Thinking Activity : Future of Post Colonial studies : Globalization and Environmentalism
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Here I'm going to summarize Two articles on the future of Postcolonial studies of Globalization in and Environmentalism .so, let's begin...
future of postcolonial studies : Globalization and Environmentalism. First throw some light on the author and her book in which we find these articles.
Ania Loomba:
Ania Loomba is an Indian literary scholar. She is the author of Colonialism/Postcolonialism and works as a literature professor at the University of Pennsylvania. more
Globalization and the Future of Postcolonial Studies, we often have confusion about how globalization and postcolonial studies are connected with each other. Globalization changes India in a way the whole world. In india there were the three events Happened , these events had changed India a lot.
Which are known as LPG :
The writer points out one major event and it is the 9/11 September, 2001 terror attack on the US. The September 11 attacks, often referred to as 9/11, were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Wahhabi Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. It was an attack on the Collapsed section of the Pentagon. This event is considered a game-changer in the discussion on Globalization in the 21st Century.
Both 110-story towers collapsed within an hour and forty-two minutes, leading to the collapse of the other World Trade Center structures including 7 World Trade Center, and significantly damaging surrounding buildings. more
2.Conclusion:The Future of Postcolonial Studies
Vandana Shiva:
Shiva exposed the connection between colonialism and the destruction of the environment because her culture is very women- friendly.
Arundhati Roy:
".....the newer divisions build on former patterns of dispossession. Because it is an ongoing process, David Harvey suggests that we redefine ‘primitive accumulation’ as ‘accumulation by dispossession"
By Roy, we come to know that the deep historical connection between trade and colonialism and accumulation is a constant process rather than a past event.
Dipesh Chakrabarty
"...the whole crisis cannot be reduced to a story of capitalism. Unlike in the crises of capitalism, there are no lifeboats here for the rich and the privileged (witness the drought in Australia or recent fires in the wealthy neighborhoods of California)."
Example:
Sherni :
Story of Nature and man fight against a forest officer as she and her team of locals and trackers attempt to capture a disturbed tigress.
After it, we comes to "Empire" , in which Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri argues that the contemporary global order has produced a new form of sovereignty which should be called 'Empire' but it is best understood in contrast to European empires.
Empire identifies a radical shift in concepts that form the philosophical basis of modern politics, concepts such as sovereignty, nation, and people. Hardt and Negri link this philosophical transformation to cultural and economic changes in postmodern society to new forms of racism, new conceptions of identity and difference, new networks of communication and control, and new paths of migration. They also show how the power of transnational corporations and the increasing predominance of postindustrial forms of labor and production help to define the new imperial global order. For more information click here
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Hardt and Negri suggest that the new empire is better compared to the Roman Empire rather than to European colonialism , since empirical Rome also loosely incorporated it's subject States rather than controlling them directly.
But , the analogy with empirical Rome vaishali cooppan argues, makes it difficult to accurately analyse contemporary US Imperialism and its place in the contemporary World. Then also O'Brien and Imre szeman believe that ' characteristic US political and cultural power as a global dominant doment detracts from a more thorough examination of sites and modalities of power in the Global era ; Accordingly , they celebrate Empire as ' exceptionally helpful as a center/ periphery dynamic that produces resistant margins
Modernity at Large" by Arjun appadurai -
By modernity at large appadurai tells about the cultural dimensions of globalisation , as well as New hybridity,new forms of communication,new food,new clothes and new pattern of consumption are offered for the newness and benefits of globalisation.
"And Then There Was The Market" - P . Sainath
Market fundamentalism destroys more human lives than any other simply because it cuts across all national, cultural, geographic, reli- gious and other boundaries.It's as much at home in Moscow as in Mumbai or Minnesota.A South Africa - whose advances in the early 1990s thrilled the world- moved swiftly from apartheid to neo-liberal- ism.It sits as easily in Hindu, Islamic or Christian societies.And it contributes angry, despairing recruits to the armies of all religious fundamentalisms.Based on the premise that the market is the solu- tion to all the problems of the human race, it is, too, a very religious fundamentalism.It has its own Gospel: The Gospel of St. Growth, of St. Choice…
As an upper reference, Sainath talks about market fundamentalism . P.Sainath observed that it was far from fostering ideological openness. And it resulted in its own fundamentalism.
Globalisation and the claim of Postcoloniality" - Simon Gikandi
It is premature argue that the images and narratives that denote the new global culture are connected to a global structure or that they are disconnected from earlier or older forms of identity.In other words there is no reason no suppose that the global flow in images has a biological connection to transformation in social or cultural relationships'(Gikandi 2001:632; emphasis added).
Hybridity
Difference
For Gikandi there are two particular terms of Postcolonial studies…
Niall Ferguson :
Another important talk about Postcolonialism there is Niall Ferguson. He suggests that
the US must learn from Britain and send its best and brightest Students from its leading universities on the imperial mission . But how will the best students be prepared to do so ? In a report called ' Defending civilization : how our universities are Failing America and What can be done about it' , the American councils of trustees and Alumni (ACTA) Suggests that universities are not up to this task because , unlike the rest of the country , large number of American academics and students are critical of US policies . On US campuses , ' it has become commonplace to suggest that western civilization is the primary source of the world's ills even though it gave us the idea of democracy , human rights , individual liberty , and Mutual tolerance '.
After 9/11 the report went on to complain , ' instead of insuring that students understand the unique contributions of America and western civilization - the civilization under attack - universities are rushing to add courses on Islamic and Asian cultures' - ( ACTA 2002: 5, 6)
Examples :
The true story dramatised as Tigers
Baby Milk Action acted as consultants to the filmmakers and has produced the booklet “The true story dramatised as Tigers” with background details, what happened after the events in the film and what is happening now. .
Frank Cottrell-Boyce proposed the film project to Baby Milk Action after reading our newsletter article about Syed Aamir Raza’s evidence of Nestlé baby milk marketing practices in Pakistan – and Nestlé’s efforts to keep this out of the media. It took many years for the film to become a reality, with the final script written by the director, Danis Tanovic, and UK producer, Andy Paterson.
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Coke, Pepsi fizz with pesticides
NEW DELHI: In findings, hotly contested by global giants Coke and Pepsi, the Centre for Science and Environment picked up three bottles each of 12 soft drink brands from Delhi and found they contained a ''deadly pesticide cocktail'' which exceeded European norms by around 11 to 70 times. But these do not breach Indian laws which, said the CSE on Tuesday, are weak or non-existent. Rivals Coke and Pepsi, accused of ''double standards'', came together on Tuesday evening to challenge CSE's testing methods. Read the full article on
Site: https://m.timesofindia.com/india/coke-pepsi-fizz-with-pesticides-says-study/articleshow/115007.cms
Maggi noodles safety concerns in India
In May 2015, food safety regulators from Barabanki, a district of Uttar Pradesh, India reported that samples of Maggi 2 Minute Noodles had unexpectedly high levels of monosodium glutamate (MSG). This finding led to multiple market withdrawals and investigations in India and beyond.more
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Films as an example :
Sonali cable
Story of the girl named Sonali, who runs an Internet providing agency in Mumbai, gives her all to save her business when a large corporation, Shining Broadband, tries to maintain its monopoly in the city.
Ghayal Once Again Again
Story of Four teenagers accidentally record a murder involving a famous personality and fall into trouble as a result. Ajay, a journalist, decides to help them in their quest to defeat the murderers.
Madaari
Story of Nirmal, a man who lost his son due to the negligence of the government, seeks revenge and kidnaps the ten-year-old son of the home minister, forcing the administration to meet his demands.
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