Theorizing Thervoy

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23211876
AutoresL Steur (0000-0002-3896-9488, autor de correspondencia)
Año2015
Páginas177-201
Fecha de publicación2015-07-09
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoCHAPTER
RevistaNew Subaltern Politics (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199457557.003.0008
OpenAlexW4238438349
ISBN9780199457557
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12

This chapter develops a critique of Chatterjee’s argument that Marxian perspectives of agrarian transition have been rendered irrelevant by the introduction of social policy regimes that ameliorate the ramifications of contemporary forms of primitive accumulation. Drawing on the work of Eric Wolf, it argues that Chatterjee’s contention that social policy has to be understood as a purely political phenomenon, detached from the economic dynamics of neoliberalization in India, fails to capture the dialectical interrelations between dispossession as a form of ‘structural power’ that operates on the macro-level of global capitalism and social policy as a form of ‘tactical power’ the seeks to ensure the popular legitimacy of neoliberal projects in determinate locales. Through an analysis of Dalit activism around land acquisition in Tamil Nadu, the chapter investigates how corporate social responsibility works to deflect the collective action of subaltern groups as it obfuscates the workings of structural forms of power at play in contemporary processes of primitive accumulation.

Agrarian society · Agriculture · Argument (complex analysis) · Capitalism · Dialectic · Epistemology · Geography · Legitimacy · Legitimation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism