BY NAYANTARA SHEORAN Advertising has traditionally been the machinery that has affected change in the thinking of people. Advertising in post-liberal India took on the task of creating consumers. This article originates from a conference presentation where a semiotic analysis was employed to examine the visuals in some Indian advertising campaigns, which aimed to affect [...]
BY JOHN N. PADEN Religious affiliation is one of many identities that may be mobilized for political purposes. Succession to leadership in democratic systems is always a political process, and symbol management is an integral part of this process. In pluralistic societies, the ability to balance the ticket, or to convince a multi-ethnic constituency that [...]
BY RITA CHI-YING CHUNG One outcome of globalization is the increased movement of people by either legal or illegal means. Recently there has been increased media attention to human trafficking that has exposed the clandestine nature of this illegal migration. There are various definitions of human trafficking supplied by the United Nations, the International Organization [...]
BY JO-MARIE BURT One of the most contentious issues facing transitional democracies is the problem of gross human rights violations committed during the previous regime. How should fragile democracies address the question of accountability, given the known deficiencies of their judicial systems; the ongoing power of the torturers themselves and/or those who benefited from their [...]
BY HAZEL M. MCFERSON The history of interaction in the United States between Asians and African-Americans is far more nuanced than either the view that most interaction has been positive, or the more common, opposing view that what interaction has taken place has been uniformly negative. Certainly, in contemporary times there is a widespread impression, [...]
BY BENEDICT CARTON In the twilight of apartheid, militant Zulu nationalism threatened a momentous democratic transition in South Africa. Weeks before the milestone April 1994 election, Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini, backed by M.G. Buthelezi’s Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), urged the “warrior Zulu nation” to go it alone and follow the inspiration of Shaka Zulu, a [...]
BY BHAVANI ARABANDI India has gone through many transformations since its independence from British colonization in 1947. Significant among them has been a change in economic policies. Initially, India promoted a mixed economy: an uneasy combination of Soviet-styled socialism and Gandhi’s dream of self-sufficiency. Nascent industries were protected by the state, and foreign competition was [...]