Surbhi Kesar
Biographic Data
| ID | 1398685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Surbhi Kesar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Surbhi |
| FAMILY NAME | Kesar |
| SIGNATURE | KESAR S |
| AFFILIATIONS | SOAS University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7967-9938 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2027 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Development economics and the colonial encounter
This article posits the contradictory relation between capitalist and non-capitalist segments of an economy as a key dimension of the colonial encounter and as a critical and constitutive element in the contemporary process of postcolonial capitalist development. It points to the obfuscation of this contradiction in the prevalent theoretical approaches in development economics, particularly focusing on the discourse on informal economy and the ro…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Anti-Capitalist Pedagogies and Teaching Radical Economics
Introduction to the Symposium on Political Economy of Occupation, Colonialism, and Conflict in Palestine
The Politics of Data
,
Trajectories of labour market transitions in the Indian economy
Pluralizing social reproduction approaches
The concept of social reproduction (SR) has gained renewed interest in the past decade. Discussed and elaborated by generations of feminists, the concept offers a rejection of productivism and the possibility of (re)telling the history of capitalism and its contemporary dynamics through the work and practices of “life making.” Yet, it is undeniable that much of the “old” and “new” theorizing around SR comes predominantly from the Global North. He…
Subcontracting Linkages in India's Informal Economy
Subcontracting relations have often been considered a key channel to facilitate growth in traditional informal enterprises and enable them to transition into larger, modern enterprises. Such relations are expected to strengthen with economic growth. Using nationally representative survey data for the Indian informal manufacturing sector, this article examines the nature and patterns of subcontracting linkages for informal family-based household e…
Standing in the way of rigor? Economics’ meeting with the decolonization agenda
This article critically discusses the scope for decolonizing economics teaching. It scrutinizes what it would entail in terms of theory, methods, and pedagogy, and its implications for scholars grappling with issues related to economics teaching. Based on a survey of 498 respondents, it explores how economists across different types of departments (economics/heterodox/non-economics), geographical locations, and identities assess challenges to eco…
Exclusion, Surplus Population, and the Labour Question in Postcolonial Capitalism
In this expository essay, we argue for building a fresh research programme in the political economy of development to analytically investigate and empirically substantiate the specificities of postcolonial capitalism. A key theoretical framework developed through the work of Kalyan Sanyal may be built upon, reformulated and productively deployed for this purpose. We provide a purposive engagement with this framework, its critiques, and the extant…
Contradictions and Crisis in the World of Work
The severe economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global working population can be interpreted as both a fallout from, and a violent assertion of, a larger crisis in the world of work. While this crisis has been attributed to the pre-existing conditions of widespread informality and precarity in the domain of remunerative work, the authors of this article dig deeper to read these conditions and the crisis tendencies as articulations of c…
Down and out? The gendered impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on India’s labour market
Pandemic, informality, and vulnerability
We analyze findings from a large-scale survey of around 5000 respondents across 12 states of India, conducted during the months of April and May 2020, to study the impact of COVID-19 pandemic containment measures (lockdown) on employment, livelihoods, and food security. Given the predominantly informal nature of employment and critically low investment in State-funded social security nets, the impact, albeit unprecedented in its scale, was not en…
Precarity and Development
We take off from the recent critiques of precarity as an emerging global phenomenon to argue that the processes of precarity in the Global North and the Global South need to be analytically distinguished to bring forth their specificities. We further argue that such an analysis challenges the idea of development as transition, as is prevalent in much of the literature. We focus on the informal economy in India to show that the notion of precarity…
Dualism and Structural Transformation
Pandemic, informality, and vulnerability
We analyze findings from a large-scale survey of around 5000 respondents across 12 states of India, conducted during the months of April and May 2020, to study the impact of COVID-19 pandemic containment measures (lockdown) on employment, livelihoods, and food security. Given the predominantly informal nature of employment and critically low investment in State-funded social security nets, the impact, albeit unprecedented in its scale, was not en…
Pluralizing social reproduction approaches
The concept of social reproduction (SR) has gained renewed interest in the past decade. Discussed and elaborated by generations of feminists, the concept offers a rejection of productivism and the possibility of (re)telling the history of capitalism and its contemporary dynamics through the work and practices of “life making.” Yet, it is undeniable that much of the “old” and “new” theorizing around SR comes predominantly from the Global North. He…
Standing in the way of rigor? Economics’ meeting with the decolonization agenda
This article critically discusses the scope for decolonizing economics teaching. It scrutinizes what it would entail in terms of theory, methods, and pedagogy, and its implications for scholars grappling with issues related to economics teaching. Based on a survey of 498 respondents, it explores how economists across different types of departments (economics/heterodox/non-economics), geographical locations, and identities assess challenges to eco…
Contradictions and Crisis in the World of Work
The severe economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global working population can be interpreted as both a fallout from, and a violent assertion of, a larger crisis in the world of work. While this crisis has been attributed to the pre-existing conditions of widespread informality and precarity in the domain of remunerative work, the authors of this article dig deeper to read these conditions and the crisis tendencies as articulations of c…
Dualism and Structural Transformation
Subcontracting Linkages in India's Informal Economy
Subcontracting relations have often been considered a key channel to facilitate growth in traditional informal enterprises and enable them to transition into larger, modern enterprises. Such relations are expected to strengthen with economic growth. Using nationally representative survey data for the Indian informal manufacturing sector, this article examines the nature and patterns of subcontracting linkages for informal family-based household e…
Exclusion, Surplus Population, and the Labour Question in Postcolonial Capitalism
In this expository essay, we argue for building a fresh research programme in the political economy of development to analytically investigate and empirically substantiate the specificities of postcolonial capitalism. A key theoretical framework developed through the work of Kalyan Sanyal may be built upon, reformulated and productively deployed for this purpose. We provide a purposive engagement with this framework, its critiques, and the extant…
Down and out? The gendered impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on India’s labour market
Dualism and Structural Transformation
Precarity and Development
We take off from the recent critiques of precarity as an emerging global phenomenon to argue that the processes of precarity in the Global North and the Global South need to be analytically distinguished to bring forth their specificities. We further argue that such an analysis challenges the idea of development as transition, as is prevalent in much of the literature. We focus on the informal economy in India to show that the notion of precarity…
Down and out? The gendered impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on India’s labour market
Pandemic, informality, and vulnerability
We analyze findings from a large-scale survey of around 5000 respondents across 12 states of India, conducted during the months of April and May 2020, to study the impact of COVID-19 pandemic containment measures (lockdown) on employment, livelihoods, and food security. Given the predominantly informal nature of employment and critically low investment in State-funded social security nets, the impact, albeit unprecedented in its scale, was not en…
Standing in the way of rigor? Economics’ meeting with the decolonization agenda
This article critically discusses the scope for decolonizing economics teaching. It scrutinizes what it would entail in terms of theory, methods, and pedagogy, and its implications for scholars grappling with issues related to economics teaching. Based on a survey of 498 respondents, it explores how economists across different types of departments (economics/heterodox/non-economics), geographical locations, and identities assess challenges to eco…
Exclusion, Surplus Population, and the Labour Question in Postcolonial Capitalism
In this expository essay, we argue for building a fresh research programme in the political economy of development to analytically investigate and empirically substantiate the specificities of postcolonial capitalism. A key theoretical framework developed through the work of Kalyan Sanyal may be built upon, reformulated and productively deployed for this purpose. We provide a purposive engagement with this framework, its critiques, and the extant…
Contradictions and Crisis in the World of Work
The severe economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global working population can be interpreted as both a fallout from, and a violent assertion of, a larger crisis in the world of work. While this crisis has been attributed to the pre-existing conditions of widespread informality and precarity in the domain of remunerative work, the authors of this article dig deeper to read these conditions and the crisis tendencies as articulations of c…
Subcontracting Linkages in India's Informal Economy
Subcontracting relations have often been considered a key channel to facilitate growth in traditional informal enterprises and enable them to transition into larger, modern enterprises. Such relations are expected to strengthen with economic growth. Using nationally representative survey data for the Indian informal manufacturing sector, this article examines the nature and patterns of subcontracting linkages for informal family-based household e…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Anti-Capitalist Pedagogies and Teaching Radical Economics
Introduction to the Symposium on Political Economy of Occupation, Colonialism, and Conflict in Palestine
The Politics of Data
,
Trajectories of labour market transitions in the Indian economy
Pluralizing social reproduction approaches
The concept of social reproduction (SR) has gained renewed interest in the past decade. Discussed and elaborated by generations of feminists, the concept offers a rejection of productivism and the possibility of (re)telling the history of capitalism and its contemporary dynamics through the work and practices of “life making.” Yet, it is undeniable that much of the “old” and “new” theorizing around SR comes predominantly from the Global North. He…
Development economics and the colonial encounter
This article posits the contradictory relation between capitalist and non-capitalist segments of an economy as a key dimension of the colonial encounter and as a critical and constitutive element in the contemporary process of postcolonial capitalist development. It points to the obfuscation of this contradiction in the prevalent theoretical approaches in development economics, particularly focusing on the discourse on informal economy and the ro…
Economics (10 works) · Economic system (5 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (5 works) · Market economy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Taxation and Compliance Studies (4 works)