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" Gram Swaraj " versus “Globalization”
Author(s) -
Rigby Andrew
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
peace and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1468-0130
pISSN - 0149-0508
DOI - 10.1111/0149-0508.00059
Subject(s) - globalization , opposition (politics) , embodied cognition , resistance (ecology) , liberalization , gram , development economics , political science , economic liberalization , political economy , economy , sociology , economics , law , biology , ecology , epistemology , philosophy , politics , genetics , bacteria
Since 1991, India has been pursuing macroeconomic policies of liberalization and globalization, the main costs of which have fallen on the poorest sections of society. Popular movements of resistance and the positive vision of “ gram swaraj .” This paper focuses on one such movement, the opposition to the spread of aquacultural enterprises along the southeastern coast of India. The continuities between the values embodied in the concept of “ gram swaraj ” and the themes of contemporary advocates of alternative patterns of sustainable development are highlighted. The paper concludes by exploring the significance of the linkages established between the grass‐roots movements of resistance in the South India and transnational campaigns and movements.