Globalization on the Ground: Media and the Transformation of Culture, Class, and Gender in India

Derné, Steve

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“…While the tendency for youths to seek out identities other than the adultdictated positions otherwise afforded to them has been noted in numerous contexts (Miles 2000), several scholars suggest that the status quo in Indian families remains relatively uncontested by most adolescents, particularly as it pertains to more weighty matters such as marriage or career choice (Bansal 2012;Kakar 2006). When conflict does arise, tradition and family mandates usually prevail (Derné 2008;Verma and Saraswathi 2002). Bansal (2012) argues that in this context, markers of capitalist individualism may offer one of the few means by which Indian youth are able to craft and display individual identity.…”

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Globalization and Food Prestige among Indian Adolescents

Maxfield

Patil

Cunningham

2016

Ecology of Food and Nutrition

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This study provides a foundation for understanding how globalization and changing food environments are linked to cultural models of food prestige in adolescents. We used methods from cognitive anthropology, including free lists, pile sorts, and consensus modeling, to explore the meanings that Indian adolescents attribute to foods. Adolescents (n = 29) were asked to free list foods eaten outside and inside the home. Different adolescents (n = 65) were asked to pile sort and rank 30 foods identified during the free lists according to which foods are the most prestigious, traditional, routine, and advertised on television. We found that adolescents overwhelmingly believed nontraditional foods to be the most prestigious. Nonlocal foods, both from foreign countries and other regions of India, as well as foods eaten outside the home, were also considered prestigious.

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“…Globalization and economic liberalization have drastically changed Indian consumer culture (Derné 2008;Mankekar 1999). Among the nonelite, "myth[s] of upward class mobility" are salient, and individuals view consumer goods as tickets to middle-class membership (Dickey 2010, pp.…”

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Globalization and Food Prestige among Indian Adolescents

Maxfield

Patil

Cunningham

2016

Ecology of Food and Nutrition

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“…For men, spatial mobility is an entitlement, and international spatial mobility a privilege that is afforded to middle-class men (Derné 2008). By contrast, mobility for women, except in the context of movement from their natal household to the marital household, is extremely controlled as it may be perceived as reducing the respectability of the family (Radhakrishnan 2009).…”

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Indian international students in Toronto: exploring young men resisting their family's expectations

Sondhi

2013

South Asian Diaspora

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This paper is located at the heart of the growing body of research on international student migration. Using a gendered perspective, it explores the power relations between the students and their families that shape the processes and experiences of migration. The spotlight is on Indian students who move to Canada, specifically Toronto, for higher education. These students are part of a growing yet highly diversified stream of migrants who make up the Indian diaspora in Canada. Using survey data collected by the author, the paper first presents the social characteristics of Indian international students. The discussion then moves to present the narrative of one male respondent in Canada to illustrate how gendered power relations within the Indian patrifocal family shape the participation of sons and daughters in international student migrant flows.

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“…Despite the liberalization of India's economy and the availability of global media, patrilineal joint-families, arranged marriage, and dowry continue to play a major role in women and men's lives in contemporary India (Allendorf 2013;Derné 2008). Marriage in India tends to be hypergamous; brides join the families of grooms of higher status and increasingly give dowry in the process.…”

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Disease and Dowry: Community Context, Gender, and Adult Health in India

Stroope¹

2016

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Despite growing research on health and residential contexts, relatively little is understood about gendered contexts that are differentially important for women's and men's physical health in low-and middle-income countries. This study advances prior knowledge by examining whether the local frequency of a salient and gendered practice in India-dowry-is associated with gender differences in physical health (acute illness, illness length, and chronic illness). Analyses are conducted using multilevel logistic and negative binomial regression models and national data on men and women across India (N = 102,763). Results show that as dowry frequency increases in communities, not only do women have a greater likelihood of poor health across all three health outcomes, but men also have a greater likelihood of acute illness and illness length.Men, however, have lower likelihood of chronic illness as the frequency of dowry increases in communities. In the case of all three health outcomes, results showed consistently wider health gaps between men and women in communities with higher frequency of dowry. 5The dowry system is one such geographically patterned gendered practice, and community support for dowry practice may substantially contribute to gender-based health gaps across India. Prior research and theory suggest that the effects of dowry extend beyond dowrypracticing households; local prevalence of dowry can affect gendered exposure to an array of stressors and unequal resource allocations throughout a community, and these exposures are patterned by gender. Although dowry exchange has received considerable attention due to its growth, illegality, and links to various negative outcomes for women (Acharya, Sabarwal, and Jejeebhoy 2012;Basu 2001;Bloch and Rao 2002; Kumari 1989;Rocca et al. 2009), its consequences for adult physical health have not been documented. In this study, I contribute to literatures on gender and health, communities and health, social status and health, and geographic contexts in India. I do so by using national multilevel data from India (N = 102,763) to examine relationships between the community prevalence of a salient gendered practicedowry exchange-and gender differences in adult health. Importantly, I incorporate an array of controls for gender discrimination and SES to help isolate the community-level effects of dowry practice. Background and Hypotheses

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Globalization on the Ground: Media and the Transformation of Culture, Class, and Gender in India

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Globalization and Food Prestige among Indian Adolescents

Globalization and Food Prestige among Indian Adolescents

Indian international students in Toronto: exploring young men resisting their family's expectations

Disease and Dowry: Community Context, Gender, and Adult Health in India

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