Identity Politics, Globalisation, and Social Conflict: Social Discourses and Cultural Texts
(Delhi Workshop: March 26-28, 2002)
Abstracts of contributions:
The following are the abstracts of the presentations made in the Delhi Workshop. The discussions following these have been recorded. The full presentations and selections from the discussions would be published by the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library and would appear in December 2002.
I. Information Technology Provision and Development in Indian Academic Institutions
Suman Gupta, Literature Department, The Open University, U.K.II. Economic globalisation, cultural identity and social conflict
Jayati Ghosh, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru MuseumIII. Developmentalism, Equivalence and Individuation
Raju.S., School of Social Sciences, M.G. University, KeralaIV. Lethal Documents: An Anatomy of the Bhopal Crisis
Suroopa Mukherjee, Hindu College, University of DelhiV. Fractured Polity, Ethnic Identity: The North East of India
Sanjoy Hazarika, Centre for North-Eastern Studies and Policy ResearchVI. Diamonds and Rust: Negotiating Gender Identities in Diasporic Indian Cinema
Brinda Bose, Hindu College, University of DelhiVII. Questioning the global/local dichotomy in the Indian context
Nilanjana Gupta, Department of English, Jadavpur UniversityVIII. Making sense of Tagore's 'viswa' in the age of Globalisation: an essay in the relationship between the 'global-local' in Tagore and neo-liberal ideology
Pradip Datta, Centre for Contemporary Studies, Nehru Memorial Museum and LibraryIX. In Print and On the Net: Tamil Literary Canon and Identity in the Colonial and Post-Colonial Worlds
A.R.Venkatachalapathy, Madras Institute of Development StudiesX. Pennuezhuthu - "women's writing" and the politics of gender in contemporary Kerala
G. Arunima, Lady Shri Ram College, University of DelhiXI. Globalisation and Women: New Forms of Work, Survival Strategies and Images of Migrant Women Workers in the Fish Processing Industry in India
M.V. Shobhana Warrier, Department of History, Hansraj College, University of DelhiXII. Kargil and the consolidation of 'Indianness': media representations of the Kargil conflict
Subarno Chattarji, Department of English, University of DelhiXIII. Re-Schooling Society: A Study of the Education Policy of the BJP-led Indian Government (1998- )
Tapan Basu, Hindu College, University of DelhiXIV. Minority Identity and Inter-Group Differences in Plural Societies: A Study of the Political Response Towards Majoritarian Discourses in India
Mollica Dastidar, Centre for Contemporary Studies, Nehru Memorial Museum and LibraryXV. Globalization and the Management of Pluralism: A Comparative Sociolinguistic Study of Nigeria and India
Efurosibina Adegbija, University of Ilorin, NigeriaXVI. Land, Identity and Social Conflict
David Johnson, Literature Department, The Open University U.K.XVII. Culture and identity shifts in the era of globalization: digitalisation, diaspora, and other concerns
'tope Omoniyi, School of Modern Languages, University of Surrey, Roehampton, U.K.