symposium participants

• The Problem
  Posed by Shiv Visvanathan, Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi

• NEW LOGICS OF VIOLENCE
  Arjun Appadurai, Samuel N. Harper Distinguished Service Professor, Anthropology and South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, USA

• SURVIVAL IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICA
  Julius O. Ihonvbere, Peace and Social Justice Programme, The Ford Foundation, New York

• THE GLOBAL CITY: STRATEGIC SITE/NEW FRONTIER
  Saskia Sassen,  Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago, USA, and Centennial Visiting Professor, London School of Economics, UK

• BECOMING SILICON VALLEY
  James Heitzman, Georgia State University, Atlanta

• WHAT IS "GLOBAL" ABOUT GLOBAL FINANCE?
  Satya Pemmaraju, mathematician; developing risk management models for a global bank, Chicago

• REFLECTION ON ENRON
  Abhay Metha, energy analyst, freelanve journalist and writer, Mumbai 

• VISIBILITY, APPROPRIATION AND RESISTANCE
  Virinder S. Kalra, Lecturer, Sociology Department, University of Manchester; and John Hutnyk, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, Goldsmith College, London

• KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION IN A NETWORK SOCIETY
  Shiv Visvanathan, Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi

• GLOBAL CHALLENGES TO THE FUTURE STATE
  Peter Newell, Fellow, Institute for Development Studies, Sussex, U.K.

• BOOKS
  Reviewed by Shailaja Bajpal, V.K. Madhavan and Harsh Sethi 

• FURTHER READING
  A selected and relevant bibliography

• COMMENTS
  Received on globalization from Prasenjit Maiti, Department of Political Science, Burdwan University, West Bengal; and on the Tamilnadu elections from Jai Mrug, School of Management, IIT, Bombay

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