Centre for the Study of Social Systems
School of Social Sciences
CSSS Colloquium
Kaustav Banerjee
(Assoc. Prof, Ambedkar University-Delhi)
Will be presenting a paper on
Theft of livelihoods and the production of criminality: a Field View of Capitalist Accumulation
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Date & Time: January 31, 2019 (Thursday), 11am
Venue:CSSS Committee Room (No: 13), SSS-II
Abstract: Through a few case studies based on my fieldwork, I will bring out the complexities of the process of capitalist accumulation in contemporary India. A field view would enable us to contextualise the cumulative processes of theft of livelihoods and the production of criminality. The multisite field view would also enable a comparative analysis of how accumulation proceeds in different agro-ecologies of this country thus letting us link local specificities with global processes.
Bio: Dr. Kaustav Banerjee is an economist specializing in agrarian systems and developmental policy. He has 10 years of field based research experience in the most backward districts of the country and has also been involved with the policy formulation and implementation process of the National Rural Employment GuaranteeAct, 2005. Prior to joining Ambedkar University Delhi, he taught at the Centre for the Study of Discrimination & Exclusion, School of Social Sciences, JNU and the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum. Earlier, he co-ordinated an Economic Research Unit on Rainfed Agrarian-Livestock Systems in India and was based at the Centre for Studies in Science Policy, JNU. Additionally, he had been an Advisor to the Core Group of the Socio-Economic & Caste Census, 2011, Ministry of Rural Development, Government of India which involved formulation of the pilot methodology and training of state level enumerators. He has also been invited by the South African Government, 2016, a s advisor for looking at models of land reforms and rural economic transformation.