NPTEL : NOC:Globalization: Theoretical Perspectives (Humanities and Social Sciences)

Co-ordinators : Prof. R. Santhosh


Lecture 1 - Introduction to the Course

Lecture 2 - Globalization - Key Debates - 1

Lecture 3 - Globalization - Key Debates - 2

Lecture 4 - What is Globalization?

Lecture 5 - Globalization - Major Players

Lecture 6 - Cultural Globalization

Lecture 7 - Cultural Globalization - Introduction II

Lecture 8 - The Clash of Civilizations?

Lecture 9 - The Cultural Construction of Neoliberal Globalization

Lecture 10 - McDonaldization thesis by George Ritzer

Lecture 11 - Arjun Appadurai

Lecture 12 - Arjun Appadurai - II

Lecture 13 - Production of Localities - Arjun Appadurai

Lecture 14 - Appadurai on Violence

Lecture 15 - Rooted Cosmopolitanism: Emerging From a Rivalry of Distinctions

Lecture 16 - Globalization and modernity debate

Lecture 17 - Globalization and modernity: Anthony Giddens the consequences of modernity

Lecture 18 - Globalization and modernity: Anthony Giddens the consequences of modernity (Continued...)

Lecture 19 - Globalization and modernity: Anthony Giddens the consequences of modernity (Continued...)

Lecture 20 - Giddens : Consequences of Modernity Globalization : Key Thinkers by William Jones

Lecture 21 - Giddens and the 'runaway world'

Lecture 22 - David Harvey : Conditions of Postmodernity

Lecture 23 - Reflexive Modernity : Ulrich Beck -1

Lecture 24 - Continuation of Reflexive Modernity : Ulrich Beck - 1

Lecture 25 - Continuation of Reflexive Modernity : Ulrich Beck - 1

Lecture 26 - Space, time, place and flows David Harvey, Saskia Sassen and Manuel Castells

Lecture 27 - Time-Space Compression: David Harvey

Lecture 28 - Saskia Sassen and Spatiality

Lecture 29 - The city: localizations of the global: Saskia Sassen

Lecture 30 - Manuel Castells: Introduction

Lecture 31 - Manuel Castells: Theory of Space and Flows

Lecture 32 - Manuel Castells: Time of Flows

Lecture 33 - Castells : Information Age

Lecture 34 - Globalized Space Centres Cities - Solly Benjamin

Lecture 35 - Globalized Space Centres Cities - Solly Benjamin

Lecture 36 - Ulrich Beck- The Nation-state and Globalizaation - Part I

Lecture 37 - Ulrich Beck- The Nation-state and Globalizaation - Part II

Lecture 38 - Ulrich Beck- The Risk Society - Part I

Lecture 39 - Ulrich Beck- The Risk Society - Part II

Lecture 40 - Ulrich Beck- The Risk Society - Part III

Lecture 41 - Anti-Globalization: The Empire Thesis - Part I

Lecture 42 - Anti-Globalization: The Empire Thesis - Part II

Lecture 43 - Globalization and its Discontents: Joseph Stigiliz

Lecture 44 - Imaginations of Alternate Globalization - Part I

Lecture 45 - Imaginations of Alternate Globalization - Part II

Lecture 46 - Globalization and the Environment

Lecture 47 - Media and Global Culture

Lecture 48 - Religion and Globalization - Part I

Lecture 49 - Religion and Globalization - Part II

Lecture 50 - Religion and Globalization - Part III

Lecture 51 - The Modernity of caste and the Market Economy - Part I

Lecture 52 - The Modernity of caste and the Market Economy - Part II

Lecture 53 - Gender, Dowry and the Migration System of Indian IT professionals

Lecture 54 - Employment, Exclusion and 'Merit' in the Indian IT Industry

Lecture 55 - Medical Tourism in India: Progress or Predicament?

Lecture 56 - Globalisation, Class and Work in India

Lecture 57 - The New Middle class and Employment

Lecture 58 - Consuming Goa: Tourist site as Dispensable Space

Lecture 59 - The regional identity politics of India's new land wars: Land, Food and Popular Mobilisation in Goa and West Bengal

Lecture 60 - Conclusion