Paper presentation on Pastoral care & counselling TOPIC: GLOBALISATION AND CONSUMERISM

INTRODUCTION: it is widely believed that humanity on threshold of a new world order of globalisation 1{ p 44} and consumerism Defnations: What is Globalization: According to New Oxford advanced learners dictionary it defines that, the fact that different cultures and ecoomic systems around the world are becoming connected and similar to eachother because of the influence of the large multinational companies and of improved communication. 2{ p659} What is consumerism : The buying and using of goods and services; {or] the belief that it is good for a society or an individual person to and use a large quantity of goods and services. 3{p328} Globalisation : M.A.Oomen writes that from an Economist perspective globalisation is transnationalisation of production and capita, standardisation of consumer tastes legitimisation of global capitalism through transformation / creation of international institutions. 4 {p 48 } {Globalization& its impact On human rights} As I.J.M. Razu quotes, Essentially then Globalisations is hardly a new phenomenon; it is merely a new name, a sub code for capitalism that subsumes diverse socio- political economic processes. {p22-23} 5[ globalisation-faces,fangs and facts } Further , I.J.M. Razu states that, globalisation is a process of rearrangement of the production, labour, capital and the worlds resources between people and countries.6{p23] Thus globalisation can be defined as , a process in which business can be done by the people crossing distant borders can be controlled by people far away by social connections across time and space.7 {p23- 24} Dr I.J.M.Razu quotes Robert son and concludes that Globalisation means , integration of economies and soceities through e mail, e banking, egovernance, e finance, e- commerce and e- net. 8{p28] . It can be undrestood as a global phenomenon which helps the global nations inregard with business and development in mutual cooperation regardless restrictions , even though it has its origins in capitalism.

HISTORY {OR} BACKGROUND OF G& C : Globalisation is not an outcome of natural evolution. It is shaped and continuosly being shaped from the days of colonization. { p52} The dominant technological choices have come to be decided by the needs of military needs & the resource endowment of the west which have controlled science and technology from the days of the Industrial revolution. {p52} In this scenrio, globalization seeking social paradises free from unionisations. This is easy under the free borderlesss world of today. { p53] As I.J.M. RAZU quotes that, it is a recent phenomenon. The beginning of process was in the colonial past as it inaugerated both capitalism and global expansion. One can identify two projects of globalisation. Colonial globalisation was concerned with controlling the colonised countries by way of structural changes, enumeration and direct plunder.9 {p29} Later, in post- colonalization WTO, IMF, Played a key role through foreign direct investment and share potfolio managements.It began with downfall of soviet union. Then termed as liberal project powered by multi nationals & U.S, even with the help of world bank.10 {p30} The proces of simple modernization spanning the 15th to early 20th centuries brought ethnocide and genocide of indigenous people at every phase and dimension of the imperial project.31 {p31}. Globalization being a part of late capitalism emrged as the vehicle of the new era of the global capitalism of the 1990s. therfore, globalisation should be seen as a consequence of modernity, sceience and technology, the nation- state, the market making and unmaking of the world since the Industrial revolution . 32{ p3 5}

[Vidayarthi journal of theological reflections. Vol. 72/ 3 march 2008 {p179& 180} In his article, Anthony Kalliath writes, After the defeat of the communism, Neo- liberalism has total sway as theory as well as praxis in the post cold war scenario.Its child is globalisation. In sum, the tall claim of global neo liberalism is that it is a new process of economic Consumerism: In to-days world, the most powerful alternative explanation of the human existance in a scientific way premised on a value -system, which is consumerism. [p217 -218 in Global Capitalism as Hydra by IJM RAZU.]