Authoritarian Populism and Bovine Political Economy in Modi's India

ISBN-13: 9781032709345 / Twarda / 2024 / 128 str.

Norway) Nielsen Kenneth Bo (University of Oslo

Opis

This book analyses Hindu nationalism and neoliberalism in India’s bovine economy and will interest scholars of SA studies, critical agrarian studies, political economy, contemporary authoritarian populism.

Spis treści

1. Authoritarian Populism, Bovines, and State Contradictions in Modi’s India; 2. Hindu Nationalism and Bovine Political Economy; 3. The “Double Victimisation” of Classes of Labour in Countryside and City; 4. Towards Corporate Concentration: Covid-19 and Beyond; 5. Concluding Reflections on State Contradictions and Counter-Hegemonic Projects under Modi’s Authoritarian Populism; Index

O autorze

Jostein Jakobsen is a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway. His research interests are broadly within political ecology and critical agrarian studies. He is the co-author of The Violent Technologies of Extraction: Political Ecology, Critical Agrarian Studies and the Capitalist Worldeater (2020).

 

Kenneth Bo Nielsen is associate professor of social anthropology, University of Oslo, Norway. He works on land politics, agrarian issues, and the political economy of development in India. His books include Land Dispossession and Everyday Politics in Rural Eastern India (2018) and The Great Goa Land Grab (2022, co-authored).