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- Convenor:
-
Scarlett Epstein OBE
(University of Sussex)
- Formats:
- Panels
- Location:
- Studio
- Start time:
- 10 June, 2012 at
Time zone: Europe/London
- Session slots:
- 1
Short Abstract:
Discussing relevant Macro- and Micro data; exploring the variables responsible for the social transformation and suggesting desirable policy changes.
Long Abstract:
The Panel will be truly participatory. We shall use the findings of two South Indian longitudinal socio-economic action oriented Village Studies and a collection of urban slum dwellers case studies as base for examing the social transformation that has been occuring in South India. We shall explore the operational aspects of globalisation in general and the causes and effects of the production or servicing outsourcing in South India by some of the large Western Corporations in particular with its resulting increasing rate of rural to urban migration. Moreover, we shall examine what needs to happen to avoid UNFPA's forecast that by the year 2030 the urban population in developing countries will constitute 81% of the total world's population most of whom will live in extreme poverty. We shall discuss the impact of modern education and new communiation facilities like the mobile phones on the young generation's behaviour and what accounts for the increasing landholding size that is developing in the villages as well as how the landless poor cope with their difficulties. We shall also critically view the film BACK TO THE VILLAGE. Our main objective in all this discussion will be to suggest the implementation of policies that will help to establish a fairer and better life for future generations.
Accepted paper:
Session 1Eswarappa Kasi (Indira Gandhi National Tribal University)
Paper short abstract:
In the 21st century India, globalization and its consequences on the marginal groups, needs a relook of anthropologists from the margins or the perspective from the below.
Paper long abstract:
In the 21st Century India, globalization and its consequences on the marginal groups, needs a relook of anthropologists from the margins or the perspective from the below.
In order to undertake this engagement an overview of the Non-government Organizations (NGOs) and their role in the development process in the third world countries like India is very crucial. It is viewed by the scholars and practitioners that they have a greater role to play in the lives and livelihoods of the tribal and marginal communities of India today. These communities are numerically highest among all the social categories of India in particular and south India in general. Marginal Communities have been, so far, studied by almost all the disciplines in social sciences and, partly in humanities as well. Anthropology, by tradition, has an edge over other disciplines by carrying a number of studies among marginal communities with strong emphasis on holistic and comparative methods. There are numerous organisations working among these communities to bring out these communities from the clutches of poverty, unemployment, discrimination & untouchability, and inequality and enhance their capacities to manage their resources, access, and utilisation and improve their livelihoods base in their locality. An attempt has been made in the paper to see the role of an NGO in the development of a Sugali settlement. It is also attempted to understand how the information and support from the agency (NGO) helped the community to become self-reliant. The drawbacks of the developmental interventions of the agency are also examined in this paper.