Globalisation and Cultural Pluralism : Challenges and Possibilities

Contents: Introduction/S. Varghese. 1. Globalisation and our identity as a social being/Arup Jyoti Sarma. 2. Globalization and cultural identities: salvaging the human/Sebastian Velassery. 3. Globalization and identity crisis: an ethical reflection on culture and technology/Arshdeep Kaur Terkiana. 4. Community and identity formation in the era of globalization: some sociological reflections/B. Panda. 5. Under the shadow of violence: ethnicity, communalism and displacement in East Pakistan/Binayak Dutta. 6. Politics of ethnicity, indigenization and the public sphere: a Theoria of the Praxis of politics in Northeast India/Binod Kumar Agarwala. 7. Mind occupations: myths in gaseous-plasmatic environments and their impact on South-East Asian Metropolitan lifestyles/Roman Meinhold. 8. Ethnicity, globalization and the South Asian perspective: a philosophical analysis/Galib Ahsan Khan. 9. Ethnicity and globalization: some ethnographic reflections from Nepal/Binod Pokharel. 10. Deleuze and a politics of difference: rethinking identity in Asia/Tony See. 11. Living in perpetual fear? The state, society and ethnic relations in Post-War Sri Lanka/S.I. Keethaponcalan. 12. Ethnicity, socio-cultural regeneration and planetary realizations: roots, routes and beyond/Ananta Kumar Giri. 13. Identity: meaning and context/Akoijam Thoibisana.14. Mahatma Gandhi on globalization: a critical appraisal/Joy Kachappilly. Index.

The volume contains divergent perspectives to the focal issue of Globalisation presented by scholars from different reputed Universities of South Asia. It is beyond doubt that globalization, in a way, has become a major aspect of our facticity. There were a number of factors that have contributed to the transition from the traditional context to the global situation in which we live. Consumerist tendencies and liberalism as a policy being followed by the nation states are some of the major factors that make global capitalism surge to its heights, thus necessitating strategies to face this challenge from individual and societal ends.

It focuses on the related issues of cosmopolitanism, epistemic aspects of culture and identity, genealogical basis of contemporary forms of alienation, migration as a global phenomenon and the effects of globalisation on cultures of different communities of our continent.