http://dspace.iimk.ac.in:80/xmlui/handle/2259/807 2014: Vol 3 (1):1-107 2026-05-12T13:18:18Z http://dspace.iimk.ac.in:80/xmlui/handle/2259/910 1. Editorial Mathew, A.F. How does one contextualize the question of globalization?Given the present state of the world and the existing deep economic and social crises, it is imperative that an ideological underpinning to every phenomenon is examined. However, a postmodernist perspective would demonstrate a suspicion to all-embracing systems of thought. This would include a suspicion of ‘totalizing theories’; an anti-foundationalism that rejects all claims to ‘absolute’ or ‘universal’ foundations of knowledge (Mathew, 2008). Postmodernism also stresses the heterogeneity and fragmented character of social and cultural ‘realities’. It also questions any attempts of any unified account of them.... IIM Kozhikode Society & Management Review 3(1) vii–xi © 2014 Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dspace.iimk.ac.in:80/xmlui/handle/2259/908 2. Flowback or the End of Globalization Paul Smith The processes of globalization have often been described by way of the metaphor of ‘flows’—flows of people, goods, capital or ideas. Since the recent worldwide economic recession the nature, direction and vectors of those flows have altered, such that it is time to talk about ‘flowback’ or even the end of globalization. Looking at flows of people and capital in particular, the article proposes that the changes brought about by the recession were always immanent in the processes of globalization itself and that the recession is best seen as a crisis of globalization. Even if a recovery is underway, the processes of globalization will have been altered forever IIM Kozhikode Society & Management Review 3(1) 1–9 © 2014 Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dspace.iimk.ac.in:80/xmlui/handle/2259/906 3. Development and Its Discontents: The Story of a Janus-faced Concept Somnath Zutshi The word ‘development’ is at the same time both ‘concrete’ as well as ‘contentious’. It is subject to the historic contexts determined by prevailing ideology of the period. The attempt is to focus on the post-World War II period. In this period, the word ‘development’ has also come into its own with accompanying words such as ‘modernization’. The present phase of neo-liberalism has its historic roots in evolving dominant consensus following the 1929 depression. From Keynesian economics to Bretton Woods, to the advent of deregulation policies of Reaganomics and Thatcherism, this article would be a metaphorical and theoretical exploration to the idea of ‘development’. IIM Kozhikode Society & Management Review 3(1) 11–19 © 2014 Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dspace.iimk.ac.in:80/xmlui/handle/2259/904 4. Delhi’s Meatscapes: Cultural Politics of Meat in a Globalizing City Zarin Ahmad This article is located at the intersection of two distinct entry points—one, the development of Delhi as a global or world class city and two, the contested social location of meat in the city. Delhi is developing and is being projected as a world-class city with all the trappings of globalization which includes among other things state of art infrastructure, technologies, services and experiences. This development discourse is indeed a contested one and it is well-argued that urban transformations are beset with its own baggage of contradictions often resulting in marginalizing segments of its population. This article analyzes the construction of urban margins in contemporary globalizing Delhi through the lens of meat. Historical evidence shows that meat has been considered marginal to city spaces politically, spatially and socially.However, in the last two decades, the consumption, production, presentation and packaging of meat in India are in the throes of critical changes: in terms of technologies, geographies and actors. However, meat as a site is still beset with many tensions and contradictions which are located at the juncture between old and new forms of margin-making. Based on social and political contradictions regarding meat in India and specifically focusing on legal contestations and local activism around the relocation of the abattoir in Delhi, I argue that meat is a site around which margins are construed, transmitted and contested. Drawing from Appadurai, the article uses the concept of ‘meatscapes’ as a conceptual and linguistic tool to unravel the entangled reality of meat in Delhi. IIM Kozhikode Society & Management Review 3(1) 21–31 © 2014 Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z