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Ranabir (Hrsg.) Samaddar

Accumulation in Post-Colonial Capitalism

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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 from India and Sri Lanka discuss the production of urban spaces of capital extraction, institutionalization of postcolonial finance capital, gendering of work… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Mitra, Iman Kumar (Hrsg.) / Sen, Samita (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-981-10-1037-8
  • EAN: 9789811010378
  • Produktnummer: 20341626
  • Verlag: Springer
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 1'942 KB

Über den Autor


Iman Kumar Mitra has studied economics and is a research associate at the Calcutta Research Group. His doctoral dissertation explores the history of dissemination of economic knowledge in colonial Bengal through various pedagogical and institutional networks. His research interests include history of economics, migration, urbanization, and labour issues. He is currently involved in a research project on the interconnectedness between rural-urban migration, urbanization, and social justice in post-liberalization India.Ranabir Samaddar is Distinguished Chair in Migration and Forced Migration Studies, Calcutta Research Group.  He has worked extensively on issues of forced migration, the theory and practices of dialogue, nationalism and post-colonial statehood in South Asia, and new regimes of technological restructuring and labour control. His most recent publication in the form of a co-authored volume on new town and new forms of accumulation Beyond Kolkata: Rajarhat and the Dystopia of Urban Imagination (Routledge, 2013) takes forward urban studies in the context of post-colonial capitalism. Samita Sen, the first Vice-Chancellor of the Women's University at Diamond Harbour, West Bengal, teaches at the School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University. She has worked extensively on labour and gender issues. Her publication includes Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: The Bengal Jute Industry (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and the co-authored monograph Domestic Days: Women, Work, and Politics in Contemporary Kolkata (Oxford University Press, 2015).  She is a member of the Calcutta Research Group.

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