Organizing Resistance and Imagining Alternatives in India
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- Editors:
- Rohit Varman, University of Birmingham
- Devi Vijay, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta
- Date Published: November 2022
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009193412
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This volume examines the political economy of neoliberalism in India and offers cases of resistance and alternative organizing. It departs from existing conversations that focus on the state's policies and decisions, and focuses on the violence unleashed by corporate forces. It should be of interest to anyone curious about the collapse of crucial infrastructures such as healthcare and the news media, or the rhetoric of corporate social responsibility, and why there are people's movements and organizations rising from different geographies. While offering in-depth case studies of oraganisations within India, such as The Wire, The People's Archive of Rural India, Kudumbashree, and Left Word Books, it also informs conversations across the world on alternative forms of organizing. These accounts have two imperatives: first, to train our attention on corporations and where capitalism produces its vast waste lands. Second, to imagine the possibilities of another world. The contributors to this volume write to resist the status quo, explore alternative ways of organizing, re-imagine social relations, and rekindle hope.
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- Date Published: November 2022
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009193412
- length: 280 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 160 x 27 mm
- weight: 0.6kg
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
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.
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