Future of Postcolonial Studies: Globalization and Environmentalism Thinking Activity

ThAct: Future of Postcolonial Studies: Globalization and Environmentalism

 Thinking Activity

Introduction :-

A critical analysis of the history, culture, literature and modes of discourse on the Third World countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean Islands and South America, postcolonialism concerns itself with the study of the colonization (which began as early as the Renaissance), the decolonization (which involves winning back and reconstituting the native cultures), and the neocolonising process (an aftermath of postmodernism and late capitalism, when multinational corporations control the world). Focussing on the omnipresent power struggles between cultures and the intersection of cultures which results in multiculturalism and poly-valency of culture, Postcolonialism analyses the metaphysical, ethical and political concerns about cultural identity, gender, nationality, race, ethnicity, subjectivity, language and power.

i) Summaries both articles

Article 1 :Conclusion: Globalisation and The future of post colonial studies  

                       

Before, we move on to the Article Let me give basic information about what Globalisation is.

Economics

Political science

Privatisation

Free choice

Article's some intresting points :

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri - ' EMPIRE'

Arjun Appadurai - Modernity at large : cultural dimansions of Globalisation

Simon Gikandi - ' Globalisation and the claims of post coloniality '

E. Balibar - Racism & Nationalism

Samuel Huntington - Clash of Civilisations

P.Sainath - And then there was the market

Kalpan - Supremacy by stealth

Niall Ferguson

NBA

ACTA

Post colonial critic read the American’s Mind.

The one of The book of Michel Hardt is about ‘Empire’ of U.S.A.

                   Michael Hardt

In contrast to imperialism, Empire establishes no territorial.center of power and does not rely on fixed boundaries or barriers. It is a decen. tered and deterritorializing apparatus of rule that progressively incor- porates the entire global realm within its open, expanding frontiers. Empire manages hybrid identities, flexible hierarchies, and plural exchanges through modulating networks of command. The distinct national colors of the imperial map of the world have merged and blended in the imperial global rainbow.

                           (Hardt and Negri 2000: xiii-xii)

Michael Hardt is an American political philosopher and literary theorist. Hardt is best known for his book Empire, which was co-written with Antonio Negri. It has been praised by Slavoj Žižek as the "Communist Manifesto of the 21st Century".

Empire is a book by post-Marxist philosophers Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. Written in the mid-1990s, it was published in 2000 and quickly sold beyond its expectations as an academic work.Further Information in the Link

Simon Gikandi gives positive and Negative Aspect of Globalisation.

However, Three things are more significant for Understanding.

1. Privatisation
2. Health care
3. Education

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…

This is the interesting quote by P.Sainath.

Palagummi Sainath is an Indian journalist and author of the book Everybody Loves a Good Drought. He gives Market Fundamentalism

And Then there was the market By p.sainath.

So long as the American Empire dare not speak its name ... ambitious young men and women will take one look at the prospects for postwar Iraq and say with one voice, 'Don't even go there'. Americans need to go there. If the best and brightest insist on staying home, today's unspoken imperial project may end-unspeak- ably tomorrow.

- (Ferguson, 2003: 52).

H Niall Campbell Ferguson says that 

Globalisatio is very harmful.

The Education of Children is bad.

Defending Civilisation.

I would like to give some examples of movies connected with this literary conflict:

Sonali cable - conflict between a girl who runs local tv/internet cable service vs giant company 'Shining' which started providing broadband

Ghayal Once Again Again - the conflict of younsters who witnessed Murder of RTI activist against multi-business owner Bansal (represents Ambanis)

Rang De Basanti - A nexus between politician and businessman vs young college boys (one them has to murder his own father who was corrupt businessman before murdering the politician)

Zee5 Original Web-movie ' Tigers' - based on a Pakistani salesman's conflict with giant MNC Nestle.

Madaari - The conflict between common man (father whose child died in bridge crash) and nexus between construction company and politicians.

Reluctant Fundamentalism - the conflict between market fundamentalism and religious fundamentalism in the aftermath

What is The Future of post Colonial studies?

As we know that Now Afghanistan & Taliban, Chaina,Russia,Pakistan and America and India.

But The point is about taliban people, how they are blindly follow the religion, how woman has problem to take Education as well as always wear the Black color costume. The major things that The mike on the Temple. The Rules of Tallak.

 This article begins with the claim of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, “‘no longer have a post-colonial perspective. I think postcolonial is the day before yester-day’ (Spivak 2013: 2).

Scrap Police vs Eco friendly

     Being Eco Friendly. It is about

  Privatisation

  Policy

 Favor to Company.

 

There are several examples connected with Globalization and postcolonial studies and environmentalism and postcolonial studies.

Globalization and postcolonial studies :

A. Nestle's Maggie ban in India - unhealthy food controversy

However, the controversy grew when the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) asked Nestle to recall Maggi Noodles. Nestle was left with no choice but to recall the popular snack from the market. ... Maggi's share in the Indian market went down from 80 per cent to zero. But later on India started to eat Meggie. This incident remind us that how Multinational companies rules over us. B. Ban on Pepsi & Coke in India owing to pesticide issues

A court in southern India on Sept. 22 lifted a ban on the manufacture and sale of soft drinks by US giants Coca-Cola and Pepsi, amid claims that their beverages contained pesticides. The government in Kerala state had imposed the ban on August 11 after claims by a New Delhi-based environmental group, but the Kerala High Court ruled that the state government did not have the authority to do so. "The ban order issued by the state government was not within the legal powers that rest with the government. Thus we set aside the government order," chief justice V.K. Bali and justice M. Ramachandran said in their ruling

In our classroom discussion we have seen several examples which discuss the concern of ecology.

 So let’s put some light on it.

Sherni by Amit Masurkar.

Second example is from movie Chakravyuh by Prakash Jha

Third example was “Tatvamasi” by Dhruv Bhatt.

Kerala to restrict use of groundwater by Pepsico; traders may ...

-Kerala to restrict use of groundwater by Pepsico; traders may stop sale of Pepsi, Coke. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan welcomed the move of traders and said government would extend support to the initiative to check the threat to exploitation of water, pollution and lifestyle diseases.

Chardham Yatra project

This project concerns the harm of the environment