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Book Chapters and Journal Articles Working Papers and Conference Presentations _____________________________________________________________________ Gandhian Economics in a Knowledge Society, in Tara Sethia and Anjana Narayan eds. Redicovering Gandhian Wisdom, Penguin India, forthcoming, 2010. Review of "Economics for Everyone: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism" by Jim Stanford, Pluto Press, 2008, Review of Radical Political Economics, forthcoming. Relations of Production and Modes of Surplus Extraction in India (with Deepankar Basu, published in two parts by Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 46, No. 14, pp. 41-58 and Vol 46, No. 15, pp. 63-79) The Technology Question in Lohia, in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 45. No. 44, October 30, 2010. Review of "Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age" by Christian Fuchs, Routledge, 2008. Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol 42, No. 4, Dec 2010. Subverting Our Epics: Mani Ratnam's Retelling of the Ramayan, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 45, No. 29, July 17-23, 2010. Knowledge Satyagraha: Towards a People's Knowledge Movement, Video of a talk presented at the Critical Point of View, Wikipedia Conference, Amsterdam, March 2010. The Global University in Crisis-I: Knowledge Struggles in Europe and the USA on Sanhati
The Almond Workers of Karawal Nagar: A Report on Sanhati
Dantewada Dec 14-17, 2009: Three Days in the Cauldron, on the eve of the Padayatra on Sanhati
Book Chapters and Journal Articles The Phantom of Liberty: Mo(der)nism and Postcolonial Imaginations in India (with Rajesh Bhattacharya) Whose Knowledge Counts? Reinterpreting Gandhi for the Information Age, forthcoming in the International Journal of Gandhi Studies Eurocentrism, the University and multiplicity of knowledge production sites, in the Edu-Factory Collective ed. The Global Autonomous University, NY: Autonomedia. Cortical Cartography Revisited: A Frequency Perspective on the Functional Architecture of Visual Cortex (book chapter). Prog Brain Res., 154:121-34 (with Kreft-Kerekes V, White LE and Fitzpatrick D)- 2006 The link takes you to a Google Books Preview of this book. The chapter is available with a few pages missing. Analysis of conditional paralytic mutants in Drosophila SERCA reveals novel mechanisms for regulating membrane excitability. Genetics, 169(2):737-50 (Sanyal S, Consoulos C, Kuromi H, Basole A, Mukai L, Kidokoro Y, Krishnan KS and Ramaswami M)- 2005 Mapping multiple features in the population response of visual cortex. Nature, 423:986-990. (with White LE and Fitzpatrick D) - June 2003 Phenotypic interaction between temperature sensitive paralytic mutants comatose and paralytic suggests a role for N- ethylmaleimide sensitive fusion factor in synaptic vesicle cycling in Drosophila, Journal of Neuroscience, 19:RC47 (1-5): Sanyal S, Basole A and Krishnan KS (1999) Neural complexity underlying simple behavior (review). Journal of Bioscience, 24:255-257 (Sanyal S and Basole A) (1999) (scroll down on the page that the link takes you to)
Working Papers and Conference Presentations Gandhian Economics in the Information Age, Talk at the Seminar on Peace and Conflict, Theosophical Society, Varanasi, March 2010. How Should Radical Political Economists Think About Neuroeconomics? Paper presented at the Eastern Economic Association Meetings, Feb 2009, New York. Knowledge, Work and Education Economics of Ahimsa
and the Environment Lokavidya goes Virtual?
Indigenous Knowledge in the Gatesian Age The Information
Revolution and creation of the uninformed society
Review of Boyce, Narain and Stanton eds. Reclaiming Nature: Environmental Justice and Ecological Restoration, published in the Heterodox Economics Newsletter, Issue 63, June 12, 2008. Book Review of John Hobson’s “Eastern Origins of Western Civilization”
The "People's Movement Left" and Rammanohar Lohia: An Evaluation at a Time of Crisis on Sanhati.com: This essay argues that the socialist tradition that lies behind the people's movements in India has much to offer to overcome the shortcomings of the Marxist Left. Global Movement For A Solidarity Economy Do The World's Poor Countries Finance The Rich Ones?- January 2008 An EconAtrocity written for the Center for Popular Economics on the issue of Capital Flight. Excerpt: The world’s poorest countries are today financing the richest. Far from being heavily indebted, many developing countries are net creditors vis-à-vis the rest of the world...Economists have found that more money flows out of developing countries in the form of interest payments, profits of foreign corporations, and clandestine investments in financial markets of the rich countries than flows into them as loans, aid, and foreign direct investment. Some reflections on knowledge hierarchies and the autonomous university- January 2008 My second scheduled contribution to the Edu-factory discussion list. This round of discussion took off from the previous round on "Conflicts in the Production of Knowledge" and discussed Hierarchization in the University as well as prospects for an Autonomous University. "An autonomous/open university must also be a local, non-parochial university. I stress the local as much as the non-parochial." Particpatory, Community-Managed Water Systems - September 2006 An EconUtopia written for the Center for Popular Economics on the issue of alternatives to water privatization. A follow up to the earlier article on problems with privatization (see below). Excerpt: What alternatives exist to failing state-run bureaucracies and large multinationals? Here we take a look at some successful experiments in community-based, participatory management of water services occurring more or less in the framework of existing municipal or local self-governments. Privatization of Water - April 2006 An EconAtrocity written for the Center for Popular Economics on the issue of water privatization. Excerpt: Our demand should not be increased private sector involvement in water management. Nor should it be the continuation of bureaucratized and corrupt state-run facilities. We need more efficient and democratic public or community management of this essential common resource. Open letter to AID volunteers - May 2003 Letter read out to Association for India's Development (AID) volunteers at the annual conference in Pittsburgh. Excerpt: Among those who have a lot to lose with the going of the current order, people like us, in other words, radical ideas of change get at best lukewarm and at worst hostile receptions. The more radical the idea more tepid the reception. And yet surely there must come a point when we can no longer honestly maintain to ourselves that we can have our cake and eat it too? That, to quote Balaji Sampath, we cannot continue to be a part of the problem and the solution too. Globalization and Development - October 2002 An short early essay questioning the basic assumptions of globalization and progress in general, written for a few friends at Duke who wanted to know my views on globalization. Gandhi Beyond the Logo - July 2002 Excerpt: AID's logo is the familiar cartoon of Mahatma Gandhi's profile. But do we understand what Gandhi stood for when it came to developmental issues central to our concern? In this short essay I encourage all AID volunteers who haven't already done so, to read Hind Swaraj, by Gandhi. I think that this text can deeply influence the way we view developmental work in India... (the original piece is no longer archived on AID News, so I provide the text at this link) Colonialism Has a 'Horrific' Record of Oppression and Exploitation - June 2002 Some responses (including my own edited one) to an article published in the Chronicle of Higher Education by Dinesh 'Souza. Click here for the original article, Two Cheers for Colonialism and here for my original unedited letter.
Bauddh Arthashastra Nandigram and the Blind Faith in Industrialization- December 2007 An English translation of "Nandigram aur Udyogikaran ka andhavishvaas" published in the June 2007 issue of the Hindi journal Samayik Varta, by Sunil. Excerpt: The struggles going on today in India and in other parts of the world and the controversies occurring in many places have at their center neo-colonial exploitation, imperialist agendas and conflicts over natural resources. The struggle between workers and owners is either non-existent or has receded into the background. Those movements/ struggles in India in the past three decades, that have been debated or have been in the headlines, have either been about water-forests-land (e.g. Chipko, Narmada Bachao, Chilika, Gandhmardan, Kashipur, Gopalpur, Koyalkaro, Tehri, Plachimada, Mehdiganj, Kaladora, Baliyapal, Netarhat, Polavram, Kalinganagar, Lanjigarh, Kaveri water dispute) or have been struggles over farmers’ right, indigenous peoples’ rights, dalit rights or struggles for regional autonomy/identity (e.g. Assam, Jharkhand, Telangana, Punjab, Kashmir, North-East, North Bengal etc). These are all born out of the regional disparities, the excessive centralization of modernization/development. Even the struggles and conflict going on globally, such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Bolivia, Iran, Nigeria, Palestine etc. have some natural resource conflict as their major cause, be it oil, natural gas, land, minerals etc. This is an important truth about the 20th and 21st century world, in the light of which we must review our old principles and beliefs, interpret struggles like Nandigram-Singur and search for a way ahead.
The Twin Myths of Environmentalism-
A Southern Response Analytical
Marxism and Methodological Individualism The Economics of Ahimsa: Gandhi,
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