Insider or an Outsider: Where Is the Northeast in India’s Act East Policy?

Bhattacharya, Rakhee

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“…In another recent account on the geopolitical dimension of the Northeast borderland, Gogoi (2020) urged for a constructivist world view to achieve trans-national interaction for the Northeast to overcome its present geopolitical trap. Scholars such as Bhattacharya (2018Bhattacharya ( , 2019, Chakraborty (2018) and Mishra (2013) locate the economic integration of the Northeast with Southeast Asia as proposed under the Look (Act) East Policy within the context of India's neoliberal economic restructuring and strategy to engage with the trans-regional market economy. Sarma andChoudhury (2018, 2020) also favour developing the Northeast through the strategy of international trade.…”

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Act East through India’s Northeast: Limits of Neoliberal Strategies towards Developing an Underdeveloped Region

Patgiri

Gogoi

2022

South Asian Survey

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One of the major objectives of the Look East, now rechristened as Act East Policy, of India is to develop the geographically and economically isolated region of Northeast India by economically integrating it with the neighbouring regions of South East Asia through neoliberal economic intervention. In view of this, the present article tries to analyse the rationale of such neoliberal-centric development model for the Northeast India as envisaged under the Look (Act) East Policy, existing gaps in the present policy framework and its impact. It argues that so far, such a strategy has brought very little dividend for the Northeast and may be at odds with some of the existing political, economic and social realities of the region. The article finally concludes by arguing that resources and interests of the region must be protected while trying to expose the region to global market economy for greater economic prosperity.

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Act East through India’s Northeast: Limits of Neoliberal Strategies towards Developing an Underdeveloped Region

Patgiri

Gogoi

2022

South Asian Survey

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“…The Wire published an article in 2017 that divulged through various surveys that women in India have far less access to digital technologies and that structural barriers rooted in patriarchal belief-systems were severely impeding women from participating equally in the burgeoning digital economy in India (2017). Another article was published in Quartz India that highlighted the unequitable access to internet between the sexes and how access to online information through social media and other such platforms could help women in accessing information that can potentially serve them when government or other such avenues were unavailable or unreachable (Bhattacharya, 2017).…”

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Ageing on the internet: Feminist perspectives on sexist practices

Ahlawat

2022

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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This research article undertakes a timely interrogation of the anti-woman digital practices on social media environments, particularly Twitter – specifically, practices seeped in gender bigotry and ageism. It introduces the relatively unexplored concept of digital temporality vis-à-vis digital feminist analysis, and relies, to a limited extent, on empirically examining Indian Twitter primarily and American and Australian Twitter to a lesser extent. The article analyses how image-aesthetics for women, dependent on their age (manifested in appearance and perception of women’s digital image), are a patriarchy-propped digital trend and how that promotes a culture of digital ageism, predicated on women’s appearance. This study also examines and establishes how women users on Twitter are susceptible to continual ageing as images on the digital screen and how digital ageing is a gendered phenomenon. The scope of this article is to examine digital ageism from theoretical perspectives, and offer empirical examples from news portals and Twitter media to substantiate some crucial arguments. This project, of course, also opens more scope to quantitatively account for digital ageism through detailed empirical studies as is also the scope to examine the various subversive tools that could potentially be utilized in gendered rubrics to defy or negate sexist ageism on social media.

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The Idea of Northeast India: Contesting the Construct

Bhattacharya

2024

Demographic Transformation and Socio-Economic Development

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Insider or an Outsider: Where Is the Northeast in India’s Act East Policy?

Cited by 3 publications

References 1 publication

Act East through India’s Northeast: Limits of Neoliberal Strategies towards Developing an Underdeveloped Region

Act East through India’s Northeast: Limits of Neoliberal Strategies towards Developing an Underdeveloped Region

Ageing on the internet: Feminist perspectives on sexist practices

The Idea of Northeast India: Contesting the Construct

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