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A new India: Contestations of national identity at the crossroads of postcolonial aspirations and globalized imagination
No full textMy dissertation examines contestations of national identity and representation of individual aspirations within a globalized imagination of 21st century India. In analyzing the metaphoric construction of a New India, I look at the unrestrained urbanization that has followed economic liberalization and the political mobilization of marginalized sections of the population, also concomitantly emerging within these new urbanscapes. As they intersect with new media practices, community-building and neoliberal restructuring of the state, enterprise and the individual, the tenor of a national community, previously invested in the narrative of a glorious past emerging from classical Hindu roots seem to be merging with myriad flows of globalization, transforming the social landscape of the postcolonial nation in significant ways. In studying this, my study uses archival data and ethnographic research to adopt a critical approach to communication and cultural studies with a focus on exploring how the country’s national imagination has been formed within the coordinates of the original Nehruvian trope of the nation as “a new star… of freedom in the East” and the newest construction of “India rising,” especially as it develops with relation to conditions of globalization. It examines how globalization has reconstituted the image of the nation, the national community and national prosperity, as well as development and progress – national, regional and individual – in the minds of the ordinary citizen.Item withdrawn by Alexis Thompson ([email protected]) on 2014-04-25T13:11:04Z
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Stepping outside the sacred circle: Narratives of violence and disempowerment of the contemporary Indian woman
No full textIndia is a secular socialist republic and one of the largest democracies in the world. It prides itself on its modern constitution, extensive educational system and progressive society. The sophisticated mainstream English print media - frequently staffed by erudite, internationally acclaimed journalists and managed by India\u27s biggest business houses - sketches the image of a prosperous, rising and shining India through glossy publications. Beneath this superficial veneer of the story of India\u27s progress is an underbelly of repressive practices, gender-based discrimination and human rights\u27 violations which reveal a society in which women\u27s rights are minimal, oppression is endemic and economic progress or emancipation is elusive. This thesis posits that the mainstream Hindu patriarchal society uses the metaphor of Sita, a religious and mythical figure, as the ultimate feminine symbol, to discipline and dominate the contemporary Indian woman. This project seeks to explicate the connection between the myth of Sita and the modem woman\u27s position through narratives of women, including the author, who have ventured outside their boundaries rather than maintain the code of silence imposed on them by Indian society. Most of the narratives take place within the context of a crisis surrounding an agricultural movement against land acquisition by big business in West Bengal\u27s Midnapore district. The thesis also scrutinizes the print media coverage of this fanners\u27 movement in an effort to show how the mainstream media often ignores the woman\u27s experience even when they are the ones who have to pay the heaviest prices for being part of a political environment. In exploring the way these women craft their stories within the constraints of their political and social existence, this project identifies very distinctive efforts by the women to enact their resistance
In Other Spaces: Contestations of National Identity in “New” India’s Globalized Mediascapes
No full textThe 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.</jats:p
Afterword: Seeking resources of hope for a different type of emancipatory future?
No full textThis book articulates a new colonialism: where advanced global capitalism in its neo-liberal mode meets colonial histories and imperial legacies and extends them in multiple forms. It shows how the city is part of an ongoing imperial construction and how the making of cities has involved raced modes of dispossession, of displacement and of police violence (see Lipman interview in this volume). And that although cities are contextualised and framed by their own nation states and have specific cases to answer, this book reveals how there is a much wider global reach to imperial and racial violence
An explicit expression for velocity profile in presence of secondary current and sediment in an open channel turbulent flow
No full textThe present study revisits the determination of vertical distribution of streamwise velocity in an open channel turbulent flow considering the effect of secondary current in the presence of sediment together with a concentration dependent settling velocity and von Karman constant κs. The work mainly modifies a previous study that introduced a lot of assumptions to obtain an analytical solution of the velocity distribution. The present study overcomes those assumptions in the model and though not fully analytical, attempts to present a semi-analytical solution that is explicit and in the form of a convergent series. Homotopy analysis method is used for this purpose and it is validated with numerical solution as well as with available laboratory data from the literature. How the secondary current and concentration dependent κs influence the velocity profile, is also discussed.The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the pdf file of the accepted manuscript may differ slightly from what is displayed on the item page. The information in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript reflects the original submission by the author
The Argonauts of postcolonial modernity: elite Barbadian schools in globalising circumstances
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