Swarnabh Ghosh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3696657 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Swarnabh Ghosh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Swarnabh |
| FAMILY NAME | Ghosh |
| SIGNATURE | GHOSH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9261-0102 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Monster 'Within: Capitalist Urbanization as Geometabolic Escalation
This article challenges prevailing approaches to urban sustainability by reconceptualizing capitalist urbanization as a planetary process of geometabolic escalation. Hegemonic visions of sustainable cities render invisible the non-city sociometabolic preconditions and consequences of urban life under capitalism. Our dissident theorization brings to the foreground such 'hidden abodes' of capitalist urbanization and their role in the enclosure, ope…
History and Theory in the Time of Capital: On Banaji’s Method
Jairus Banaji has made important contributions to Marxist history and social theory since the 1970s. In recent years, Banaji’s scholarship has received renewed attention, due in part to the institutionalization of the history of capitalism as a distinct field of study in the Anglophone world. These engagements, mainly from within the field of history, have tended to focus on his history of commercial capitalism and its contributions to extending …
In what sense ruralization
This commentary offers an analysis of Gillen et al.’s (2022) ‘Geographies of ruralization’. Through a reading of the authors’ conceptualization of ‘in-situ’ and ‘extended’ ruralization, I raise two sets of questions. The first pertains to the relationship between ruralization – which the authors conceptualize primarily in terms of rural social reproduction – and transformations in agricultural production and agrarian political economy under conte…
Between the colossal and the catastrophic: Planetary urbanization and the political ecologies of emergent infectious disease
Against the backdrop of contemporary debates on the transcendence of city-centric epistemologies in urban theory, this article proposes a theoretical framework for exploring the connections between processes of planetary urbanization and the political ecologies of emergent infectious disease. Following a brief overview of research on cities and the coronavirus pandemic, we elaborate a critical interrogation and heterodox synthesis of two distinct…
Extended urbanisation and the agrarian question: Convergences, divergences and openings
The question of urbanisation ‘beyond the city’ has generated a lively debate in the fields of urban studies and geography in recent years. This paper brings a key concept from this discussion –‘extended urbanisation’– in conversation with distinct yet related concepts from critical agrarian studies. We briefly review the ‘classic’ agrarian question in order to situate contemporary agrarian questions within the historical geographies of capitalist…
Extended urbanisation and the agrarian question: Convergences, divergences and openings
The question of urbanisation ‘beyond the city’ has generated a lively debate in the fields of urban studies and geography in recent years. This paper brings a key concept from this discussion –‘extended urbanisation’– in conversation with distinct yet related concepts from critical agrarian studies. We briefly review the ‘classic’ agrarian question in order to situate contemporary agrarian questions within the historical geographies of capitalist…
Between the colossal and the catastrophic: Planetary urbanization and the political ecologies of emergent infectious disease
Against the backdrop of contemporary debates on the transcendence of city-centric epistemologies in urban theory, this article proposes a theoretical framework for exploring the connections between processes of planetary urbanization and the political ecologies of emergent infectious disease. Following a brief overview of research on cities and the coronavirus pandemic, we elaborate a critical interrogation and heterodox synthesis of two distinct…
In what sense ruralization
This commentary offers an analysis of Gillen et al.’s (2022) ‘Geographies of ruralization’. Through a reading of the authors’ conceptualization of ‘in-situ’ and ‘extended’ ruralization, I raise two sets of questions. The first pertains to the relationship between ruralization – which the authors conceptualize primarily in terms of rural social reproduction – and transformations in agricultural production and agrarian political economy under conte…
The Monster 'Within: Capitalist Urbanization as Geometabolic Escalation
This article challenges prevailing approaches to urban sustainability by reconceptualizing capitalist urbanization as a planetary process of geometabolic escalation. Hegemonic visions of sustainable cities render invisible the non-city sociometabolic preconditions and consequences of urban life under capitalism. Our dissident theorization brings to the foreground such 'hidden abodes' of capitalist urbanization and their role in the enclosure, ope…
History and Theory in the Time of Capital: On Banaji’s Method
Jairus Banaji has made important contributions to Marxist history and social theory since the 1970s. In recent years, Banaji’s scholarship has received renewed attention, due in part to the institutionalization of the history of capitalism as a distinct field of study in the Anglophone world. These engagements, mainly from within the field of history, have tended to focus on his history of commercial capitalism and its contributions to extending …
Extended urbanisation and the agrarian question: Convergences, divergences and openings
The question of urbanisation ‘beyond the city’ has generated a lively debate in the fields of urban studies and geography in recent years. This paper brings a key concept from this discussion –‘extended urbanisation’– in conversation with distinct yet related concepts from critical agrarian studies. We briefly review the ‘classic’ agrarian question in order to situate contemporary agrarian questions within the historical geographies of capitalist…
In what sense ruralization
This commentary offers an analysis of Gillen et al.’s (2022) ‘Geographies of ruralization’. Through a reading of the authors’ conceptualization of ‘in-situ’ and ‘extended’ ruralization, I raise two sets of questions. The first pertains to the relationship between ruralization – which the authors conceptualize primarily in terms of rural social reproduction – and transformations in agricultural production and agrarian political economy under conte…
Between the colossal and the catastrophic: Planetary urbanization and the political ecologies of emergent infectious disease
Against the backdrop of contemporary debates on the transcendence of city-centric epistemologies in urban theory, this article proposes a theoretical framework for exploring the connections between processes of planetary urbanization and the political ecologies of emergent infectious disease. Following a brief overview of research on cities and the coronavirus pandemic, we elaborate a critical interrogation and heterodox synthesis of two distinct…
History and Theory in the Time of Capital: On Banaji’s Method
Jairus Banaji has made important contributions to Marxist history and social theory since the 1970s. In recent years, Banaji’s scholarship has received renewed attention, due in part to the institutionalization of the history of capitalism as a distinct field of study in the Anglophone world. These engagements, mainly from within the field of history, have tended to focus on his history of commercial capitalism and its contributions to extending …
The Monster 'Within: Capitalist Urbanization as Geometabolic Escalation
This article challenges prevailing approaches to urban sustainability by reconceptualizing capitalist urbanization as a planetary process of geometabolic escalation. Hegemonic visions of sustainable cities render invisible the non-city sociometabolic preconditions and consequences of urban life under capitalism. Our dissident theorization brings to the foreground such 'hidden abodes' of capitalist urbanization and their role in the enclosure, ope…
Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (3 works) · Capitalism (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Urbanization (3 works) · Agrarian society (2 works) · Agriculture (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)