Principal Investigator: Raju Das (Geography)
Funding: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Project Dates: 2016–present
Project Summary.
Researchers
Professor Deepak Mishra, Professor, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Professor Mohanakumar S., Formerly of Institute of Development Studies, India; currently of Public Policy Research Institute, Kerala, India
Debadutta Sahu, MA researcher based in Odisha, India
Rukmini Thapa, Researcher based in New Delhi, India (formerly of Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Graduate Researchers
Charvaak Pati, PhD, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Aishwarya Bhattacharyya, Doctoral student, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University
Jarren Richards, Lecturer, Department of British & American Studies, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand; PhD, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Josh Watterton, Doctoral student, PhD, Graduate Programme in Geography, York University
Ankit Singh, Doctoral student, Graduate Programme in Communication and Culture, York University
Project Outputs
The following publications build on some of the theoretical aspects of the SSHRC project and/or reflect its selected empirical findings.
Books
- Das, R. A Marxist Theory of Dispossession: From Primitive Accumulation to Accumulation by Dispossession. London: Taylor and Francis (under completion).
- Das, R. Marx’s Capital, Capitalism, and Limits to the State: Theoretical Considerations. London: Taylor and Francis, 2022.
- Das, R. Critical Reflections on Economy and Politics in India: A Class Theory Perspective. Brill, 2020.
- Das, R. The Political Economy of New India: Critical Essays. Aakar Books, 2020.
Other Publications
- Das, R., D. Mishra, and Mohanakumar S. The social relations of the city-region in Industrializing India under the guidance of a neoliberal state (under completion)
- Das, R. and Mishra, D. Industrialization and Uneven Development: A study of an under-developed region of India (unpublished manuscript)
- Das, R. 2025. A theoretical enquiry into social and spatial inequalities: An urban-regional political economy perspective (forthcoming).
- Das, R. 2024. Questioning poverty, questions for poverty analysis: Towards a basic theoretical framework. World Marxist Review, 2:2, 103–126.
- Das, R. 2024. Marx’s Grundrisse: Introduction to political economy and historical materialism’ World Review of Political Economy (forthcoming).
- Das, R. 2024. 'Understanding Marx on Health: Towards a Class-based Approach’ in Rodney Loeppky and David Primrose (eds). Reader on the Political Economy of Health and Healthcare. New York: Routledge
- Das, R. 2023. On the worker-peasant alliance in India (and other countries of the Global South), Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal.
- Das, R. 2017. David Harvey’s Theory of Accumulation by Dispossession: A Marxist critique, World Review of Political Economy, 8:4, 590–616.
- Das, R. 2017. David Harvey’s Theory of Uneven Geographical Development: A Marxist critique, Capital and Class, 41:3, 511–536.
- Das, R. 2018. ‘Anti-materialism, capitalism, and violence against the human body: Some preliminary comments, Monthly Review online.
- Das, R. 2018. A Marxist perspective on sustainability: Brief reflections on ecological sustainability and social inequality, Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal.
- Das, R. 2018. India’s Record of Development and Democracy under BJP: An Epic of Dismal Failure, Sanhati.
- Das, R. and A. Chen. 2019. Towards a theoretical framework for understanding capitalist violence against child labour, World Review of Political Economy, 10:2, 191–219.
- Das, R. 2019. ‘Contradictions of India’s right-wing government, and growing disenchantment, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 49:2, 313–328.