Accumulation in post-colonial capitalism / Iman Kumar Mitra, Ranabir Samaddar, Samita Sen, editors.
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...
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Table of Contents:
- 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.