Accumulation in post-colonial capitalism / Iman Kumar Mitra, Ranabir Samaddar, Samita Sen, editors.
Mitra, Iman Kumar, editor.; Samāddāra, Raṇabīra, editor.; Sen, Samita, editor.
2017
HC435.2
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Title Accumulation in post-colonial capitalism / Iman Kumar Mitra, Ranabir Samaddar, Samita Sen, editors.
ISBN 9811010374 (electronic book)
9789811010378 (electronic book)
9811010366
9789811010361
Published Singapore : Springer, [2017]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 260 pages)
Call Number HC435.2
Dewey Decimal Classification 338.9540904
Summary This volume looks at how accumulation in postcolonial capitalism blurs the boundaries of space, institutions, forms, financial regimes, labour processes, and economic segments on one hand, and creates zones and corridors on the other. It draws our attention to the peculiar but structurally necessary coexistence of both primitive and virtual modes of accumulation in the postcolony. From these two major inquiries it develops a new understanding of postcolonial capitalism. The case studies in this volume discuss the production of urban spaces of capital extraction, institutionalization of postcolonial finance capital, gendering of work forms, establishment of new forms of labour, formation of and changes in caste and racial identities and networks, and securitization—and thereby confirm that no study of contemporary capitalism is complete without thoroughly addressing the postcolonial condition.   By challenging the established dualities between citizenship-based civil society and welfare-based political society, exploring critically the question of colonial and postcolonial difference, and foregrounding the material processes of accumulation against the culturalism of postcolonial studies, this volume redefines postcolonial studies in South Asia and beyond. It is invaluable reading for students and scholars of South Asian studies, sociology, cultural and critical anthropology, critical and praxis studies, and political science.
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Samāddāra, Raṇabīra, editor.
Sen, Samita, editor.
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Acknowledgement; Contents; Editors and Contributors; List of Tables; Introduction: A Post-Colonial Critique of Capital Accumulation Today ; Abstract ; Boundaries of Accumulation; Accumulation and Transition; Accumulation and the Reordering of Space; Reproduction and Accumulation; Implications; Overview of Chapters; References; Part I New Dynamics of Accumulation; Flexible Labour and Capital Accumulation in a Post-Colonial Country ; Abstract ; Neoliberal Logic of the Economic Space in Post-Colonialism; Flexible Labour Regime; Voice Representation as a Labour Right

Flexible Labour and the Age of New FinanceConclusion; References; Law, Statistics, Public-Private Partnership and the Emergence of a New Subject ; Abstract ; A Short and Turbulent History of Delhi International Authority Limited (DIAL); The Problem of 'Appropriate Government' for the Worker; Conclusion; References; Security and the City: Post-Colonial Accumulation, Securitization, and Urban Development in Kolkata ; Abstract ; World-Class and Class War; Securing the Dystopia; Operations of Security; Accumulation; Governance; Conclusion; References

Accumulation by Possession: The Social Processes of Rent Seeking in Urban Delhi Abstract ; A Brief Overview; From Panchayats to RWA; Landlords, Associations and Property; The Kunba; Conclusion; References; Accumulation at Margins: The Case of Khora Colony ; Abstract ; Introduction; Location of Khora Village and Colony; The 'Unintended' Development: Noida Master Plan and Khora; Khora as a Dynamic Space of Accumulation; Accumulation Through Rent: Erstwhile Villagers and Property Dealers; Khora: A Storehouse of Devalued Labour and Economy; Conclusion; References

The Politics of Bank Nationalization in India Abstract ; Introduction: An Overview; Bank Nationalization as a Political Instrument; Hurdles on the Road to Nationalization; Politics of Bank Nationalization; Bank Nationalization: Progressive or Retrograde?; Conclusion; References; Part II Caste, Gender, Race: Axes of Accumulation; Life, Labour, Recycling: A Study of Waste Management Practices in Contemporary Kolkata ; Abstract ; Introduction: Waste and Recycling in the Context of Urbanization; The Mechanisms of Waste Disposal in Kolkata; Waste Disposal and the Rent Economy

The Labour in QuestionForms of Informality; A Different Network of Waste Disposal; Gulbahari's Story; The Underbelly of Recycling; Conclusion: Biopolitical Labour; References; Ayurveda Tourism: Issues of Development and Gender in Contemporary Kerala ; Abstract ; Kerala Model of Development; Contemporary Ayurveda; Homogenization of Ayurveda's History in Kerala; Female and Male Bodies as Producers and Consumers of Ayurveda Tourism; Appearance; Language-Verbal and of the Body; Understanding of Knowledge; Assessment of Ayurveda Tourism by Its Producers; Consumers of Ayurveda Tourism

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