What’s Wrong with the Global? The Interconnected Roles of Inequality, Migrancy, Criminality, Religion, Class, and Caste in India

Ghosal Abhisek () and Das Saswat Samay
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Ghosal Abhisek: Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
Das Saswat Samay: Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

New Global Studies, 2021, vol. 15, issue 2-3, 287-301

Abstract: Postcolonial discourses often view globality as marking the continuation of the imperialist project. However, discourses entailing a genetic assessment of globality have identified that the workings of the neoliberal economy are largely responsible for its undoing. This mutually destructive relationship between globality and neoliberalism makes it even more necessary to strike a rupture between them. This article illustrates the strands of global and neoliberal discontent, positioning both globality and neoliberalism as arriving at cul-de sac despite vigorous effort to pretend otherwise. In particular, it dwells on the ontological status of the migrants in India by discussing the current strategy to criminalize them and uses Rahul Pandita’s Our Moon has Blood Clots: A Memoir of a Lost Home in Kashmir to show how criminalized migrants may be turned, by de-globing, into natural inhabitants of the Earth.

Keywords: globalization; de-globing; neoliberalism; criminality; migrancy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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