The Politics and Culture of Globalisation : India and Australia Book
Contents: 1. Introduction: dynamics and dilemmas of globalisation/Hans Lofgren and Prakash Sarangi. I. Making sense of globalisation: Introduction. 2. Justice, globalisation and diverse conceptual worlds/Michael Leahy. 3. Ontology of permanence and change: a critique of globalisation/A. Raghuramaraju. 4. Neo-liberal hyperglobalism in Australian political thought/Geoffrey Stokes. 5. The numerical small: casualty of hyperglobalisation/Purushottama Bilimoria. II. Governance and globalisation: Introduction. 6. Globalisation and Indian federalism: re-assertion of states’ rights/Harihar Bhattacharyya. 7. Challenges of globalisation in urban local governance/Sudha Mohan. 8. Community governance and rural regeneration in a globalised world/Kevin O’Toole. 9. Chemicals and pharmaceuticals in South India: ‘sun rise’ industrialisation or global cost-shifting of dirty goods manufacturing/G. Vijay. 10. India’s drug multinationals: growth strategies and global industry dynamics/Hans Lofgren. III. Experiencing globalisation: Introduction. 11. ‘The good Australians’: Anglo-Indians, multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism/Glenn D’Cruz. 12. Cosmopolitanism and tolerance/Stan van Hooft. 13. Late Marxism and parliamentary government: Indian Communism today/Geoff Robinson. IV. Globalisation, foreign relations and security: Introduction. 14. Indo-Australian relations in the post-cold war period/Y. Yagama Reddy and J.D. Kenneth Boutin. 15. Indo-Australian relations: beyond indifference/Gary Smith. 16. Terror, power and protest/Andrew Vandenberg. 17. Globalisation, ‘glocalisation’ and South Asian insecurity/B. Ramesh Babu. Index.
"The Politics and Culture of Globalisation : India and Australia brings together Indian and Australian experts in the fields of political science, international relations, philosophy, cultural theory and political economy. Its timeliness and unifying theme derive from comparisons between Indian and Australian perspectives, and analyses by Australian writers on developments in India. Indian-Australian relations are explored in several chapters.
The neo-liberal form of globalisation is a key focus of critique in this volume. Several chapters examine the search for alternative forms of governance as the nation-state undergoes profound change due to global interconnectedness." (jacket)