Globalisation and People at the Margins: Experiences from the Global South

Globalisation and People at the Margins: Experiences from the Global South

Editors:

Dr. Sarbeswar SAHOO and Dr. Eswarappa KASI

Globalisation has brought many significant changes in the socio-political and economic spheres of global south. Although it has brought economic growth and expanded the size of the middle class in India in particular and global south in general, the lives of the marginalised people have not improved as expected. Globalisation has drastically transformed the relationship between the state and the civil society in global south and, as a result, the state is withdrawing itself from the welfare agenda. In response to this, many of the non-state actors have emerged to take up issues that were previously undertaken by the state. Specifically, globalisation has followed a market-oriented development strategy, which has affected the livelihoods of the marginalised people. The civil society actors have strongly opposed this exploitative and exclusivist model of development and advocated for a more participatory and people-centric development paradigm. With this background, the book aims to dwell upon the theoretical and epistemological engagement of globalisation on the one hand, and the ethnographic and empirical experiences on the other. The book will follow inter-disciplinary perspectives, drawing on inferences from sociology, anthropology, politics, development and area studies. We invite abstracts or summary of the paper on the following themes.

1. Globalisation and Marginality

2. Globalization and Livelihoods

3. Globalisation and Social Welfare

4. Globalisation, Civil Society and the State in global south

5. Globalisation and Political Mobilisation

The length of the abstract/summary of the paper should be around 500 words. The due date of submission of abstract is June 20, 2012. Abstracts should be submitted to

sarbeswarjnu@yahoo.co.in and kasieswar@gmail.com

Editors

Dr. Sarbeswar SAHOO is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max-Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt, Germany.

Dr. Eswarappa KASI is associated with the U.N. Women Project at the Center for Women’s Development and Gender Studies, National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD), Hyderabad, India.