition) or defensive (ethnic protection) reaction. The study examined students in India (n = 147) and Denmark (n = 223). The results showed that social identity was positively related to well-being in Denmark but negatively related to well-being in India. Moreover, it showed that social identity and well-being was mediated by a defensive reaction to cultural globalisation in both contexts. The results indicate that cultural differences affect how the individual reacts to cultural globalisation and, further, how social identity and well-being are related. Therefore, the relationship between social identity and well-being in globalised contexts is complex and it is relevant to include the individual's reaction to cultural globalisation when comprehending the role of social identity in globalised societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article concerns journalism as an object of anthropological study. It raises questions about how we should study an occupation that is so familiar in most places of the world. For example, how should we conceptualize newspaper journalism both as a globally diffused media form and as localized cultural practice? Furthermore, I discuss the relationship between the anthropologist and the journalist as two professionals that are equally engaged in producing representations and interpretations of culture and society. The study is based on fieldwork among Hindi-language journalists in Lucknow, India, as well as my own previous experience of local journalism in Sweden. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, the authors argue that offshoring of legal work from the United States has contributed to the fracturing of the long-established internal labor market arrangements in large U.S. law firms. Drawing on evidence from the United States and India on legal employment, the growth of offshoring, and the rapidly changing nature of work that is offshored, the authors contend that the changes in employment systems in law firms are likely to be permanent, in contrast to other researchers who suggest they are temporary adjustments to the financial crisis. As U.S. law firms are dismantling their internal labor market systems, Indian law firms are partially recreating them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Film, television, and music form a major domestic and export product in India. Whereas, in the past, content production has been restricted to professional producers, digital media platforms have drastically altered the landscape of content production in India. Through in-depth interviews of ten online content creators, the article describes motivations of online content creation in India. Discussion themes include professional activities, identity construction of creators, and quasi-corporate structures that are taking root in the democratized digital spaces in India. In doing so, the article challenges the notion of creators on social media as mere "amateurs" or "UGC" (user-generated content). Conclusions from this study suggest future research should take a more holistic approach to studying online content creators rather than classifying creators on the basis of platform affordances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper focuses on Indian diaspora as a case study of globalisation and multiculturalism. It raises the question of a structural and historical distinction between the socio-cultural pluralism of societies like India and the ones overseas where Indian populations migrated and settled, and answers it in terms of dialectically related civilisations and settlement societies. A cultural analysis, using the comparative and theoretical approach of socio-cultural anthropology, leads to the positing of a 'field of forces' paradigm to orientate and position empirical instances of Indian diaspora globally. Three major issues affecting the overseas Indian communities are explored, namely, difference and translation, hybridity and creolisation, and policies of multiculturalism. The conclusion underscores factors such as the locationality of the analyst, the general pacifist orientation of diaspora communities and slippage between the imaginary and the imagined in relation to India that characterise Indian diaspora and influence its sociological study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Does an individual's exposure to aspects of globalization impact their willingness to redistribute to the poor? We hypothesize that the "glitter" of foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries leads relatively better-off citizens to perceive that the poor now have more opportunities and are thereby less deserving of help. Findings from an experiment across three states in India reveal that subjects lower their financial support for the poor upon learning a foreign firm in a low-skilled sector is located in the vicinity. Text analysis of subjects' responses supports the mechanism underlying our hypothesis: FDI reduces support for redistribution when subjects believe that foreign firms offer the uneducated poor higher wages and increased job opportunities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The authors examine whether measures of job quality in India's manufacturing sector differ systematically across states with varying types of labor regulation. Their analysis uses repeated cross sections of India's National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO) household survey data from 1983 to 2004 merged with data on state-level regulations covering employment adjustment and dispute resolution. Results from a differences-in-differences procedure show that restrictions on employment adjustment and dispute settlement in a pro-worker direction contribute to improved job quality for women along most measures. Such regulations yield mixed results for men, however; results indicate that higher wages come at the expense of fewer hours, substitution toward in-kind compensation, and less job security. The authors conclude that India's labor legislation does have a silver lining with respect to job quality, but that silver lining applies selectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reports of flooding are becoming more frequent in the UK media, and evidence from the UK Environment Agency indicates that 'living with flooding' will become commonplace rather than exceptional. This study is the first to adopt a critical discourse analysis approach to compare UK newspaper reporting of floods in the developed and developing world. We present our analysis of major flood incidents in Northern England and Chennai, India, in 2015. Our findings identify that UK newspapers not only give greater prominence to flooding events that are local but also frame differently those affected. Reports of floods in Northern England reinforced similarities and shared values between victims and assumed readers by drawing upon personal stories, emotions and suffering. By contrast, reports about floods in Chennai portrayed victims as anonymous 'distant Others', emphasising the drama of the incident rather than the plight of individuals. We argue that the newspapers' approach to covering flooding reveals how the Western-dominated global media continue to emphasise difference rather than similarity between people in the developed and developing world, presenting flooding in the United Kingdom as exceptional and flooding in India as normalised. We believe these findings have important implications in the context of globalisation and increasing migration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Can governments still use trade to reward and punish partner countries? While World Trade Organization (WTO) rules and the pressures of globalization restrict states' capacity to manipulate trade policies, politicization of trade is likely to occur where governments intervene in markets. We examine state ownership of firms as one tool of government control. Taking China and India as examples, we use new data on bilateral trade disaggregated by firm ownership type as well as measures of political relations based on bilateral events and United Nations voting data to estimate the effect of political relations on import flows since the early 1990s. Our results support the hypothesis that imports controlled by state-owned enterprises are more responsive to political relations than imports controlled by private enterprises. This finding suggests that politicized import decisions will increase as countries with partially state-controlled economies gain strength in the global economy. Extending our analysis to exports for comparison, we find a similar pattern for Indian but not for Chinese exports and offer potential explanations for these differential findings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Volunteer tourism takes place within neoliberal globalisation and reflects inequalities of privilege and mobility. This qualitative research examined the experiences of young female voluntourists who visited Delhi as part of a trip organised by an Australian University Postgraduate Student Association. The aim was to investigate the motives and potentialities embedded in their experience through interviews and journal contributions. Conceptualisations of mapping (cartography) and territorialisation informed the analysis. We found that participants mainly engaged with the experience on a superficial level within the known territory. This reflects 'soft global citizenship' as participants were uncritical about their interactions with the host community. Voluntourist experiences have the potential to destabilise the self in a process of deterritorialisation, and we contend that this is where change occurs. We bring the philosophical theorising of Deleuze and Guattari and their notions of territorialisation and cartography to the field of tourism and argue that their geophilosophical ideas lead to fruitful insights around negotiating volunteer expectations, tribulations and potential transformations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The sense of a nation as a cohesive entity bound by a distinct language, culture, and traditions has been increasingly challenged in the age of globalization. Any discussion of national identity unfolds on a ground which is complicated and fluid. It is often defined by mass migrations across volatile regions and immigration debates within most organized societies, and also contingent upon unforeseen roles played by social media in crucial fields of politics, democratic participation, and communication. India’s national identity has undergone a drastic transformation in the era of globalization and media proliferation. This monograph examines conspicuous spaces and moments of material and digital life in the National Capital Region to understand the underlying momentum for the metaphorical construction of a “New India” and to provide an analytical framework for political and cultural transactions that have defined the nation’s journey toward a new identity and national imagination. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork in India, print and new media analysis, and archival research, I examine globalization’s uneven effects and how global culture has often destabilized, but numerously reinforced, various power structures within the nation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores how variations in provincial-state and city-level political cultures influence urban economic trajectory by mediating forces emerging out of global economic demand and a uniform national regulatory regime. The research shows how an integrated urban governance framework designed to analyze and compare governance modes of advanced capitalist cities through a fixed set of criteria (e.g., governing relations, governing logic, key decision makers, and political objectives) could be recalibrated through inclusion of additional parameters (e.g., local political culture and scalar location of power) so as to expand its applicability to an emerging economy, such as India, having a large, mostly poor, rural population and a high degree of internal sociocultural diversity. Competition between India's regional elites to attract global information technology (IT)-enabled "business process outsourcing" economy investments, through land-use conversion of farmlands at the outer periphery of the metropolitan regions, forms the backdrop of the research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article proposes a theoretical framework for understanding modernity as lying at the intersection of two dimensions: (1) the narrative of modernity as interpreted variously in particular nations and (2) the metanarrative of modernity as a universal goal that nations tend to share. It demonstrates that interpretations of modernity vary among nations, and even within nations over time. But modernity in former European colonies is nonetheless an ideological construct that seeks validation from the West. News media, this article shows, constitute a vital mechanism through which both the narratives and the metanarrative of modernity become collective. The media naturalize particular interpretations of modernity while also making ‘becoming modern’ a necessary objective of nationhood in non-Western societies. Empirical evidence comes from the comparative study of India’s Hindustan Times and Pakistan’s Dawn newspapers over a 60-year period (1947–2007) after the two nations gained freedom from British colonialism, using Derrida’s method of deconstruction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One might argue that an Indian student entering higher education is faced with a critical question—Where to study, in India or abroad? With a gross enrollment ratio of around 20% in the tertiary sector, only one in five in the 18 to 23 age group of a 140 million eventually gets to answer the question. But those who do, and whose numbers are rapidly increasing, pursue higher education abroad in response to a range of choices presented not only by increasing domestic provision in higher education but also through increased international collaborations (for instance, through branch campuses) that Indian students can avail of without leaving the country. As a result, this presents problems for characterizing the Indian student pursuing higher education abroad. By placing emphasis on the multiple transitions across spaces and tensions between “controlled” and “emergent” mobilities, this article sets out a conceptual framework with which to understand potential pathways into higher education, so that policy makers and educational providers can better understand international mobility in the Indian higher education sector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2002, the Incredible India campaign was launched on the world stage by the Government of India, Ministry of Tourism and Culture. This multimedia campaign that positions India as a premium tourist destination has since gone on to receive wide accolades in the global tourism industry through its creative and visceral images encapsulated by the iconic brand logo. In this article, I explore the formulation of the Incredible India campaign and analyze a set of images and events linked to its production and dissemination within the last eight years. Through my analysis of the evolving campaign, I argue that these images convey an important aspirational dimension that speaks to a more compelling vision of the nation and its place in the world at this historical moment. I argue that tourism campaigns, like Incredible India, are not only economic tools designed to augment tourist revenues, but they also provide a privileged platform for advancing geopolitical interests through affective and symbolic means. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Advertising proves to be a particularly useful source of images, stories, and vocabulary, to study the globalization of the Indian economy and the construction of Indian identity. The authors analyze how advertising executives and other cultural producers, such as magazine editors, try to answer the question “Indian consumer kaun hai?” (Who is the Indian consumer?) while trying to develop narratives that can represent Indian ways of living. In a country as diverse as India, this is an extremely difficult task. Drawing from a content analysis of the Hindi and English versions of India Today as well as interviews with Indian advertising executives, the authors detail how cultural producers imagine Indian consumers. This work illuminates the striking differences, between the imagined cultural world of the English speaking elite, and their vernacular counterparts. By showing the importance of the English language, and Western cultural references in indexing the “modern Indian,” this work contributes to macromarketing efforts to study globalization and its effects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Under conditions of precarious work in factories of Delhi, how do workers contest terminations and dispersal? In this article, I explore a struggle of migrant workers of a metal polishing factory to retain legal work. I describe experiences of turbulence at the factory, union efforts to oppose management actions, and workers’ placard protests on roads of the city. I discuss workers’ motives, methods, and difficulties in the protests, interactions with other workers, managers, and the police, and empathetic linkages which arose during the struggle. The struggle’s conclusion might be seen to intimate, drawing on Weil and Gandhi, the workings of ‘forces of truth’ in the world. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article examines the social uses of the body by the French of Tamil origin in the sports centres of Pondicherry (southern India). It reviews the ways in which the body participates in the development and expression of gender arrangements in a postcolonial context faced with globalization. An analysis of semi-structured interviews shows the extent to which the structure of gender relationships, although occurring in a specific community, is both affected by the logic of identity related to cultural affiliations and linked by more global imperatives to the symbolic relationships between the local area and the former motherland, Metropolitan France. Finally, it appears that far from stigmatizing evident gender positions, the organization of roles between the sexes follows a sociocultural rationale that leads couples to adopt strategies which accentuate the structure of gender. On returning to the country of origin, the play of gender opposition and complementarity thus enables the symbolic gender advantages achieved through emigration to be retained while at the same time avoiding the risk of social exclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the challenge pose by China and India, or Chindia, to global communication. It discusses the relationship between China's media market to foreign investment and the internationalization of Chinese media, as well as the possible impact of the nature of media internationalization in China or India on the world communication system. It also deals with the implications of the media and cultural internationalization for the academic debate on globalization within media studies.

This essay reflects on the opportunities and challenges offered by the rise of India and China for teaching and research in global media studies in the U.S. The author believes that incorporating the rise of China and India into the global media studies curriculum offers educators a pedagogic avenue to strengthen students' thinking skills in globalization. The author observes the absence of historical research material on media culture in India and China, and the urban middle class bias in the field of research in global media studies on India and China.

This essay places the relationship of China and Indian in the context of other emerging cultural and media powers in a transformed world or global system. It examines the globalization of China and India in terms of Appadura's financial, technological, ethno/migration, cultural/media, ideological and globalization landscapes and of asymmetrical interdependence. It also explores the relations of China and India with existing core powers like Brazil, Russia and South Africa, and with other less developed nations and cultures.

This article identifies the opportunities and constraints faced by female construction workers in urban India through empirical research conducted in the city of Ahmedabad. The Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA) conducted two surveys in 1998 and 2003 to understand the needs and priorities of construction workers in the context of economic globalization. A third survey was conducted in 2007 to assess the impacts of construction training programs conducted by the SEWA Housing Trust. While enthusiastically endorsing the role that training and certification can play in providing skilled women with quality employment opportunities, the author emphasizes the need for wider policy intervention at the state and national level to ensure that such programs have replicable, sustainable, and gender-equitable results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article addresses globalization's effects on journalism ethics in South Africa and India. It shows the ways in which the debates and issues of journalism ethics are being resolved through the process which scholars have termed as glocalization. Both in South Africa and lndia we found a two-way relationship between global and local epistemologies and practices. By using examples from each country, we suggest that journalism ethics is going through a process of resignification in the local arena. We suggest a global-to-local theoretical matrix that takes into consideration the complexity of journalism ethics in specific cultural and national contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines how the World Trade Organization (WTO) affects institutional development and policy responses in India. India is a country traditionally resistant to external pressures but in which participation in an international organization stimulated a transformation in trade policy processes and procedures and unleashed a new bureaucratic politics, institutional innovation, and activation of policy-expert linkages. The author argues that we go beyond zero-sum assumptions in understanding the relationship between globalization and national state institutions. Key rules of international organizations increase transaction and sovereignty costs for states, which may catalyze new domestic capacities and create the impetus for new governance mechanisms. The author demonstrates this argument with an analysis of India's engagement with the WTO and with illustrative evidence of the interaction of China, Brazil, Japan, and United States with the WTO. The evidence is drawn from 18-month fieldwork in India, Washington, D.C., and Geneva; a newspaper database; and reliance on 100 interviews. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When do national movements adopt or reject international agendas? This question regarding the relationship between global and local thinking goes to the heart of the current globalization debates. This study examines the contrasting responses from the Chinese and Indian women's movements to the agenda adopted by the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. The contrast challenges the dominant assumption that global thinking can substitute for local thinking. The article shows how national movements decided for or against international agendas through context-dependent meaning-making processes. The Chinese and Indian movements drew on the international agenda to pursue similar national policy goals. Each reached its decision on the international agenda through a similar sequence of interactions with the government. However, due to mediation by nationally unique combinations of political rules and policy-related timing, the two movements attached opposite meanings to the international agenda. The Chinese movement embraced the international agenda and reinterpreted it by emphasizing its difference from the government position; the Indian movement used the international agenda as a surrogate target and rejected it by emphasizing its similarities to the government position. The article also proposes an alternative conceptualization of authoritarianism and democracy that understands better international influences on social movement dynamics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the evolution of sociological traditions within India in the context of colonization and assesses their continuation in its contemporary practices. It evaluates two new perspectives, indigenization and postcolonial studies, that have emerged to reorganize these traditions. The author argues that the divisions of knowledge and power represented within the disciplines of sociology and anthropology structure the ways in which distinct traditions of sociology have evolved and continue to play a major role in defining theories, perspectives and methods of doing sociologies in the world. How can these perspectives take the challenge of globalization that is reorganizing the distribution of world power, its knowledge and that of its institutions in new and seminal ways? The globalization of knowledge can have two possible effects. It can reconstruct earlier binaries in new ways, refashioning them to maintain the structure connecting knowledge with power. Alternatively, global processes can distil and uncouple these binaries, thereby allowing for the play of plural perspectives, so that all traditions of doing sociology are placed at equal levels and given equal significance. We have to decide the path that we travel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the relationship between the ethnic identifies of migrants from India in Hong Kong and their attempts to attain economic and social goals. It argues that Indians did not just adopt the characteristics of the British and Chinese majorities who controlled important access to resources. Rather, Indians sought to negotiate their positions in networks with majorities through constructing ethnic identities as cultural capital combining characteristics rooted in several regions. This allowed them to advertise knowledge, skills and connections that other members of Hong Kong society did not necessarily share. Constructions of transregional identities are examined with the examples of Parsis, Jam diamond merchants and Sikh policemen. Distinguishing between essential and relational conceptualizations of ethnic identifies yields four different scenarios of how ethnic identities were constructed in the context of globalization, taking into account power relations between majorities and minorities. They are: high essential-high relational; high essential-medium relational; high essential-low relational; and medium essential-medium relational formulations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing on fieldwork conducted in India, this article explores the lives of women married to seafarers from Mumbai and Goa, charting the changes in attitudes, values and daily life that can be seen as resulting from their husbands' occupations. Using their own words and accounts and working through their own grounded experiences and changed circumstances, the article describes how despite, and sometimes because of, the isolation imposed upon seafarers' wives, many have developed an independence that is recognized and often celebrated by family members but is also regarded as unusual within their local contexts. Additionally, access to higher incomes allows many seafarers and their partners to make significant choices about their domestic living arrangements which are not available to others working in the local economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the impact of globalization on the Indian social fabric and its effect on the church and mission in India. The author also discusses the phenomenon of glocalization, a term which describes the effective assimilation of globalization forces within the framework of local traditions, aspirations and interests. The article presents a brief assessment of India's response to the globalization phenomenon. Then it examines contemporary India's response to the Christian gospel within the framework of glocalization. The impetus that globalization has given to India's present economic liberalisation policy has led some to describe this phase as India's transforming moment.

This article discusses a particular social movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s in Marathwada subregion of Maharashtra state in India. The article further analyses the multiple ways in which the terrain of development in India was mapped by the social movement Marathwada Janata Vikas Aandolan (MJVA). Sociology of social movements has increasingly acquired a centre-stage status in the sociology of the 21st century. This is an indication of two things, the first, there is a growing need to identify sources of collective agency in the scenario currently being altered by processes of globalization. The second, it underscores the urgent need to reconsider the relationship between social movements, the state and political power. The author argues that MJVA brought to the fore the contradictions unleashed by capitalist modernity in a peripheral postcolonial society like India. The nationalist struggles both in British India and the Princely States were aimed at securing capitalist modernity. Even the movements for development and economic prosperity of the of modernity.

In the context of the globalization of television, India and China represent immensely attractive markets to the major corporations that provide television program content and services across borders and regions. However, globalizing pressures on both countries have achieved quite different kinds of liberalization. In the same process, local resistance and adaptation have opened up greater pluralism of cultural choices, as well as new forms of modernization to pursue. Apart from the massive size of their populations and the considerable degree to which they define the centers of two of the major cultures of Asia, India and China are important as the sources of two of the world's greatest diaspora, so each has substantial although dispersed overseas markets to cultivate in pursuit of its own globalization. This article backgrounds the current industry structure of television in each of these nations and outlines the apparent impact of globalization on them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article focuses on the study of cinema which needs to incorporate a diversity of approaches generated through a sustained expansion, interrogation and dialogue with media studies. It states that the study of popular media in India has been a subject of academic discussions associated with film via film appreciation courses held at the Poona Film Institute. Cinematography has gained a great context of cultural history to be studied as one of the defining features of twentieth-century modernity through a wide spectrum of approaches to research. Accordingly, globalization has expanded the coverage of cinema in India, through circulation while intimating new technologies of exhibition, attempts at industrial consolidation, and new entries into international markets.