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Globalization: Theoretical Perspectives

Prof. R. Santhosh · IIT Madras

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Lectures

Week 1

  1. Introduction to the Course Video
  2. Globalization- Key Debates -1 Video
  3. Globalization- Key Debates -2 Video
  4. What is Globalization? Video
  5. Globalization- Major Players Video

Week 2

  1. Cultural Globalization Video
  2. Cultural Globalization- Introduction II Video
  3. The Clash of Civilizations? Video
  4. The Cultural Construction of Neoliberal Globalization Video
  5. McDonaldization thesis by George Ritzer Video

Week 3

  1. Arjun Appadurai Video
  2. Arjun Apadurai- II Video
  3. Production of Localities- Arjun Appadurai Video
  4. Appadurai on Violence Video
  5. Rooted Cosmopolitanism: Emerging From a Rivalry of Distinctions Video

Week 4

  1. Globalization and modernity debate Video
  2. Globalization and modernity: Anthony Giddens the consequences of modernity Video
  3. Globalization and modernity: Anthony Giddens the consequences of modernity (Continu...) Video
  4. Globalization and modernity: Anthony Giddens the consequences of modernity (Continu....) Video
  5. Giddens : Consequences of Modernity Globalization : Key Thinkers by William Jones Video

Week 5

  1. Giddens and the 'runaway world' Video
  2. David Harvey : Conditions of Postmodernity Video
  3. Reflexive Modernity : Ulrich Beck -1 Video
  4. Continuation of Reflexive Modernity : Ulrich Beck -1 Video
  5. Continuation of Reflexive Modernity : Ulrich Beck -1 Video

Week 6

  1. Space, time, place and flows David Harvey, Saskia Sassen and Manuel Castells Video
  2. Time-Space Compression: David Harvey Video
  3. Saskia Sassen and Spatiality Video
  4. The city: localizations of the global :Saskia Sassen Video
  5. Manuel Castells : Introduction Video

Week 7

  1. Manuel Castells : Theory of Space and Flows Video
  2. Manuel Castells: Time of Flows Video
  3. Castells : Information Age Video
  4. Globalized Space Centres Cities- Solly Benjamin Video
  5. Globalized Space Centres Cities- Solly Benjamin Video

Week 8

  1. Ulrich Beck- The Nation-state and Globalizaation Part - I Video
  2. Ulrich Beck- The Nation-state and Globalizaation Part - II Video
  3. Ulrich Beck- The Risk Society Part - I Video
  4. Ulrich Beck- The Risk Society Part - II Video
  5. Ulrich Beck- The Risk Society Part - III Video

Week 9

  1. Anti-Globalization: The Empire Thesis Part - I Video
  2. Anti-Globalization: The Empire Thesis Part - II Video
  3. Globalization and its Discontents: Joseph Stigiliz Video
  4. Imaginations of Alternate Globalization Part - I Video
  5. Imaginations of Alternate Globalization Part - II Video

Week 10

  1. Globalization and the Environment Video
  2. Media and Global Culture Video
  3. Religion and Globalization Part - I Video
  4. Religion and Globalization Part - II Video
  5. Religion and Globalization Part - III Video

Week 11

  1. The Modernity of caste and the Market Economy Part - I Video
  2. The Modernity of caste and the Market Economy Part - II Video
  3. Gender, Dowry and the Migration System of Indian IT professionals Video
  4. Employment, Exclusion and 'Merit' in the Indian IT Industry Video
  5. Medical Tourism in India: Progress or Predicament? Video

Week 12

  1. Globalisation, Class and Work in India Video
  2. The New Middle class and Employment Video
  3. Consuming Goa: Tourist site as Dispensable Space Video
  4. The regional identity politics of India's new land wars: Land, Food and Popular Mobilisation in Goa and West Bengal Video
  5. Conclusion Video

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Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Madras
Department
Humanities and Social Sciences
Teacher
Prof. R. Santhosh
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Society and politics
Source
NPTEL
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