According to Nehru, the transition from a backward agricultural society to a modern
industrialized society was the only road for India to progress. So, for the past few decades …

Challenging the more conventional approaches to dislocation and resettlement that are the
usual focus of discussion on the topic, this book offers a unique theory of dislocation in the …

Taking the period following the advent of liberalization, this book explains the transition of
the Indian economy against the backdrop of development. If the objective is to explore the …

In recent years, neo-liberalism has manifested itself in peripheral social formations on an
ideological basis through strategies of poverty alleviation. This process is epitomized by …

This book examines the treatment of culture and development in the discipline of economics,
thereby filling a conspicuous gap in current literature. Economics has come a long way to …

Poststructuralism and postmodernism have helped Marxist political economy criticize and
transform its determinism and teleology in order to avoid reliance on modernist categories …

Using class-focused Marxist theory we examine the received category of the informal sector
in order to demonstrate two results. First, we explicate the process of 'making'the informal …

Nepal occupies a unique global position as a peripheral social formation subject to decades
of relative isolation from capitalism. Although the agrarian sector has long been understood …

Pushed by our reviewers to revisit perennial (meta) theoretical questions and choices, we
confront once again the dilemmas of theorizing. Should we emphasize the emptiness or …

This paper draws an ethics of theorizing and representing the economy from Gilles
Deleuze's concept of the virtual. Using Deleuze's work with Félix Guattari, I propose that …