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CSLG organises a Book Discussion with Dr. Satyaki Roy

CSLG organises a Book Discussion with Dr. Satyaki Roy

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CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF LAW AND GOVERNANCE
Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

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BOOK DISCUSSION

Stagnation in manufacturing and delinking of growth and employment has been a major concern in the context of industrialising India. Policy debates in the past three decades have been confined to binaries such as public versus private, manufacturing versus services, production versus finance or inward versus outward looking strategies. These are important choices in strategizing industrialisation. Contours of Value Capture highlights how these immediate choices are influenced by class process of accumulation. It foregrounds ‘value capture’ as the critical concept in analysing accumulation in the realm of production and finance articulated through exploitation, expropriation and exclusion.  It takes capital as an integral relation and aims to analyse the complex causal relationship between apparently disparate trends such as stagnation in productive investment, rising financial profits, declining share of wages, informality, self-employment and dispossession. This book sees power and hegemonic discourse as constitutive of the world of production and finance realised through hierarchies of capital and architecture of institutions. These norms and institutions normalise expropriation and legitimise exclusion.  The book discusses how power and profit explains the making and unmaking of the neoliberal path of industrialisation in India.

 Contours of Value Capture: India’s Neoliberal Path of Industrial Development

 

with the author
Dr. Satyaki Roy
Associate Professor, Institute for Studies in Industrial Development, New Delhi

 

and the discussant

Dr. Chirashree Dasgupta
Associate Professor, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance,
Jawaharlal Nehru University

 

3.00 PM, Friday, 22 January 2021

The Seminar will be held online via Zoom

The Zoom link for the seminar is: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86739996571?pwd=V1RDZXBXU204cFIzZVFVKytrbFUwQT09

 

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Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.