Winner of the 2019 Global and Transnational Sociology Best Book Award, American
Sociological Association Winner of the 2019 Political Economy of World System (PEWS) …

Rising unemployment among educated young men is a key feature of neoliberal economic
change. This paper reviews recent research on the strategies of educated unemployed …

Social and economic changes around the globe have propelled increasing numbers of
people into situations of chronic waiting, where promised access to political freedoms, social …

Poor people confront the state on an everyday basis all over the world. But how do they see
the state, and how are these engagements conducted? This book considers the Indian case …

This paper presents a new set of integrated poverty and inequality estimates for India and
Indian states for 1987-88, 1993-94 and 1999-2000. The poverty estimates are broadly …

Unemployment among educated young men has become a central feature of globalization.
In this article, I examine the experiences and strategies of unemployed young men in the …

This article compares land dispossession for industrial development under state‐
developmentalism and neoliberalism in India. Drawing on interviews, ethnography and …

Of Poverty and Plastic applies an interdisciplinary,'field economics' approach to poverty
analysis, using a mix of survey and ethnographic data to challenge received notions of the …

Existing theoretical perspectives, whether Marx's primitive accumulation or Harvey's
accumulation by dispossession, are not adequate for understanding the political economy of …

This book fills an important gap in the existing literature on economic liberalization and
globalisation in India by providing much needed ethnographic data from those affected by …