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Organizing Resistance and Imagining Alternatives in India

Editat de Rohit Varman, Devi Vijay
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 noi 2022
"This volume studies accounts of organizations in India that resist the contemporary capitalist order and attempts to imagine alternatives. It provides a series of critical insights on the nature of the political, economic, environmental and social challenges under the current capitalist order in India; how organizations that exist within or outside the capitalist imaginary resist and contest the state quo; and how such organizations imagine an alternative world. Specifically, it traces the histories of capitalist monstrosities through the colonial encounter till today's neoliberal stage with heightened privatization, corporatization and the nexus of the state and capital. It delineates how neoliberalism creates a crisis of imagination among people. The chapters, in conversation across the book, respond to the paucity of discussions in contemporary social theory on the extraction, exploitation and violence of capitalism in India. Several chapters engage with rising authoritarianism and majoritarianism that accompany the capitalist growth story and all chapters centrally engage with how democracy may become more meaningful, participative and inclusive"--
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781009193412
ISBN-10: 1009193414
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 160 x 236 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

1. Capitalist deathworlds, alternative worldmaking Rohit Varman and Devi Vijay; Part I. Alternative Imaginations of Social Relations; 2. LETS and the possibilities of a 21st century alternative economic system Maidul Islam; 3. Democratic socialism: A challenge to sectarian plutocracy Prabhir Vishnu Poruthiyil; 4. Grounded in reality, a radically alternative future Ashish Kothari; Part II. Alternative Visions of Rights and Representations; 5. Harnessing constitutional and policy spaces for organized resistance: Movement to save Hasdeo Aranya forests Priyanshu Gupta; 6. The Wire and circuits of resistance: Immersions in the slowness of democratic time and de-naturalising the present Srinath Jagannathan and Rajnish Rai; 7. People's rchive of Rural India (PARI) as an alternative to corporatised media: The public sphere and rural silencing in India Apoorv Khare and Ram Manohar Vikas; 8. LeftWord: A heterotopic space in postdemocratic India Rohit Varman and Devi Vijay; Part III. Alternative Interrogations of Subalternity; 9. Exploring the state within the Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) terrain Suparna Chatterjee; 10. A women-inclusive emancipatory alternative to corporate capitalism?: The case of Kerala state-instituted Kudumbashree programme George Kandathil, Poornima Varma and Ram Mohana Turaga.

Descriere

It examines political economy of neoliberalism and curates contemporary case studies of resistance and alternative organizing in India.