Overview
- Shifts the terrain of understanding of postcolonialism from cultural studies to fundamental social processes
- Discusses social categories like caste, gender, race, etc., as integral elements of accumulation in postcolonial countries
- Draws attention to the coexistence of both primitive and virtual modes of accumulation in the postcolony
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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 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.Similar content being viewed by others
Keywords
- Accumulation and primitive accumulation
- Postcolonialism
- Migrant labour in India
- discourse on diabetes in India
- ayurveda tourism
- urban villages in India
- gender and migrant labour
- homeless urban population
- biopolitics
- artisan-entrepreneurs
- caste and entrepreneurship
- caste politics and philanthropy
- cultural racism
- postwar Jaffna
- bank nationalization in India
- Kammas of Andhra
- kinship capital
- migrant labour and NGOs
Table of contents (12 chapters)
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New Dynamics of Accumulation
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Caste, Gender, Race: Axes of Accumulation
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Accumulation in Post-Colonial Capitalism
Editors: Iman Kumar Mitra, Ranabir Samaddar, Samita Sen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1037-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group (MCRG) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-1036-1Published: 09 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9312-8Published: 15 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-1037-8Published: 29 July 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 260
Topics: Social Structure, Social Inequality, Population Economics, Political Philosophy