I Have Found It: Romanticizing or Resistance of Western Influence? I have had very little experience with Indian film, and had never heard of Kollywood, going into our class screening of I Have Found It. The prospect of the new experience was exciting and being familiar with the story of “Sense and Sensibility” I was […]

This is the surprise overly late blog entry. I went back to review my posts, and make sure I was up to date with this course’s blogging when I realized… I never wrote a main entry. So, here it is. Since we have already worked through all of the blogging material, I’m going to focus […]

I enjoyed learning about the transnational labor force in the Body Shopping chapter of Aneesh’s book Virtual Migration.  Reading personal anecdotes from such workers sparked a lot of questions in my mind. I was previously under the impression that the majority of workers were grateful for the opportunities they were given by overseas companies but […]

The piece of flexible citizenship introduced interesting concepts reminiscent of using intersectionality when thinking about the experiences of minority groups with intersecting identities. Globalization and transnationalism, according to Aneesh, must be redefined and re conceptualized to add various aspects that affect individuals. Aneesh emphasizes the need to redefining these terms, in order to incorporate the complicated relationship […]