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Accumulation in post-colonial capitalism

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Springer 2017 SingaporeDescription: xi, 260 pISBN:
  • 9789811010361
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.9540904 A2
Summary: 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 necessary coexistence of both primitive and virtual modes of accumulation in the postcolony. From these two major inquiries it develops a new understanding of postcolonial capitalism. The case studies in this volume discuss the production of urban spaces of capital extraction, institutionalization of postcolonial finance capital, gendering of work forms, establishment of new forms of labour, formation of and changes in caste and racial identities and networks, and securitization—and thereby confirm that no study of contemporary capitalism is complete without thoroughly addressing the postcolonial condition. http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811010361
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Table of Content:

1. Introduction: A Post-Colonial Critique of Capital Accumulation Today
2. Flexible Labour and Capital Accumulation in a Post-Colonial Country
3. Law, Statistics, Public–Private Partnership and the Emergence of a New Subject
4. Security and the City: Post-Colonial Accumulation, Securitization, and Urban Development in Kolkata
5. Accumulation by Possession: The Social Processes of Rent Seeking in Urban Delhi
6. Accumulation at Margins: The Case of Khora Colony
7. The Politics of Bank Nationalization in India
8. Life, Labour, Recycling: A Study of Waste Management Practices in Contemporary Kolkata
9. Ayurveda Tourism: Issues of Development and Gender in Contemporary Kerala
10. Caste and the Frontiers of Post-Colonial Capital Accumulation
11. Governmentalizing NRI Philanthropy in Andhra Pradesh: A Transregional Approach to India’s Development
12. The Postcolony and ‘Racy’ Histories of Accumulation

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 necessary coexistence of both primitive and virtual modes of accumulation in the postcolony. From these two major inquiries it develops a new understanding of postcolonial capitalism. The case studies in this volume discuss the production of urban spaces of capital extraction, institutionalization of postcolonial finance capital, gendering of work forms, establishment of new forms of labour, formation of and changes in caste and racial identities and networks, and securitization—and thereby confirm that no study of contemporary capitalism is complete without thoroughly addressing the postcolonial condition.

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