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122079
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124958
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2013.
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This essay is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with the Indian community in Houston, as part of a National Institutes of Health and the National Human Genome Research Institute-sponsored ethics study and sample collection initiative entitled 'Indian and Hindu Perspectives on Genetic Variation Research'. Taking a cue from my Indian interlocutors who largely support and readily respond to such initiatives on the grounds that they will undoubtedly serve 'humanity' and the common good, I explore notions of the commons that are created in the process of soliciting blood for genetic research. How does blood become the stuff of which a civic discourse is made? How do idealistic individual appeals to donate blood, ethics research protocols, open-source databases, debates on approaches to genetic research, patents and Intellectual Property regulations, markets and the nation-state itself variously engage, limit or further ideas of the common good? Moving much as my interlocutors do, between India and the USA, I explore the nature of the commons that is both imagined and pragmatically reckoned in both local and global diasporic contexts
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118250
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128199
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2014.
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The growing influence of diasporas on foreign affairs and the international behavior of the states has been a worldwide academic finding and a reported fact. As independent actors they have operated as lobbies which have actively influenced homeland (ancestral or kin-states) foreign policies and that of the host lands as well (Shain et al 2003). Especially the developing countries in their mission of development have tried to rope in their communities abroad in the process. This global phenomenon of diaspora-homeland linkage has debate on economic and political systems, national culture and international relations.
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184360
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118534
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2012.
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India and Israel established full diplomatic relations in 1992. Bilateral trade has grown from $200m in 1992 to $5b in 2010. High-level collaboration in defense, science, and IT reflect inter-governmental trust and a stable partnership. Israelis and Indians interact along many axes as they traverse each other's terrains. However, these exchanges find only peripheral reference in official discourses and have received little scholarly investigation. Over 40,000 Israelis visit India annually and 70,000 Indian Jews live in Israel, aside from other (non-Jewish) Indian community clusters. What is the nature of Indian-Israeli encounters socially, culturally, and politically? Do they impact the meta-narrative of India-Israel relations? How can people-to-people synergies be better harnessed to bolster the bilateral relationship?
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