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RLS in South Asia

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India, International Dialogue, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group | 

Solidarity for Survival: Cooperative Building as a Solution to Overcome Vulnerability

This paper explores the role of cooperatives in fostering solidarity among economically disadvantaged migrant workers from various backgrounds in Kolkata, based on case studies of press workers, construction workers, sanitation workers, and sex workers.

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Lived experiences from Indian Sundarbans amidst climate change and migration

India, International Dialogue, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group | 

Those Who Stay Behind: Lived Experiences from Indian Sundarbans Amidst Climate Change and Migration

Climate change is frighteningly real. The global discourse on climate change has turned increasingly towards understanding vulnerability as a priority for research and policy.

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India, International Dialogue, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group | 

Mitigating the Impact of Covid and Conflict: Empowering & Securing Futures of Children Belonging to Pastoral Communities of Jammu and Kashmir

The erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir, now divided into the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, has a significant tribal population, including Gujjars and Bakkarwals, who were recognized as Scheduled Tribes after the end of British Colonial rule and have since received affirmative action from the state.

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India, International Dialogue, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group | 

Theorising Race and Space in a Transnational Context

This paper argues that racism is a European invention instituted through the project of colonialism.

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International Dialogue | 

Human Rights and the Sports Industry

While the FIFA World Cup 2022 has ended, the Kafala system hasn't. The woes of the thousands of migrant workers living and working in Qatar remain unaddressed. We deconstruct some issues that will continue to plague workers living in the Gulf country unless something drastically changes.

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Critical Action Centre In Movement, India, International Dialogue | 

Handbook on Free Trade and Investment Agreements

This handbook maps India’s free trade and investment agreements and flags concerns with regard to their implications in various sectors, attempting to bring to fore how these agreements, in the absence of multilateral agreements, often mimic the unequal power equations that exist in the geopolitical sphere.

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International Dialogue | 

Policy Paper: Democracy and Discontent

This paper analyses the current political situation in India with a view to the elections in spring 2019.

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International Dialogue | 

Policy Paper: China´s Belt and Road Initiative

This paper analyses the new Chinese global growth and development strategy, the so-called "New Silk Route".

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International Dialogue | 

Policy Paper: Leftizing the Left

This paper analyses the unification of the left parties in Nepal.

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International Dialogue, South Asian University | 

Organizing Against Capital

This edited volume by South Asian University brings fresh insights into ongoing debates of anti-capitalist movements and facilitates understanding on the working and politics of capital and labour located within it.

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International Dialogue | 

Alternatives in a World of Crisis

This book is the result of an effort by the RLS working group "Beyond Development". It intends to contribute to the urgently needed collective inquiries taking into view new theoretical and political paradigms of social transformation.

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International Dialogue | 

Nancy Fraser Booklet

Capitalism has always been entangled with imperialism and racism. No one doubts the centrality of these oppressions to the slave-based plantation and colonial capitalism of the 19 th century.

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International Dialogue | 

Capital Value and Translation

It is necessary to re-read or reconstruct "Capital" not just to make it up-to-date, but also to rethink a lot of the orthodox interpretations of processes delineated in "Capital".

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International Dialogue | 

Population and Rent in Capital

Is there a theory of population in Marx's "Capital"? Ranabir Samaddar on people and population in "Capital" and Marx’s engagement with Malthus.

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International Dialogue | 

Report: Capital in the East

The world financial crisis of 2008 brought Capital to renewed attention of critical theorists, social scientists, and the progressive movements. Its analyses are being considered even more relevant today. A conference report.

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