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  • Passive Revolution in West Bengal

    Passive Revolution in West Bengal

    by Ranabir Samaddar

    In the wake of the enormous interest across the globe in the fall of the Left Front in West Bengal, this book describes the Left era as one of passive revolution: limited reforms and changes, big compromises, corruption of the commissars and the failure of the Left in assessing popular discontent an... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2013
  • The Nation Form

    The Nation Form

    by Ranabir Samaddar

    Most writings on the theme of the nation confine themselves to discussions of ideology and thoughts on nationalism, leaving out the question of the form of the nation. This selection of writings by Ranabir Samaddar fills in that void and presents a whole range of dimensions, perspectives, and contro... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2014
  • Karl Marx and the Postcolonial Age

    Karl Marx and the Postcolonial Age

    by Ranabir Samaddar

    This book seeks to explicitly engage Marxist and post-colonial theory to place Marxism in the context of the post-colonial age. Those who study Marx, particularly in the West, often lack an understanding of post-colonial realities; conversely, however, those who fashion post-colonial theory often h... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2018
  • A Post-Colonial Enquiry into Europe’s Debt and Migration Crisis

    A Post-Colonial Enquiry into Europe’s Debt and Migration Crisis

    by Ranabir Samaddar

    This important and topical volume is composed around the debt and migration crisis in Europe in 2015 (known as the Greece crisis), and written almost concurrently as the two crises developed in quick succession. The central argument here is that Europe's present crisis suggests a post-colonial bind... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2016
  • From Popular Movements to Rebellion: The Naxalite Decade

    From Popular Movements to Rebellion: The Naxalite Decade

    by Ranabir Samaddar

    From Popular Movements to Rebellion: The Naxalite Decade argues that without an understanding of the popular sources of the rebellion of that time, the age of the Naxalite revolt will remain beyond our understanding. Many of the chapters of the book bring out for the first time unknown peasant heroe... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2019
  • Neo-Liberal Strategies of Governing India

    Neo-Liberal Strategies of Governing India

    by Ranabir Samaddar

    Neo-liberal Strategies of Governing India and its companion volume Ideas and Frameworks of Governing India tell the story of governance in independent India and address the critical question: how is a post-colonial democracy governed? Further, they attempt to understand why the process of governing ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2016
  • Ideas and Frameworks of Governing India

    Ideas and Frameworks of Governing India

    by Ranabir Samaddar

    Ideas and Frameworks of Governing India and its companion volume Neo-liberal Strategies of Governing India tell the story of governance in independent India and address the critical question: how is a post-colonial democracy governed? Further, they attempt to understand why the process of governing ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2016
  • Government of Peace: Social Governance, Security and the Problematic of Peace

    Government of Peace: Social Governance, Security and the Problematic of Peace

    by Ranabir Samaddar

    Government of Peace addresses a major question in world politics today: how does post-colonial democracy produce a form of governance that copes with conflicts, insurgencies, revolts, and acute dissents? The contributors view social governance as a crucial component in answering this question and th... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2015
  • The Politics of Dialogue: Living Under the Geopolitical Histories of War and Peace (Border Regions Series)

    The Politics of Dialogue: Living Under the Geopolitical Histories of War and Peace (Border Regions Series)

    by Ranabir Samaddar

    Offering a detailed analysis of post-colonial South Asia, The Politics of Dialogue discusses the creation and impact of borders and the pervasive tension between the new nations. Neither all-out war nor complete peace, this fragile condition makes political leaders and strategists feel claustrophobi... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2004
  • The Postcolonial Age of Migration

    The Postcolonial Age of Migration

    by Ranabir Samaddar

    This book critically examines the question of migration that appears at the intersection of global neo-liberal transformation, postcolonial politics, and economy. It analyses the specific ways in which colonial relations are produced and reproduced in global migratory flows and their consequences fo... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2020
  • The Politics of Autonomy: Indian Experiences

    The Politics of Autonomy: Indian Experiences

    by Ranabir Samaddar

    This volume tells us that a critical inquiry into the idea of autonomy suggests that the politics of the future will be the politics of autonomies: an engagement that combines notions like self-government, women`s autonomy, devolution of power, the rights of minorities, greater popular access to res... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2006
  • Emergence of the Political Subject

    Emergence of the Political Subject

    by Ranabir Samaddar

    This book is on the political subject, the conditions of its emergence, and the theoretical implications of this emergence, particularly those for our history. It seeks to change the way in which we understand our modern political history and the way inquiries are conducted into political life, trut... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2010
  • Global Governance and India’s North-East: Logistics, Infrastructure and Society

    Global Governance and India’s North-East: Logistics, Infrastructure and Society

    by Ranabir Samaddar • Anita Sengupta

    This book maps the convergence of governance and connectivity within Asia established through the spatial dynamics of trade, capital, conflict, borders and mobility. It situates Indian trade and governance policies within a broader Asian and global context. Focussing on India’s North-East, in parti... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2019
  • New Subjects and New Governance in India

    New Subjects and New Governance in India

    by Ranabir Samaddar • Suhit K. Sen

    This volume looks at the ways in which governance in the exercise of its strategies also acts as a process of production of subjects. It argues that governance is not a one-sided affair starting and ending with those who rule and govern, producing fiats, decrees, and diktats, but a productive proces... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2012
  • Political Transition and Development Imperatives in India

    Political Transition and Development Imperatives in India

    by Ranabir Samaddar; Suhit K. Sen

    This volume explores the transition from colonial to constitutional rule in India, and the various configurations of power and legitimacies that emerged from it. It focuses on the developmental structures and paradigms that provided the circumstances for this transition, and the establishment of the... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2012
  • The Biopolitics of Development

    The Biopolitics of Development

    by Julian Reid • Ranabir Samaddar • Sandro Mezzadra

    This book offers an original analysis and theorization of the biopolitics of development in the postcolonial present, and draws significantly from the later works of Michel Foucault on biopolitics. Foucault's works have had a massive influence on postcolonial literatures, particularly in political ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2013
  • Logistical Asia: The Labour Of Making A World Region

    Logistical Asia: The Labour Of Making A World Region

    by Ranabir Samaddar • Brett Neilson • Ned Rossiter

    This book explores how the management science of logistics changes working lives and contributes to the making of world regions. With a focus on the port of Kolkata and changing patterns of Asian regionalism, the volume examines how logistics entwine with political power, historical forces, labour m... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2018
  • Accumulation in Post-Colonial Capitalism: India And Beyond

    Accumulation in Post-Colonial Capitalism: India And Beyond

    by Ranabir Samaddar • Iman Kumar Mitra • Samita Sen

    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 necessar... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2017
  • The Rohingya in South Asia: People Without a State

    The Rohingya in South Asia: People Without a State

    by Ranabir Samaddar • Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury

    The Rohingya of Myanmar are one of the world’s most persecuted minority populations without citizenship. After the latest exodus from Myanmar in 2017, there are now more than half a million Rohingya in Bangladesh living in camps, often in conditions of abject poverty, malnutrition and without proper... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2018
  • Beyond Kolkata: Rajarhat and the Dystopia of Urban Imagination (Cities and the Urban Imperative)

    Beyond Kolkata: Rajarhat and the Dystopia of Urban Imagination (Cities and the Urban Imperative)

    by Ranabir Samaddar • Ishita Dey • Suhit K. Sen

    This book examines the politics behind, and the socio-economic and ecological repercussions of, the making of a new township, variously called New Town, Megacity or Jyoti Basu Nagar, in Rajarhat near Kolkata. Conceived by the West Bengal state government in the mid-1990s, in pandering to the vision ... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2013
  • India's Migrant Workers and the Pandemic

    India's Migrant Workers and the Pandemic

    by Ranabir Samaddar • Paula Banerjee • Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay

    A sudden announcement was made by the government on 24 March 2020 of a complete lockdown of the country, due to the spectre of Coronavirus. India’s Migrant Workers and the Pandemic was being written as the crisis was unfolding with no end in sight. Migrant workers from different parts of India had n... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2022
  • Partitions: Reshaping States and Minds (Routledge Studies in Geopolitics)

    Partitions: Reshaping States and Minds (Routledge Studies in Geopolitics)

    by Ranabir Samaddar • Sanjay Chaturvedi • Stefano Bianchini • Rada Ivekovic

    The partition of the Indian subcontinent, the collapse of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, the reunification of Germany, the continuing feud between two Koreas, the Irish peace process, the case of Israel/Palestine and the lingering division of Cyprus, have together given rise to a huge body of lite... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2004
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