Rurban Areas and Glocal Networks in Contemporary India: Perspectives from Ideas of Social Space

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520911
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Cultural anthropology/Folklore
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: YUMIKO Tokita 大阪大学, グローバルコラボレーションセンター, 特任准教授 (30452444)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: インド / グローバリゼーション / ラーバン / 社会変化 / 親密ネットワーク / ケア / 女性 / 社会空間

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The present research examined the emergence of new patterns of social practice and spatial configurations in rapidly increasing rurban areas in contemporary India. Rurban is an area in between the rural and the urban that links villages, towns, cities and overseas, and enables the circulation of people, things, money and information between these diverse areas. It is also a place where a variety of people of different classes and castes reside. I employed the analytical perspective of social space to explore how people and things were located and given new meanings in processes of glocalization in India today.

Free Research Field

文化人類学