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Globalization and Culture

Globalization and Culture. Instructor: Prof. Anjali Gera Roy, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur. Globalization is one of the most talked about words in the contemporary world and dominates discussions in the media, academics and everyday life. Cultural theorists have used the term to refer to political, economic, social and cultural transformations that have occurred in the last decade of the twentieth century. It appears that everyone on the planet is affected by globalization but not in the same way.Yet most people have only a fuzzy understanding of what globalization means because of the number of things it means to a wide variety of people. The different dimensions of globalization such as the rise of global capital and markets, new media and communication technologies, dissolution of political borders, and growth of consumerist culture cannot be seen in isolation from one another. But people tend to examine them separately or through the compartmentalized frames of different disciplines. (from nptel.ac.in)

Lecture 32 - Henna, Bindi, Saris and Bangles


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Lecture 01 - Globalization Definition
Lecture 02 - Global Flows and New Media and Technologies
Lecture 03 - Globalization and Nation
Lecture 04 - Rise of Global Capitalism
Lecture 05 - Cultural Imperialism
Lecture 06 - Global Monocultures
Lecture 07 - Birth of Asian Kool
Lecture 08 - Bhangra Reinvention
Lecture 09 - Disorienting Bhangra
Lecture 10 - The Body of Dance
Lecture 11 - World Music: Tabla
Lecture 12 - World Music: Qawwall
Lecture 13
Lecture 14 - Is Chutney the New Rage
Lecture 15 - Bollywood Song and Dance
Lecture 16 - Planet Bollywood
Lecture 17 - Bollywood at Large
Lecture 18 - Bollywood Assemblages
Lecture 19 - Bollywood Assemblages (cont.)
Lecture 20 - Bollywood's Soft Power
Lecture 21 - Travels of Dastan
Lecture 22 - Scripting the Nation
Lecture 23 - Cracking the Nation
Lecture 24 - Narrating and Interrogating the Nation
Lecture 25 - Cosmopolitans the Borderless World
Lecture 26 - Orientalism
Lecture 27 - Yoga, Meditation, Gurus
Lecture 28 - Beatles, Ravi Shankar and Sitar
Lecture 29 - Orientalizing India
Lecture 30 - Neo-orientalism
Lecture 31 - The Birth of Indo-Chic
Lecture 32 - Henna, Bindi, Saris and Bangles
Lecture 33 - The Taste of Curry
Lecture 34 - Global News
Lecture 35 - News as Infotainment
Lecture 36 - Global Media Cultures
Lecture 37 - Cultural Imperialism
Lecture 38 - Contraflows in Global Media
Lecture 39 - Contraflows in News and Entertainment