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Part of the book series: The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science (APESS, volume 14)
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The economic liberalization of India, changes in global structures, and the rapid emergence of India on the global landscape have been accompanied by the dramatic rise in popular, public, and elite discourses that offer the promise to imagine India. Written mostly in the future tense, these discourses conceive of India through specific frames of global change and simultaneously offer prescriptive suggestions for the pathways to fulfilling the vision. Both as summary accounts of the shifts taking place in India and in the relationships of India with other global actors as well as roadmaps for the immediate and longer term directions for India, these discourses offer meaningful entry points into elite imaginations of India. Engaging these imaginations creates a framework for understanding the tropes that are mobilized in support of specific policy formulations in economic, political, cultural, and social spheres. Connecting meanings within networks of power and structure help make sense of the symbolic articulations of India within material relationships.
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Mohan J. Dutta is Professor and Head of the Department of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore and Courtesy Professor of Communication at Purdue University. At NUS, he is the Founding Director of the Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE), directing research on culturally-centered, community-based projects of social change. He teaches and conducts research in international health communication, critical cultural theory, poverty in healthcare, health activism in globalization politics, indigenous cosmologies of health, subaltern studies and dialogue, and public policy and social change. Mohan Dutta has published over 150 journal articles and book chapters, and was recently noted as the most published scholar in Health Communication.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Imagining India in Discourse
Book Subtitle: Meaning, Power, Structure
Authors: Mohan Jyoti Dutta
Series Title: The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3051-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-3049-9Published: 06 January 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-3051-2Published: 02 January 2017
Series ISSN: 2367-4024
Series E-ISSN: 2367-4032
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 215
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Economic Geography, Development Economics, Cultural Heritage, Literacy