What’s Wrong with the Global? The Interconnected Roles of Inequality, Migrancy, Criminality, Religion, Class, and Caste in India

Abhisek Ghosal; Saswat Samay Das

doi:10.1515/ngs-2020-0052

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What’s Wrong with the Global? The Interconnected Roles of Inequality, Migrancy, Criminality, Religion, Class, and Caste in India

Abhisek Ghosal and Saswat Samay Das

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From the journal New Global Studies Volume 15 Issue 2-3

Abstract

Postcolonial discourses often view globality as marking the continuation of the imperialist project. However, discourses entailing a genetic assessment of globality have identified that the workings of the neoliberal economy are largely responsible for its undoing. This mutually destructive relationship between globality and neoliberalism makes it even more necessary to strike a rupture between them. This article illustrates the strands of global and neoliberal discontent, positioning both globality and neoliberalism as arriving at cul-de sac despite vigorous effort to pretend otherwise. In particular, it dwells on the ontological status of the migrants in India by discussing the current strategy to criminalize them and uses Rahul Pandita’s Our Moon has Blood Clots: A Memoir of a Lost Home in Kashmir to show how criminalized migrants may be turned, by de-globing, into natural inhabitants of the Earth.

Keywords: globalization; de-globing; neoliberalism; criminality; migrancy

Corresponding author: Abhisek Ghosal, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, E-mail: abhisekghosal419@gmail.com

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Received: 2020-12-18

Accepted: 2021-01-15

Published Online: 2021-03-16

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globalization; de-globing; neoliberalism; criminality; migrancy