Accumulation in post-colonial capitalism. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Iman Kumar Mitra, Ranabir Samaddar, Samita Sen, editors.
• Editors: Mitra, Iman Kumar; Samāddāra, Raṇabīra; Sen, Samita
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Singapore : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 260 pages)
• Subjects: 338.9540904; Capitalism -- India -- History; Saving and investment -- India -- History; Postcolonialism; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General; Capitalism; Economic history; Economic policy; Postcolonialism; Saving and investment; India -- Economic conditions -- 1947-; India -- Economic policy -- 1947-; India; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9811010374; 9789811010378
• Related ISBNs: 9811010366; 9789811010361
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 25, 2016).
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