Thursday, February 5, 2009

globalisation: a movement in its own right

this is in reference to the class of prof.ajay dandekar, where he talked at length about what movements are. according to him a movement aims at bringing a change in power structure and there by a structural change in the society. the collective action of all those 'powerless' or those oppressed against those in power or dominant aims at creating an egalitarian society..it tends to go towards that equator where the gap between these two groups are minimal...
but what i have read is that a movement is a collective action driven by an ideology to achieve something by any means..in this context the process of globalisation in india, i think, is also a movement.. i had an intent, was a collective action of all those in the top, it followed a method and every step took was conscious..
prof.ajay had a different opinion of globalisation..opinion of globalisation not qualifying to be a movement..reasons being..globalisation widening the 'gap' and not started by those oppressed etc.,
my submission here would be that globalisation in a way had that intent of changing the power structure..generating more income, assuming some part of it to perculate downwards, it may or may not have succeeded in doing that.. now basing on the outcomes, i think, no one should deny the status of movement to the process of globalisation.
views and comments are welcome..

1 comment:

Joseph Kalassery said...

i think globalisation in current scenario is being aggressively pursued by oppressor's...in the beginning, this might have been different.

hence, the important question would be whether collective action by oppressor's can be called a movement...

thanks