Raju Das
Professor
Office: Ross Building, S411
Phone: (416)736-2100 Ext: 22450
Email: rajudas@yorku.ca ; https://twitter.com/Raju_DasYorkU
Media Requests Welcome
Accepting New Graduate Students
Raju Das teaches courses on: radical political economy, international development, state-society/economy relations, and social struggles.
He is on the editorial board of Science & Society (Guilford, New York) and is also a member of its Manuscript Review Collective. As well, he is a member of the editorial board of Class, Race and Corporate Power, and a member of the editorial advisory board of Dialectical Anthropology.
He is also a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Critical Social Science Book Series, Brill, Leiden/Boston.
Degrees
Ph.D. (Geography), The Ohio State University, the USAM. A. (Urban Studies), University of Akron, the USA
M. A. (Geography), University of Delhi, India
B. A. (Honors) (Geography), Utkal University, India
Appointments
Faculty of Graduate StudiesProfessional Leadership
Membership In Professional Organizations
Association of American Geographers; International Sociological Association; American Sociological Association
Research Interests
Current Research Projects
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Summary:
Geographically uneven development (GUD) is an enduring problem worldwide. Its urgency is more apparent in the context of the recent phase of industrialization occurring in the South since the onset of the neoliberal form of capitalism. This industrialization, which takes different forms, including transplantation of large-scale industry into rural areas, creating newly industrialized cities, is occurring in many parts of India, in which state’s earlier role in promoting equality between areas (and groups/classes) is relatively diminished since 1991. This new context raises a specific question: how does this pattern of industrialization cause uneven development between newly created urban areas and rural areas, and within the rural periphery? This multi-year project involves much theoretical work, which will guide the empirical component of the project. It will produce a thoroughgoing, rigorous critique of some of the existing views on uneven development and will seek to produce an alternative framework to understand it. The much-neglected perspective of uneven and combined development will shape the thinking about GUD. The project will theorize uneven development in terms of a) the interplay between the ruralisation of capital and what is known as the urbanization of capital, and the attendant issue of the uneven transition to real subsumption of labour, influenced by class struggle, and b) the relation of this interplay to the political power of different social classes as well as neoliberal state policies at sub-national scales. Among other things, the project will theorize, and shed empirical light on, some of the larger issues surrounding uneven development both as an explanan and as an explanandum: the theoretical and empirical link between capitalist industrialization and the place-specific successes/failures of capital and the state to acquire land and use it; geographical character of class relations, including the dialectics of ruralization and urbanization of capital, and of various forms of subsumption of labour under capital; and long-term objective and subjective obstacles to class-politics, including the processes shaping class-based mobilization across the rural-urban divide against capitalism and its state. In short: uneven development will be deployed as a window through which to look at the dynamics of capitalist class relation, in terms of its economic and political dimension, and of anti-capitalist politics.
Start Date:
- Month: Apr Year: 2016
End Date:
- Month: Mar Year: 2022
Collaborator: Professors Deepak Mishra, Mohanakumar S., and R. B. Singh, all from India
Das, R. J. 2020. Critical Reflections on Economy and Politics in India: A Class Theory Perspective. Brill: Leiden. https://brill.com/view/title/55521
Das, R. J. 2020. The Political Economy of New India: Critical Essays. Delhi: Aakar.
Das, R. J. 2017. Marxist Class Theory for a Skeptical World, Brill: Leiden. http://www.brill.com/products/book/marxist-class-theory-skeptical-world (The paperback edition is published by Haymarket, Chicago in 2018]
Das, R. J. 2014. A Contribution to the Critique of Contemporary Capitalism: Theoretical and International Perspectives, New York: Nova Science Publishers. ISBN: 978-1-63117-559-6 https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=48763&osCsid=61b26d9969e8e17cd886afdde6b789cc
Das, R. J. Marx, Capital, and Capitalism: A Global Perspective, Taylor and Francis, London (under contract). (It is a book on Marx's Capital volume 1)
Das, R. J. 2019. ‘Internal Colonialism’, in Audrey Kobayashi, edited. International Encyclopedia of
Human Geography (2nd edition), Elsevier Press, Amsterdam.
Das, R. ‘Geography and Class.’ In Oxford Bibliographies in Geography. Ed. Barney Warf. New York: Oxford University Press.
Bordoloi, S. and Das, R. J. 2017. ‘Modernization Theory’, The International Encyclopedia of Geography, Wiley-Blackwell and the Association of American Geographers.
Das, R. and Bridi, R. 2013. “Globalization.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Geography. Ed. Barney Warf. New York: Oxford University Press.
Das, R. J. 2010. ‘Peasants’, in Barney Warf (ed). Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Sage, Thousand Oaks, California.
Das, R. J. 2010. ‘Radical Peasant Movements and Rural Distress in India: A Study of the Naxalite Movement’ in W. Ahmad, A. Kundu and R. Peet (eds). India’s New Economic Policy, Routledge, New York.
Das R. J. 2009. ‘Capital and Space’. In Kitchin R, Thrift N (eds) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Volume 1, pp. 375-381. Oxford: Elsevier.
Das, R. J. 2006. ‘Marxist theories of the state’, in Steven Pressman ed. Alternative theories of the state, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, pp.64-90.
Das, R. 2020. The marginalization of Marxism in Academia. Monthly Review Online.
https://mronline.org/2020/02/06/the-marginalization-of-marxism-in-academia/
Das, R. J. 2019. ‘Indian Election 2019: A Marxist Interpretation’,
International Socialism: A Quarterly review of socialist theory,
No. 164.
Das, R. J. 2019. Politics of Marx as Non-sectarian Revolutionary Class Politics: An Interpretation in the Context of the 20th and 21st Centuries, Class, Race and Corporate Power, vol. 7:1.
Das, R. 2019. Revolutionary theory, academia and Marxist political parties, Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal (published in Australia)
Das, R. J. and Chen, A. 2019. ‘Towards a Theoretical Framework for Understanding Capitalist
Violence Against Child Labour’, World Review of Political Economy, vol. 10:2, 191-219.
Das, R. J. 2018. A Marxist perspective on sustainability: Brief reflections on ecological sustainability and social inequality; http://links.org.au
Das, R. 2018. ‘Anti-materialism, capitalism, and violence against the human body: some preliminary comments’, Monthly Review online, https://mronline.org
Das, R. J. 2018. ‘Fascistic politics in India, the left, and Lenin’s theory of temporary compromise’; Sanhati (an online non-academic journal from India)
The age of unreason or misology: The knowledge-practice relation and its political significance,
Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal
Das, R. J. 2017. ‘David Harvey’s Theory of Uneven Geographical Development: A Marxist Critique’, Capital and Class. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0309816816678584
Das, R. J. 2017. ‘Social Movements and State Repression in India’, Journal of Asian and African Studies http://jas.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/07/14/0021909616653258.abstract
Das, R. J. 2017. 'David Harvey’s Theory of Accumulation by Dispossession: A Marxist Critique', World Review of Political Economy, 8:4.
Das, R. J. 2016. ‘The On-Going Attack on Democracy and Secularism (in India): What is to be Done?’, Bullet; available at: http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/1252.php
Das, R. J. 2015. ‘Critical Observations on Neoliberalism and India’s New Economic Policy’, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 45: 4, 715-726
Das, Raju J. 2014. 'Low-Wage Capitalism, Social Difference, and Nature-Dependent Production: A Study of the Conditions of Workers in Shrimp Aquaculture', Human Geography: A New Radical Journal, Vol 7(1):17-34.
Das, R. J. 2013. ‘Capitalism and Regime Change in the (Globalizing) World of Labour’, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 43:4, pp. 709-723
Das, Raju J. 2013. 'Agrarian Crisis as the Crisis of Small Property Ownership in Globalizing Capitalism', MRZINE, https://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/ 2013/das 011013.html
Das, R. 2013. ‘The Relevance of Marxist Academics’, Class, Race and Corporate Power, Vol.1:1, Available at: http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/classracecorporatepower/vol1/iss1/11
Das, R. J. 2012. ‘From labour geography to class geography: Reasserting the Marxist theory of Class, Human Geography: A New Radical Journal, 5(1), 19-35
Das, R. J. 2012. ‘Forms of Subsumption of labour under capital, class struggle and uneven development’, Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 44:2, 178-200
Das, R. J. 2012. ‘Developmental Crisis and Dialectics of Protest Politics: Presenting the Absent and Absenting the Present’, Economic and Political Weekly, XLVII (6), 24-26
Das, R. J. 2012. ‘Thinking/writing theoretically’, Radical Notes, http://radicalnotes.com/journal, December
Das, R. J. 2012. ‘Why must social science be critical, and why must doing social science be difficult?’, Radical Notes, http://radicalnotes.com/journal, November.
Das, R. J. 2012. ‘Dirty picture of neoliberalism’, Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal [Australia]
Das, R. J. 2011. ‘The World is Facing a Triple Crisis: What is (not) to be done?’, Sanhati: Fighting Neoliberalism.
Das, R. J. 2010. Capitalism, class struggle and uneven development, Working paper series, Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur, India.
Das, R. J. 2009. ‘Class Relations, Material Conditions, and Spaces of Class Struggle in Rural India’, Human Geography: A New Radical Journal, 2:3, 52-74.
Das, R.J. 2009. ‘What’s the Left to do in India?’, Socialist Project Review, April-June, No. 26, 58-60.
Das, R. J. 2007c. ‘Looking, but Not Seeing: State and/as Class in Rural India’, Journal of Peasant Studies, 34: 3-4, pp. 408-440.
Das, R. J. 2007b. ‘Introduction: Peasant, state and class’, Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 34:3-4, pp. 351-370.
Das, R. J. 2007a. Edited. A special issue on Peasant, state and class, in Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 34: 3-4, July/October; pp. 351-666.
Das, R. J. 2006. ‘Putting social capital in its place’, Capital and Class, No. 92, pp.65-92.
Das, R. J. 2005. ‘Rural society, the state and social capital in Eastern India: A critical investigation’, Journal of Peasant Studies, vol. 32:1, pp.48-87.
Das, R. J. 2004. ‘Social capital and poverty of wage labourers: problems with the social capital theory’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, vol. 29:1, pp. 27-45.
Das, R. J. 2002. ‘The Green Revolution and Poverty: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination of the Relation Between Technology and Society’, Geoforum, Vol. 33:1, pp. 55-72.
Das, R. J. 2001. ‘Class, Capitalism and Agrarian Transition: A Review and Critique of Some Recent Arguments’, Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol 29:1, pp. 155-174.
Das, R. J. 2001. ‘The Political Economy of India (A Review Article)’, New Political Economy, Vol. 6:1, pp.103-117.
Das, R. J. 2001. ‘The Spatiality of Social Relations: An Indian Case-study’, The Journal of Rural Studies, Vol. 17:3, pp. 347-362.
Das, R. J. 2000. ‘The State-Society Relation: The Case of an Anti-poverty Policy’, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, Vol. 18:6, pp. 631-650.
Das, R. J. 1999. ‘Geographical Unevenness of India’s Green Revolution’, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 29:2, pp.167-186.
Das, R. J. 1999. ‘Politicism and Idealism in State Theory’, Science and Society, Vol. 63:1, pp. 97-104.
Das, R. J. 1999. ‘The Spatiality of Class and State Power: The Case of Indian Land Reforms’, Environment and Planning A, Vol. 31:12, pp. 2103-2126.
Klak, T. and Das, R. J. 1999. ‘The Underdevelopment of the Caribbean and Its Scholarship’, Latin American Research Review, Vol. 34:3, pp. 209-224.
Das, R. J. 1998. ‘The Green Revolution, Agrarian Productivity and Labor’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 22:1, pp. 122-135.
Das, R. J. 1998. ‘The Social and Spatial Character of the Indian State’, Political Geography, Vol. 17:7, pp. 787-808.
Das, R. J. 1996. ‘State Theories: A Critical Analysis’, Science and Society, Vol. 60:1, pp.27-57.
Das, R. J. 1995. ‘Poverty and Agrarian Social Structure -- A Case-Study in Rural India’, Dialectical Anthropology, Vol. 20:2, pp. 169-92.
April 2017 Presented a paper entitled, ‘The Theory and Politics of David Harvey’s ‘Accumulation by Dispossession’: A Marxist critique’, Association of American Geographers Conference, Boston
May 2016 Delivered an invited public talk entitled ‘Fascism in India’, Social Justice Center (Beit Zatoun), Downtown Toronto
May 2016 Presented a paper entitled ‘Violence Against the Human Body: Brief Comments From a Marxist Standpoint’ at the Theorizing Violence workshop, York University
March 2016 Keynote Lecture entitled ‘History of capitalism, class struggle and Geographical Unevenness’, at Lakehead University, Thunder Bay (March 10th).
May 2016 Presented a paper entitled David Harvey’s Theory of Accumulation by Dispossession: A Marxist Critique’, at the Historical Materialism Conference, York University.
March 2016 Presented ‘How real is capital's geographical threat?: Rearticulating some unfashionable ideas about the state’ , at the Association of American Geographers conference, San Francisco
February 2015 Invited talk entitled: ‘Why do rural protests happen?’ at the session on Protest in Progress: Resistance in the 21st Century, Ninth Annual Peace, Conflict and Justice Conference at the University of Toronto
May 2014 Presented ‘Imperialism, the Reserve Army, and the Subsumption of Labour’, at the Toronto Historical Materialism conference, York University
April 2014 Presented ‘Agrarian Crisis as the Crisis of Small-scale Property-ownership in Globalizing Capitalism’, at the Association of American Geographers conference, Tampa.
2013. Invited panelist on a panel on ‘class struggle and legal scale’, Association of American Geographers conference, Los Angeles, April.
2013. Presented ‘Accumulation and economic class struggle’, Association of American Geographers conference, Los Angeles, April.
2012: Discussant on the Marxist theory of internal relations in a panel at the Internal relations symposium, York University (May 10).
2012: Presented: ‘Marx’s theory of accumulation, wages and economic class struggle’, Historical Materialism conference, York University.
2012: Presented: ‘The state, the poor, and just development’, Association of American Geographers conference, New York, February.
2011. ‘Appearance and content: A study of a political movement in India’, Association of American Geographers’ conference, Seattle, April.
2010. Invited Panelist on ‘Geography of Post Fordism – Theory of Class’ (with Jamie Peck, Richard Peet, Richard A. Walker, Neil Smith, David Featherstone), Association of American Geographers’ conference, Washington D.C. (April)
2010. 'Working long hours for low wages: The Case of Aqua-laborers in Orissa, India’, Association of American Geographers’ conference, Washington D.C. (April)
2009. ‘Marx’s Capital, Capitalism, Class Struggle, and Uneven Development’, Department of Geography, York University, Toronto (September).
2009. ‘The Maoist Problem’, Invited to give a talk at a roundtable organized at the University of Texas, Austin (November).
2008. ‘Social Solidarity and social development’, Invited paper presented to the Conference on Population Studies, Fakir Mohan University, , March.
2007. 'The class character of social capital’, Canadian Association for the study of International Development (CASID), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, June.
2005: ‘Radical Social movements, Development, and the State: Investigating India’s Naxalite Movement’, the Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Denver.
2005. ‘Towards a historical-geographical materialist framework for the understanding of The post-colonial Indian state’, a keynote address to the National Association of Geographers of India (NAGI), at the NAGI Annual conference, Bangalore, India, December.
2004: ‘State-society synergy’, the Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Philadelphia.
2002: Chief Guest at the Post Graduate Department of Sociology, Ravenshaw College, Cuttack, Orissa, India, Silver Jubilee Celebration; Gave a talk on ‘Critical knowledge and intellectuals’, March 9.
2002: ‘Social capital of the working class’, the Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, New Orleans.
2001: Invited panelist on ‘India in the global economy’, Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, New York.
2001: ‘The social capital theory of global development: A critique and reconstruction’, the Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, New York.
2000: ‘The state and poverty’, the 16th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Edinburgh, September.
2000: ‘The state and poverty alleviation’, an invited lecture delivered at the Department of Economics, University of Dundee, November, 2000.
1998: ‘The state and rural change’, the Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Boston.
1997: ‘The political economy of the Indian state: Does India’s Integrated Rural Development program work?’, the Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Ft. Worth, 1997.
1996: ‘The green revolution, socio-spatial development, and the state’, the Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Charlotte.
1995: ‘The state and uneven development in India’, the Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Chicago.
Das, R. J. 2018. ‘The Age of Un-reason or Misology: The Knowledge-Practice Relation, and its
Political Significance’, Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal
Das, R. J. and Fasenfest, D. 2018. ‘Marx and the Global South’,
Global Dialogue: Magazine of International Sociological Association; http://globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/marx-and-the-global-south/
Das, R. 2018. What is class struggle today? http://stateofnatureblog.com/one-question-class-struggle-today/ (invited contribution).
June 2017 Delivered three lectures on Class theory and the State, at Beihang University, as a part of its temporary lecturer program (June 12-16). January 2017 Delivered five lectures on Capital vol 1, as part of a week-long workshop, at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (January 16-20) January 2017 Delivered a lecture, ‘Theory of capitalism as a class relation and its Implications for understanding geographically uneven development’, Center for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (January 10) January 2017 Delivered a lecture entitled ‘The state and the poor’, Utkal University, India (January 7) January 2017 Delivered a lecture entitled Why Do Some Regions Develop More than Other Regions?: Theorising Geographically Uneven Development, Ravenshaw University, India (January 5) August 2016 Delivered an invited talk entitled ‘Theorizing Uneven development’, at the Center for Regional Studies, Hyderabad Central University (August 11)
Upcoming Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter 2021 | EU/GEOG3710 3.0 | M | South Asia: Society, Space & Environment | LECT |
| Fall/Winter 2020 | EU/GEOG1000 6.0 | A | An Introduction to World Geography | LECT |
| Fall 2020 | GS/GEOG5375 3.0 | A | Space, Place and Capitalism: Themes in H | SEMR |
| Fall 2020 | GS/GEOG5375 3.0 | A | Space, Place and Capitalism: Themes in H | SEMR |
Raju Das teaches courses on: radical political economy, international development, state-society/economy relations, and social struggles.
He is on the editorial board of Science & Society (Guilford, New York) and is also a member of its Manuscript Review Collective. As well, he is a member of the editorial board of Class, Race and Corporate Power, and a member of the editorial advisory board of Dialectical Anthropology.
He is also a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Critical Social Science Book Series, Brill, Leiden/Boston.
Degrees
Ph.D. (Geography), The Ohio State University, the USAM. A. (Urban Studies), University of Akron, the USA
M. A. (Geography), University of Delhi, India
B. A. (Honors) (Geography), Utkal University, India
Appointments
Faculty of Graduate StudiesProfessional Leadership
Membership In Professional Organizations
Association of American Geographers; International Sociological Association; American Sociological Association
Research Interests
Current Research Projects
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Summary:
Geographically uneven development (GUD) is an enduring problem worldwide. Its urgency is more apparent in the context of the recent phase of industrialization occurring in the South since the onset of the neoliberal form of capitalism. This industrialization, which takes different forms, including transplantation of large-scale industry into rural areas, creating newly industrialized cities, is occurring in many parts of India, in which state’s earlier role in promoting equality between areas (and groups/classes) is relatively diminished since 1991. This new context raises a specific question: how does this pattern of industrialization cause uneven development between newly created urban areas and rural areas, and within the rural periphery? This multi-year project involves much theoretical work, which will guide the empirical component of the project. It will produce a thoroughgoing, rigorous critique of some of the existing views on uneven development and will seek to produce an alternative framework to understand it. The much-neglected perspective of uneven and combined development will shape the thinking about GUD. The project will theorize uneven development in terms of a) the interplay between the ruralisation of capital and what is known as the urbanization of capital, and the attendant issue of the uneven transition to real subsumption of labour, influenced by class struggle, and b) the relation of this interplay to the political power of different social classes as well as neoliberal state policies at sub-national scales. Among other things, the project will theorize, and shed empirical light on, some of the larger issues surrounding uneven development both as an explanan and as an explanandum: the theoretical and empirical link between capitalist industrialization and the place-specific successes/failures of capital and the state to acquire land and use it; geographical character of class relations, including the dialectics of ruralization and urbanization of capital, and of various forms of subsumption of labour under capital; and long-term objective and subjective obstacles to class-politics, including the processes shaping class-based mobilization across the rural-urban divide against capitalism and its state. In short: uneven development will be deployed as a window through which to look at the dynamics of capitalist class relation, in terms of its economic and political dimension, and of anti-capitalist politics.
Project Type: FundedRole: Principal investigator
Start Date:
- Month: Apr Year: 2016
End Date:
- Month: Mar Year: 2022
Collaborator: Professors Deepak Mishra, Mohanakumar S., and R. B. Singh, all from India
All Publications
Das, R. J. 2019. ‘Internal Colonialism’, in Audrey Kobayashi, edited. International Encyclopedia of
Human Geography (2nd edition), Elsevier Press, Amsterdam.
Das, R. ‘Geography and Class.’ In Oxford Bibliographies in Geography. Ed. Barney Warf. New York: Oxford University Press.
Bordoloi, S. and Das, R. J. 2017. ‘Modernization Theory’, The International Encyclopedia of Geography, Wiley-Blackwell and the Association of American Geographers.
Das, R. and Bridi, R. 2013. “Globalization.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Geography. Ed. Barney Warf. New York: Oxford University Press.
Das, R. J. 2010. ‘Peasants’, in Barney Warf (ed). Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Sage, Thousand Oaks, California.
Das, R. J. 2010. ‘Radical Peasant Movements and Rural Distress in India: A Study of the Naxalite Movement’ in W. Ahmad, A. Kundu and R. Peet (eds). India’s New Economic Policy, Routledge, New York.
Das R. J. 2009. ‘Capital and Space’. In Kitchin R, Thrift N (eds) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Volume 1, pp. 375-381. Oxford: Elsevier.
Das, R. J. 2006. ‘Marxist theories of the state’, in Steven Pressman ed. Alternative theories of the state, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, pp.64-90.
Das, R. J. 2020. Critical Reflections on Economy and Politics in India: A Class Theory Perspective. Brill: Leiden. https://brill.com/view/title/55521
Das, R. J. 2020. The Political Economy of New India: Critical Essays. Delhi: Aakar.
Das, R. J. 2017. Marxist Class Theory for a Skeptical World, Brill: Leiden. http://www.brill.com/products/book/marxist-class-theory-skeptical-world (The paperback edition is published by Haymarket, Chicago in 2018]
Das, R. J. 2014. A Contribution to the Critique of Contemporary Capitalism: Theoretical and International Perspectives, New York: Nova Science Publishers. ISBN: 978-1-63117-559-6 https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=48763&osCsid=61b26d9969e8e17cd886afdde6b789cc
Das, R. J. Marx, Capital, and Capitalism: A Global Perspective, Taylor and Francis, London (under contract). (It is a book on Marx's Capital volume 1)
Das, R. 2020. The marginalization of Marxism in Academia. Monthly Review Online.
https://mronline.org/2020/02/06/the-marginalization-of-marxism-in-academia/
Das, R. J. 2019. ‘Indian Election 2019: A Marxist Interpretation’,
International Socialism: A Quarterly review of socialist theory,
No. 164.
Das, R. J. 2019. Politics of Marx as Non-sectarian Revolutionary Class Politics: An Interpretation in the Context of the 20th and 21st Centuries, Class, Race and Corporate Power, vol. 7:1.
Das, R. 2019. Revolutionary theory, academia and Marxist political parties, Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal (published in Australia)
Das, R. J. and Chen, A. 2019. ‘Towards a Theoretical Framework for Understanding Capitalist
Violence Against Child Labour’, World Review of Political Economy, vol. 10:2, 191-219.
Das, R. J. 2018. A Marxist perspective on sustainability: Brief reflections on ecological sustainability and social inequality; http://links.org.au
Das, R. 2018. ‘Anti-materialism, capitalism, and violence against the human body: some preliminary comments’, Monthly Review online, https://mronline.org
Das, R. J. 2018. ‘Fascistic politics in India, the left, and Lenin’s theory of temporary compromise’; Sanhati (an online non-academic journal from India)
The age of unreason or misology: The knowledge-practice relation and its political significance,
Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal
Das, R. J. 2017. ‘David Harvey’s Theory of Uneven Geographical Development: A Marxist Critique’, Capital and Class. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0309816816678584
Das, R. J. 2017. ‘Social Movements and State Repression in India’, Journal of Asian and African Studies http://jas.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/07/14/0021909616653258.abstract
Das, R. J. 2017. 'David Harvey’s Theory of Accumulation by Dispossession: A Marxist Critique', World Review of Political Economy, 8:4.
Das, R. J. 2016. ‘The On-Going Attack on Democracy and Secularism (in India): What is to be Done?’, Bullet; available at: http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/1252.php
Das, R. J. 2015. ‘Critical Observations on Neoliberalism and India’s New Economic Policy’, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 45: 4, 715-726
Das, Raju J. 2014. 'Low-Wage Capitalism, Social Difference, and Nature-Dependent Production: A Study of the Conditions of Workers in Shrimp Aquaculture', Human Geography: A New Radical Journal, Vol 7(1):17-34.
Das, R. J. 2013. ‘Capitalism and Regime Change in the (Globalizing) World of Labour’, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 43:4, pp. 709-723
Das, Raju J. 2013. 'Agrarian Crisis as the Crisis of Small Property Ownership in Globalizing Capitalism', MRZINE, https://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/ 2013/das 011013.html
Das, R. 2013. ‘The Relevance of Marxist Academics’, Class, Race and Corporate Power, Vol.1:1, Available at: http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/classracecorporatepower/vol1/iss1/11
Das, R. J. 2012. ‘From labour geography to class geography: Reasserting the Marxist theory of Class, Human Geography: A New Radical Journal, 5(1), 19-35
Das, R. J. 2012. ‘Forms of Subsumption of labour under capital, class struggle and uneven development’, Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 44:2, 178-200
Das, R. J. 2012. ‘Developmental Crisis and Dialectics of Protest Politics: Presenting the Absent and Absenting the Present’, Economic and Political Weekly, XLVII (6), 24-26
Das, R. J. 2012. ‘Thinking/writing theoretically’, Radical Notes, http://radicalnotes.com/journal, December
Das, R. J. 2012. ‘Why must social science be critical, and why must doing social science be difficult?’, Radical Notes, http://radicalnotes.com/journal, November.
Das, R. J. 2012. ‘Dirty picture of neoliberalism’, Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal [Australia]
Das, R. J. 2011. ‘The World is Facing a Triple Crisis: What is (not) to be done?’, Sanhati: Fighting Neoliberalism.
Das, R. J. 2010. Capitalism, class struggle and uneven development, Working paper series, Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur, India.
Das, R. J. 2009. ‘Class Relations, Material Conditions, and Spaces of Class Struggle in Rural India’, Human Geography: A New Radical Journal, 2:3, 52-74.
Das, R.J. 2009. ‘What’s the Left to do in India?’, Socialist Project Review, April-June, No. 26, 58-60.
Das, R. J. 2007c. ‘Looking, but Not Seeing: State and/as Class in Rural India’, Journal of Peasant Studies, 34: 3-4, pp. 408-440.
Das, R. J. 2007b. ‘Introduction: Peasant, state and class’, Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 34:3-4, pp. 351-370.
Das, R. J. 2007a. Edited. A special issue on Peasant, state and class, in Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol. 34: 3-4, July/October; pp. 351-666.
Das, R. J. 2006. ‘Putting social capital in its place’, Capital and Class, No. 92, pp.65-92.
Das, R. J. 2005. ‘Rural society, the state and social capital in Eastern India: A critical investigation’, Journal of Peasant Studies, vol. 32:1, pp.48-87.
Das, R. J. 2004. ‘Social capital and poverty of wage labourers: problems with the social capital theory’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, vol. 29:1, pp. 27-45.
Das, R. J. 2002. ‘The Green Revolution and Poverty: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination of the Relation Between Technology and Society’, Geoforum, Vol. 33:1, pp. 55-72.
Das, R. J. 2001. ‘Class, Capitalism and Agrarian Transition: A Review and Critique of Some Recent Arguments’, Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol 29:1, pp. 155-174.
Das, R. J. 2001. ‘The Political Economy of India (A Review Article)’, New Political Economy, Vol. 6:1, pp.103-117.
Das, R. J. 2001. ‘The Spatiality of Social Relations: An Indian Case-study’, The Journal of Rural Studies, Vol. 17:3, pp. 347-362.
Das, R. J. 2000. ‘The State-Society Relation: The Case of an Anti-poverty Policy’, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, Vol. 18:6, pp. 631-650.
Das, R. J. 1999. ‘Geographical Unevenness of India’s Green Revolution’, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 29:2, pp.167-186.
Das, R. J. 1999. ‘Politicism and Idealism in State Theory’, Science and Society, Vol. 63:1, pp. 97-104.
Das, R. J. 1999. ‘The Spatiality of Class and State Power: The Case of Indian Land Reforms’, Environment and Planning A, Vol. 31:12, pp. 2103-2126.
Klak, T. and Das, R. J. 1999. ‘The Underdevelopment of the Caribbean and Its Scholarship’, Latin American Research Review, Vol. 34:3, pp. 209-224.
Das, R. J. 1998. ‘The Green Revolution, Agrarian Productivity and Labor’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 22:1, pp. 122-135.
Das, R. J. 1998. ‘The Social and Spatial Character of the Indian State’, Political Geography, Vol. 17:7, pp. 787-808.
Das, R. J. 1996. ‘State Theories: A Critical Analysis’, Science and Society, Vol. 60:1, pp.27-57.
Das, R. J. 1995. ‘Poverty and Agrarian Social Structure -- A Case-Study in Rural India’, Dialectical Anthropology, Vol. 20:2, pp. 169-92.
April 2017 Presented a paper entitled, ‘The Theory and Politics of David Harvey’s ‘Accumulation by Dispossession’: A Marxist critique’, Association of American Geographers Conference, Boston
May 2016 Delivered an invited public talk entitled ‘Fascism in India’, Social Justice Center (Beit Zatoun), Downtown Toronto
May 2016 Presented a paper entitled ‘Violence Against the Human Body: Brief Comments From a Marxist Standpoint’ at the Theorizing Violence workshop, York University
March 2016 Keynote Lecture entitled ‘History of capitalism, class struggle and Geographical Unevenness’, at Lakehead University, Thunder Bay (March 10th).
May 2016 Presented a paper entitled David Harvey’s Theory of Accumulation by Dispossession: A Marxist Critique’, at the Historical Materialism Conference, York University.
March 2016 Presented ‘How real is capital's geographical threat?: Rearticulating some unfashionable ideas about the state’ , at the Association of American Geographers conference, San Francisco
February 2015 Invited talk entitled: ‘Why do rural protests happen?’ at the session on Protest in Progress: Resistance in the 21st Century, Ninth Annual Peace, Conflict and Justice Conference at the University of Toronto
May 2014 Presented ‘Imperialism, the Reserve Army, and the Subsumption of Labour’, at the Toronto Historical Materialism conference, York University
April 2014 Presented ‘Agrarian Crisis as the Crisis of Small-scale Property-ownership in Globalizing Capitalism’, at the Association of American Geographers conference, Tampa.
2013. Invited panelist on a panel on ‘class struggle and legal scale’, Association of American Geographers conference, Los Angeles, April.
2013. Presented ‘Accumulation and economic class struggle’, Association of American Geographers conference, Los Angeles, April.
2012: Discussant on the Marxist theory of internal relations in a panel at the Internal relations symposium, York University (May 10).
2012: Presented: ‘Marx’s theory of accumulation, wages and economic class struggle’, Historical Materialism conference, York University.
2012: Presented: ‘The state, the poor, and just development’, Association of American Geographers conference, New York, February.
2011. ‘Appearance and content: A study of a political movement in India’, Association of American Geographers’ conference, Seattle, April.
2010. Invited Panelist on ‘Geography of Post Fordism – Theory of Class’ (with Jamie Peck, Richard Peet, Richard A. Walker, Neil Smith, David Featherstone), Association of American Geographers’ conference, Washington D.C. (April)
2010. 'Working long hours for low wages: The Case of Aqua-laborers in Orissa, India’, Association of American Geographers’ conference, Washington D.C. (April)
2009. ‘Marx’s Capital, Capitalism, Class Struggle, and Uneven Development’, Department of Geography, York University, Toronto (September).
2009. ‘The Maoist Problem’, Invited to give a talk at a roundtable organized at the University of Texas, Austin (November).
2008. ‘Social Solidarity and social development’, Invited paper presented to the Conference on Population Studies, Fakir Mohan University, , March.
2007. 'The class character of social capital’, Canadian Association for the study of International Development (CASID), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, June.
2005: ‘Radical Social movements, Development, and the State: Investigating India’s Naxalite Movement’, the Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Denver.
2005. ‘Towards a historical-geographical materialist framework for the understanding of The post-colonial Indian state’, a keynote address to the National Association of Geographers of India (NAGI), at the NAGI Annual conference, Bangalore, India, December.
2004: ‘State-society synergy’, the Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Philadelphia.
2002: Chief Guest at the Post Graduate Department of Sociology, Ravenshaw College, Cuttack, Orissa, India, Silver Jubilee Celebration; Gave a talk on ‘Critical knowledge and intellectuals’, March 9.
2002: ‘Social capital of the working class’, the Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, New Orleans.
2001: Invited panelist on ‘India in the global economy’, Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, New York.
2001: ‘The social capital theory of global development: A critique and reconstruction’, the Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, New York.
2000: ‘The state and poverty’, the 16th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Edinburgh, September.
2000: ‘The state and poverty alleviation’, an invited lecture delivered at the Department of Economics, University of Dundee, November, 2000.
1998: ‘The state and rural change’, the Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Boston.
1997: ‘The political economy of the Indian state: Does India’s Integrated Rural Development program work?’, the Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Ft. Worth, 1997.
1996: ‘The green revolution, socio-spatial development, and the state’, the Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Charlotte.
1995: ‘The state and uneven development in India’, the Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Chicago.
Das, R. J. 2018. ‘The Age of Un-reason or Misology: The Knowledge-Practice Relation, and its
Political Significance’, Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal
Das, R. J. and Fasenfest, D. 2018. ‘Marx and the Global South’,
Global Dialogue: Magazine of International Sociological Association; http://globaldialogue.isa-sociology.org/marx-and-the-global-south/
Das, R. 2018. What is class struggle today? http://stateofnatureblog.com/one-question-class-struggle-today/ (invited contribution).
June 2017 Delivered three lectures on Class theory and the State, at Beihang University, as a part of its temporary lecturer program (June 12-16). January 2017 Delivered five lectures on Capital vol 1, as part of a week-long workshop, at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (January 16-20) January 2017 Delivered a lecture, ‘Theory of capitalism as a class relation and its Implications for understanding geographically uneven development’, Center for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (January 10) January 2017 Delivered a lecture entitled ‘The state and the poor’, Utkal University, India (January 7) January 2017 Delivered a lecture entitled Why Do Some Regions Develop More than Other Regions?: Theorising Geographically Uneven Development, Ravenshaw University, India (January 5) August 2016 Delivered an invited talk entitled ‘Theorizing Uneven development’, at the Center for Regional Studies, Hyderabad Central University (August 11)
Upcoming Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter 2021 | EU/GEOG3710 3.0 | M | South Asia: Society, Space & Environment | LECT |
| Fall/Winter 2020 | EU/GEOG1000 6.0 | A | An Introduction to World Geography | LECT |
| Fall 2020 | GS/GEOG5375 3.0 | A | Space, Place and Capitalism: Themes in H | SEMR |
| Fall 2020 | GS/GEOG5375 3.0 | A | Space, Place and Capitalism: Themes in H | SEMR |