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Accumulation in post-colonial capitalism / Iman Kumar Mitra, Ranabir Samaddar, Samita Sen, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Saving and investment.
- History.
- Capitalism.
- India--Economic conditions--1947-.
- India.
- Economic conditions.
- India--Economic policy--1947-.
- Economic policy.
- Capitalism--India--History.
- Saving and investment--India--History.
- Postcolonialism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 260 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore : Springer, [2017]
- System Details:
- text file
- 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
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 25, 2016).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9811010374
- 9789811010378
- Publisher Number:
- 99985889392
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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