---------------------------------------------------------- Documented by Goa Desc Resource Centre (GDRC) Email: goad...@gmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- Symposium on “Globalization and the Grassroots: Issues of Development and Equity” at Goa University. ------------------------------------------------------- Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy (CSSEIP), Goa University is organizing a Symposium on “Globalization and the Grassroots: Issues of Development and Equity” on Tuesday, 23 March, 2010. The event will take place at the auditorium hall, Arts block, Goa University from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
The speakers of the symposium include Mr. Roland Martins, social activist and coordinator of Goa Civic and Consumer Action Network, Dr. Afonso Botelho, Lecturer, Rosary College, Margao, and Dr. Ishwar Singh, Lecturer, CSSEIP, Goa University. The session will be chaired by Dr. PK Sudarsan, Head, Department of Economics, Goa University The objective of the symposium is to understand the impact of globalization on vulnerable and marginalized sections of the society like bahujans, tribals, fishermen, farmers, workers, forest-dwellers, landless, migrants, etc. On the one hand, the globalization is increasing connectedness of the peoples, nations and cultures, on the other hand it is augmenting divide between haves and haves not, between the included and the excluded. The symposium will place globalization in perspective and understand the process which results in new forms of exclusion and marginalization. The symposium would address the questions: What are the implication of the new growth model and economic philosophy for democracy and development? How the process of globalization is unfolding at the level of the grassroots? Is the democratization of the process of globalization possible? What are the new challenges at the grassroots? For more information or to RSVP, csseip...@gmail.com and 6519378 can be contacted. Ishwar Singh, Lecturer-cum-Assistant Director, CSSEIP, Goa University. ------------------------------------------------------------ Press Release from Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy (CSSEIP) csseip...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------