University of Edinburgh School of Social and Political Science Centre for South Asian Studies
Download 268.94 Kb. Pdf ko'rish
|
- Bu sahifa navigatsiya:
- Discussion topic
- Week 10: 26 November 2015 South Asia and the World: Labour and the Clothing Sector
- Further Readings
- Week 11: 3 December 2015 (Dr Jeevan Sharma, Social Anthropology)
|
Week 9: 19 November 2015 The Politics of Disaster (Professor Jonathan Spencer, Social Anthropology) To what extent do natural disasters transcend their immediate political circumstances, to what extent do post-disaster interventions reflect existing political schisms, and to what extent does disaster produce new political possibilities. This week looks at the political consequences of two major natural disaster sin different parts of South Asia: the 2001 Gujarat earthquake, and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in Sri Lanka.
post-disaster interventions? (Key readings Stirrat, Gasbeek, Simpson) Reading Choi, Vivian. 2015. ‘Anticipatory states: tsunami, war and insecurity in Sri Lanka.’
FMR 2005. “ Tsunami: Learning from the Humanitarian Response. ” Special Issue of Forced Migration Review. (available online at http://www.fmreview.org/en/FMRpdfs/Tsunami/full.pdf) Gaasbeek, Timmo. 2010. “ Actors in a masala movie: Fieldnotes on the NGO Tsunami Response in Eastern Sri Lanka. ” In Dennis McGilvray and Michelle Gamburd (eds) Tsunami Recovery in Sri Lanka: Ethnic and Regional Dimensions. London: Routledge. [Library online access] Hollenbach, Pia. 2013. “ Dynamics of Multi-Local Gifts: Practices of Humanitarian Giving in Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka. ” Development in Practice. 23(3): 319-331. [Library e-journal] Klein, Naomi. 2008. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. London: Penguin, ch. 19. ‘Blanking the Beach: “ The Second Tsunami ”.’ [Hub short loan and standard Loan] Korf, Benedikt, et al. 2010. “ The Gift of Disaster: The Commodification of Good Intentions in Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka. ”
journal] Simpson, Edward (2004) ''Hindutva' as a rural planning paradigm in post-earthquake Gujarat.' In: Zavos, John, Andrew Wyatt and Vernon Hewitt, (eds.), The politics
[Standard Loan] Simpson, Edward. 2014. The Political Biography of an Earthquake: Aftermath and
Stirrat, R.L. 2006. “ Competitive Humanitarianism: Relief and the Tsunami in Sri Lanka. ” Anthropology Today, 22(5): 11-16. [Library e-journal] Week 10: 26 November 2015 South Asia and the World: Labour and the Clothing Sector (Dr Kanchana Ruwanpura, Institute of Geography) South Asia is an important node in global clothing production value chains. Although it may seem that the creation of jobs is a boon that the South Asian populations should be
“ grateful
” for, the fact that the largest industrial disaster in the apparel sector took place in Bangladesh raises important questions around the quality of jobs created. Extraordinary events, such as the factory collapses of Rana Plaza or Spectrum in Bangladesh, or factory fires in Pakistan, suggest lapses in the everyday lives of labourers. They also signal the inadequacy of voluntary ethical trading and corporate regimes to govern workplaces globally. Should labour simply be grateful for work, irrespective of their work conditions? If not, who bears the moral, political and social responsibility for their conditions of work? Consumers? Retailers? Suppliers? The state? By looking at how labour connects to the wider world via global apparels, we grapple with knotty questions around global responsibility in an interconnected world. In this lecture, we also shift our gaze to a less talked about country in South Asia, Sri Lanka, to better appreciate the uneven dynamics of this global integration.
“ Rana Plaza testifies that in an interconnected world our moral and social responsibility transcends class and national borders ” Discuss Key Readings: De Neve, Geert (2009) “ Power, Inequality and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Politics of Ethical Compliance in the South Indian Garment Industry ” Economic and Political Weekly 44(22):63-72 [Library e-journal] De Neve, Geert (2012) “ Fordism, Flexible Specialization and CSR: How Indian Garment Workers Critique Neoliberal Labour Regimes ” Ethnography 1-24 [Library e-journal] Smith, Monica (2010) “ Erasure of Sexuality and Desire: State Morality and Sri Lankan Migrants in Beirut, Lebanon ” Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 11(3-4): 378- 93 [Library e-journal] Ruwanpura, Kanchana N. (2013) “Scripted Performances? Local Readings of ‘Global’ Health and Safety Standards (The Apparel Sector in Sri Lanka) ” Global Labour Journal 4(2):88-108 [Library e-journal] Young, Iris (2004) “ Responsibility and Global Labour Justice ” The Journal of Political Philosophy 12(4):365-388 [Library e-journal] Further Readings: Gamburd, Michele (2008) “ Milk Teeth & Jet Planes: Kin Relations in Families of Sri Lanka’s Transnational Domestic Servants” City and Society 20(10):5-31 [Library e-journal] Lund-Thomsen, Pete & Farzad Rafi Khan (2011) “ CSR as Imperialism: Towards a Phenomenological Approach to CSR in the Developing World ” Journal of Change Management 11(1):73-90 [Library e-journal] Miller, Doug (2011) The Last Nightshift in Savar London: McNidder & Grace [Not available] Ruwanpura, Kanchana N. and Neil Wrigley (2011) “ The Costs of Compliance? Views of Sri Lankan Apparel Manufacturers in times of Global Economic Crisis ”
Journal of Economic Geography 11(6):1031-1050 [Library e-journal] Ruwanpura, Kanchana N (2014) “ Global Governance Initiatives and the Garment Sector Workers in Sri Lanka: Tracing its Gender and Development Politics ”
Routledge Handbook of Gender in South Asia London and New York: Routledge, pp 207-219. [Not available]. South Asia: Culture Politics and Economy, 2015 Suggested Essay Questions 1. How, and with what significance, are global processes impacting on contemporary South Asia? 2. Why did India and Pakistan, OR India and Sri Lanka develop different institutional strategies for dealing with ethnic diversity? (Choose one pair for comparison.) 3. Why has the liberalization of India not generated more inclusive growth? 4. Is the 2014 general election outcome a victory for Indian democracy? 5. Is it possible to speak of a unified women’s movement in Ind ia? 6.
“ Cinema was discovered in the West, but India has given the medium alternate modes of interpretation and storytelling. ” Discuss with examples. 7. Describe how marginal citizens are produced in South Asia. 8. Is India an irresponsible power, as some critics claim? 9. Sukhadeo Thorat argues that “ poverty is often closely linked with social exclusion — the social processes through which some groups are denied equal access to sources of income, employment, education, [health,] and participation in decision-making processes. Groups that are socially excluded are not like the rest of the poor. ” How, and how far, is this the case in contemporary India? 10. What is the significance of ‘Rana Plaza’ for understanding the position of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka in the emerging global economy? 11.
“ Reconstruction can be used to push particular kinds of future, politics and ways of being ”
in both Gujarat and Sri Lanka. Download 268.94 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: 
|