Imagining India in Discourse

Mohan J. Dutta is Professor and Head of the Department of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore and Courtesy Professor of Communication at Purdue University. At NUS, he is the Founding Director of the Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE), directing research on culturally-centered, community-based projects of social change. He teaches and conducts research in international health communication, critical cultural theory, poverty in healthcare, health activism in globalization politics, indigenous cosmologies of health, subaltern studies and dialogue, and public policy and social change. Mohan Dutta has published over 150 journal articles and book chapters, and was recently noted as the most published scholar in Health Communication.

1.Imagining India in Discourse.- 2.Discourses of Liberalization:Framing economics.- 3.Innovation, Technology, and Development.- 4.Food, Health, Shelter, and Nutrition: Public Provisions and Private Industry.- 5.State, Bureaucracy, and Politics: Contradictions in Interpretation.- 6.Culture and Communication: Old and New.-7.The Poor, the Rural and the Margins.- 8.Epilogue.