• Introduction: Decolonizing Psychology: Transnational Cultures, Social Justice, and Indian Youth Identities


• Chapter 1: Decolonizing Moves: Beyond Eurocentric Culture, Narrative, and Identity


• Chapter 2: The Cultural Psychology of Globalization: Constructing Desirable Identities and Spaces


• Chapter 3: Psychology and the Neoliberal Self: Global Culture and The "New Colonial" Subjects


• Chapter 4: Stories and Theories: Globalization, Narrative and Meaning-Making


• Chapter 5: Travelling Transnational Identities: Imagining Stories of "Ultimate" Indianness


• Chapter 6: Outsourcing the Self: Work, Love, and Money in the Call Center Culture


• Chapter 7: Identities Left Behind: Globalization, Social Inequality and the Search for Dignity


• Chapter 8: Towards a Transnational Cultural Psychology: Narrative and Social Justice in the Age of Unequal Globalization


• Chapter 9: Studying Globalization at Home: Reflections on Method, Self-Reflexivity and Narrative Inquiry

In recent years, the news media has directed a significant amount of attention to the effect of globalization on the second most populous nation in the world: India. With the emergence of new economic opportunities and the influx of foreign popular culture and commodities, India has experienced an enormous sea of change in the last few decades. In Decolonizing Psychology: Globalization, Social Justice, and Indian Youth Identities, author Sunil Bhatia focuses on the psychological tensions that these changes have brought upon Indian youth today.
Drawing on dozens of interviews, Bhatia offers readers a compelling glimpse and analysis of how these youth populations are engaging with the emerging presence of globalization in their day-to-day lives. As Bhatia explains, young Indians use the term 'world class selves' as a way to identify and describe the ways in which globalization has strengthened their standing in the world. By frequenting urban cafes and bars, watching American television and cinema, traveling abroad, and regularly consuming foreign commodities, Indian youth absorb the westernized culture and view themselves as peers to their western counterparts. At the same time, however, these young Indians proudly hold onto their homeland's traditions governing family and religious values.
With remarkable clarity and nuance, Bhatia sheds an important light on the universalizing power and the colonizing dimensions of Euro-American psychology. By integrating insights from postcolonial, narrative, and cultural psychologies to explore how Euro-American scientific psychology became the standard approach, Bhatia reminds readers of whose stories are not being told, what knowledge is not being considered, and whose lives are not included in the central understanding of psychology today.

The author is a singer, songwriter and composer presently based out of Mumbai. He is also an hotelier. His interest in nature coupled with his professional life, prompted him to write this book to create a better work life balance in life.