Faculty of Social Sciences with the Department of Sociology

at South Asian University, New Delhi

Present

A panel discussion on the book

Human Economy:

People, Money and Power in the Economic Crisis – Perspectives from the Global South (2014)

Edited by

Keith Hart
and

John Sharp

Panelists

Keith Hart

Department of International Development, London School of Economics;

Human Economy Program, University of Pretoria, South Africa

C.P. Chandrasekhar

Centre for Economic Studies and Planning (CESP)

Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi

Amita Baviskar

Institute of Economic Growth
Delhi

Moderated by

Mallika Shakya

Department of Sociology

South Asian University
New Delhi

Date and Time:

Wednesday, 28January 2015; 02.30-4.30 PM

Venue:

FSI Hall, South Asian University

Akbar Bhawan, Chanakyapuri

About the panel and the book:

The last half-century saw a Cold War between superpowers claiming to represent state socialism and the free market respectively. Since 1945, the world has seen three decades of social democracy marked by state management of the leading capitalist economies, followed, after the watershed of the 1970s, by another three decades of neoliberal globalization, which culminated in today’s general economic crisis. It is important to grasp where this relationship between government and business came from and how it is unfolding now.

The proposed panel aims to discuss the question of changing state-business relations through the recently published book, People, Money, Power in the Economic Crisis: Perspectives from the Global South. This book is the first in Berghahn Books’ Human Economy series. The Human Economy Program at the University of Pretoria was launched in 2011 to bring an added perspective from the global South to the movement for ‘alter-globalization’. The present volume – a series of case studies from Southern Africa, plus South Asia, Brazil and Atlantic Africa – is mainly concerned with showing how ordinary people from a wide range of class positions experience the contemporary world economy from their particular place in it. But the volume also aims to make a contribution to understanding the political economy of the world we all live in through a comparative perspective which gives priority to the experience of the Global South. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing heavily on anthropology, history and development studies to critique the neoliberal view of the world economy.

Invitations: If you would like to have an invitation to the discussion, please send a request with your name, postal address, email addresses to the following email addresses: sociology@sau.ac.in; mallika@sau.ac.in

For more information, please contact:

Mallika Shakya, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Samson George, Personal Secretary to the Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences

Telephone: +91-11-24122512-14; +91-11-24195000