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Westernization

About: Westernization is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1154 publications have been published within this topic receiving 15791 citations. The topic is also known as: occidentalization.


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01 Jan 2000
TL;DR: In this article, fourteen of India's foremost scholars and specialists in various fields explore the challenges that lie before twenty-first century India in its quest for a democratic and just society.
Abstract: In this collection of essays, edited and with an introduction by Romila Thapar, fourteen of India's foremost scholars and specialists in various fields explore the challenges that lie before twenty-first century India in its quest for a democratic and just society. Globalization and the IT revolution provide a new context to the problems faced by contemporary India. But will globalization ensure rapid economic growth and development in the face of low literacy, rising population, and the gradual withdrawal of the State from social commitments? Will imitation westernization, and the consumerism that comes with it, further a just society? What are the strains that democracy will be subjected to in the empowerment struggle by marginalized groups, and the growing social and economic disparities that are often accompanied by violence and terrorism? How will India's multiculturalism be affected by the upsurge of various identities and of exclusionist nationalism? Will the family as an institution be transformed to enhance gender justice? Will new technology ensure the autonomy of the media? Can the mauling of the Indian landscape be halted? Covering a large canvas, this book compels us to look at the hard choices before India in the early decades of this millennium.

9 citations

Dissertation
31 May 2016
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify and investigate the reason for the change in sexual values experienced by Russia, Japan, and Iran from the middle of the nineteenth to the early twentieth century.
Abstract: This thesis seeks to identify and investigate the reason for the change in sexual values experienced by Russia, Japan, and Iran from the middle of the nineteenth to the early twentieth century. I argue that semi-periphery nations exposed to Eurocentric globalization and associated " modernist " pressures around the turn of the nineteenth century, in attempting to conform to dominant Western European Victorian ideals, ultimately adopted the accompanying social conservatism and increased standards of heteronormative expectations. Modern-day policies and norms in these countries still reflect this conservatism and heteronormativity. My analysis of these case studies confirms this argument and shows that mechanisms of foucauldian notions of governmentality and world-systems theory factored into the transfer of norms from heteronormative homoeros to strictly heteronormative systems. iv Acknowledgments

9 citations

Book ChapterDOI
01 Jan 2006

9 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the television programme preferences in Cyprus over the last 10 years or so, from the English-language programmes popular during the public broadcasting monopoly period and up to the mid-1990s, to the imported Greek productions, in the Panhellenic demotic, after the pluralism of the 1990s and up until more recent times, when productions in the Cypriot dialect have become very popular on all Cypriote television channels.
Abstract: This article examines the television programme preferences in Cyprus over the last 10 years or so, from the English-language programmes popular during the public broadcasting monopoly period and up to the mid-1990s, to the imported Greek productions, in the Panhellenic demotic, after the pluralism of the 1990s and up to more recent times, when productions in the Cypriot dialect have become very popular on all Cypriot television channels. The significance of language in the expression of a people's culture is discussed, but at the same time, some of the content of the dialect programme offering is also described, to indicate the transition from rural to urban themes and modalities in dialect programmes. Today, Cypriots live in a changing, fragmented world. Could this phenomenal turn to dialect productions (with their satirical selfderision) be a voice of (modernized) demotic expression or is it a type of autochthonous cultural resistance to the embraces of Europeanization and globalization?

9 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202366
2022165
202124
202035
201935
201838