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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2024 51:07

On this episode of Research Radio we have Sreenath V S and Mini Chandran discussing their paper To Write Was to Cense: Kāvyaśāstra and Creative Freedom in Premodern India Sreenath V S teaches at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras. Mini Chandran teaches at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kanpur.. For more episodes and to listen to EPW's other podcast Supplement head to ⁠⁠⁠https://www.epw.in/podcasts⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to EPW to access all our content including the archives of The Economic and Political Weekly and The Economic Weekly dating back to 1949. ⁠⁠⁠https://www.epw.in/subscribe.html⁠⁠ Sound Effect from Pixabay

The Future of India's Fiscal Federalism

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2024 57:37

Indian federalism is encountering some of its biggest challenges since the early years of the republic. Relations between the union government in Delhi and the states are rocky, to put it mildly.India's better-off states are growing increasingly agitated about a system of fiscal federalism in which richer states end up subsidizing poorer, more backward ones.The new Goods and Services Tax (GST) has attracted fresh criticism because its benefits have not been shared equally by all states.And the coming fight over how parliamentary seats will be allocated across states has only added fuel to the fire.To discuss the brewing crisis in Indian federalism, Milan is joined today on the show this week by the economist Arvind Subramanian. Arvind is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He also served as the chief economic advisor to the government of India between 2014 and 2018. He recently co-authored a new essay in Economic and Political Weekly, “GST Revenue Performance: Gainers and Losers after Seven Years.”Milan and Arvind discuss the foundations of the GST, its implications for India's federal design, and its revenue implications. Plus, the two discuss growing resentment among India's prosperous states over fiscal transfers, questions about political representation, and the prospects of a new grand federal bargain.Episode notes:1. Varun Agarwal et al., “GST Revenue Performance: Gainers and Losers after Seven Years,” Economic and Political Weekly 59, no. 37 (September 14, 2024): 35-49.2. Varun Agarwal et al., “GST revenues: The fate of the compensation cess amid Centre-state row,” Business Standard, July 3, 2024.3. Varun Agarwal et al., “GST's revenue performance: Centre's sacrifice for cooperative federalism,” Business Standard, July 3, 2024.4. Josh Felman and Arvind Subramanian, “Is India Really the Next China?” Foreign Policy, April 8, 2024.5. Arvind Subramanian et al., “Understanding GST revenue performance,” Business Standard, January 1, 2024.6. Arvind Subramanian and Josh Felman, “Why India Can't Replace China,” Foreign Affairs, December 9, 2022.

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Busting India's Demographic Myths

New Books in Early Modern History

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 9, 2024 47:55

There is hardly a day that goes by when the subject of India's demographics is not front and center in the news.Whether it is India surpassing China as the world's most populous country, questions about how the Indian economy can provide enough jobs for a growing workforce, or how population should be used to allocate everything from legislative seats to fiscal transfers, demographics are at the heart of many debates surrounding India's political economy.To talk about India's demographics and its demographic transition, Milan is joined on the show this week by Poonam Muttreja, who serves as the Executive Director of the Population Foundation of India.For over 40 years, she has been a strong advocate for women's health, reproductive and sexual rights, and rural livelihoods. Before joining PFI, she served as the India Country Director of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for 15 years.Poonam and Milan discuss the myths of overpopulation, India's fertility decline, and conspiracy theories around India's changing religious demographics. Plus, the two discuss male participation in family planning and what government should (and should not) do to manage India's demographics.Episode notes:1. Poonam Muttreja and Martand Kaushik, “Dispelling population myths triggered by a working paper,” Hindu, May 30, 2024.2. Sanghamitra Singh, “We're worried about population explosion. So let's talk brass tacks,” Hindustan Times, July 27, 2023.3. Zubeda Hamid, “Education remains the most effective contraceptive: experts,” Hindu, July 5, 2024.4. Poonam Muttreja, “Centering women and marginalized communities in India's population policy,” Times of India, July 17, 2024.5. Poonam Muttreja, Sanghamitra Singh, and Martand Kaushik, “Busting myths about India's population growth,” IDR, August 14, 2024.6. Nirmala Buch, “Reservation for Women in Panchayats: A Sop in Disguise?” Economic and Political Weekly 44, no. 40 (October 3, 2009): 8–10.

Ep. 28 - Anupam Roy + Irrealist Expressionism

Locust Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2024 95:17

In episode 28 of Locust Radio, Adam Turl is joined by Anupam Roy – an artist based in Delhi and member of the Locust Collective. This episode is part of a series of interviews of current and former Locust Collective members and contributors. It is being conducted as research for a future text by Adam Turl on the conceptual and aesthetic strategies of the collective in the context of a cybernetic Anthropocene. Locust Radio hosts include Adam Turl, Laura Fair-Schulz, and Tish Turl. Producers include Alexander Billet, Omnia Sol, and Adam Turl. Related texts and topics: B.R. Ambedkar, see also B.R. Ambedkar, The Annihilation of Caste (1936) (pdf); James Baldwin (writer/author); Geroges Bataille, Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927-1939 (pdf); The Bengal Famine (1943); Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1936); John Berger (artist and critic), see also Ways of Seeing (video) and Ways of Seeing (1972) (book); Chittaprosad Bhattacharya (artist); Pieter Bruegel the Elder (artist); Claire Bishop, Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today (2024); Bedatri D. Choudhury, “The Artist Who Sketched a Famine in India,” Hyperallergic (April 30, 2018); Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation; Ben Davis, Art in the After-Culture: Capitalist Crisis and Cultural Strategy (2022); Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (2009); Antonio Gramsci; Institutional Critique (art); Marshall McLuhan (philosopher); Fred Morton (author); Pier Paolo Pasolini (poet and filmmaker); Platform Capitalism; Lionello Puppi, Torment in Art (1991); Kohei Saito, Capital in the Anthropocene (2020); Shulka Sawant, “Cultivating a Taste for Nature: Tagore's Landscape Paintings,” Economic and Political Weekly 52, no. 19 (2017): 57–63; Songs for Sabotage, New Museum Triennial (2018); J.W.M. Turner (artist); Adam Turl, Dead Paintings (2010-); Adam Turl interviews Anupam Roy, “We Are Broken Cogs in the Machine,” Red Wedge (May 7, 2019); Vincent Van Gogh (artist).

Sudev Sheth, "Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2024 52:36

Running and securing an empire can get expensive–especially one known for its opulence, like the Mughal Empire, which conquered much of northern India before rapidly declining in the eighteenth century. But how did the Mughals get their money? Often, it was through wealthy merchants, like the Jhaveri family, who willingly—and then not-so-willingly–funded the empire's activities. Dr. Sudev Sheth writes about this relationship in Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Dr. Sheth is Senior Lecturer in History at the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies and in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania where he teaches across the School of Arts & Sciences and the Wharton School. His writings have appeared in top academic journals and popular outlets, including The Conversation, Economic & Political Weekly, Mint, Knowledge at Wharton, and Harvard Business Publishing. P.S. The Jhaveri family eventually founded the Arvind Group, a major India-based textiles company. Read Sudev's interview with the MD here! You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of Bankrolling Empire. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at @nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Sudev Sheth, "Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

New Books in History

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2024 52:36

Running and securing an empire can get expensive–especially one known for its opulence, like the Mughal Empire, which conquered much of northern India before rapidly declining in the eighteenth century. But how did the Mughals get their money? Often, it was through wealthy merchants, like the Jhaveri family, who willingly—and then not-so-willingly–funded the empire's activities. Dr. Sudev Sheth writes about this relationship in Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Dr. Sheth is Senior Lecturer in History at the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies and in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania where he teaches across the School of Arts & Sciences and the Wharton School. His writings have appeared in top academic journals and popular outlets, including The Conversation, Economic & Political Weekly, Mint, Knowledge at Wharton, and Harvard Business Publishing. P.S. The Jhaveri family eventually founded the Arvind Group, a major India-based textiles company. Read Sudev's interview with the MD here! You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of Bankrolling Empire. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at @nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Sudev Sheth, "Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2024 52:36

Running and securing an empire can get expensive–especially one known for its opulence, like the Mughal Empire, which conquered much of northern India before rapidly declining in the eighteenth century. But how did the Mughals get their money? Often, it was through wealthy merchants, like the Jhaveri family, who willingly—and then not-so-willingly–funded the empire's activities. Dr. Sudev Sheth writes about this relationship in Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Dr. Sheth is Senior Lecturer in History at the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies and in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania where he teaches across the School of Arts & Sciences and the Wharton School. His writings have appeared in top academic journals and popular outlets, including The Conversation, Economic & Political Weekly, Mint, Knowledge at Wharton, and Harvard Business Publishing. P.S. The Jhaveri family eventually founded the Arvind Group, a major India-based textiles company. Read Sudev's interview with the MD here! You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of Bankrolling Empire. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at @nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sudev Sheth, "Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

New Books in South Asian Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2024 52:36

Running and securing an empire can get expensive–especially one known for its opulence, like the Mughal Empire, which conquered much of northern India before rapidly declining in the eighteenth century. But how did the Mughals get their money? Often, it was through wealthy merchants, like the Jhaveri family, who willingly—and then not-so-willingly–funded the empire's activities. Dr. Sudev Sheth writes about this relationship in Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Dr. Sheth is Senior Lecturer in History at the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies and in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania where he teaches across the School of Arts & Sciences and the Wharton School. His writings have appeared in top academic journals and popular outlets, including The Conversation, Economic & Political Weekly, Mint, Knowledge at Wharton, and Harvard Business Publishing. P.S. The Jhaveri family eventually founded the Arvind Group, a major India-based textiles company. Read Sudev's interview with the MD here! You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of Bankrolling Empire. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at @nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/south-asian-studies

Sudev Sheth, "Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

New Books in Economic and Business History

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2024 52:36

Running and securing an empire can get expensive–especially one known for its opulence, like the Mughal Empire, which conquered much of northern India before rapidly declining in the eighteenth century. But how did the Mughals get their money? Often, it was through wealthy merchants, like the Jhaveri family, who willingly—and then not-so-willingly–funded the empire's activities. Dr. Sudev Sheth writes about this relationship in Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Dr. Sheth is Senior Lecturer in History at the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies and in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania where he teaches across the School of Arts & Sciences and the Wharton School. His writings have appeared in top academic journals and popular outlets, including The Conversation, Economic & Political Weekly, Mint, Knowledge at Wharton, and Harvard Business Publishing. P.S. The Jhaveri family eventually founded the Arvind Group, a major India-based textiles company. Read Sudev's interview with the MD here! You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of Bankrolling Empire. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at @nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sudev Sheth, "Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Asian Review of Books

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2024 52:36

Running and securing an empire can get expensive–especially one known for its opulence, like the Mughal Empire, which conquered much of northern India before rapidly declining in the eighteenth century. But how did the Mughals get their money? Often, it was through wealthy merchants, like the Jhaveri family, who willingly—and then not-so-willingly–funded the empire's activities. Dr. Sudev Sheth writes about this relationship in Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Dr. Sheth is Senior Lecturer in History at the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies and in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania where he teaches across the School of Arts & Sciences and the Wharton School. His writings have appeared in top academic journals and popular outlets, including The Conversation, Economic & Political Weekly, Mint, Knowledge at Wharton, and Harvard Business Publishing. P.S. The Jhaveri family eventually founded the Arvind Group, a major India-based textiles company. Read Sudev's interview with the MD here! You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of Bankrolling Empire. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at @nickrigordon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/asian-review

Sudev Sheth, "Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

Exchanges: A Cambridge UP Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2024 52:36

Running and securing an empire can get expensive–especially one known for its opulence, like the Mughal Empire, which conquered much of northern India before rapidly declining in the eighteenth century. But how did the Mughals get their money? Often, it was through wealthy merchants, like the Jhaveri family, who willingly—and then not-so-willingly–funded the empire's activities. Dr. Sudev Sheth writes about this relationship in Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Dr. Sheth is Senior Lecturer in History at the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies and in the Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania where he teaches across the School of Arts & Sciences and the Wharton School. His writings have appeared in top academic journals and popular outlets, including The Conversation, Economic & Political Weekly, Mint, Knowledge at Wharton, and Harvard Business Publishing. P.S. The Jhaveri family eventually founded the Arvind Group, a major India-based textiles company. Read Sudev's interview with the MD here! You can find more reviews, excerpts, interviews, and essays at The Asian Review of Books, including its review of Bankrolling Empire. Follow on Twitter at @BookReviewsAsia. Nicholas Gordon is an editor for a global magazine, and a reviewer for the Asian Review of Books. He can be found on Twitter at @nickrigordon.

Election Commission

DAKSH Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2024 13:11

In this episode, the first in our series on elections, Leah Verghese discusses the Election Commission, the institution that oversees the mammoth task of elections in the world's largest democracy. Learn more about this significant public institution, its origin, evolution, and the important personalities who shaped its trajectory.If you like our podcast, do consider supporting us with a donation at the link below: https://www.dakshindia.org/donate/References About Election Commission of India https://www.eci.gov.in/about-eci An Expert Explains: How EC evolved, what rules it follows in case of disagreement https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/an-expert-explains-how-election-commission-evolved-what-rules-it-follows-in-case-of-disagreement-5720029/ Anoop Baranwal vs. Union of India WP (CIVIL) NO.104 OF 2015 Appointment of CEC, EC | Supreme Court refuses to stay new law; issues notice for hearing in April https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/appointment-of-cec-ec-supreme-court-refuses-to-stay-new-law-issues-notice-for-hearing-in-april/article67733389.ece Manjari Katju, Election Commission and Changing Contours of Politics Economic and Political Weekly Vol. 44, No. 16 (Apr. 18 - 24, 2009) Manjari Katju, Election Commission and Functioning of Democracy Economic and Political Weekly , Apr. 29 - May 5, 2006, Vol. 41, No. 17 (Apr. 29 - May 5, 2006) R. P. Bhalla, Electoral Mechanism in India (1951-1971) The Indian Journal of Political Science Vol. 33, No. 1 (JAN-MAR, 1972) S.S. Dhanoa vs. Union of India (1991) 3 SCC 567 The Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners (Appointment, Conditions of Service and Term Of Office) Act, 2023 CREDITS:Host: Leah Verghese This is a Maed in India production. Producer: Sean D'mello Sound Mixing: Lakshman Parsuram Project Supervisor: Shaun Fanthome Research Assistance: Manushree Sarkar

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The Citizenship Amendment Act's Next Chapter

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2024 59:08

A few weeks ago, the Indian government formally notified the rules implementing the controversial 2019 Citizenship Amendment Act, or CAA. The law provides persecuted religious minorities hailing from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan an expedited pathway to Indian citizenship, provided they belong to the Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jain, Parsi, or Sikh communities. Notably, the law does not provide such a pathway to those who belong to the Muslim faith.The notification of the CAA rules—on the eve of India's 2024 general election—has kicked off a fresh debate over the law, its implementing provisions, and the resulting implications for the future of secularism in India.To discuss all of this and more, Milan is joined on the show this week by legal scholar M. Mohsin Alam Bhat. Mohsin is a Lecturer in Law at Queen Mary University of London, where he specializes in constitutional law and human rights. Mohsin has written extensively about law and citizenship in India.Milan and Mohsin discuss the origins of the CAA, its constitutionality, and the fine print of the CAA rules. Plus, the two discuss the situation in Assam, that state's National Register of Citizens (NRC), and the prospects of an all-India NRC exercise.Episode notes:1. “What's Happening to India's Rohingya Refugees? (with Priyali Sur and Daniel Sullivan),” Grand Tamasha, May 24, 2023.2. Mohsin Alam Bhat and Aashish Yadav, “CAA will not help persecuted Hindus, Sikhs from neighbouring countries,” Indian Express, March 19, 2024.3. “The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019,” PRS Legislative Research.4. Madhav Khosla and Milan Vaishnav, “The Three Faces of the Indian State,” Journal of Democracy 32, no. 1 (2021): 111-125.5. Mohsin Alam Bhat, “The Constitutional Case Against the Citizenship Amendment Bill,” Economic and Political Weekly 54, no.3 (2019): 12-14.6. Mohsin Alam Bhat, “‘The Irregular' and the Unmaking of Minority Citizenship: The Rules of Law in Majoritarian India,” Queen Mary Law Research Paper No. 395/2022.7. Niraja Gopal Jayal, “Faith-based Citizenship,” The India Forum, October 31, 2019.

Dalits in the New Millennium

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Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2024 41:02

Over the last several decades, there have been monumental changes in the social, economic, and political lives of Dalits, who have historically been one of the most oppressed groups in all of South Asia.A new volume edited by three leading scholars of India—Dalits in the New Millennium—examines these changes, interrogates their impacts on Dalit lives, and traces the shift in Dalit politics from a focus on social justice—to a focus on development and socio-economic mobility.D. Shyam Babu, who along with Sudhai Pai and Rahul Verma, is one of the co-editors of this important new book joined Milan on the show this week to talk more about their findings. Shyam Babu is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi. His research focuses on how economic changes in India have been shaping social change and transformation for the benefit of marginalized sections, especially Dalits.The two discuss Dalits' shift toward the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the decline of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) of Mayawati, and what “Ambedkarization” has done for the Dalit community. Plus, the two discuss the shortcomings Dalits experience in their “social citizenship” and the successes and challenges of Dalit capitalism.Episode notes:1. Devesh Kapur, Chandra Bhan Prasad, Lant Pritchett, and D. Shyam Babu, “Rethinking Inequality: Dalits in Uttar Pradesh in the Market Reform Era,” Economic and Political Weekly 45, no. 35 (August 28-September 3, 2010): 39-49.2. Devesh Kapur, Chandra Bhan Prasad, and D. Shyam Babu, Defying the Odds: The Rise of Dalit Entrepreneurs (New Delhi: Vintage, 2014).3. D. Shyam Babu, “From empowerment to disenfranchisement: Lower caste mobilisation appears to have run its course,” Times of India, August 28, 2019.4. Chandra Bhan Prasad, “Fellow Dalits, open your own bank: If no one else, Dalit middle class can fund Dalit capitalism to produce Dalit billionaires,” Times of India, November 25, 2019.5. Devesh Kapur, “Fraternity in the making of the Indian nation,” Seminar 701 (2017).

The First Bible Women of Rayalaseema

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2024 50:16

On this episode of Research Radio we have Chakali Chandra Sekhar discussing his paper titled “⁠Dalit Women and Colonial Christianity: First Telugu Bible Women as Teachers of Wisdom”. Chakali Chandra Sekhar is currently working as a lecturer in English at SRR & CVR Govt Degree College, Vijayawada, in Andhra Pradesh, India. For more episodes and to listen to EPW's other podcast Supplement head to ⁠⁠https://www.epw.in/podcasts⁠⁠ Subscribe to EPW to access all our content including the archives of The Economic and Political Weekly and The Economic Weekly dating back to 1949. ⁠⁠https://www.epw.in/subscribe.html⁠

#239 Of Screws and Racquets

Anticipating The Unintended

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2024 25:33

Happy New Year— RSJHappy 2024, dear readers! We hope 2023 was good for all of you. If it wasn't, we are glad that it's behind you. We didn't have too bad a 2023 ourselves. This newsletter went along swimmingly (or so we think) and we had our book ‘Missing in Action: Why You Should Care About Public Policy' published on 23 January 2023. Why haven't you bought it yet? Anyway, it seems to be doing well based on the modest expectations we had of it. I'm yet to see the pirated versions of it peddled at traffic signals. Heh, that will be the day. But then I see it on shelves of all decent bookstores and that's quite reassuring. That apart, Pranay had another book (one productive chap, I tell you), When The Chips Are Down on semiconductor geopolitics which is an area that's going to get more interesting and contentious in this decade. All in all, we ended up writing 44 editions during the year totaling up to over a hundred thousand words. A good year, I guess.On to 2024 then. Like in the past, we will indulge ourselves a bit in the first edition of the year. First, looking back at our predictions for 2023 and seeing how badly off we were and then next week, I will be doing a bit of crystal ball gazing for 2024.Before I bore you with that, let me share with you this wonderful excerpt from a paper I read recently. Titled ‘Enlightenment Ideals and Belief in Progress in the Run-up to the Industrial Revolution: A Textual Analysis', it covers an area of eternal fascination for me - Enlightenment and its impact on Western Europe. Interesting conclusions and a must-read:“The role of cultural attitudes—specifically, of Enlightenment ideals that had a progress oriented view of scientific and industrial pursuits—in Britain's economic takeoff and industrialization has been emphasized by leading economic historians. Foremost amongst them is Joel Mokyr (2016), who states that the progress-oriented view of science promoted by great Enlightenment thinkers, such as Francis Bacon and Isaac Newton, among many others, was central to what would become the “Industrial Enlightenment,” and ultimately Britain's Industrial Revolution. In this paper, we test these claims using quantitative data from 173,031 works printed in England in English between 1500 and 1900. A textual analysis resulted in three salient findings. First, there is little overlap in scientific and religious works in the period under study. This indicates that the “secularization” of science was entrenched from the beginning of the Enlightenment. Second, while scientific works did become more progress-oriented during the Enlightenment, this sentiment was mainly concentrated in the nexus of science and political economy. We interpret this to mean that it was the more pragmatic works of science—those that spoke to a broader political and economic audience, especially those literate artisans and craftsmen at the heart of Britain's industrialization—that contained the cultural values cited as important for Britain's economic rise. Third, while volumes at the science-political economy nexus were progress-oriented for the entire time period, this was especially true of volumes related to industrialization. Thus, we have unearthed some inaugural quantitative support for the idea that a cultural evolution in the attitudes towards the potential of science accounts in some part for the British Industrial Revolution and its economic takeoff.”2023 Predictions ScorecardI had 8 predictions across the global economy, Indian economy and Indian social and political order. So, this is how does the 2023 report card looks like.Global EconomyThis is what I had written:#1 The trend of securing your supply chain for critical products will get stronger.….but it is clear to most large economies that on issues that concern national security, it will be foolhardy to not plan for worst-case scenarios any longer. And national security could mean anything, really, but I can see on energy and key technology, nations will opt for more secure supply chains with watertight bilateral partnerships than be at the mercy of distributed, multilateral chains. I won't go as far as calling it ‘de-globalisation' yet, but this ‘gated globalisation' is a trend that's here to stay.This is playing out but a bit slower than what I expected. Disentangling and building domestic capabilities isn't easy. And it is costly. But through the year we had increasing curbs on what hi-tech (GPU chips, AI research) and defence companies domiciled in the West could export to China. At home, we continued the push on PLI on electronics and tech equipment with debates on how much value-added manufacturing is really coming through in these schemes. Also, interestingly, we are continuing down the path of decoupling from global ‘default platforms' especially in financial services. The Rupay platform is continuing to get bigger with a specific push from the government to derisk payment infrastructure from global networks like Visa and Mastercard. Also, in a recent statement, the central bank has suggested building a homegrown Cloud Computing infrastructure that will be used on regulated entities in India so that they aren't tied into global Cloud service providers. #2 The fears of elevated inflation and a recession in the US in 2023 are overblown. The recession is due, but it will come a bit laterMy view is that as supply chain issues ease up with China opening up, energy demand going up and the US continuing to be at almost full employment, we might have a 2023 where for the most part, the US inflation will be higher than target, Fed will continue to remain hawkish, and the growth will hold up. This will mean the real risk of recession will be more toward the end of the year than now.Turns out I was accurate. In fact, the US economy has held up even better than I expected. And the Fed almost softened their tone by their last meeting of the year.#3 Big Tech will continue to be under the coshI half expect India to gradually move all payment and eCommerce arms of Big Tech into a structure that's domestically controlled and owned in 2023. Third, FTC, with Hina Khan at the helm, will accelerate antitrust and competition law changes to reduce the dominance of Big Tech.I think I got this right in a big way. Through the year, fintechs have offloaded ‘troublesome' shareholders (read Chinese investors) and there is a real trend of what's called ‘reverse flipping' where unicorns that were domiciled outside of India for tax and regulatory reasons are coming back home. Reason? Well, if you ask them they will tell you because they believe in the India story. That's very convenient. The real reason is domestic regulators are making it difficult for a non-domiciled company to get a full bite of the Indian apple. From data security and storage requirements to tax and fund transfer regulations, the entities that are essentially Indian but are registered outside India to avoid ‘regulatory inconvenience' are now facing business inconvenience in following that model. Here's more on this. Indian EconomyI think I wrote more about the Indian economy in 2023 than any previous year. Much of it was about my surprise, in a positive way, on how much better it was doing than my expectations. Now as I read what I had written at the start of 2023, I think I had somewhat forgotten during the year that I was quite optimistic about the economy at the start of the year. Here's what I had written:#1 Greater optimismI am a bit more optimistic about the broader numbers than most, and I will explain why. I think GDP growth will come in around 6.5 per cent for FY24, and inflation will be around 5 per cent. We might see a couple of rate hikes in the next few months, taking the repo rate to 6.75 per cent, but that will be it. I see domestic consumption to remain strong and exports, in the light of the shift away from China, to be good for manufacturers, and how much ever I might struggle to get behind the PLI scheme, it will yield some short-term benefits. IT exports might be a dampener, but on balance, I see more upside to these predictions.Couldn't have gotten it more right. I think the growth for FY 24 might come in at 7 per cent. Repo ended up at 6.5 per cent and domestic consumption and manufacturing have stayed strong while IT exports have gone worse over the year. #2 Digitalisation: Wave 2There will be a significant push on digitalisation in lending and eCommerce. The UPI infrastructure has revolutionised payments and, along with GST, has accelerated the formalisation of the economy..... Also, as I mentioned in an earlier point, doing this will also mean shifting the balance of power from Big Tech-owned entities to an open platform or domestically controlled entities. I sense a strong push in this direction in 2023.This was a no-brainer, really. I expected a bit more traction on platforms like OCEN and ONDC which haven't taken off yet. The digitisation of the financial services sector has made low-value credit much easier for people to access. And UPI and digital KYC have enabled that to an extent that unsecured individual lending saw its biggest year ever in 2023. In fact, by the end of the year, we saw the central bank intervening to increase risk weights on these advances for banks and NBFCs and trying to bring down growth rates. The risk of an asset bubble because of faster and easier access to credit seems to become real based on the data they were reading. #3 The expected capex cycle push from the government will not come.There are a couple of reasons for it. First, this government has always been careful about fiscal deficit, and it is particular about the risk of the fiscal space. The government has committed to a 4.5 per cent target for the union government deficit in the next 3 years from the current levels, that's expected to be 6.4 per cent. I see a tightening in the fiscal stance during the year with a gradual reduction in some of the pandemic-related subsidies and better targeting of the benefits improving distribution efficiency. The other reason for a muted capex spend is the likely belief that the private sector credit capex cycle seems to be picking up. Got it mostly right except for the private sector capex cycle bit. That didn't show up in 2023 as I was expecting. Government capex actually slowed as it kept its glide path to a 4 per cent union deficit by 2026. The efficiency improvement in tax collections and subsidy disbursement also helped in broadly sticking to the fiscal plan for the year. And as I expected, this government doesn't need to loosen its purse strings in an election year. It has multiple other tools in its armoury to swing people's opinion in favour of it. India: Political and SocialI had generally anticipated a more-of-the-same year despite some of the noise surrounding opposition efforts at the start of 2023. BJP with PM Modi at the helm, is possibly the most formidable political force in the world and it can turn its missteps too into its advantage. We saw this during the pandemic when its response was poor and too late. But that's all water under the bridge now. It is also helped by a coincidence of circumstances where China has gone off-track and India is able to play its ‘swing power' role to its fullest advantage in global geopolitics. All of this has meant it has a compelling domestic narrative to offer to the people of India rising in global prominence. This has tremendous capital at least among the middle class and the Hindi heartland. Back to what I wrote at the start of the year:#1 More of the sameThe expected consolidation of opposition forces to counter the BJP isn't going to happen early enough for it to mount a credible challenge in 2024. There are eight state elections in 2023, and I suspect BJP will see reverses or very close fights in a couple of them where it is the incumbent (MP and Karnataka)....But it is hard to see opposition consolidation or a credible case that they can make to counter the electoral juggernaut of the BJP at this time. Congress, the other national party, isn't capable of moving the masses either with its agenda or its leadership. The vacuum in national politics looks set to stay.Ho hum. BJP lost Karnataka like I thought they would. MP was a surprise and it only shows how poorly Congress has performed through the year. Everything else is, as they say, same same.#2 More Exit, Less VoiceI have made the point in the past about social fault lines tripping us up while we magically have a growth window that's opened up for us again. This holds true. The space for opposition or dissent has shrunk; more importantly, even the fight for protecting or broadening that space has gone out....The state would be dependent on citizens if they value their loyalty and would then pursue a policy that listens to their voice. However, if the state doesn't value it and the citizens know their voice won't matter, the only option is to exit. For certain sections of our citizenry, they are possibly at this stage of engagement with the state. This scenario might not hurt the majority today, but we would do well to remember it has never been a good idea for the state to not value the loyalty of its citizenry in the long run. Nothing has changed on this. I guess this macro trend has only exacerbated in 2023.So there I am with my report card. Not too bad, I guess though Pranay may again complain that these were quite generic and unless we make very specific predictions, it all seems to come true at the end of the year. Well, I will try to do that next week with my 2024 predictions. But don't hold your breath on that, Pranay. A Framework A Week: Four Components of an Economic StrategyTools for thinking about public policy— Pranay KotasthaneMontek Singh Ahluwalia writes that any economic strategy has four components: slogans, targets, programmes, and policies. Slogans refer to rhetoric employed by the government. Ahluwalia calls it the “front end” of economic strategy. Rhetoric is necessary in a representative democracy for communicating the government's position on an issue in a simple, catchy form without going into the details of the accompanying policy measures. Think Garibi Hataao, Shining India, Inclusive Growth, Sabka Saath Sabkaa Vikaas, and Minimum Government and Maximum Governance. Targets are specific, measurable goals of an economic strategy. An example is the articulation that India will become a developed country by 2047. The World Bank comes up with a GDP per capita threshold for classifying an economy as a high-income one. So the target becomes a guiding light for policies and programmes and also serves as a tool for holding the government accountable.Programmes refer to government-led measures involving public expenditure. Policies are government directives that allow or disallow specific economic activities. The difference can be understood using another popular three-fold classification which says that all governments do only three things — produce, finance, and regulate. This means programmes are government actions that involve producing or financing, while policies are about regulating. For example, bank recapitalisation is a programme where the government is financing public sector banks. In contrast, the Foreign Trade Policy 2023 lays down the rules that govern all exports and imports. This four-fold classification is useful for policy analysts for two reasons. One, it doesn't look at slogans cynically. Economic narratives are important. Slogans are often launchpads for powerful narratives.Secondly, differentiating policies from programmes is crucial. The default government tendency is often to bat for government-run programmes. Think Production-linked Incentives (PLI) and export subsidies. There are enough and more programmes from the past to tinker with and regurgitate them into a new programme to “solve” the economic problems of the day. However, chronic economic problems might need a fundamental change in policies that cannot be fixed by programmes alone. India's manufacturing underperformance is one such example. Though there have been many a programme for overcoming this challenge, the solution lies in changing trade, tax, labour, and doing business policies. Another example comes from the 1991 economic reforms. At the time, many politicians thought that India only needed a debt restructuring programme. However, the reformers successfully argued that India needed a change in tax, business, and investment policies; a new programme alone wasn't good enough. For an illustration of this framework, check this article by Montek Singh Ahluwalia on the problem with India's public sector banks.PolicyWTF: Screws are Strategic This section looks at egregious public policies. Policies that make you go: WTF, Did that really happen?— Pranay KotasthaneThe Department to Ground Foreign Trade, or less accurately, the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), is a gift that keeps giving. Their latest policy move is to restrict the import of cheap screws so that India can become a self-reliant vishwaguru of screws. A screwpower, maybe? In a notification issued on 3rd Jan, the DGFT banned the imports of screws priced lower than ₹129/kg. Indian manufacturers used to import these from France, China, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, and Belgium.So, the government wants to do an import substitution of a humble product that costs ₹129 per kg and already has a diversified supply chain. If this isn't ridiculous enough, think about the impact on Indian manufacturers who relied on these imports. They are the ones getting screwed here because they will end up paying more for the same product. Long-time readers might experience déjà vu as there was a similar policy restricting the imports of mosquito electronic racquets in 2020, to which RSJ had paid proper obeisance in edition #129. In other news, one of the issues blocking the India-UK FTA is that Indian EV car manufacturers don't want the high import duties to be dropped. Currently, electric cars priced above $40000 are slapped with a 100 per cent import duty, while those below $40000 are levied a 70 per cent duty. Domestic manufacturers argue that a reduction in import duty will stall the sunrise industry. These two stories in recent months illustrate the slippery slope of industrial policy in low state capacity conditions. A domestic subsidy for manufacturers can still be justified because every other country is doing that. It's become an entry pass of sorts to play the manufacturing game. But to couple domestic production subsidies with import restrictions makes these policies scarily close to the import substitution regime in the pre-1991 era. Every government makes mistakes. However, low state capacity results in governments repeating the mistakes of the past as there is no institutional memory. We seem to be reaching that point with India's industrial policies. This observation also stands empirically. Check out the New Industrial Policy Observatory (NIPO) released by the IMF (hat-tip to Niranjan Rajadhyaksha for sharing the accompanying paper on X). The database classifies industrial policy actions over the last few years into eight categories: export barriers, import barriers, domestic subsidies, export incentives, FDI measures, Public procurement measures, Localisation content measures, and miscellaneous. This is by far the most detailed database of industrial policy measures I've seen—a fantastic tool for scholars working in economic policy.Now here's my initial analysis looking at the data for India in NIPO. Of the 195 industrial policy measures that India has taken, 55 are distortionary trade measures, illustrating that we are repeating import substitution ideas of the past. There's more to this. In the database, one can also classify industrial policies sectorwise. Here again, we see that import tariffs feature across most sectors. Such mindless import substitution will lead to export contraction, as Indian companies become uncompetitive and bow out of international competition. We have seen this movie before.P.S.: Look at this chart of trade as a per cent of GDP for the world's five largest economies. Trade is a higher proportion of India's GDP than is the case for Japan and China. It's been that way for the last ten years. Trade is far more important to India than we realise. HomeWorkReading and listening recommendations on public policy matters* [Book] Vivekananda: The Philosopher of Freedom is a thoroughly enjoyable, myth-busting biography. * [Blogpost] This post has a mind map of market failures and corresponding government interventions. A boon for anyone interested in public policy.* [Podcast] Listen in to a Puliyabaazi with economist Rohit Lamba on India's future economic trajectories. This is a fun episode. * [Paper] A useful take on Foreign Trade Policy 2023 in Economic and Political Weekly. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit publicpolicy.substack.com

Crisis and change in the world and in the United States

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2023 47:29

On this episode of Research Radio we have Inderjeet Parmar discussing his paper titled “Poly Crisis or Organic Crisis?: The Crisis of the United States and the US-led World Order”. Inderjeet Parmar teaches international politics at City, University of London. For more episodes and to listen to EPW's other podcast Supplement head to ⁠https://www.epw.in/podcasts⁠ Subscribe to EPW to access all our content including the archives of The Economic and Political Weekly and The Economic Weekly dating back to 1949. ⁠https://www.epw.in/subscribe.html⁠

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Episode 121 - 'Heave To or I Fire': The "I'm Alone" Case

Beyond the Breakers

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2023 70:05

In March 1929, the US Coast Guard cutters Wolcott and Dexter pursued and subsequently sank the bootlegging schooner I'm Alone, touching off an international incident and legal battle that would outlast the Prohibition laws that led to it in the first place.Sources:The American Council on Addiction & Alcohol ProblemsHagen, Carrie. "The Coast Guard's Most Potent Weapon During Prohibition? Codebreaker Elizebeth Friedman." Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Jan 2015. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/coast-guards-most-potent-weapon-during-prohibition-codebreaker-elizebeth-friedman"Prohibition: Legislating Alcohol in America." The National WWI Museum and Memorial. https://www.theworldwar.org/learn/about-wwi/prohibitionRicci, Joseph A. "Use All Force!" Naval History Magazine, vol. 27, no. 3, May 2013Saharay, H. and A. Pal. "Hot Pursuit in Self-Defence." Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 3, no. 29, 20 July 1968, pp. 1145 - 1146Skoglund, Nancy Galey. "The I'm Alone Case: A Tale from the Days of Prohibition." University of Rochester Library Bulletin, vol. 23, no. 3, Spring 1968Check out our Patreon here!Support the show

M G R | The Image Trap | பிம்பச்சிறை | M G Ramachandran in Film and Politics - M.S.S. Pandian (EP-8) | #பரியின்பனுவல்பட்டறை

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2023 66:54

This book examines the fascinating career of the late M G Ramachandran (or `MGR′), the film-actor-turned-politician of Tamilnadu.The author begins by explaining why MGR′s career merits serious attention and then moves on to elaborate the various elements of the cinematic persona of MGR, to study the reasons for his acceptance at a popular level, to explore the roots of this popularity and finally to analyze his transition into political life. He is one of the foremost authority on scholarship of Dravidian movement.Prof. Pandian's book, “The Image Trap - M G Ramachandran in Films and Politics,” on the Tamilian superstar and his tryst with politics is also considered one of leading authorities on this subject.He was earlier an Associate Professor in the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai.His publications in the best reputed academic publications were many and his research interests were Nationalism, Caste, Tamil cinema and Popular Culture, among others. He completed his Ph.D in Madras University in 1987.Prof. Pandian has been writing for national newspapers and the 'Economic and Political Weekly' for several years and known for his incisive articles on Tamil Nadu and Dravidian politics in particular.until his sudden death , he was serving in the School of Social Sciences' Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2023 123:44

This book examines the fascinating career of the late M G Ramachandran (or `MGR′), the film-actor-turned-politician of Tamilnadu.The author begins by explaining why MGR′s career merits serious attention and then moves on to elaborate the various elements of the cinematic persona of MGR, to study the reasons for his acceptance at a popular level, to explore the roots of this popularity and finally to analyze his transition into political life. He is one of the foremost authority on scholarship of Dravidian movement.Prof. Pandian's book, “The Image Trap - M G Ramachandran in Films and Politics,” on the Tamilian superstar and his tryst with politics is also considered one of leading authorities on this subject.He was earlier an Associate Professor in the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai.His publications in the best reputed academic publications were many and his research interests were Nationalism, Caste, Tamil cinema and Popular Culture, among others. He completed his Ph.D in Madras University in 1987.Prof. Pandian has been writing for national newspapers and the 'Economic and Political Weekly' for several years and known for his incisive articles on Tamil Nadu and Dravidian politics in particular.until his sudden death , he was serving in the School of Social Sciences' Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2023 125:24

This book examines the fascinating career of the late M G Ramachandran (or `MGR′), the film-actor-turned-politician of Tamilnadu.The author begins by explaining why MGR′s career merits serious attention and then moves on to elaborate the various elements of the cinematic persona of MGR, to study the reasons for his acceptance at a popular level, to explore the roots of this popularity and finally to analyze his transition into political life. He is one of the foremost authority on scholarship of Dravidian movement.Prof. Pandian's book, “The Image Trap - M G Ramachandran in Films and Politics,” on the Tamilian superstar and his tryst with politics is also considered one of leading authorities on this subject.He was earlier an Associate Professor in the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai.His publications in the best reputed academic publications were many and his research interests were Nationalism, Caste, Tamil cinema and Popular Culture, among others. He completed his Ph.D in Madras University in 1987.Prof. Pandian has been writing for national newspapers and the 'Economic and Political Weekly' for several years and known for his incisive articles on Tamil Nadu and Dravidian politics in particular.until his sudden death , he was serving in the School of Social Sciences' Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2023 87:47

his book examines the fascinating career of the late M G Ramachandran (or `MGR′), the film-actor-turned-politician of Tamilnadu.The author begins by explaining why MGR′s career merits serious attention and then moves on to elaborate the various elements of the cinematic persona of MGR, to study the reasons for his acceptance at a popular level, to explore the roots of this popularity and finally to analyze his transition into political life. He is one of the foremost authority on scholarship of Dravidian movement.Prof. Pandian's book, “The Image Trap - M G Ramachandran in Films and Politics,” on the Tamilian superstar and his tryst with politics is also considered one of leading authorities on this subject.He was earlier an Associate Professor in the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai.His publications in the best reputed academic publications were many and his research interests were Nationalism, Caste, Tamil cinema and Popular Culture, among others. He completed his Ph.D in Madras University in 1987.Prof. Pandian has been writing for national newspapers and the 'Economic and Political Weekly' for several years and known for his incisive articles on Tamil Nadu and Dravidian politics in particular.until his sudden death , he was serving in the School of Social Sciences' Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi

M G R | The Image Trap | பிம்பச்சிறை | M G Ramachandran in Film and Politics - M.S.S. Pandian (EP-5) | #பரியின்பனுவல்பட்டறை

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2023 70:38

This book examines the fascinating career of the late M G Ramachandran (or `MGR′), the film-actor-turned-politician of Tamilnadu.The author begins by explaining why MGR′s career merits serious attention and then moves on to elaborate the various elements of the cinematic persona of MGR, to study the reasons for his acceptance at a popular level, to explore the roots of this popularity and finally to analyze his transition into political life. He is one of the foremost authority on scholarship of Dravidian movement.Prof. Pandian's book, “The Image Trap - M G Ramachandran in Films and Politics,” on the Tamilian superstar and his tryst with politics is also considered one of leading authorities on this subject.He was earlier an Associate Professor in the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai.His publications in the best reputed academic publications were many and his research interests were Nationalism, Caste, Tamil cinema and Popular Culture, among others. He completed his Ph.D in Madras University in 1987.Prof. Pandian has been writing for national newspapers and the 'Economic and Political Weekly' for several years and known for his incisive articles on Tamil Nadu and Dravidian politics in particular.until his sudden death , he was serving in the School of Social Sciences' Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2023 30:09

This book examines the fascinating career of the late M G Ramachandran (or `MGR′), the film-actor-turned-politician of Tamilnadu.The author begins by explaining why MGR′s career merits serious attention and then moves on to elaborate the various elements of the cinematic persona of MGR, to study the reasons for his acceptance at a popular level, to explore the roots of this popularity and finally to analyze his transition into political life. He is one of the foremost authority on scholarship of Dravidian movement.Prof. Pandian's book, “The Image Trap - M G Ramachandran in Films and Politics,” on the Tamilian superstar and his tryst with politics is also considered one of leading authorities on this subject.He was earlier an Associate Professor in the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai.His publications in the best reputed academic publications were many and his research interests were Nationalism, Caste, Tamil cinema and Popular Culture, among others. He completed his Ph.D in Madras University in 1987.Prof. Pandian has been writing for national newspapers and the 'Economic and Political Weekly' for several years and known for his incisive articles on Tamil Nadu and Dravidian politics in particular.until his sudden death , he was serving in the School of Social Sciences' Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 3, 2023 74:45

This book examines the fascinating career of the late M G Ramachandran (or `MGR′), the film-actor-turned-politician of Tamilnadu.The author begins by explaining why MGR′s career merits serious attention and then moves on to elaborate the various elements of the cinematic persona of MGR, to study the reasons for his acceptance at a popular level, to explore the roots of this popularity and finally to analyze his transition into political life. He is one of the foremost authority on scholarship of Dravidian movement.Prof. Pandian's book, “The Image Trap - M G Ramachandran in Films and Politics,” on the Tamilian superstar and his tryst with politics is also considered one of leading authorities on this subject.He was earlier an Associate Professor in the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai.His publications in the best reputed academic publications were many and his research interests were Nationalism, Caste, Tamil cinema and Popular Culture, among others. He completed his Ph.D in Madras University in 1987.Prof. Pandian has been writing for national newspapers and the 'Economic and Political Weekly' for several years and known for his incisive articles on Tamil Nadu and Dravidian politics in particular.until his sudden death , he was serving in the School of Social Sciences' Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2023 106:52

This book examines the fascinating career of the late M G Ramachandran (or `MGR′), the film-actor-turned-politician of Tamilnadu.The author begins by explaining why MGR′s career merits serious attention and then moves on to elaborate the various elements of the cinematic persona of MGR, to study the reasons for his acceptance at a popular level, to explore the roots of this popularity and finally to analyze his transition into political life. He is one of the foremost authority on scholarship of Dravidian movement.Prof. Pandian's book, “The Image Trap - M G Ramachandran in Films and Politics,” on the Tamilian superstar and his tryst with politics is also considered one of leading authorities on this subject.He was earlier an Associate Professor in the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai.His publications in the best reputed academic publications were many and his research interests were Nationalism, Caste, Tamil cinema and Popular Culture, among others. He completed his Ph.D in Madras University in 1987.Prof. Pandian has been writing for national newspapers and the 'Economic and Political Weekly' for several years and known for his incisive articles on Tamil Nadu and Dravidian politics in particular.until his sudden death , he was serving in the School of Social Sciences' Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2023 73:15

This book examines the fascinating career of the late M G Ramachandran (or `MGR′), the film-actor-turned-politician of Tamilnadu.The author begins by explaining why MGR′s career merits serious attention and then moves on to elaborate the various elements of the cinematic persona of MGR, to study the reasons for his acceptance at a popular level, to explore the roots of this popularity and finally to analyze his transition into political life. He is one of the foremost authority on scholarship of Dravidian movement.Prof. Pandian's book, “The Image Trap - M G Ramachandran in Films and Politics,” on the Tamilian superstar and his tryst with politics is also considered one of leading authorities on this subject.He was earlier an Associate Professor in the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai.His publications in the best reputed academic publications were many and his research interests were Nationalism, Caste, Tamil cinema and Popular Culture, among others. He completed his Ph.D in Madras University in 1987.Prof. Pandian has been writing for national newspapers and the 'Economic and Political Weekly' for several years and known for his incisive articles on Tamil Nadu and Dravidian politics in particular.until his sudden death , he was serving in the School of Social Sciences' Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi

Rethinking India's Agricultural Extension System

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 16, 2023 36:36

On this episode of Research Radio we have A Suresh discussing his paper titled "Reinventing Agricultural Extension System in India: The Road Ahead" which he co-authored with V K Sajesh, R N Padaria, and A K Mohanty. Dr. A Suresh is Principal Scientist and Professor of Agricultural Economics at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research – Central Institute of Fisheries Technology in Kochi. For more episodes and to listen to EPW's other podcast Supplement head to https://www.epw.in/podcasts Subscribe to EPW to access all our content including the archives of The Economic and Political Weekly and The Economic Weekly dating back to 1949. https://www.epw.in/subscribe.html

Voices of Resistance Emerge from Behind the Walls of India's Security State

Speaking Out of Place

Play Episode Play 35 sec Highlight Listen Later Oct 5, 2023 52:21

On today's episode we speak with two of the founders of the Polis Project—Suchitra Vijayan and Francesca Recchia—about their new book, How Long Can the Moon Be Caged? Voices of Indian Political Prisoners. We are also deeply honored that the eminent Dalit intellectual, and former political prisoner Dr. Anand Teltumbde is with us as well to lend his unique insight into the political situation in India and the realities of being a political prisoner there. The Polis Project, Inc. is a New York-based hybrid research and journalism organization that works with communities in resistance. Through its Research, Reportage and Resistanceapproach, they publish and disseminate critical ideas that are excluded from mainstream media. Their work sheds light on the rise of authoritarianism especially in democracies and focuses on issues of racial, class and caste injustice, Islamophobia and State oppression around the world. In September 2019, the United States Library of Congress selected The Polis Project, Inc.'s website for inclusion in its web archives. Francesca Recchia is an independent researcher, educator and writer whose work is grounded in the values and principles of decolonial philosophy and radical pedagogy. She is interested in the geopolitical dimension of heritage and cultural processes in countries in conflict and she focuses on creative practices of collective resistance in contexts of unequal structures of power. Over the last two decades, Francesca has worked in different capacities in Palestine, Pakistan, India, Kashmir, Iraq and Afghanistan. Her latest assignment in Kabul was as Acting Director of the Afghan Institute for Arts and Architecture.She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College of London, has a PhD in Cultural Studies at the Oriental Institute in Naples and a Master in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Besides being a scholar and practitioner in his formal disciplines of Technology and Management, with a corporate career spanning four decades at top management positions, and a decade as an academic, Dr Anand Teltumbde has maintained his parallel career as a civil rights activist, writer, columnist and public intellectual right since his student days. He contributed to the civil rights movement in India as one of its founding pillars and contributed theoretical insights through his voluminous writings into most issues. He participated and led many fact finding missions and peoples' struggle. He has published more than 30 books on contemporary issues and wrote a column Margin Speak for a decade in Economic & Political Weekly before being arrested in the infamous Bhima-Koregaon case. Suchitra Vijayan is an essayist, lawyer, and photographer working across oral history, state violence, and visual storytelling. She is the award winning author of the critically acclaimed book Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India (Melville House, New York) and How Long Can the Moon Be Caged? Voices of Indian Political Prisoners (Pluto Press). Her essays, photographs, and interviews have appeared in The Washington Post, Time Magazine GQ, The Nation, The Boston Review, Foreign Policy, Lit Hub, Rumpus, Electric Literature, NPR, NBC, and BBC. As an attorney, she worked for the United Nations war crimes tribunals in Yugoslavia and Rwanda before co-founding the Resettlement Legal Aid Project in Cairo, giving Iraqi refugees legal aid. She is an award-winning photographer and the founder and executive director of the Polis Project. She teaches at NYU Gallatin and Columbia University's Oral History Program.A transcript of Dr Tetumbde's remarks can be found on SpeakingOutofPlace.com

Evaluating India's Entrepreneurship Policy

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Play Episode Listen Later Aug 31, 2023 49:18

On this episode of Research Radio we have Anish Tiwari discussing his paper titled “⁠The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of ‘Startup India": A Review of India's Entrepreneurship Policy” which he co-authored with Teresa Hogan and Colm O'Gorman. Anish Tiwari is a former Marie S Curie doctoral fellow, Dublin City University, Ireland. He is currently Senior Associate at PWC, Ireland. For more episodes and to listen to EPW's other podcast Supplement head to https://www.epw.in/podcasts Subscribe to EPW to access all our content including the archives of The Economic and Political Weekly and The Economic Weekly dating back to 1949. https://www.epw.in/subscribe.html

Understanding Urban Digitalisation Projects in India: Platformisation, Infrastructuring, and Datafication

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2023 37:40

On this episode of Research Radio we have Khaliq Parkar discussing his paper titled “Platformisation, Infrastructuring, and Datafication: Regional Variations in the Digitalisation of Indian Cities” which he co-authored with Marie-Helene Zerah and Gaurav Mittal. Khaliq Parkar is with the Centre d'études en sciences sociales sur les mondes africains, américains et asiatique (CESSMA) Université Paris Cité, Paris. For more episodes and to listen to EPW's other podcast Supplement head to https://www.epw.in/podcasts Subscribe to EPW to access all our content including the archives of The Economic and Political Weekly and The Economic Weekly dating back to 1949. https://www.epw.in/subscribe.html

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Brahminical Environmentalism and Conservation Laws in India

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2023 37:19

In this episode of Research Radio, we have with us Sanjana Meshram and Aditya Rawat discussing conservation law in India and how it perpetuates Brahminical environmentalism. Today's discussion is based on their paper titled "Entrenching Brahminical Conservation: An Analysis of the Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Act". Sanjana Meshram is a lawyer and heads the litigation team at the Criminal Justice and Police Accountability Project, Bhopal. Aditya Rawat is a law student and an intern with the Criminal Justice and Police Accountability Project, Bhopal. For more episodes and to listen to EPW's other podcast Supplement head to https://www.epw.in/podcasts Subscribe to EPW to access all our content including the archives of The Economic and Political Weekly and The Economic Weekly dating back to 1949. https://www.epw.in/subscribe.html

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#84 Imperialism, Multipolarity & De-dollarisation - Radhika Desai

The Malcolm Effect

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2023 59:45

In this episode, Professor Radhika Desai gives us a masterclass on our geopolitical situation. Dr. Radhika Desai is Professor at the Department of Political Studies, and Director, Geopolitical Economy Research Group, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. She is the author of Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire (2013), Slouching Towards Ayodhya: From Congress to Hindutva in Indian Politics (2nd rev ed, 2004) and Intellectuals and Socialism: ‘Social Democrats' and the Labour Party (1994), a New Statesman and Society Book of the Month, and editor or co-editor of Russia, Ukraine and Contemporary Imperialism, a special issue of International Critical Thought (2016), Theoretical Engagements in Geopolitical Economy (2015), Analytical Gains from Geopolitical Economy (2015), Revitalizing Marxist Theory for Today's Capitalism (2010) and Developmental and Cultural Nationalisms (2009). She is also the author of numerous articles in Economic and Political Weekly, International Critical Thought, New Left Review, Third World Quarterly, World Review of Political Economy and other journals and in edited collections on parties, political economy, culture and nationalism. With Alan Freeman, she co-edits the Geopolitical Economy book series with Manchester University Press and the Future of Capitalism book series with Pluto Press. She serves on the Editorial Boards of many journals including Canadian Political Science Review, Critique of Political Economy, E-Social Sciences, Pacific Affairs, Global Faultlines, Research in Political Economy, Revista de Economía Crítica, World Review of Political Economy and International Critical Thought I.G. @TheGambian Twitter: @MomodouTaal @CTayJ

Special Episode: Review of Urban Affairs 2023

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2023 55:03

Over the past 12 years the EPW Review of Urban Affairs has tried to be a finger to the pulse of Urban Studies in India. In this special episode of Research Radio we speak with two members of the advisory group of the Review of Urban Affairs, Dr. Karen Coelho and Dr. Anant Maringanti, to look back at the RUA over the years and discuss the papers in the most recent edition. Karen Coelho is with the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai. Anant Maringanti is with the Hyderabad Urban Lab, Hyderabad. You can find the papers from the most recent edition of the EPW Review of Urban Affairs as well as all previous editions at https://www.epw.in/review-urban-affairs For more episodes and to listen to EPW's other podcast Research Radio head to https://www.epw.in/podcasts Subscribe to EPW to access all our content including the archives of The Economic and Political Weekly and The Economic Weekly dating back to 1949. https://www.epw.in/subscribe.html

Indian Labour Intermediaries and Global Production Networks

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2023 51:21

In this episode of Research Radio, we have with us Dr. Keshab Das to discuss the changing role of intermediaries in the relationship between labour and capital as Indian labour gets increasingly integrated into global production networks based on his paper "Labour Agency and Global Production Networks in India: Intermediaries—Old and New". Dr. Keshab Das is Visiting prof at the institute for human development, New Delhi. For more episodes and to listen to EPW's other podcast Research Radio head to https://www.epw.in/podcasts Subscribe to EPW to access all our content including the archives of The Economic and Political Weekly and The Economic Weekly dating back to 1949. https://www.epw.in/subscribe.html

Dalits and the Environmental Movement in India

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2023 38:49

In this episode of Research Radio, we have with us Prof. Mukul Sharma who will be discussing his work on Dalits and the environmental movement in India based on his papers titled "The Making of Moral Authority: Anna Hazare and Watershed Management Programme in Ralegan Siddhi", "The Vrindavan Conservation Project" and "Dalits and Indian Environmental Politics". Prof. Mukul Sharma currently teaches Environmental Studies at Ashoka University in Sonipat. For more episodes and to listen to EPW's other podcast Research Radio head to https://www.epw.in/podcasts Subscribe to EPW to access all our content including the archives of The Economic and Political Weekly and The Economic Weekly dating back to 1949. https://www.epw.in/subscribe.html

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Electoral Politics in ‘Jatland': The Changing Political Landscape in Haryana

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2023 38:25

In this episode of Research Radio, we have with us Dr. Radhika Kumar, who will be discussing the changing political landscape in the ‘Jatland' of Haryana. This discussion is based on her papers titled ‘Saffronising 'Jatland': Mapping Shifts in the Electoral Landscape in Haryana', ‘Stooping to Conquer: Jats and Reservations in Haryana', ‘Why a Nationalist Rhetoric Failed the BJP in Haryana'. Dr. Radhika Kumar is with the Department of Political Science, Motilal Nehru College, University of Delhi. For more episodes and to listen to EPW's other podcast Research Radio head to https://www.epw.in/podcasts Subscribe to EPW to access all our content including the archives of The Economic and Political Weekly and The Economic Weekly dating back to 1949. https://www.epw.in/subscribe.html

M. R. Sharan, "Last Among Equals: Power, Caste and Politics in Bihar's Villages" (Westland, 2021)

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2023 45:32

M. R. Sharan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, studying questions centred around development economics and political economy. He obtained his PhD from Harvard University in 2020 and was previously at the Delhi School of Economics and Hansraj College. His novel, Blue, was published in 2014. His writings have appeared across various publications, including the Economic and Political Weekly, The Hindu, The Times of India and The Economic Times. He is at www.mrsharan.com and on Twitter at @sharanidli. Last Among Equals: Power, Caste and Politics in Bihar's Villages (Westland, 2021) eschews the usual sweeping narratives of national and state politics, reaching instead for the 'swirling, vivid sub-narratives that escape easy categorisations', the darkness of the material leavened with deep empathy. The result is a captivating, often searing narrative of how lives are lived in the villages of Bihar--and indeed in much of India. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

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M. R. Sharan, "Last Among Equals: Power, Caste and Politics in Bihar's Villages" (Westland, 2021)

New Books in Anthropology

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2023 45:32

M. R. Sharan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, studying questions centred around development economics and political economy. He obtained his PhD from Harvard University in 2020 and was previously at the Delhi School of Economics and Hansraj College. His novel, Blue, was published in 2014. His writings have appeared across various publications, including the Economic and Political Weekly, The Hindu, The Times of India and The Economic Times. He is at www.mrsharan.com and on Twitter at @sharanidli. Last Among Equals: Power, Caste and Politics in Bihar's Villages (Westland, 2021) eschews the usual sweeping narratives of national and state politics, reaching instead for the 'swirling, vivid sub-narratives that escape easy categorisations', the darkness of the material leavened with deep empathy. The result is a captivating, often searing narrative of how lives are lived in the villages of Bihar--and indeed in much of India. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology

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M. R. Sharan, "Last Among Equals: Power, Caste and Politics in Bihar's Villages" (Westland, 2021)

New Books in Sociology

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2023 45:32

M. R. Sharan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, studying questions centred around development economics and political economy. He obtained his PhD from Harvard University in 2020 and was previously at the Delhi School of Economics and Hansraj College. His novel, Blue, was published in 2014. His writings have appeared across various publications, including the Economic and Political Weekly, The Hindu, The Times of India and The Economic Times. He is at www.mrsharan.com and on Twitter at @sharanidli. Last Among Equals: Power, Caste and Politics in Bihar's Villages (Westland, 2021) eschews the usual sweeping narratives of national and state politics, reaching instead for the 'swirling, vivid sub-narratives that escape easy categorisations', the darkness of the material leavened with deep empathy. The result is a captivating, often searing narrative of how lives are lived in the villages of Bihar--and indeed in much of India. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology

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M. R. Sharan, "Last Among Equals: Power, Caste and Politics in Bihar's Villages" (Westland, 2021)

New Books in South Asian Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2023 45:32

M. R. Sharan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, studying questions centred around development economics and political economy. He obtained his PhD from Harvard University in 2020 and was previously at the Delhi School of Economics and Hansraj College. His novel, Blue, was published in 2014. His writings have appeared across various publications, including the Economic and Political Weekly, The Hindu, The Times of India and The Economic Times. He is at www.mrsharan.com and on Twitter at @sharanidli. Last Among Equals: Power, Caste and Politics in Bihar's Villages (Westland, 2021) eschews the usual sweeping narratives of national and state politics, reaching instead for the 'swirling, vivid sub-narratives that escape easy categorisations', the darkness of the material leavened with deep empathy. The result is a captivating, often searing narrative of how lives are lived in the villages of Bihar--and indeed in much of India. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/south-asian-studies

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M. R. Sharan, "Last Among Equals: Power, Caste and Politics in Bihar's Villages" (Westland, 2021)

New Books in Economics

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2023 45:32

M. R. Sharan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, studying questions centred around development economics and political economy. He obtained his PhD from Harvard University in 2020 and was previously at the Delhi School of Economics and Hansraj College. His novel, Blue, was published in 2014. His writings have appeared across various publications, including the Economic and Political Weekly, The Hindu, The Times of India and The Economic Times. He is at www.mrsharan.com and on Twitter at @sharanidli. Last Among Equals: Power, Caste and Politics in Bihar's Villages (Westland, 2021) eschews the usual sweeping narratives of national and state politics, reaching instead for the 'swirling, vivid sub-narratives that escape easy categorisations', the darkness of the material leavened with deep empathy. The result is a captivating, often searing narrative of how lives are lived in the villages of Bihar--and indeed in much of India. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/economics

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Debt and Service: The Logic of Caste

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2023 42:23

In this episode of Research Radio, we have Rajat Roy discussing his research on Dalit Political Subjectivity. In his papers titled "From Postcolonial Irony to Dalit Truth: A Perspective on Experience" and "Politics of Identity Contra Anti-caste Social Visions: The Matua Problem and Beyond," he highlights the uniqueness of Hindu life world and the social practices of castes. He argues that the postcolonial theory has not been sincere enough to look at caste and Brahmanical ideology critically as much as it has explored political questions like that of a Nation. Rajat Roy is an assistant professor of political science at Presidency University, Kolkata. For more episodes and to listen to EPW's other podcast Research Radio head to https://www.epw.in/podcasts Subscribe to EPW to access all our content including the archives of The Economic and Political Weekly and The Economic Weekly dating back to 1949. https://www.epw.in/subscribe.html

COVID-19 Vaccine R&D and Manufacturing in the US and in India - Part 1

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2023 37:49

This time on Research Radio we have with us Prof. Sunil Mani for a two-part episode on COVID-19 vaccine R&D and manufacturing in the US and in India based on his Special Article titled "The Role of Industrial Policy in Market-friendly Economies: Case of COVID-19 Vaccine R&D and Its Manufacturing in India and the US—I" and "The Role of Industrial Policy in Market-friendly Economies: Case of COVID-19 Vaccine R&D and Its Manufacturing in India and Its Contrast with the US—II". Prof. Mani is director and professor, RBI Chair, at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram. In Part 1 of this episode we will look at the differences in the approach adopted by the US and by India and the role of the each respective government in promoting R&D and Manufacturing. In Part 2 of this episode we discuss how intellectual property laws can facilitate and hinder the development and production of vaccines and the delicate balance of public private partnerships needed especially in the field of knowledge production and healthcare. For more episodes and to listen to EPW's other podcast Research Radio head to https://www.epw.in/podcasts Subscribe to EPW to access all our content including the archives of The Economic and Political Weekly and The Economic Weekly dating back to 1949. https://www.epw.in/subscribe.html

COVID-19 Vaccine R&D and Manufacturing in the US and in India - Part 2

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 5, 2023 41:46

This time on Research Radio we have with us Prof. Sunil Mani for a two-part episode on COVID-19 vaccine R&D and manufacturing in the US and in India based on his Special Article titled "The Role of Industrial Policy in Market-friendly Economies: Case of COVID-19 Vaccine R&D and Its Manufacturing in India and the US—I" and "The Role of Industrial Policy in Market-friendly Economies: Case of COVID-19 Vaccine R&D and Its Manufacturing in India and Its Contrast with the US—II". Prof. Mani is director and professor, RBI Chair, at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram. In Part 1 of this episode we will look at the differences in the approach adopted by the US and by India and the role of the each respective government in promoting R&D and Manufacturing. In Part 2 of this episode we discuss how intellectual property laws can facilitate and hinder the development and production of vaccines and the delicate balance of public private partnerships needed especially in the field of knowledge production and healthcare. For more episodes and to listen to EPW's other podcast Research Radio head to https://www.epw.in/podcasts Subscribe to EPW to access all our content including the archives of The Economic and Political Weekly and The Economic Weekly dating back to 1949. https://www.epw.in/subscribe.html

Caste Among School Children in Maharashtra

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2022 32:20

On this episode of Research Radio we have Sameer Mohite discussing his research on Caste among School Children in Maharashtra. In his papers titled "Critical Thinking on Caste among Schoolchildren in Maharashtra: Case Study of Two Schools in Chiplun" and "Caste amongst Schoolchildren: A Response" he discusses whether schools have been successful in encouraging children to overcome caste prejudice by bringing students from different castes together. Sameer Mohite currently teaches at Nirmala Niketan College in Mumbai. For more episodes and to listen to EPW's other podcast Research Radio head to https://www.epw.in/podcasts Subscribe to EPW to access all our content including the archives of The Economic and Political Weekly and The Economic Weekly dating back to 1949. https://www.epw.in/subscribe.html

Conversations: Ajaya Dixit on Risk and Resilience (Part 2) - Climate Change and the Future of Nepal's Development Pathway

PODS by PEI

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2022 47:56

Ep. Co#008 The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly referred to as COP27, took place this November in Egypt. One major achievement of this round of dialogue, which went down to the wire, was to establish a loss and damage fund, particularly for nations vulnerable to the climate crisis. While this may have been “a historic decision,” it raises more questions than answers, especially for countries like Nepal. In this second episode, Saumitra and Ajaya discuss the plausibility of Nepal reaching its ambitious goal of net-zero emission by 2045 and the impact of climate change on Nepal's water, energy, and infrastructural development. They also discuss the transboundary nature of the water relationship in the region and how climate change can perturb the existing interdependencies. Mr. Ajaya Dixit, co-founder and advisor of ISET-Nepal is an Ashoka Fellow who has led different projects on climate change adaptation and resilience building, disaster risk management, energy, food security and water governance. He possesses MSc in Engineering from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK and undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from Regional Engineering College, Orissa, India. He has directed regional research that examined climate changes impacts on flood, drought and food system adaptation in South Asia. His research focused on exploring the approaches to develop strategies for resilience building against climate change vulnerabilities at sub national scale. He coordinated and edited Nepal's first national disaster report, which was published in 2010. He is also the lead author of the book “Nepal maa Bipad” (Disasters in Nepal) that was published in 2016. He has published extensively in prestigious journals such as the Economic and Political Weekly. His opinion is highly regarded in the international arena and has been regarded as a climate change adaptation and resilience expert in Nepal and South Asia.

Conversations: Ajaya Dixit on Risk and Resilience (Part 1) - Understanding (COP27) Loss and Damage, Climate Change, and Nepal

PODS by PEI

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2022 49:21

Ep. Co#007 The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, commonly referred to as COP27, took place this November in Egypt. One major achievement of this round of dialogue, which went down to the wire, was to establish a loss and damage fund, particularly for nations vulnerable to the climate crisis. While this may have been “a historic decision,” it raises more questions than answers, especially for countries like Nepal. In this first episode, Saumitra Neupane, Executive Director of Policy Entrepreneurs Inc, and Ajaya Dixit, a leading voice in Nepal, and internationally, on issues of climate change adaptation, resilience building, and disaster risk management, discuss the outcomes of the recently concluded COP27, including the issue of loss and damage. They follow this up with a wider discussion on the issue of climate change and what it means for countries like Nepal and the Himalayan region. Mr. Ajaya Dixit, co-founder and advisor of ISET-Nepal is an Ashoka Fellow who has led different projects on climate change adaptation and resilience building, disaster risk management, energy, food security and water governance. He possesses MSc in Engineering from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK and undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from Regional Engineering College, Orissa, India. He has directed regional research that examined climate changes impacts on flood, drought and food system adaptation in South Asia. His research focused on exploring the approaches to develop strategies for resilience building against climate change vulnerabilities at sub national scale. He coordinated and edited Nepal's first national disaster report, which was published in 2010. He is also the lead author of the book “Nepal maa Bipad” (Disasters in Nepal) that was published in 2016. He has published extensively in prestigious journals such as the Economic and Political Weekly. His opinion is highly regarded in the international arena and has been regarded as a climate change adaptation and resilience expert in Nepal and South Asia.

70 Years of ‘Parasakthi': A groundbreaking moment in Tamil cinema || Muthuvel Karunanidhi

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2022 170:42

Parasakthi (The Supreme Power), a 1952 Tamil film directed by Krishnan-Panju and written by the then 28-year-old Muthuvel Karunanidhi, triggered a wave of radicalism in Tamil popular culture, thanks to harpoon-sharp dialogues that attacked casteism, religion, and social inequality, and scenes that sent shockwaves across the Tamil country. The rest, as the cliche goes, is history. Legendary thespian Sivaji Ganesan's debut vehicle made history and propelled the growth of the Dravidian ideology. Parasakthi hit the screens at a crucial juncture in Tamil history. Just three years prior, C.N. Annadurai, who had been a member of Periyar's Dravidar Kazhagam (DK), established the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK). A brigade of young writers associated with the DMK, including Karunanidhi, charged with the ideals of Dravidian politics, had already embraced Tamil cinema. They engaged in direct political propaganda through movies such as Nalla Thambi (1949), Velaikkari (1949), and Manthiri Kumari (1950, story by Karunanidhi). Even though Karunanidhi had worked as an uncredited dialogue writer in Marutha Naattu Ilavarasi (1950), Parasakthi brought him acclaim. The film had several unforgettable dialogues and scenes, including the iconic temple scene where Sivaji Ganesan confronts a priest who tried to molest his sister, and, of course, the elaborate courtroom scene featuring a marathon monologue by Sivaji Ganesan, which played a significant role in defining and delivering Dravidian sentiments for the Tamil people across the globe. Indeed, for most Tamilians of the generation, Parasakthi offered a masterclass on caste, class, religion, and gender: issues that continue to haunt popular culture and polity even today. As social scientist M.S.S. Pandian wrote in his Economic and Political Weekly article ‘Parasakthi: Life and times of a DMK film', the movie was a “signboard” of the coming days of the “consensual politics” the DMK was “destined to play” in Tamil Nadu. The DMK would foray into electoral politics in 1957, contesting the Madras Legislative Assembly elections. Evidently, the party's electoral histrionics were driven by the enormous success of Parasakthi, which cemented its belief in employing cinema as a medium of propaganda and enabling social change. Parasakthi set high standards for a propaganda film that still remains unmatched. According to Robert L. Hardgrave's article published in Selvaraj Velayutham's book Tamil Cinema: The cultural politics of India's other film industry, S. Panju, one of the directors of the movie, said the movie was “designed to create havoc”. He added: “We were challenging the social law itself, the basic constitution itself.” The Dravidian movement gained popularity and momentum with its unsparing criticism of religion, God, priesthood, religious scriptures, and upper-caste dominance. However, in later years, its shortcomings were clearly visible. SIDDARTH MURALIDHARAN -Frontline.TheHindu

The Feminist City S2 Ep. 2: On politics of urban infrastructure, cars and decongesting Bengaluru

Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy's Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2022 80:56

In Episode 2 of Season 2 of the Feminist City podcast series, Sneha Visakha is in conversation with Dr. Govind Gopakumar, Associate Professor and Chair, Centre for Engineering in Society at Concordia University. In this episode, they discuss Dr. Gopakumar's work in Bengaluru on topics ranging from the politics of urban infrastructure, urban mobility policies surrounding cars, buses and car-centric urban design along with the critiques of existing solutions to decongesting Bengaluru that contribute to the very problem it is trying to solve. They also discuss the use of law in shaping the city, lack of people's participation in determining policies and plans in cities and how this particularly affects women and other vulnerable populations in the city. Dr. Govind Gopakumar is currently Associate Professor in the Centre for Engineering in Society in the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science at Concordia University. His specific interests are in the policy dynamics of urban infrastructure change, social dimensions of the sustainability of water supply, globalisation of urban infrastructure, interdisciplinarity in engineering education and social entrepreneurship for engineers. Dr. Gopakumar received his Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Prior to that he received a M.S. in Energy and Environmental Policy from the University of Delaware and completed an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Technological University. He has a B. Tech in Electrical Engineering from College of Engineering, University of Kerala, India. You can read more about him and his work here: https://govindgopakumar.net/ For background reading, we recommend perusing the literature provided below: Installing Automobility: Emerging Politics of Mobility and Streets in Indian Cities, Govind Gopakumar, MIT Press. Making a Feminist City – Planning Safety and Autonomy for Women, Sneha Visakha Indian Automobility, Govind Gopakumar, Concordia. Jaywalkers to be fined in special drive on pedestrian safety, The Hindu. Regime of Congestion: Technopolitics of Mobility and Inequality in Bengaluru, Govind Gopakumar, Science as Culture. Who will Decongest Bengaluru? Politics, Infrastructures, & Scapes. Govind Gopakumar, Mobilities. JNNURM as a Window on Urban Governance, Govind Gopakumar, Economic & Political Weekly. Bengaluru does not need a steel flyover worth hundreds of crores, voices rise against project, TNM Staff, The News Minute Free bus ride scheme for women begins in Delhi, The Economic Times Now, free bus rides for Capital's labour force, Sweta Goswami, Hindustan Times Car Country: An Environmental History (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books Series), Christopher W. Wells, University of Washington Press. Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City, Peter Norton, MIT Press. Participolis, Consent and Contention in Neoliberal Urban India, Edited by Karen Coelho, Lalitha Kamath, M. Vijayabaskar, Routledge India Do Artifacts Have Politics? Langdon Winner, Daedalus, Modern Technology: Problem or Opportunity? The MIT Press Civic Groups: Bangalore Bus Prayanikara Vedike (BBPV) Bengaluru Bus Prayanikara Vedike's Bus Manifesto for BMTC Documentary: Social Life of a Bus, Govind Gopakumar & Bangalore Bus Prayanikara Vedike, Youtube. Podcast: Installing Automobility: Emerging Politics of Mobility and Streets in Indian Cities by Govind Gopakumar (Podcast), Govind Gopakumar, Sneha Annavarapu, New Books Network. Want to get in touch? Email sneha.visakha@vidhilegalpolicy.in or reach out to her on Twitter, @magicanarchist.

Kasturba Gandhi

Significant Others

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 27, 2022 50:11

Mohandas Gandhi helped India win independence from Britain through nonviolent resistance but little know that he credits the inspiration for his tactics to his wife, Kasturba. So, who was the wife of this renowned saint?Starring Dipika Guha as Kasturba Gandhi and Samrat Chakrabarti as Mohandas Gandhi. Source List:The Woman Beside Gandhi: A Biography of Kasturba, Wife of the Mahatma, by Sita KapadiaGandhi on Women, by Madhu Kishwar, Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 20, no. 41Why Mahatma Gandhi Said Kasturba Stood Above Him, Prabhash K Dutta, New Delhi, October 2, 2018The Truth About Gandhi, The Harvard CrimsonPetty, Bad-Tempered Kasturba - What Gandhi Said While Courting Sarladevi and Esther Faerling, B.M. Bhalla, March 19, 2020The Story of My Experiments With Truth, by Mohandas Karamchad GandhiMAHATMA, In Eight Volumes, by D.G. TendulkarKasturba: A Biography, By B.M. BhallaGandhi Was a Racist Who Forced Young Girls to Sleep in Bed With Him, by Mayukh Sen, December 3, 2015, ViceKasturba Gandhi, The Feisty Woman Whose Patience Inspired Gandhi's Call For Satyagraha, by Simrin Sirur, April 11, 2019, The Print

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S02E22 - Robin Hahnel on Parecon (Part 2)

Future Histories

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2022 139:37

Participatory Economics (Parecon) – developed by Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel – is one of the most comprehensive models for democratic economic planning. English-episodes-only Future Histories Website & RSS-Feed: https://futurehistories-international.com https://futurehistories-international.com/feed.xml Collaborative Podcast Transcription If you would like to support Future Histories by contributing to the collaborative transcription of episodes, please contact us at: transkription@futurehistories.today (German) Kollaborative Podcast-Transkription FAQ: shorturl.at/eL578 Shownotes Robin Hahnel (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hahnel Website Participatory Economy: https://participatoryeconomy.org/ Robin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RobinHahnel Hahnel, Robin. 2021. Democratic Economic Planning. New York: Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/Democratic-Economic-Planning/Hahnel/p/book/9781032003320 Albert, M. und R. Hahnel. 1991. The Political Economy of Participatory Economics. Princeton: Princeton University Press: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691003849/the-political-economy-of-participatory-economics Albert, M. und R. Hahnel. 2002. "In Defense of Participatory Economics". In: Science & Society, Vol. 66, No. 1. New York: Guilford Publications, 7–21: https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/pdf/10.1521/siso.66.1.7.21015 Bohmer, Peter & Chowdhury, Savvina & Hahnel, Robin. 2020. Reproductive Labor in a Participatory Socialist Society. Review of Radical Political Economics. 52. (PDF available): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338838418_Reproductive_Labor_in_a_Participataory_Socialist_Society Further Material Michael Albert (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Albert Alec Nove (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Nove Friedman, Milton. 1962. “Capitalism and Freedom”. University of Chicago (PDF available): https://ia601604.us.archive.org/24/items/friedman-milton-capitalism-and-freedom/friedman-milton-capitalism-and-freedom.pdf Iteration Facilitation Board (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facilitation_board_(economics) Nancy Folbre (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Folbre David B. Schweikhardt: https://www.canr.msu.edu/people/schweikhardt Adam Smith (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Smith Paul Cockshott (Wikipedia): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Cockshott Allin Cottrell (Wikipedia): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allin_Cottrell Cockshott, P. und A. Cottrell. 2002. "The Relation Between Economic and Political Instances in the Communist Mode of Production". In: Science & Society, Vol. 66, No. 1. New York: Guilford Publications, 50–64: https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/siso.66.1.50.21014 Cockshott, P. und A. Cottrell. 1993. Towards a New Socialism. Nottingham: Russell Press. (Book as PDF): http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/new_socialism.pdf Austrian School of economics (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_School Ludwig von Mises (Wikipedia): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_von_Mises Friedrich Hayek (Wikipedia): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_August_von_Hayek Ernesto Che Guevara (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara The Cuban Revolution (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Revolution Mondragon in Winnipeg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Bookstore_%26_Coffeehouse https://uniter.ca/view/lessons-of-mondragon Paul Burrows: https://forum.participatoryeconomy.org/u/pburrows/activity Savvina Chowdhury: https://www.evergreen.edu/directory/people/savvinachowdhury Noam Chomsky (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky Albert, M., King, M., Hahnel, R., Cagan, L., Sklar, H., Sargent, L., & Chomsky, N. 1986. Liberating theory. South End Press. (PDF available): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264871916_Liberating_Theory South End Press (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_End_Press Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luiz_In%C3%A1cio_Lula_da_Silva Further information on Brazil's workers' party: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-latin-american-studies/article/time-of-closure-participatory-budgeting-in-porto-alegre-brazil-after-the-workers-party-era/44EC7210668F4E4CC82853961C5133E9 John, M. S., and Jos Chathukulam. 2002. "Building social capital through state initiative: Participatory planning in Kerala." Economic and Political Weekly: 1939-1948.: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4412134 Hugo Chávez (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vez Fidel Castro (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro David Laibman (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Laibman Laibman, David and Campbell, Al. 2022. "(En)Visioning Socialism IV: Raising the Future in Our Imaginations Before Raising It in Reality". In Science & Society, Vol. 86, No. 2. New York: Guilford Publications: https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/siso.2022.86.2.137 Saros, E. Daniel. 2014. Information Technology and Socialist Construction. The End of Capital and the Transition to Socialism. Oxfordshire: Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/Information-Technology-and-Socialist-Construction-The-End-of-Capital-and/Saros/p/book/9780415742924 Pat Devine (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Devine Devine, Pat. 1988. Democracy and economic planning: the political economy of a self-governing society. Routledge.: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780429033117/democracy-economic-planning-pat-devine Jeremy Bentham (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Bentham Stephen Shalom (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Shalom Further Future Histories Episodes on related topics S02E21 | Robin Hahnel on Parecon (Part 1): https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e21-robin-hahnel-on-parecon/ S02E19 | David Laibman on Multilevel Democratic Iterative Coordination: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e19-david-laibman-on-multilevel-democratic-iterative-coordination/ (German) S02E14 | Jakob Heyer zu Grundproblemen einer postkapitalistischen Produktionsweise (Part1): https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e14-jakob-heyer-zu-grundproblemen-einer-postkapitalistischen-produktionsweise-teil-1/ (German) S02E15 | Jakob Heyer zu Grundproblemen einer postkapitalistischen Produktionsweise (Part 2): https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e15-jakob-heyer-zu-grundproblemen-einer-postkapitalistischen-produktionsweise-teil-2/ S02E11 | James Muldoon on Platform Socialism: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e11-james-muldoon-on-platform-socialism/ S02E10 | Aaron Benanav on Associational Socialism and Democratic Planning: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e10-aaron-benanav-on-associational-socialism-and-democratic-planning/ S01E58 | Jasper Bernes on Planning and Anarchy: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e58-jasper-bernes-on-planning-and-anarchy/ S01E31 | Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 1): https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e31-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-1/ S01E32 | Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 2): https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e32-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-2/ (German) S01E19 | Jan Philipp Dapprich zu sozialistischer Planwirtschaft: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e19-jan-philipp-dapprich-zu-sozialistischer-planwirtschaft/ (German) S01E14 | Harald Welzer zu Kapitalismus, Planwirtschaft & liberaler Demokratie: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e14-interview-mit-harald-welzer-zu-kapitalismus-planwirtschaft-amp-liberaler-demokratie/ If you like Future Histories, you can help with your support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories? Write me at office@futurehistories.today and join the discussion on Twitter (#FutureHistories): https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcast or on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/ or on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfRFz38oh9RH73-pWcME6yw www.futurehistories.today Episode Keywords: #RobinHahnel, #JanGroos, #Interview, #Podcast, #FutureHistories, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #Planning, #Sozialismus, #Socialism, #Democracy, #Demokratie, #Parecon, #MichaelAlbert, #Cockshott, #Cottrell, #Marxism, #VonMises, #Hayek, #Friedman, #Capitalism, #Kapitalismus, #Postcapitalism, #EconomicPlanning, #Communism, #ParticipatoryEconomics, #PlannedEconomy, #SystemicSocialism, #HetrodoxEconomics, #MarxistEconomics, #PoliticalEconomy, #DemocraticEconomicPlanning, #ParticipatorySocialistSociety,

Robin Hahnel on Parecon (Part 2)

Future Histories International

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2022

Participatory Economics (Parecon) – developed by Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel – is one of the most comprehensive models for democratic economic planning.English-episodes-only Future Histories Website & RSS-Feed:https://futurehistories-international.comhttps://futurehistories-international.com/feed.xmlCollaborative Podcast TranscriptionIf you would like to support Future Histories by contributing to the collaborative transcription of episodes, please contact us at:transkription@futurehistories.today(German) Kollaborative Podcast-Transkription FAQ:shorturl.at/eL578ShownotesRobin Hahnel (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hahnel Website Participatory Economy:https://participatoryeconomy.org/Robin on Twitter:https://twitter.com/RobinHahnelHahnel, Robin. 2021. Democratic Economic Planning. New York: Routledge:https://www.routledge.com/Democratic-Economic-Planning/Hahnel/p/book/9781032003320Albert, M. und R. Hahnel. 1991. The Political Economy of Participatory Economics. Princeton: Princeton University Press:https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691003849/the-political-economy-of-participatory-economics Albert, M. und R. Hahnel. 2002. "In Defense of Participatory Economics". In: Science & Society, Vol. 66, No. 1. New York: Guilford Publications, 7–21:https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/pdf/10.1521/siso.66.1.7.21015Bohmer, Peter & Chowdhury, Savvina & Hahnel, Robin. 2020. Reproductive Labor in a Participatory Socialist Society. Review of Radical Political Economics. 52. (PDF available):https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338838418_Reproductive_Labor_in_a_Participataory_Socialist_Society Further MaterialMichael Albert (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Albert Alec Nove (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Nove Friedman, Milton. 1962. “Capitalism and Freedom”. University of Chicago (PDF available):https://ia601604.us.archive.org/24/items/friedman-milton-capitalism-and-freedom/friedman-milton-capitalism-and-freedom.pdf Iteration Facilitation Board (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facilitation_board_(economics)Nancy Folbre (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_FolbreDavid B. Schweikhardt:https://www.canr.msu.edu/people/schweikhardtAdam Smith (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_SmithPaul Cockshott (Wikipedia):https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_CockshottAllin Cottrell (Wikipedia):https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allin_CottrellCockshott, P. und A. Cottrell. 2002. "The Relation Between Economic and Political Instances in the Communist Mode of Production". In: Science & Society, Vol. 66, No. 1. New York: Guilford Publications, 50–64:https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/siso.66.1.50.21014Cockshott, P. und A. Cottrell. 1993. Towards a New Socialism. Nottingham: Russell Press. (Book as PDF):http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/new_socialism.pdfAustrian School of economics (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_SchoolLudwig von Mises (Wikipedia):https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_von_MisesFriedrich Hayek (Wikipedia):https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_August_von_HayekErnesto Che Guevara (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_GuevaraThe Cuban Revolution (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_RevolutionMondragon in Winnipeg:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Bookstore_%26_Coffeehousehttps://uniter.ca/view/lessons-of-mondragonPaul Burrows:https://forum.participatoryeconomy.org/u/pburrows/activitySavvina Chowdhury:https://www.evergreen.edu/directory/people/savvinachowdhuryNoam Chomsky (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_ChomskyAlbert, M., King, M., Hahnel, R., Cagan, L., Sklar, H., Sargent, L., & Chomsky, N. 1986. Liberating theory. South End Press. (PDF available):https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264871916_Liberating_TheorySouth End Press (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_End_PressLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luiz_In%C3%A1cio_Lula_da_SilvaFurther information on Brazil's workers' party:https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-latin-american-studies/article/time-of-closure-participatory-budgeting-in-porto-alegre-brazil-after-the-workers-party-era/44EC7210668F4E4CC82853961C5133E9John, M. S., and Jos Chathukulam. 2002. "Building social capital through state initiative: Participatory planning in Kerala." Economic and Political Weekly: 1939-1948.:https://www.jstor.org/stable/4412134Hugo Chávez (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vezFidel Castro (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_CastroDavid Laibman (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_LaibmanLaibman, David and Campbell, Al. 2022. "(En)Visioning Socialism IV: Raising the Future in Our Imaginations Before Raising It in Reality". In Science & Society, Vol. 86, No. 2. New York: Guilford Publications:https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/siso.2022.86.2.137Saros, E. Daniel. 2014. Information Technology and Socialist Construction. The End of Capital and the Transition to Socialism. Oxfordshire: Routledge:https://www.routledge.com/Information-Technology-and-Socialist-Construction-The-End-of-Capital-and/Saros/p/book/9780415742924Pat Devine (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_DevineDevine, Pat. 1988. Democracy and economic planning: the political economy of a self-governing society. Routledge.:https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780429033117/democracy-economic-planning-pat-devineJeremy Bentham (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_BenthamStephen Shalom (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_ShalomFurther Future Histories Episodes on related topicsS02E21 | Robin Hahnel on Parecon (Part 1):https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e21-robin-hahnel-on-parecon/S02E19 | David Laibman on Multilevel Democratic Iterative Coordination:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e19-david-laibman-on-multilevel-democratic-iterative-coordination/(German) S02E14 | Jakob Heyer zu Grundproblemen einer postkapitalistischen Produktionsweise (Part1):https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e14-jakob-heyer-zu-grundproblemen-einer-postkapitalistischen-produktionsweise-teil-1/(German) S02E15 | Jakob Heyer zu Grundproblemen einer postkapitalistischen Produktionsweise (Part 2):https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e15-jakob-heyer-zu-grundproblemen-einer-postkapitalistischen-produktionsweise-teil-2/S02E11 | James Muldoon on Platform Socialism:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e11-james-muldoon-on-platform-socialism/S02E10 | Aaron Benanav on Associational Socialism and Democratic Planning:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e10-aaron-benanav-on-associational-socialism-and-democratic-planning/S01E58 | Jasper Bernes on Planning and Anarchy:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e58-jasper-bernes-on-planning-and-anarchy/S01E31 | Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 1):https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e31-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-1/S01E32 | Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 2):https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e32-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-2/(German) S01E19 | Jan Philipp Dapprich zu sozialistischer Planwirtschaft:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e19-jan-philipp-dapprich-zu-sozialistischer-planwirtschaft/(German) S01E14 | Harald Welzer zu Kapitalismus, Planwirtschaft & liberaler Demokratie:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e14-interview-mit-harald-welzer-zu-kapitalismus-planwirtschaft-amp-liberaler-demokratie/If you like Future Histories, you can help with your support on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories?Write me at office@futurehistories.today and join the discussion on Twitter (#FutureHistories):https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcastor on Reddit:https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/or on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfRFz38oh9RH73-pWcME6ywwww.futurehistories.todayEpisode Keywords:#RobinHahnel, #JanGroos, #Interview, #Podcast, #FutureHistories, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #Planning, #Sozialismus, #Socialism, #Democracy, #Demokratie, #Parecon, #MichaelAlbert, #Cockshott, #Cottrell, #Marxism, #VonMises, #Hayek, #Friedman, #Capitalism, #Kapitalismus, #Postcapitalism, #EconomicPlanning, #Communism, #ParticipatoryEconomics, #PlannedEconomy, #SystemicSocialism, #HetrodoxEconomics, #MarxistEconomics, #PoliticalEconomy, #DemocraticEconomicPlanning, #ParticipatorySocialistSociety,

Robin Hahnel on Parecon (Part 2)

Future Histories International

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2022

Participatory Economics (Parecon) – developed by Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel – is one of the most comprehensive models for democratic economic planning.English-episodes-only Future Histories Website & RSS-Feed:https://futurehistories-international.comhttps://futurehistories-international.com/feed.xmlCollaborative Podcast TranscriptionIf you would like to support Future Histories by contributing to the collaborative transcription of episodes, please contact us at:transkription@futurehistories.today(German) Kollaborative Podcast-Transkription FAQ:shorturl.at/eL578ShownotesRobin Hahnel (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hahnel Website Participatory Economy:https://participatoryeconomy.org/Robin on Twitter:https://twitter.com/RobinHahnelHahnel, Robin. 2021. Democratic Economic Planning. New York: Routledge:https://www.routledge.com/Democratic-Economic-Planning/Hahnel/p/book/9781032003320Albert, M. und R. Hahnel. 1991. The Political Economy of Participatory Economics. Princeton: Princeton University Press:https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691003849/the-political-economy-of-participatory-economics Albert, M. und R. Hahnel. 2002. "In Defense of Participatory Economics". In: Science & Society, Vol. 66, No. 1. New York: Guilford Publications, 7–21:https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/pdf/10.1521/siso.66.1.7.21015Bohmer, Peter & Chowdhury, Savvina & Hahnel, Robin. 2020. Reproductive Labor in a Participatory Socialist Society. Review of Radical Political Economics. 52. (PDF available):https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338838418_Reproductive_Labor_in_a_Participataory_Socialist_Society Further MaterialMichael Albert (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Albert Alec Nove (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Nove Friedman, Milton. 1962. “Capitalism and Freedom”. University of Chicago (PDF available):https://ia601604.us.archive.org/24/items/friedman-milton-capitalism-and-freedom/friedman-milton-capitalism-and-freedom.pdf Iteration Facilitation Board (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facilitation_board_(economics)Nancy Folbre (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_FolbreDavid B. Schweikhardt:https://www.canr.msu.edu/people/schweikhardtAdam Smith (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_SmithPaul Cockshott (Wikipedia):https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_CockshottAllin Cottrell (Wikipedia):https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allin_CottrellCockshott, P. und A. Cottrell. 2002. "The Relation Between Economic and Political Instances in the Communist Mode of Production". In: Science & Society, Vol. 66, No. 1. New York: Guilford Publications, 50–64:https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/siso.66.1.50.21014Cockshott, P. und A. Cottrell. 1993. Towards a New Socialism. Nottingham: Russell Press. (Book as PDF):http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/socialism_book/new_socialism.pdfAustrian School of economics (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_SchoolLudwig von Mises (Wikipedia):https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_von_MisesFriedrich Hayek (Wikipedia):https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_August_von_HayekErnesto Che Guevara (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_GuevaraThe Cuban Revolution (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_RevolutionMondragon in Winnipeg:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Bookstore_%26_Coffeehousehttps://uniter.ca/view/lessons-of-mondragonPaul Burrows:https://forum.participatoryeconomy.org/u/pburrows/activitySavvina Chowdhury:https://www.evergreen.edu/directory/people/savvinachowdhuryNoam Chomsky (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_ChomskyAlbert, M., King, M., Hahnel, R., Cagan, L., Sklar, H., Sargent, L., & Chomsky, N. 1986. Liberating theory. South End Press. (PDF available):https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264871916_Liberating_TheorySouth End Press (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_End_PressLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luiz_In%C3%A1cio_Lula_da_SilvaFurther information on Brazil's workers' party:https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-latin-american-studies/article/time-of-closure-participatory-budgeting-in-porto-alegre-brazil-after-the-workers-party-era/44EC7210668F4E4CC82853961C5133E9John, M. S., and Jos Chathukulam. 2002. "Building social capital through state initiative: Participatory planning in Kerala." Economic and Political Weekly: 1939-1948.:https://www.jstor.org/stable/4412134Hugo Chávez (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%C3%A1vezFidel Castro (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_CastroDavid Laibman (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_LaibmanLaibman, David and Campbell, Al. 2022. "(En)Visioning Socialism IV: Raising the Future in Our Imaginations Before Raising It in Reality". In Science & Society, Vol. 86, No. 2. New York: Guilford Publications:https://guilfordjournals.com/doi/10.1521/siso.2022.86.2.137Saros, E. Daniel. 2014. Information Technology and Socialist Construction. The End of Capital and the Transition to Socialism. Oxfordshire: Routledge:https://www.routledge.com/Information-Technology-and-Socialist-Construction-The-End-of-Capital-and/Saros/p/book/9780415742924Pat Devine (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_DevineDevine, Pat. 1988. Democracy and economic planning: the political economy of a self-governing society. Routledge.:https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780429033117/democracy-economic-planning-pat-devineJeremy Bentham (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_BenthamStephen Shalom (Wikipedia):https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_ShalomFurther Future Histories Episodes on related topicsS02E21 | Robin Hahnel on Parecon (Part 1):https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e21-robin-hahnel-on-parecon/S02E19 | David Laibman on Multilevel Democratic Iterative Coordination:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e19-david-laibman-on-multilevel-democratic-iterative-coordination/(German) S02E14 | Jakob Heyer zu Grundproblemen einer postkapitalistischen Produktionsweise (Part1):https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e14-jakob-heyer-zu-grundproblemen-einer-postkapitalistischen-produktionsweise-teil-1/(German) S02E15 | Jakob Heyer zu Grundproblemen einer postkapitalistischen Produktionsweise (Part 2):https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e15-jakob-heyer-zu-grundproblemen-einer-postkapitalistischen-produktionsweise-teil-2/S02E11 | James Muldoon on Platform Socialism:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e11-james-muldoon-on-platform-socialism/S02E10 | Aaron Benanav on Associational Socialism and Democratic Planning:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e10-aaron-benanav-on-associational-socialism-and-democratic-planning/S01E58 | Jasper Bernes on Planning and Anarchy:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e58-jasper-bernes-on-planning-and-anarchy/S01E31 | Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 1):https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e31-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-1/S01E32 | Daniel E. Saros on Digital Socialism and the Abolition of Capital (Part 2):https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e32-daniel-e-saros-on-digital-socialism-and-the-abolition-of-capital-part-2/(German) S01E19 | Jan Philipp Dapprich zu sozialistischer Planwirtschaft:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e19-jan-philipp-dapprich-zu-sozialistischer-planwirtschaft/(German) S01E14 | Harald Welzer zu Kapitalismus, Planwirtschaft & liberaler Demokratie:https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e14-interview-mit-harald-welzer-zu-kapitalismus-planwirtschaft-amp-liberaler-demokratie/If you like Future Histories, you can help with your support on Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories?Write me at office@futurehistories.today and join the discussion on Twitter (#FutureHistories):https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcastor on Reddit:https://www.reddit.com/r/FutureHistories/or on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfRFz38oh9RH73-pWcME6ywwww.futurehistories.todayEpisode Keywords:#RobinHahnel, #JanGroos, #Interview, #Podcast, #FutureHistories, #FutureHistoriesInternational, #Planning, #Sozialismus, #Socialism, #Democracy, #Demokratie, #Parecon, #MichaelAlbert, #Cockshott, #Cottrell, #Marxism, #VonMises, #Hayek, #Friedman, #Capitalism, #Kapitalismus, #Postcapitalism, #EconomicPlanning, #Communism, #ParticipatoryEconomics, #PlannedEconomy, #SystemicSocialism, #HetrodoxEconomics, #MarxistEconomics, #PoliticalEconomy, #DemocraticEconomicPlanning, #ParticipatorySocialistSociety,

The First Amendment

The Longest Constitution with Priya Mirza

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2022 10:07

Finally, we are here. Sixteen months after completing the draft of the Constitution of India, the same bunch of people amended three fundamental rights: Articles 15, 19, and 31. This episode, though, focuses on the litigation and changes to Article 19. We also continue with tracking the journey of freedom of expression as well as the birth of the PIL in India's constitutional jurisprudence. What happens when the state determines the price and the number of pages of newspapers? Tune in and find out! Reading material: On the first amendment: Menon, Nivedita (2004), “Citizenship and the Passive Revolution: Interpreting the First Amendment”, Economic and Political Weekly, 39(18), 1812-1819. Singh, Tripurdaman (2021), Sixteen Stormy Days: The Story of the First Amendment of the Constitution of India, New Delhi: Penguin. Liang, Lawrence, 2016, “Free Speech and Expression”, in Choudhry, Sujit (et al), The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution, OUP: New Delhi. Chandrachud, Abhinav, 2017, Republic of Rhetoric: Free Speech and the Constitution of India, New Delhi: Viking. https://indiankanoon.org/doc/243002/On PIL:Divan, Shyam, (2016),” Public Interest Litigation”, in Choudhry, Sujit (et al), The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution, OUP: New Delhi. https://indiankanoon.org/doc/243002/If you have missed out on The Longest Constitution Season 1, check here: ( "The Longest Constitution with Priya Mirza")You can follow Priya on social media:Instagram: (https://www.instagram.com/thelongestconstitution_/ )Twitter: ( fundamentallyp )Linkedin: ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/priya-mirza-73666310/ )You can listen to The Longest Constitution podcast on IVM Podcasts Network, Spotify, YouTube Music, Gaana, or wherever you get your podcasts from.Find other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts App on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: ‎IVM Podcasts, or on any other major podcast app.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Covid-19 ने कितनी जानें ली? How Many Lives Did Covid-19 Claim? ft. Mihir Mahajan

Puliyabaazi Hindi Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2022 45:35

There is a lot of speculation over the number of lives lost due to COVID-19 in India. The government-reported estimates vary significantly from those estimated by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Estimating this number well is important for designing public policy measures to combat future pandemics. So, in this episode, we spoke with Mihir Mahajan, adjunct fellow at the Takshashila Institution, who has co-authored a paper that estimates COVID-19 deaths using publicly available insurance data. Mihir discusses the system for registration of deaths in India, and the reasons for undercounting COVID-19 deaths.ये पुलियाबाज़ी एक संवेदनशील विषय पर है। भारत में COVID-19 मृतकों की संख्या को लेकर कई तरह की अटकलें लगाई जा रही हैं। सरकारी अनुमान और विश्व स्वास्थ्य संगठन (डब्ल्यूएचओ) के अनुमान में काफी अंतर है। भविष्य में महामारियों से निपटने के लिए इस संख्या का अच्छी तरह से अनुमान लगाना महत्वपूर्ण है। तो इस एपिसोड में, हमने तक्षशिला इंस्टीट्यूशन में एडजंक्ट फेलो मिहिर महाजन के साथ बात की, जिन्होंने सार्वजनिक रूप से उपलब्ध बीमा डेटा का उपयोग करके COVID-19 मौतों का अनुमान लगाया है। मिहिर ने भारत में मृत्यु पंजीकरण की प्रणाली का भी ब्यौरा दिया इस पुलियाबाज़ी में। For more, read:Estimating the Impact of Covid-19 in India from Life Insurance Claims, Economic & Political Weekly article by Mihir Mahajan and Shekhar Sathe. Pre-published version here.Explained: Counting India's Covid deaths, Amitabha Sinha in the Indian ExpressThe pandemic's true death toll: millions more than official counts, David Adam in NaturePuliyabaazi is on these platforms:Twitter: https://twitter.com/puliyabaaziInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/puliyabaazi/Subscribe & listen to the podcast on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Castbox, AudioBoom, YouTube, Spotify or any other podcast app.You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/ios, or any other podcast app.You can check out our website at http://www.ivmpodcasts.com/

CAPTAIN (Pre-Internet Networks)

Our Friend the Computer

Play Episode Play 27 sec Highlight Listen Later Apr 26, 2022 50:33 Transcription Available

Camila shares her research on the Japanese videotex system CAPTAIN. The girls discuss competing videotex protocols, how to informatize a country, biased reporting, and if a network can be successful in its aims even if the actual system failed.Camila's film ‘Vecino Vecino' is premiering 6pm Thursday May 5th at Prismatic Ground experimental documentary festival in New York. Tickets and info here: https://www.screenslate.com/events/prismatic-ground-2022 Follow us on Twitter @OurFriendCompAnd Instagram @ourfriendthecomputer Main research for the episode was done by Camila. Ana audio edited. Music by Nelson Guay (SoundCloud: fluxlinkages)References:- Arai, Yoshio. “History of the development of telecommunications infrastructure in Japan.” Netcom 33 (2019)- Baijal, Pradip. “From Nationalisation to Privatisation: UK and Japan.” Economic and Political Weekly 35, no. 13 (March 2000): 1101-1106- “Evolutionary Network Development of Japan's Computer Networking.” Japan - Germany Information Technology Forum, Oita Japan. Nov 8, 1994 - Gabriel, Michael R. “Videotex and Teletex: Waiting for the 21st Century?” Educational Technology 28, no. 3 (March 1988): 27-31- Lehmann, Yves. “Videotex: A Japanese Lesson.” Telecommunications 28, iss. 7 (July 1994): 53-54- Morris-Suzuki, Tessa. “Beyond Computopia: Information, Automation and Democracy in Japan.” Kagan Paul International Limited, London. 1988- Ohlin, Tomas. “The Baby Networks: Nordic Positions Before the Internet.” 3rd History of Nordic Computing (Oct 2010): 278-286- Pollack, Andrew. “Technology: The Japanese Challenge; Japan's Drive to Automate.” The New York Times, August 10, 1984. https://www.nytimes.com/1984/08/10/business/technology-the-japanese-challenge-japan-s-drive-to-automate.html - West, Joel, and Dedrick, Jason, and Kraemer, Kenneth L. “Reconciling Vision and Reality in Japan's NII Policy.” Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations, University of California, Irvine (1996)

Making Development Work for the Poor

politics development ideas indian poor economic georgetown university social change international development social services rajesh development studies andhra pradesh world development political weekly shruti rajagopalan

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2022 40:04

One of the most vexed questions in development studies is why the poor often receive such poor government services. The development literature is littered with hundreds—if not thousands—of examples of elite capture, weak state capacity, corruption, and subversion. But a focus on the failures obscures the fact that, every once in a while, the state does get it right and the top-down and the bottom-up meet in a place that produces positive benefits for ordinary citizens.How exactly this happens is the subject of a new book by Georgetown University professor Rajesh Veeraraghavan, Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Change in India. Milan and Rajesh discuss how bureaucrats and civil society forged an unlikely partnership in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh to implement the world's largest workfare program at scale. Plus, the two talk about the the role of technology in government, the political economy of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), and the limits of transparency. “Information Politics and Social Change,” Ideas of India (podcast) with Shruti Rajagopalan and Rajesh Veeraraghavan, March 3, 2022.Philip Keefer and Stuti Khemani, “Why Do the Poor Receive Poor Services?” Economic and Political Weekly 39, no. 9 (2004): 935-943.Diego Maiorano, “The Politics of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in Andhra Pradesh,” World Development 58 (2014): 95-105.

A New Employment Data Architecture to Solve the Jobs Crisis

All Things Policy

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2022 64:32

Sridhar Krishna, Senior Scholar at The Takshashila Institution speaks to Dr. Radhicka Kapoor, Senior Visiting Fellow at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) on the huge employment crisis facing the nation. Dr. Kapoor explains how the two significant changes to employment data, the replacement of the NSSO's quinquennial Employment and Unemployment Surveys with an annual Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) and the introduction of monthly payroll data are inadequate given the dualistic nature of India's labour markets, the dominance of low- wage and low-productivity jobs and the problem of underemployment. Follow Sridhar on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sridhar_kriFollow Dr. Radhicka on Twitter: https://twitter.com/radhickaSuggested Readings: An Employment Data Strategy for India; India Policy Forum, 2019 by Radhicka KapoorRethinking India's Employment Data Architecture; Economic and Political Weekly of India, 2018 by Radhicka KapoorIndia's jobless growth by Sridhar Krishna and Aarushi KatariaEducation, labour and agriculture reforms will usher in individual freedom by Manish Sabharwal.Trends and forecasting of employment intensity of growth in India by Puttanaik and Nayak.The employment elasticity of economic growth by Morén and Wändal.Check out Takshashila's courses: https://school.takshashila.org.in/You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the new and improved IVM Podcast App on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: https://ivm.today/iosYou can check out our website at https://www.ivmpodcasts.com

The Role of NATO - Debate with Radhika Desai & MP Peter Fragiskatos

New Left Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 31, 2022 52:55

Fan of the show? https://www.patreon.com/newleftradio (Support us on Patreon)! Each week, we'll bring you a panel discussion with Canada's leading journalists, columnists, politicos, and change-makers discussing what's happening in the newsphere. This week, we're joined by Professor Radhika Desai and MP Peter Fragiskatos, to debate the role of NATO in a changing world and Canada's place in a changing NATO. With Russia's invasion of Ukraine continuing, what does the conflict mean for the future of the alliance? About Radhika Desai Dr. Radhika Desai is Professor at the Department of Political Studies, and Director, Geopolitical Economy Research Group, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. She is the author of Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire (2013), Slouching Towards Ayodhya: From Congress to Hindutva in Indian Politics (2nd rev ed, 2004) and Intellectuals and Socialism: ‘Social Democrats' and the Labour Party (1994), a New Statesman and Society Book of the Month, and editor or co-editor of Russia, Ukraine and Contemporary Imperialism, a special issue of International Critical Thought (2016), Theoretical Engagements in Geopolitical Economy(2015), Analytical Gains from Geopolitical Economy (2015), Revitalizing Marxist Theory for Today's Capitalism (2010) and Developmental and Cultural Nationalisms (2009). She is also the author of numerous articles in Economic and Political Weekly, International Critical Thought, New Left Review, Third World Quarterly, World Review of Political Economy and other journals and in edited collections on parties, political economy, culture and nationalism. With Alan Freeman, she co-edits the Geopolitical Economy book series with Manchester University Press and the Future of Capitalism book series with Pluto Press. She serves on the Editorial Boards of many journals including Canadian Political Science Review, Critique of Political Economy, E-Social Sciences, Pacific Affairs, Global Faultlines, Research in Political Economy, Revista de Economía Crítica, World Review of Political Economy and International Critical Thought. About Peter Fragiskatos Peter Fragiskatos was first elected as the Member of Parliament for London North Centre in 2015. In this role, Mr. Fragiskatos previously served as a member of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians, the Standing Committee on Finance, and the Special Committee on Canada-China Relations. He was also a member of various other committees, parliamentary associations, and interparliamentary groups. Prior to entering federal politics, Mr. Fragiskatos was a political scientist at King's University College at Western University and a media commentator. His works have been published by major Canadian and international news organizations, including Maclean's, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, BBC News, and CNN. Born in London, Ontario, Mr. Fragiskatos has combined his passion for politics with a desire to give back to his community. He has served on the boards of Anago (Non) Residential Resources Inc. and the Heritage London Foundation. An active volunteer, he ran a youth mentorship program and has worked with many local not-for-profit groups, such as the London Food Bank, the London Cross-Cultural Learner Centre, and Literacy London, a charity dedicated to helping adults improve their reading and writing skills. Mr. Fragiskatos holds a Political Science degree from Western University, a master's degree in International Relations from Queen's University, and a PhD in International Relations from Cambridge University. Stay connected with the latest from New Left Radio by https://newleft.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=8227a4372fe8dc22bdbf0e3db&id=e99d6c70b4 (joining our mailing list) today! _________

A Woman on a Harley-Davidson

The Longest Constitution with Priya Mirza

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2022 10:11

What makes men hysterical? The women's reservation bill! This episode of The Longest Constitution examines why women aren't in Parliament, and how that would help. We also look at the issue of livelihood, which is often determined by everyone but those who lose their livelihood. We look at eggs, surrogacy and orchestra performers - maybe in that order! Randall, Vicky, “Legislative Gender Quotas and Indian Exceptionalism: The Travails of the Women's Reservation Bill”, Comparative Politics Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 63-82. Menon, Nivedita, “Elusive 'Woman': Feminism and Women's Reservation Bill”Economic and Political Weekly, 35, 43/44, 2000Bhatia, Gautam, “Direct and Indirect Discrimination: Conceptual Slippages in the Orchestra Bars Case”, https://indconlawphil.wordpress.com/2022/02/22/direct-and-indirect-discrimination-conceptual-slippages-in-the-orchestra-bars-case/https://www.tribuneindia.com/1998/98jul14/head.htmLegal reading material:On eggs: https://indiankanoon.org/doc/447905/On surrogacy: The Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021, https://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/2021/232118.pdfIf you have missed out on The Longest Constitution Season 1, check here: ( "The Longest Constitution with Priya Mirza")You can follow Priya on social media:Instagram: ( https://www.instagram.com/thelongestconstitution_/ )Twitter: ( fundamentallyp )Linkedin: ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/priya-mirza-73666310/ )You can listen to The Longest Constitution podcast on IVM Podcasts Network, Spotify, YouTube Music, Gaana, or wherever you get your podcasts from. Find other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts App on Android: https://ivm.today/android or iOS: ‎IVM Podcasts, or on any other major podcast app.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The eye of the tiger: conservation technology, rural surveillance and the patriarchy in Indian wildlife reserves

The Anti-Dystopians

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2022 48:31

In this episode, Alina Utrata talks to Dr Trishant Simlai, a conservation researcher studying the politics and geographies of wildlife conservation in India, who just received his PhD in the Department of Geography at Cambridge. They discuss wildlife surveillance in the Corbett Tiger Reserve, as well as conservation's colonial origins, how camera traps can be used to uphold the patriarchy, and when workplace surveillance technologies literally lead to tiger attacks.You can follow Trishant Simlai on Twitter @trishantsimlai Alina Utrata @alinautrata and the Anti-Dystopians podcast on @AntiDystopians. Sign up for the Anti-Dystopians email newsletter at bit.ly/3kuGM5XAll episodes of the Anti-Dystopians are hosted and produced by Alina Utrata and are freely available to all listeners. To support the production to the show, visit: bit.ly/3AApPN4Further Reading: Negotiating the Gaze. Sanctuary Asia, December 2019Are Conservation Organizations Complicit in Ethnic Discrimination? The Wire 2017Grasslands of Grey: How the BBC's flawed Kaziranga muckraker has done harm. The Wire 2017:Are Treacherous Links and Claims an Illusion? Sanctuary Asia 2016Conservation 'Wars': The global rise of green militarization and trends in India. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol L No 50. 2015.Digital Surveillance Tech in Conservation and their social implicationsWhy we must question the militarisation of conservationHow does Conservation Tech Cause Harm?Conservation Surveillance as a means for state repression?Nowhere Land by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4148-nowhere-landLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tocqueville: America and Algeria - Prof Gurminder K Bhambra

The Connected Sociologies Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2021 13:22

Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clérel, Comte de Tocqueville was born in 1805 into the French nobility and a family estate in Normandy. He died in 1859. His wider family was part of the conservative reaction to the changes brought about by the French Revolution in 1789, but Tocqueville, himself, looked forward. He participated in public office, initially as a magistrate and subsequently as a deputy of the Constituent Assembly, rising briefly to Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1849. He travelled to the United States between May 1831and February 1832 with his friend Gustave Beaumont, ostensibly to study penal institutions, but instead published a two-volume study of Democracy in America. Throughout his life, he commented on contemporary politics and public affairs, including France's occupation of Algeria. The politics of the period were frequently in turmoil and this instability was a motivating concern of Tocqueville in his search for the conditions of a more stable order. Reading Bhambra, Gurminder K. and John Holmwood 2021. ‘Tocqueville: From America to Algeria' in Colonialism and Modern Social Theory. Cambridge: Polity Chandra, Rajshree 2013. ‘Tocqueville for Our Times,' Economic and Political Weekly 48 (10): 32-35 Pitts, Jennifer (ed) 2001. Writing on Empire and Slavery: Alexis de Tocqueville. Edited and translated by Jennifer Pitts. Baltimore: The John Hopkins Press Richter, Melvin 1963. ‘Tocqueville on Algeria,' The Review of Politics 25 (3): 362–398 Stokes, Curtis 1990. ‘Tocqueville and the Problem of Racial Inequality,' The Journal of Negro History 75 (1/2): 1-15 Tocqueville, Alexis de 2001 [1841]. ‘Essay on Algeria'; [1843]. ‘The Emancipation of Slaves'; [1847]. ‘First Report on Algeria' in Jennifer Pitts (ed) Writing on Empire and Slavery: Alexis de Tocqueville. Edited and translated by Jennifer Pitts. Baltimore: The John Hopkins Press Tocqueville, Alexis de 2004 [1835]. Democracy in America. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Editor Olivier Zunz. New York: Penguin Random House Tocqueville, Alexis de 2008 [1856]. The Ancien Regime and the Revolution. Translated and Edited by Gerald Bevan. London: Penguin Resources Bhambra, Gurminder K. 2021. ‘The Haitian Revolution' Connected Sociologies Curriculum Project video lecture.

Ep. 36: Side Quest - Industrial Disasters (Mercury Waterguns)

Under the Pendulum Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2021 45:22

We are taking a break from the Radium Girls before closing out the series with Part 4. On today's episode we will be talking about industrial disasters and bastards. Emily Seabold from Everyday Lies Podcast joins us for some horror and retribution. We tell two stories of fraud, negligence, death, disease, and pollution. You know...all the things you've come to know and love from us. It's bitter and then sweet on this episode of Under the Pendulum Podcast Sources: Bhopal Disaster https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/12/bhopal-the-worlds-worst-industrial-disaster-30-years-later/100864/ https://www.bhopal.org/continuing-disaster/the-bhopal-gas-disaster/union-carbides-disaster/ Tachakra, Sapal S. “The Bhopal Disaster: Lessons for Developing Countries.” Environmental Conservation, vol. 16, no. 1, 1989, pp. 65–66. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/44521150. Kurien, C. T., and A. Vaidyanathan. “Bhopal Disaster.” Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 19, no. 51/52, 1984, pp. 2142–2142. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4373895. Formosa Scandal Tim Schütz, "Dirty Money, Point Comfort, Texas ", contributed by Tim Schütz and Kim Fortun, Disaster STS Network, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 2 October 2020, accessed 16 September 2021. (Netflix). https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_3895ae9c-4f69-11eb-afcd-e78c03d643a4.html

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THIS IS REVOLUTION>podcast Ep. 175: The Limits of Postmodernism w/ Vivek Chibber and Special Guest Host Kenzo Shibata

THIS IS REVOLUTION >podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2021 77:09

With the raging culture war and debates around Critical Race Theory we will discuss how Postmodern theory became a dominant force in academia that derailed materialist analysis of social and political phenomena. In this episode we will investigate the origins of postmodern thought and its consequences for today's politics. About Vivek: Vivek Chibber is a professor of sociology at New York University. He is the editor of Catalyst: A Journal of Theory and Strategy. Articles: "Making Sense of Postcolonial theory: a response to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak", Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 27:3, 617-624, DOI:10.1080/09557571.2014.943593 [Download/read: ResponsetoSpivak.pdf, 79.76 kB] "Subaltern Studies Revisited - a Response to Partha Chatterjee [Longer version]," Economic and Political Weekly, March 1, 2014. [Download/read: SubalternStudiedRevisited.pdf, 224.12 kB] "Capitalism, Class, and Universalism: Escaping the Cul-de-sac of Postcolonial Theory," The Socialist Register, 2014. [Download/read: Capitalism, Class.pdf, 76.88kB] "Organized Interests, Development Strategies, and Social Policies", R. Nagaraj ed., Growth, Inequality, and Social Policy in India, London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012. [Download/read: Organized_interests.pdf, 1,802kb] Books: Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital Verso, 2013. Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India Princeton University Press, 2003. Watch Kenzo on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx4zh3sVbbbEuexW6LXCQXg Thank you, guys, again for taking the time to check this out. We appreciate each and every one of you. If you have the means, and you feel so inclined, BECOME A PATRON! We're creating patron only programing, you'll get bonus content from many of the episodes, and you get MERCH! Become a patron now https://www.patreon.com/join/BitterLakePresents? Please also like, subscribe, and follow us on these platforms as well, (specially YouTube!) THANKS Y'ALL YouTube: www.youtube.com/thisisrevolutionpodcast Twitch: www.twitch.tv/thisisrevolutionpodcast www.twitch.tv/leftflankvets Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Thisisrevolutionpodcast/ Twitter: @TIRShowOakland Instagram: @thisisrevolutionoakland The Dispatch on Zero Books (video essay series): https://youtu.be/nSTpCvIoRgw Medium: https://jasonmyles.medium.com/kill-the-poor-f9d8c10bc33d Pascal Robert's Black Agenda Report: https://www.blackagendareport.com/author/PascalRobert Get THIS IS REVOLUTION Merch here: www.thisisrevolutionpodcast.com Get the music from the show here: https://bitterlakeoakland.bandcamp.com/album/coronavirus-sessions

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S6E3 | Casteism ≠ Racism: Prof Shaista Patel on the Failures of 'Postcolonialism'

PhDivas

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2021 36:43

Just because they are both systems of oppression does not mean that casteism ≠ racism! Postcolonialism developed as a field of study established by predominantly Indian intellectuals -- but only understanding them as non-Black people of colour erases their caste privilege. Shaista Patel, a professor in Critical Muslim studies at UC San Diego, chats with PhDiva Xine about the nuances of Islamophobia, Hindu nationalism, and casteism that are often misread or overlooked by outsiders. Image used with the permission of Snehal P Sanathanan For more on caste: Ambedkar, B.R. (1936). Annihilation of Caste. http://www.ambedkar.org/ambcd/02.Annihilation%20of%20Caste.htm(accessed June 9, 2021). Arya, Sunaina. (2020). “Dalit or Brahminical Patriarchy?: Rethinking Indian Feminism.” CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion. 1, no. 1: 217–228. Guru, G. (2002). “How egalitarian are the social sciences in India?.” Economic and Political Weekly, 5003-5009. Rawat, Ramnarayan S., and Kusuma Satyanarayana. (2016). Dalit studies. Duke University Press. Support PhDivas on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/phdivaspodcast

248. Industrialized Agriculture: A Fight for Human Rights in India with Arjun Singh Sethi, Navyug Gill, and Manpreet Kaur Kalra

Town Hall Seattle Civics Series

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 12, 2021 61:16

India is in a crisis. In September 2020, the Indian government passed three new agricultural bills that deregulate and privatize India's agricultural industry. Since then, farmers and farmworkers across India have taken to the country's capital, staging the largest protest in human history. By prioritizing corporations over people and the planet, many believe these laws further environmental degradation and economic oppression, deepening an already stark wealth disparity. These protests are as much about land rights as they are about human rights, as dissent continues to be silenced. In this urgent conversation, moderated by social impact advisor Manpreet Kaur Kalra, panelists Arjun Singh Sethi, a human rights lawyer, and Navyug Gill, scholar of modern South Asia and global history, unpack the history of industrialized agriculture in India and the geo-political factors influencing the protest that is unfolding today. Arjun Singh Sethi is a human rights lawyer, professor, author, and community activist based in Washington, DC. He works closely with Muslim, Arab, South Asian and Sikh communities, and holds faculty appointments at Georgetown University Law Center and Vanderbilt University Law School. In the wake of the 2016 election, Sethi traveled the country and met with a diversity of people to document the hate they experienced during the campaign and after inauguration. American Hate: Survivors Speak Out was released in August 2018r. Sethi also serves as Co-Chair of the Committee on Homeland Security, Terrorism & Treatment of Enemy Combatants at the American Bar Assocation and has served as a legal observer across the world, including military commissions at Guantanamo Bay. Navyug Gill is a scholar of modern South Asia and global history. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at William Paterson University. His research explores questions of agrarian change, labor politics, caste hierarchy, postcolonial critique, and global capitalism. Currently he is completing a book on the emergence of the peasant and the rule of capital in colonial Panjab. His academic and popular writings have appeared in venues such as the Journal of Asian Studies, Economic and Political Weekly, Al Jazeera, Law and Political Economy Project, Borderlines, and Trolley Times. Manpreet Kaur Kalra (she/her) is a social impact advisor, anti-racism educator, and Seattle-based activist working to decolonize storytelling. She navigates the intersection of impact communication and sustainable global development. She founded Art of Citizenry to support impact-driven businesses and organizations to address inclusion in all aspects, from business development to marketing strategy. Her activism focuses on the interconnectivity of economic, social, and climate justice. She educates using a variety of mediums, including the Art of Citizenry Podcast, where she shares her nuanced and unfiltered insights on building a more just and equitable future. Her work unpacks history and addresses systemic power structures. She serves on the board of the NYC Fair Trade Coalition and co-established the Justice Equity Diversity and Inclusion Committee of the Fair Trade Federation. Presented by Town Hall Seattle. To become a member or make a donation click here.

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Ep 11: The Bahujan Gaze

Artalaap

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2021 76:34

In this episode I, Kamayani Sharma, am in conversation with Jyoti Nisha, filmmaker, writer and scholar. She is the director of 'BR Ambedkar: Now And Then', a widely anticipated, partially-crowdfunded documentary that is now readying for release. In her essay, ‘Indian Cinema and the Bahujan Spectatorship' [Economic & Political Weekly, May 2020], she theorised about the politics of the gaze from her perspective as a Dalit woman viewer and media researcher. Jyoti was Director's Assistant on Neeraj Ghaywan's Geeli Pucchi [Dharma Productions, 2021], a short that was part of the Netflix anthology, Ajeeb Dastaans. We discuss growing up as a young woman in UP of the 1990s and 2000s, how Jyoti came to filmmaking via journalism, screenwriting and academia, working on - of all things! - a Dharma movie and her journey, artistic and logistical, towards the completion of her upcoming documentary 'BR Ambedkar: Now and Then'. By way of Jyoti's own essay, African-American film history and the polemical theories of the documentarian Trinh T. Minh-ha, we unpack the idea of the oppositional bahujan gaze unto Indian cinema and the complicated question of how realism in Indian cinema is part of a Brahmanical aesthetic scheme. Click here to access the Image+ Guide & view the material being discussed in the podcast: https://sites.google.com/view/artalaap-podcast-resources/episode-11. Credits: Producer: Tunak Teas Design & artwork: Mohini Mukherjee Marketing: Dipalie Mehta Images: Jyoti Nisha Additional support: Kanishka Sharma, Amy Goldstone-Sharma, Raghav Sagar, Shalmoli Halder, Arunima Nair, Jayant Parashar Audio courtesy: Vernouillet by Blue Dot Sessions [CC BY-NC 4.0] References: Jyoti Nisha, 'Indian Cinema and the Bahujan Spectatorship', Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 55, Issue No. 20, 16 May, 2020 bell hooks, 'The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Representation', Black Looks: Race and Representation, Boston: South End Press, 1992. Trinh T. Minh-ha, 'The Totalizing Quest of Meaning', When The Moon Waxes Red: Representation, Gender and Politics, Routledge: London, New York, 1991. Yashica Dutt, Coming Out As Dalit, Aleph Book Company, 2019.

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126. K Balagopal: The Conscience of the Collective Self

BIC TALKS

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2021 58:57

This episode of BIC Talks remembers an individual who has been described as “the conscience of the collective self known as Andhra society”. Arvind Narrain in a conversation with Aishwarya Ravikumar provides a primer and an insight into the inner workings of a profound and rare mind of clarity and action, as we mark his birth anniversary on the 10th of June. K Balagopal (1952-2009) was a trained Mathematician who became one of the country's most important human rights activists. He was initially with the Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee and then went on to found the Human Rights Forum. As an inspirational part of these human rights organisations he travelled the length and breadth of the land from Kashmir in the North to Orissa and the North East, Gujarat and of course his own home state, the then Andhra Pradesh, producing an astonishing series of Fact Finding Reports which documented and analysed human rights violations. He also wrote extensively in the Economic and Political Weekly and was an insightful commentor on Indian political and legal developments right from Gujarat 2002, the rise of the Naxalites to the politics of Mandal. His writings and speeches have been archived at www.balagopal.org. Arvind Narrain is a lawyer and writer based in Bangalore. Aishwarya Ravikumar has worked in different contexts to make short documentary films and learn about governance and community perspectives on land & forest rights, right to employment, fair wages and information and food sovereignty.

Episode 8 - Let's Talk About (Heteronormative) Love, Baby!

Tales of Consumption

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2021 52:26

Deciding that they can't get enough of talking about love and marriage and TV, Anuja, Alev and Carly get together again and discuss of norms and (double) standards when it comes to determining what are the right ways to love and choose and make a (heterosexual) family; reflecting on awkward personal experiences, matchmaking/mail-order bride discussions, multiple critical feminist perspectives and of course representations of love and sex on TV. MMA student Vivien Dobran chimes in to talk about how young people take a shopping catalog approach to dating via Tinder.Please note that we are not done talking about love, sex, relationships and would like to include more, especially non-heteronormative and gender-queer perspectives and critiques next fall!Love episode reading list:Abu‐Lughod, L. (2002). Do Muslim women really need saving? Anthropological reflections on cultural relativism and its others. American anthropologist, 104(3), 783-790.Bachen, C. M., & Illouz, E. (1996). Imagining romance: Young people's cultural models of romance and love. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 13(4), 279-308.Dhillon, M. and Dhawan, P., 2011. “But I am fat”: The experiences of weight dissatisfaction in Indian adolescent girls and young women. Women's Studies International Forum, 34(6), pp. 539-549.Illouz, E. (1997). Consuming the romantic utopia: Love and the cultural contradictions of capitalism. Univ of California Press.Illouz, E. (2007). Cold intimacies: The making of emotional capitalism. Polity.John, M., 2014. Feminist vocabularies in time and space: Perspectives from India. Economic and Political Weekly. 49(22), pp. 121-130.Liversage, A. (2012). Gender, conflict and subordination within the household: Turkish migrant marriage and divorce in Denmark. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 38(7), 1119-1136.Mahmood, S. (2011). Politics of piety: The Islamic revival and the feminist subject. Princeton University Press.Mohanty, C.T., 1988. Under Western Eyes: Feminist scholarship and colonial discourses. Feminist Review. 30, pp. 61-88.Mohanty, C.T., 2003. “Under Western Eyes” revisited: Feminist solidarity through anticapitalist struggles. Signs. 28 (2), pp. 499-535.Palriwala, R., & Uberoi, P. (Eds.). (2008). Marriage, migration and gender (Vol. 5). SAGE Publications Ltd.Pateman, C. (2016). Sexual contract. The wiley blackwell encyclopedia of gender and sexuality studies, 1-3.Plambech, S. (2009). From Thailand with love: Transnational marriage migration in the global care economy. Wagadu Volume 5: Anti-Trafficking, Human Rights, and Social Justice, 47-60.Raj, R., 2013. Dalit women as political agents: The Kerala experience, Economic & Political Weekly, 48(18), pp. 56-63.Shilpa Davé (2012) Matchmakers and cultural compatibility: Arranged marriage, South Asians, and American television, South Asian Popular Culture, 10:2, 167-183, DOI: 10.1080/14746689.2012.682877

Poets Stand with Kashmir w/ Nate Marshall, Jamila Woods, Ahmer,Tommy Pico & more

Haymarket Books Live

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2021 85:39

Join Stand with Kashmir and Haymarket Books for a collaborative event series uplifting the work of artists and activists fighting for self-determination and abolition in the face of police brutality, militarism, and settler-colonialism. We will celebrate transnational and inter-movement resistance, exploring both the similarities between the different movements and the aspects that make each unique in its way. We will feature activists, artists and scholars from each movement to tell their story of resistance and resilience, and to strengthen solidarity across borders Participants: Ahmer is a prolific rapper and producer from Srinagar, Kashmir. Since a young age, Ahmer has been acutely aware of the violence that plagues that valley, and his lyrics reflect a self-critical and self-aware artist that is trying to make sense of one of the most complex issues of our time. By diving deep into his and his family's history in the valley. https://azadirecords.com/artist/ahmer/ Destiny Harris is a Black, queer abolitionist and organizer from the west side of Chicago. She is a sophomore, sociology major at Howard University. She believes in the power of grassroots organizing as a vehicle to building collective power and achieving liberation throughout the diaspora. Her work is at the intersection of abolition, anti-war, anti-militarism and environmental liberation. Destiny believes in the power of storytelling, poetry and culture as means of mobilization that should always be driving our movements. She has organized all throughout the city on campaigns like #DefundCPD, #CopsOutCPS and the #NoCopAcademy campaign which aimed to combat the narrative that our communities need police. She is currently a member of Dissenters. Destiny is now working around environmental liberation with Generation Green. Uzma Falak is a DAAD doctoral fellow at the Department of Anthropology, University of Heidelberg. Her work has appeared in The Economic and Political Weekly, Al Jazeera, Warscapes, The Caravan, Himal Southasian, Anthropology and Humanism, The Electronic Intifada, and anthologies like Of Occupation and Resistance, Gossamer: An Anthology of Contemporary World Poetry, among others. Her film ‘Till then the Roads Carry Her' has been screened at numerous film festivals. She was an invited artist-scholar at Warwick's Tate Exchange, 2018 (Tate Modern, London). Her ethnographic poem ‘Point of Departure' won an Honourable Mention in the Society for Humanistic Anthropology's 2017 Ethnographic Poetry Award. Tommy “Teebs” Pico is a poet, podcaster, and tv writer. He is author of the books IRL, Nature Poem, Junk, Feed, and myriad keen tweets including “sittin on the cock of the gay.” Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation, he now splits his time between Los Angeles and Brooklyn. He co-curates the reading series Poets with Attitude, co-hosts the podcast Food 4 Thot and Scream, Queen! is poetry editor at Catapult Magazine, writes on the FX show Reservation Dogs, and is a contributing editor at Literary Hub. https://tommy-pico.com/ Jamila Woods is an activist, award-winning poet, and singer/songwriter whose inspirations include Gwendolyn Brooks and Toni Morrison, as well as Erykah Badu and Kendrick Lamar. As a solo artist, she specializes in an accessible yet non-commercial form of R&B that is rooted in soul and wholly modern, which can be heard on her albums HEAVN (2016) and LEGACY! LEGACY! (2019). She is also the co-editor of The BreakBeat Poets Vol. 2: Black Girl Magic. https://www.jamila-woods.com/ This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and Stand with Kashmir. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/YXf1wQ0ZWOM Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

#35 Midnight's Border with Suchitra Vijayan [English]

Lights | Camera | Azadi

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2021 144:27

Support Lights Camera Azadihttps://www.patreon.com/azadiFollow Suchitra.Twitter: https://twitter.com/suchitravInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/suchitravijayan/https://suchitravijayan.com/Have you ever wondered how life is at the borders? Far away from the elite urban spaces of the nation-state. Places where the force of constitution barely exists. How is life around these borders where national identities dilute? What is it like to be a part of a tribe near a Bangladeshi border or a fighter on the Afghanistan border? Suchitra Vijayan joins me to discuss her fantastic book ‘Midnight's Borders' which is a brilliant work of investigative journalism.To buy Midnight's Borderhttps://www.amazon.in/Midnights-Borders-Peoples-History-Modern/dp/8194879051/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1609997755&sr=8-12:30 to 6:00Knowing Suchitra6:00 to 10:44What is your experience carrying an Indian Passport?10:44 to 15:00What made Suchitra travel to the extent of our borders?15:00 to 24:44How was Afghanistan – Pakistan border?24:44 to 27:15Suchitra's perspective on war27:15 to 31:21Why are we so emotional about borders?31:21 to 38:00A story that did not make it to the book. 38:00 to 48:15How do you manage to put yourself together?48:15 to 1:03:00India-Bangladesh border 1:03:00 to 1:15:20Kotwali Darwaza 1:15:20 to 1:18:30Ali's house1:18:30 to 1:41:30Tawang and elites of Delhi1:41:30 to 1:50:25Nagaland 1:50:25 to 1:53:53Battle of Kohima1:53:53 to 2:06:00Nellie massacre2:06:00 to end.Guwahati and Burmese Citizenship ActBooks and References•The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India •Despite the State: Why India Lets Its People Down and How They Cope •Nellie Massacre : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_massacre•Bhawan Singh : http://www.betterphotography.in/perspectives/great-masters/bhawan-singh/46132/•Burmese Citizenship Act of 1982 : https://www.hrw.org/reports/2000/burma/burm005-02.htm•Gupta, Karunakar. "The McMahon line 1911-45: the British legacy." China Quarterly (1971): 521-545.•Gupta, Karunakar. "Distortions in the history of Sino-Indian frontiers." Economic and Political Weekly (1980): 1265-1270. •Gupta, Karunakar. "Mr Karunakar Gupta Replies." The China Quarterly 54 (1973): 363-368.•Gupta, Karunakar. "A note on source material on the Sino-Indian border dispute—Western Sector." China Report 17.3 (1981): 51-55.Gupta, Karunakar. "Hidden History of the Sino-Indian Frontier I—1947-1954." Economic and Political Weekly (1974): 721-726.Gupta, Karunakar. "Hidden History of the Sino-Indian Frontier: II: 1954-1959." Economic and Political Weekly (1974): 765-772

Episode 3 - Television? More like Male-vision

Tales of Consumption

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2021 35:13

Anuja Pradhan and Alev Kuruoglu talk about gender and representation issues in TV production - and in the writer's rooms. Shows like The Queen's Gambit and Indian Matchmaking are put under the microscope. Consumer sociologist Carly Drake joins along the way.Notes and reading tips:“The Male Gaze”It was Laura Mulvey who came up with this term, in in the essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” (Published in 1975, in the journal Screen - reprinted in the collection “Visual and Other Pleasures” in 1989) The following are some sources if you would like to better understand engagement with and academic trajectories of this term:Sassatelli, R. (2011). Interview with Laura Mulvey: Gender, gaze and technology in film culture. Theory, Culture & Society, 28(5), 123-143.Cooper, B. (2000). “Chick flicks” as feminist texts: The appropriation of the male gaze in Thelma & Louise. Women's Studies in Communication, 23(3), 277-306.Oliver, K. (2017). The male gaze is more relevant, and more dangerous, than ever. New Review of Film and Television Studies, 15(4), 451-455.Benson-Allott, C. (2017). On Platforms: No Such Thing Not Yet: Questioning Television's Female Gaze. Film Quarterly, 71(2), 65-71.Jones, A. (Ed.). (2003). The feminism and visual culture reader. Psychology Press.Indian Feminist Scholars:Mohanty, C.T. (1988) Under Western Eyes: Feminist scholarship and colonial discourses. Feminist Review. 30. 61-88.Mohanty, C.T. (2003) “Under Western Eyes” revisited: Feminist solidarity through anticapitalist struggles. Signs. 28 (2). 499-535.John, M. (2014) Feminist vocabularies in time and space: Perspectives from India. Economic and Political Weekly. 49(22). 121-130.Gender and TV:hooks, b. (2003). The oppositional gaze: Black female spectators. The feminism and visual culture reader, 94-105.Nygaard, T., Lagerwey, J. (2020) Horrible White People: Gender, genre, and television's precarious whiteness. United States: NYU Press.Tuncay Zayer, L., Sredl , K., Parmentier,M. & Coleman, C. (2012) Consumption and gender identity in popular media: Discourses of domesticity, authenticity, and sexuality. Consumption Markets & Culture, 15:4, 333-357.Kandelwal, M. (2009) Arranging Love: Interrogating the vantage point in cross‐border feminism. Signs. 34(3). 583-609.Cavender, G., Bond-Maupin, L. And Jurik, N. C. (1999) ‘The construction of gender in reality crime TV', Gender & Society, 13(5), pp. 643–663. doi: 10.1177/089124399013005005.D'Acci, Julie. 1994. Defining women: Television and the case of “Cagney and Lacey.” Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.Green, S. (2019) Fantasy, gender and power in Jessica Jones, Continuum, 33:2, 173-184, DOI: 10.1080/10304312.2019.1569383General TV:Fiske, John. 1987. Television culture. New York: Routledge Kegan Paul.

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How 'love jihad' affects women's choice

The Suno India Show

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2021 19:40

Recently several states including Uttar Pradesh introduced anti-conversion laws making religious conversion for the sake of marriage illegal. These laws were based on the conspiracy theory of ‘love jihad' which posits that Muslim men marry Hindu women only to convert them to Islam. We bring a three-part series on how these laws have affected the lives of young people. The narrative of ‘love jihad' that emerges from the Hindutva ideology imagines a woman to be innocent, ignorant people who cannot take their own decisions. In this formulation, the ideal woman is the one who follows the social norms and listens to her family. In this episode, we speak to three women who choose their own partners and tell us why they refused to obey social norms. Their choice is not just related to love, but also to their identity as independent women. Also listen How ‘love jihad' laws clash with The Special Marriage Act Important links “Articulating Hindu Masculinity and Femininity-Shuddhi and Sangathan Movements in United Provinces in the 1920s” by historian Charu Gupta in the Economic and Political Weekly. The Special Marriage Act, 1954 UP Unlawful Religious Conversion Prohibition Ordinance, 2020 Being an editorially independent platform, we rely on you to help us bring in untold stories that have the potential for social change. Do consider supporting us! See sunoindia.in/privacy-policy for privacy information.

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28. Marichjhapi Massacre

Khooni : The Crimes of India

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2020 49:02

A group of beleaguered refugees arrive on an uninhabited island in the Sundarbans to create a new life for themselves, only to have their dreams crushed by government sponsored caste violence. Listen to our latest episode to learn about a massacre, almost worse than the anti-muslim pogrom in Gujrat (2002) or the anti-sikh genocide (1984), but very little talked about. Check out The Pod Store by Aman Seth: 1. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/Thepodstore 2. Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/show/6wDT8kiyUCivQZ5eF3yTaq?si=PvSKv3U6ShW0Uuf2EfzUwQ 3. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCma8XYAeUr5xviZw_Ak7qKg Sources: 1. Mallick, Ross. "Refugee Resettlement in Forest Reserves: West Bengal Policy Reversal and the Marichjhapi Massacre." The Journal of Asian Studies 58, no. 1 (1999): 104-25. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2658391 2. Annu Jalais. "Dwelling on Morichjhanpi: When Tigers Became 'Citizens', Refugees 'Tiger-Food'." Economic and Political Weekly 40, no. 17 (2005): 1757-762. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4416535 3. https://www.forwardpress.in/2016/09/hindu-casteism-led-to-the-creation-of-east-pakistan/ 4. https://thewire.in/history/partition-dalits-bengal 5. https://kolkata-partition-museum.org/chronicling-resettlement/#h 6. https://www.downtoearth.org.in/blog/forests/tribal-communities-suffer-when-evicted-in-the-name-of-conservation-64376 7. http://www.millenniumpost.in/kolkata/ace-journalist-sukharanjan-sengupta-passes-away-274506 8. https://theprint.in/opinion/40-yrs-ago-the-left-mercilessly-massacred-dalit-bengalis-now-its-back-to-haunt-them/235648/ DOCUMENTARY on MARICHJHAPI: https://canvaspix.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/marichjhanpi/

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Podcast #25: Jacquis Neal on White Supremacy, Trump Presidency and US Election 2020 | Sollu Kaburz

Sollu Kaburz

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 6, 2020 69:14

Host: Najeeb Guest: Jacquis Neal Language: English Jacquis Neal is an actor, comedian and podcast host living in Los Angeles by way of Chicago, IL. Jacquis is the co-host of the Earwolf Podcast, Culture Kings. He is a house team performer and producer at the UCB LA Theatre, performing improv and sketch comedy on Harold and Maude Night respectively. On the screen, Jacquis has appeared on TV shows Liza OnDemand, Bless This Mess, Kingpin Katie, was the American voice of Fuba on the Netflix series Brotherhood, and Silvio on Netflix series Omniscient. He's been in a few national commercial spots, and well as many comedy shorts on the web. Jacquis was born and raised in Chicago, IL, where he was an active member of Chicago's amazing theatre scene performing at venues like Lifeline Theatre and American Theatre Company and many more. He is proud to be from a place with the best food and vibe alive, the 2016 World Series Champion Cubs, and where he grew up with a front row seat watching Michael Jordan play. Enough said. Alok Prasanna Kumar is a Political analysis enthusiast and a Legal Expert. He is Currently a Senior Resident Fellow at Vidhi Karnataka and an advocate. Formerly a lawyer in Delhi with experience in taxation laws, constitutional law, administrative law and arbitration. Constant courts critic and author of the Contumacious Curmudgeon newsletter. He writes a monthly column for the Economic and Political Weekly and has published in the Indian Journal of Constitutional Law and National Law School of India Review apart from media outlets such as The Hindu, Indian Express, Scroll, Quint and Caravan. He has practiced in the Supreme Court and Delhi High Court from the chambers of Mr Mohan Parasaran, and currently also co-hosts the Ganatantra podcast on IVM Podcasts. Find Jaquis Neal's online profile here: http://www.jacquisneal.com/ Listen to Sollu Kaburz podcast on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/show/5ETKqWz... Follow Sollu Kaburz Podcast on Social Media for updates: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sollukaburz/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SolluKaburz/

Podcast #24: Bihar Elections - 2020 with Ganatantra Podcast host Alok Prasanna Kumar | Sollu Kaburz

Sollu Kaburz

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 28, 2020 49:56

Host: Najeeb Guest: Alok Prasanna Kumar Language: English Alok Prasanna Kumar is a Political analysis enthusiast and a Legal Expert. He is Currently a Senior Resident Fellow at Vidhi Karnataka and an advocate. Formerly a lawyer in Delhi with experience in taxation laws, constitutional law, administrative law and arbitration. Constant courts critic and author of the Contumacious Curmudgeon newsletter. He writes a monthly column for the Economic and Political Weekly and has published in the Indian Journal of Constitutional Law and National Law School of India Review apart from media outlets such as The Hindu, Indian Express, Scroll, Quint and Caravan. He has practiced in the Supreme Court and Delhi High Court from the chambers of Mr Mohan Parasaran, and currently also co-hosts the Ganatantra podcast on IVM Podcasts. Find Alok Prasann Kumar's online profile here: https://vidhilegalpolicy.in/team/alok... Find Gantantra Podcasts link here: https://www.youtube.com/c/IVMPodcasts... Listen to Sollu Kaburz podcast on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/show/5ETKqWz... Follow Sollu Kaburz Podcast on Social Media for updates: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sollukaburz/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SolluKaburz/

#10: Can NGOs Remain Effective When They Become Corporatised?

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 8, 2020 35:31

How did Bangladesh come to be known as the land of NGOs, given it hosts the largest NGO, BRAC, and the largest microfinance institution (Grameen Bank)? Anu Muhammad joins us to discuss the role of NGOs in making Bangladesh more marketised and globalised since its independence in 1971. The insights he will share are based on an article he published in Economic and Political Weekly on 29 September 2018 titled “Rise of the Corporate NGO in Bangladesh” (http://bit.ly/2Is1cbi). Audio courtesy: Night Owl by Broke For Free [CC BY 3.0]

#7: Who is Afraid of Pakistan's Aurat March?

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Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2020 38:31

Pakistan's Aurat March takes place every year across the country to mark Women's Day. Past demonstrations have called for accountability for violence against women by men, resources for affected women, the reclamation of public spaces for women, and much more. The March received severe backlash from both conservative and liberal groups, and researcher Afiya Sheherbano Zia examines the criticism. She details governmental policies that disregard women's rights and how women's groups, both secular and right-wing, protested them. Zia also takes us through debates between secular and right-wing women's groups. The insights she will share are based on an article she published in Economic and Political Weekly on 16 November 2019 titled “Who Is Afraid of Pakistan's Aurat March?” (http://bit.ly/2uh9TCA) Audio courtesy: Night Owl by Broke For Free [CC BY 3.0]

#5: How Do Power Differences in Medical Interactions Affect Caste-based Discrimination?