1st Edition

India and the Age of Crisis The Local Politics of Global Economic and Ecological Fragility

Edited By Michael Gillan, Rob Lambert Copyright 2015
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

Much of the discussion of India in the public sphere has focused on economic policy settings and restructuring, annual growth rates, trade relations and the nation’s status as an economic and political actor within the international system. This collection considers other dimensions of socio-economic transformation in India and its profound impact on society and nature. While economic and... Read more

1. Introduction: India and the Age of Crisis  2. Accumulation and Dispossession: Contradictions of Growth and Development in Contemporary India  3. Labour Movements and the Age of Crisis: Scale, Form and Repertoires of Action in India and Beyond  4. Dispossession by Confusion from Mineral-Rich Lands in Central India  5. Food Security as a Lagging Component of India’s Human Development: A Function of Interacting Entitlement Failures  6. Agrarian Crisis in Punjab and ‘Natural Farming’ as a Response  7. Trans-Boundary Water Resources and Uneven Development: Crisis Within and Beyond Contemporary India  8. Doing Development or Creating Dependency? NGOs and Civil Society in India  9. The Micro-Politics of Urban Transformation in the Context of Globalisation: A Case Study of Gurgaon, India

Biography

Michael Gillan is an Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia. His current research interests include the role of Global Union Federations in employment relations in India and Indonesia; employment relations and global production networks; labour movements in India; and employment relations in Myanmar.



Rob Lambert is Winthrop Professor at the UWA Business School. He is the co-author of Grounding Globalization: Labour in the Age of Insecurity (Blackwell).