Sebastian Schwecke
Biographic Data
| ID | 389363 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sebastian Schwecke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sebastian |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwecke |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWECKE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Management Calcutta |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1015-9221 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Crafting India's Skill Ecology: Reproductions, Recalibrations, and Reimaginations
Translating transactions: Markets as epistemic and moral spheres
In this Modern Asian Studies book symposium, scholars of South Asia analyse the political, ethical, and epistemic aspects of market life. They build on the 2020 Cambridge volume, Rethinking Markets in Modern India: Embedded Exchange and Contested Jurisdiction, edited by Ajay Gandhi, Barbara Harriss-White, Douglas Haynes, and Sebastian Schwecke. This interdisciplinary conversation approaches transactional realms from the disciplines of history, an…
Debt, Trust and Reputation: Extra-legal Finance in Northern India
Starting in the late nineteenth century, colonial rule in India took an active interest in regulating financial markets beyond the bridgeheads of European capital in intercontinental trade. Regulatory efforts were part of a modernizing project seeking to produce alignments between British and Indian business procedures, and to create the financial basis for incipient industrialization in India. For vast sections of Indian society, however, they p…
Rethinking Markets in Modern India: Embedded Exchange and Contested Jurisdiction
The Artifice of Trust: Reputational and Procedural Registers of Trust in North Indian “Informal” Finance
This chapter studies the operation of trust on financial markets in the North Indian city of Banaras (Varanasi). It emphasizes an interpretation of trust on markets as an artifact and artifice based on an experiential category of practical knowledge used to handle exchange under conditions of high uncertainty, and identifies two distinct patterns in its handling, marked as procedural and reputational registers of (handling) trust. The first case …
Political tolerance in the Global South: Images of India, Pakistan and Uganda
Sten Widmalm’s recent work is a significant contribution to the field of tolerance and democracy studies in the ‘Global South’ (and possibly beyond), but more than that, it is very much a timely co
A Tangled Jungle of Disorderly Transactions? The production of a monetary outside in a north Indian town
This article argues that, starting from the late colonial period, the Indian state in its correlated attempts to regulate and streamline the operation of monetary markets in line with capitalist development policies and to remove exploitative credit market practices instead produced a binary between a monetary outside and inside. While the state's efforts were intended to delineate the boundaries of the outside produced in this way, removing comp…
Transformation of Politicised Religion: From Zealots into Leaders
New Cultural Identitarian Political Movements in Developing Societies: The Bharatiya Janata Party
Applying an intercultural and comparative theoretical approach across Asia and Africa, this book analyses the rise and moderation of political movements in developing societies which mobilise popular support with references to conceptions of cultural identity. The author includes not only the Hindu nationalist movement but also many Islamist political movements in a single category – New Cultural Identitarian Political Movements (NCIPM). Demonstr…
New Cultural Identitarian Political Movements in Developing Societies: The Bharatiya Janata Party
A Tangled Jungle of Disorderly Transactions? The production of a monetary outside in a north Indian town
This article argues that, starting from the late colonial period, the Indian state in its correlated attempts to regulate and streamline the operation of monetary markets in line with capitalist development policies and to remove exploitative credit market practices instead produced a binary between a monetary outside and inside. While the state's efforts were intended to delineate the boundaries of the outside produced in this way, removing comp…
Political tolerance in the Global South: Images of India, Pakistan and Uganda
Sten Widmalm’s recent work is a significant contribution to the field of tolerance and democracy studies in the ‘Global South’ (and possibly beyond), but more than that, it is very much a timely co
New Cultural Identitarian Political Movements in Developing Societies: The Bharatiya Janata Party
Applying an intercultural and comparative theoretical approach across Asia and Africa, this book analyses the rise and moderation of political movements in developing societies which mobilise popular support with references to conceptions of cultural identity. The author includes not only the Hindu nationalist movement but also many Islamist political movements in a single category – New Cultural Identitarian Political Movements (NCIPM). Demonstr…
New Cultural Identitarian Political Movements in Developing Societies: The Bharatiya Janata Party
Transformation of Politicised Religion: From Zealots into Leaders
A Tangled Jungle of Disorderly Transactions? The production of a monetary outside in a north Indian town
This article argues that, starting from the late colonial period, the Indian state in its correlated attempts to regulate and streamline the operation of monetary markets in line with capitalist development policies and to remove exploitative credit market practices instead produced a binary between a monetary outside and inside. While the state's efforts were intended to delineate the boundaries of the outside produced in this way, removing comp…
Political tolerance in the Global South: Images of India, Pakistan and Uganda
Sten Widmalm’s recent work is a significant contribution to the field of tolerance and democracy studies in the ‘Global South’ (and possibly beyond), but more than that, it is very much a timely co
Rethinking Markets in Modern India: Embedded Exchange and Contested Jurisdiction
The Artifice of Trust: Reputational and Procedural Registers of Trust in North Indian “Informal” Finance
This chapter studies the operation of trust on financial markets in the North Indian city of Banaras (Varanasi). It emphasizes an interpretation of trust on markets as an artifact and artifice based on an experiential category of practical knowledge used to handle exchange under conditions of high uncertainty, and identifies two distinct patterns in its handling, marked as procedural and reputational registers of (handling) trust. The first case …
Debt, Trust and Reputation: Extra-legal Finance in Northern India
Starting in the late nineteenth century, colonial rule in India took an active interest in regulating financial markets beyond the bridgeheads of European capital in intercontinental trade. Regulatory efforts were part of a modernizing project seeking to produce alignments between British and Indian business procedures, and to create the financial basis for incipient industrialization in India. For vast sections of Indian society, however, they p…
Translating transactions: Markets as epistemic and moral spheres
In this Modern Asian Studies book symposium, scholars of South Asia analyse the political, ethical, and epistemic aspects of market life. They build on the 2020 Cambridge volume, Rethinking Markets in Modern India: Embedded Exchange and Contested Jurisdiction, edited by Ajay Gandhi, Barbara Harriss-White, Douglas Haynes, and Sebastian Schwecke. This interdisciplinary conversation approaches transactional realms from the disciplines of history, an…
Crafting India's Skill Ecology: Reproductions, Recalibrations, and Reimaginations
Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Social and Economic Development in India (4 works) · Bharatiya Janata Party (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Economy (3 works) · Finance (3 works)