Rethinking the social sciences with Sam Moyo / editors, Praveen Jha, Paris Yeros, Walter Chambati.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jha, Praveen K. (Praveen Kumar), editor.

Yeros, Paris, 1968- editor.

Chambati, Walter, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Moyo, Sam.

Social scientists--Zimbabwe--Biography.

Social scientists.

Land reform--Zimbabwe.

Land reform.

Zimbabwe.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 341 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New Delhi, India : Tulika Books, 2020.

Summary:

This book brings together renowned scholars from four continents to celebrate the lifelong and seminal contribution of Professor Sam Moyo to the social sciences. The late Prof. Moyo was a Zimbabwean scholar whose intellectual trajectory was part and parcel of the emergence of a critical scholarship from the 1970s onward based in the realities and traditions of Africa and the Third World. His work influenced the global research agenda on diverse issues related to Africa and the South, and especially from the 2000s when he actively defended the importance of research on land and agrarian questions at a time when such issues were being dismissed as passe. He went on to become a leading force in the creation of a South-South dynamic in research collaboration, in defense of the intellectual autonomy and epistemic sovereignty of the South.

Contents:

1 The Quest for Epistemic Sovereignty in the South: A Tribute to Sam Moyo p. 1 / Praveen Jha and Paris Yeros and Walter Chambati

Part 1 Epistemic Vision and Contributions

2 Sam Moyo: A Life of Prodigious Scholarship, Institution Building and Strategic Activism p. 29 / Dzodzi Tsikata

3 Sam Moyo and the Struggle for Intellectual Decolonization p. 44 / William G. Martin

4 Working with Sam Moyo, An African Voice from the South p. 60 / Gladys T. Lechini

5 The Agrarian Question of Gendered Labour in Sam Moyo's Scholarship p. 65 / Lyn Ossome

6 Livelihoods, Land and Political Economy: Reflections on Sam Moyo's Research Methodology p. 81 / Ian Scoones

7 Green Grabbing and Political Class Lobbies: Revisiting Land Reform under Structural Adjustment in Zimbabwe p. 98 / Kojo S. Amanor

8 Prospects for Equitable Land Reform in Zimbabwe: Revisiting Sam Moyo's Work on the Land Question p. 114 / Tendai Murisa

Part 2 Land, Labour and Agrarian Questions

9 Neoliberalism and Unemployment p. 139 / Prabhat Patnaik

10 The 'Longer Food Crisis' and Consequences for Economic Theory and Policy in the South p. 152 / Arindam Banerjee

11 Ecological Crisis, Global Capital and the Reinvention of Nature: A Perspective from the Global South p. 180 / Archana Prasad

12 Subversion of Pro-Farmer Provisions in the New Land Acquisition Act in India p. 198 / Smita Gupta

13 A Future of Urbanity: Cities and Countrysides for All p. 215 / Sandeep Chachra

14 Employment Opportunities in India's Unregistered Manufacturing Sector p. 224 / Anamitra Roychowdhury

Part 3 Unfinished Dialogues on Revolution and Liberation

15 In Memory of Sam Moyo p. 243 / Samir Amin

16 In Conversation with Sam p. 262 / Issa G. Shivji

17 Looking Back at Karl Marx's Analysis of Capitalism in the Context of Colonialism p. 267 / Utsa Patnaik

18 Making Sense of Global Capitalism in the Twenty-first Century p. 276 / C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh

19 Legacy of China's Land Revolution of 1949: An Unfinished Dialogue with Sam Moyo p. 289 / Erebus Wong and Wen Tiejun and Sit Tsui and Lau Kin Chi

20 The Agrarian Question, Rising Indian Right-wing Populism and Worker-Peasant Alliance Building p. 306 / Dinesh Abrol

21 Ways of Returning to the Source: Emancipatory Discourses in Japan and South Africa in the 1970s p. 323 / Yoichi Mine.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9788193926949

8193926943

OCLC:

1099869294