Author: Jyrki Kakonen
Sanjay Chaturvedi/
Editor(s): Jyrki Kakonen / Sanjay Chaturvedi
Publisher: South Asia Publishers
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 254
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8170032849
Description
The politics behind the production of geographical knowledge(s) of Globalization needs to be further explored in a serious and systematic manner. This argues that it is only by acknowledging the messy nature, fuzzy scale, uneven playing field, and a contextualized as well as temporized nature of Globalization, that implications of this multifaceted phenomena for spaces, identities and (in) securities in Eurasia can be adequately examined. It sounds a note of caution against making Globalization yet another hegemonic theoretical paradigm, after, or along with, Realism, to explain what is going on in the world today.
The multifarious phenomenon called Globalization continues to be defined, defended and opposed in several ways. Yet, whatever understanding might be framed or deployed, it invariably refers, in a subtle or obvious manner, to the compression of the space in which people live, move, exchange ideas, values and products, and the implications of this acceleration on their socio-spatial identification with a globe or global. Is it the same phenomenon that traders call the global market, or philosophers term as universal or strategists proclaim as the world order? Why is globalization much more spoken of today than ever before? Is it due to, relatively speaking, increasing explanatory power of analyses of globalization and /or the declining efficacy of major theoretical paradigms, such as Realism/Neo-realism or historical narratives, in particular Marxism?
Contents
PREFACE
CONTRIBUTORS
Introduction: Revisiting Spaces, Identities and (In) securities
JYRKI KAKONEN & SANJAY CHATURVEDI
World Community as a Reasoned Community? A Retrospective Analysis of the US Diplomatic Persuasion on the Eve of the Iraq War
HELENA RYTOVUORI-APUNEN
The Lazarus effect: the use of Liberations, Uprisings, and Insurrections in the US Foreign Policy
MIKA AALTOLA
Transatlantic Puzzle: Compatibility of Norms
KRISTA SALO
Globalization of Energy (In) security: Perspectives on the Indian Ocean
SANJAY CHATURVEDI
National Project and Globalization the Finnish Case
JYRKI KAKONEN
Rethinking Indian Democracy: Federal Restructuring and the New States in India
PRADEEP KUMAR
A Future Never Fancied: globalization theory and the Growth of Majoritarian Nationalism in India
BHUPINDER BRAR
Constructing the Post-Colonial State and the Nation Pakistan’s Insecurities and Politics of Identity
RITU SHARMA
Understanding the Politics of Ethno-Religions Identity in Kashmir Dominant Concerns and Possible Solutions
ASHUTOSH KUMAR
Civilian Power Europe Bulldozing Quasi-Contradictions
FLORA KURIKKALA
From Human Rights to Politics of Exile
TUIJA PARVIKKO
Securing the Insecure: The Plight and Rights of Refugees in South Asia
ANUPAMA ROY
INDEX