Jessica Gudin
Shapan Adnan
This essay provides theoretical and empirical analysis of the interrelationships between land grabs, primitive accumulation and accumulation by dispossession (ABD) in the context of capitalist development. Evidence from a multi-class peasant formation in deltaic Bangladesh indicates that land grabs ...
V. Spike Peterson
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgments I am grateful to Georgina Waylen for her generosity in sharing prepublication work with me; and to Drucilla Barker, Jen Cohen, Deb Figart, Ellen Mutari, Julie Nelson, Paulette Olsen and Ara Wilson for conference discussions reg...
Adrienne Roberts, Susanne Soederberg
Abstract Business now plays an increasingly prominent role in development. While the implicit links between private actors and international development institutions have been widely debated, the explicit role of financial corporations in shaping official development policy has been less well docume...
Nico Carpentier, Bart Cammaerts
Chantal Mouffe's political philosophy has been influential in a variety of domains, including sociology, cultural studies, media studies, law, art, literary criticism, and journalism studies. By combining Gramsci's focus on hegemony with post-structuralist theory she has developed—in collaboration w...
Michael J Papa, Mohammad A. Auwal, Arvind Singhal
The Grameen (“rural”) Bank organizes grassroots micro‐enterprises for productive self‐employment and social change among the poorest of the poor in Bangladesh. It provides collateral‐free loans and various social services for the poor, but maintains a 99 percent loan recovery rate. Many of the bank'...
Michael J Papa, Mohammad A. Auwal, Arvind Singhal
In recent years, the Grameen (rural) Bank of Bangladesh gained international fame for successfully organizing grassroots microenterprises for productive self-employment and social change. The Grameen Bank provides collateral-free loans and various social services for the poor, charging 20% interest ...
Manoj Misra
This paper focuses on three decades of agrarian reform policies and the resulting peculiarity of the development trajectory in Bangladesh. I interrogate the ways in which the reforms have led to a paradoxical situation consisting of partial protelarianization in attempting to promote a market‐based ...
Ellen Leopold, David A. McDonald
Abstract Given the large and growing literature opposed to the privatisation of services such as water and electricity, it is peculiar that so little has been written about the experience of ‘municipal socialism’—a set of roughly analogous historical movements that used local governments to challeng...
Paul Routledge
This paper examines the gendered politics of national and international networking amongst peasant farmers' movements in South Asia. In particular the paper provides an ethnographic account, based upon the author's critical engagement with the Bangladesh Krishok (farmer) Federation and the Banglades...
Hartley Dean, A Cimadmore, José Eduardo de Siqueira
Cimadamore, Alberto; Dean, Hartley; Siqueira, Jorge. Preface. Cimadamore, Alberto; Dean, Hartley; Siqueira, Jorge. Introduction. Dean, Hartley. The global human rights agenda and the (im)possibility of the ethical state. Ivo, Anete Brito Leal. The redefinition of the social issue and the rethoric on...
Willem van Schendel
The concept of the Silk Road has recently been repackaged as a China-led inter-state enterprise that will lead to ‘a win-win attempt for all’. This technocratic utopia of superior infrastructure, smooth transport routes, and boosted trade should be challenged, because it ignores the countless flows ...
Khandakar Qudrat‐I Elahi
This paper insinuates the conceptual foundation of Sen's entitlement approach by pinpointing its major weaknesses. First, Sen's critique of FAD is inadequate because speculative, not actual, supply and demand forces determine short-run commodity prices. Second, Sen's idea of 'exchange entitlement' i...
Kelly Pike, Beth English
Abstract Women's increasing entry into paid work has not been accompanied by a corresponding change in the gender division of unpaid labor in the household and community. Though women participate in the labor market, the expectation is that they will also take responsibility for the household. To wh...
Joginder K. Malhotra
ZusammenfassungSeit der Entkolonialisierung der Dritten Welt existieren hier nur wenige parlamentarische Demokratien mit föderalistischem System. Damit bildet die indische Union Bharat als moderner parlamentarisch-demokratischer Staat in den Ländern der Dritten Welt bereits eine Ausnahme. Diese poli...