K Ravi Raman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3922731 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Ravi Raman |
| GIVEN NAMES | K Ravi |
| FAMILY NAME | Raman |
| SIGNATURE | RAMAN K R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Government of Kerala |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8599-4910 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Kerala, 1956 to the Present: India's Miracle State
'Kerala is different, but not in the way we think.' Economic change in this southern state has fascinated economists. Most studies focused on the state's unusual human development, asked how a poor and economically stagnant state could achieve high levels of education and healthcare and pointed to politics and government policy to answer the question. Little of that scholarship took history seriously. History, this book says, shows that the found…
Political Ecospatiality: Livelihood, Environment, and Subaltern Struggles in Kerala
Political Ecospatiality offers a new perspective on subaltern struggles and raises the issue of how people with limited lobbying power can still organise to defend their honour or livelihood-environmental ecospatial systems. The book narrates and analyses the historical and contemporary situations that shape and reshape the strategies and practices of larger livelihood-environmental and identity politics in Kerala by drawing parallels from the re…
Analysing the Bronze Casting Development of Contemporary and Traditional Sculpture in Tamilnadu
The art of sculpture in Tamil Nadu, India, pulsates with the rhythm of a vibrant history. For millennia, bronze casting has been a cornerstone of this artistic tradition, breathing life into deities, heroes, and narratives. However, contemporary expressions rise within this landscape, challenging and complementing the established forms. This article delves into this dynamic interplay, analysing the development of traditional and contemporary scul…
Federalizing Citizenship: The Kerala State Government’s Protests Against the CAA
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Can the Dalit woman speak? How ‘intersectionality’ helps advance postcolonial organization studies
Through a sustained engagement with postcolonial/subaltern studies scholarships, I would inquire into how intersectionality as an approach could advance an argument in the context of the postcolonial organization studies. This would ensure a submerged possibility of understanding ‘workplace resistances’ and their varied dynamics. The case study involves both contemporary ethnographic and in-depth historical accounts sourced from the Dalit women’s…
Ecospatiality: Transforming Kerala’s post-flood ‘riskscapes’
Kerala’s 2018 floods and landslides offer great lessons on risk governance and climate policies. The challenges in each phase of rescue, relief and rebuilding were addressed in this case study. Through the strategic use of ‘ecospatiality’, it is shown that the ‘state–society synergy’ does exist in its potentiality, although, by and large, it is ignored in already existing ‘riskscape’ scholarship. However, the context of this study proves to be an…
Smart cities: Advances in research—An information systems perspective
Subaltern Modernity: Kerala, the Eastern Theatre of Resistance in the Global South
In engaging with the debate on modernity, this article constructs the notion of a 'subaltern modernity' as a process of epistemological - spatial/temporal/agential - coalescence constituting a transverse solidarity politics. This is empirically informed by the narratives of the livelihood-environmental resistance launched by subalterns in the Indian state of Kerala, known for its twin legacies - of communist government and social development - wh…
Business, Ethnicity, Politics, and Imperial Interests: The United Planters' Association of Southern India, 1893–1950
The United Planters' Association of South India (UPASI), formed in 1893 at the zenith of British colonial rule in India, was an organization dedicated to the interests of British planters, mainly tea planters, of South India. In the first half century of its history, UPASI enjoyed an unusual degree of effectiveness and control. Its authority and reach owed to the fact that, unlike many other planters' organizations of the time, such as the Ceylon…
Currents and eddies: Indian-Middle East migration processes
Migration begets migration in a constant flow of currents and eddies with people moving in to fill the niches vacated by emigrants thus blurring boundaries and spaces. This paper explores the nested complexities of the migration processes between India and the Middle East, and within India, from the regional perspective of Kerala. It assesses the claim that migration flows do not yield to a particular framing, highlighting the necessity of rethin…
Development, Democracy and the State: Critiquing the Kerala Model of Development
1 The Kerala Model: situating the critique K. RAVI RAMAN PART 1 Historical perspectives: caste, religion and development 2 Caste, public action and the Kerala Model K.T. RAMMOHAN 3 'Community' as de-imagining nation: relocating the Ezhava movement in Kerala J. REGHU 4 Negotiating the Hindu state and nationalism:travails in the making of a community M.M. KHAN PART 2 Contemporary political economy 5 Freedom, economic reform and the Kerala 'Model' M…
Transverse Solidarity: Water, Power, and Resistance
Conceived as Transverse Solidarity, the Cola Quit Plachimada struggle in a rural hamlet in the Indian state of Kerala reveals how the socio-economic sustainability of communities is of as much importance as environmental, cultural, and political justification for a social movement and its success. The implicit theoretical notion is further enriched and elucidated by the ethnographic narration of a plurality of contested issues and struggles at mu…
Asian Development Bank, policy conditionalities and the social democratic governance: Kerala Model under pressure
This case study of the implications of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) loan on the Indian state of Kerala explores how neoliberal reforms have impacted on the state's much-acclaimed social model of development. Notwithstanding resistance, the state moves towards market-driven reforms wherein external funds are privileged over internal resources, the reasons for which are probed within the context of social structures of accumulation and emergent…
Community—Coca-Cola Interface: Political-Anthropological Concerns on Corporate Social Responsibility
By critiquing corporate social responsibility (CSR) as discourse and practice, it is argued in this article that CSR conceals its own invention and intentions. CSR is found to be problematic as it is yet another legitimating discursive domain that serves only the colonization process of corporate, oligarchic power structures. The present article attempts to traverse the complex maze that currently constitutes the theory and practice of CSR throug…
Muthanga: A Spark of Hope
On 19 February 2003, the armed police of the currently rightwing government of the Indian state of Kerala descended on over one thousand adivasi1 families— men, women and children—who had peacefully settled on the fringes of the Muthanga range of the Wayanad Wild Life Sanctuary, driving them out in a most brutal fashion and even killing one of those women who resisted. The state had failed to give any prior warning of the police action, nor was a…
Transverse Solidarity: Water, Power, and Resistance
Conceived as Transverse Solidarity, the Cola Quit Plachimada struggle in a rural hamlet in the Indian state of Kerala reveals how the socio-economic sustainability of communities is of as much importance as environmental, cultural, and political justification for a social movement and its success. The implicit theoretical notion is further enriched and elucidated by the ethnographic narration of a plurality of contested issues and struggles at mu…
Currents and eddies: Indian-Middle East migration processes
Migration begets migration in a constant flow of currents and eddies with people moving in to fill the niches vacated by emigrants thus blurring boundaries and spaces. This paper explores the nested complexities of the migration processes between India and the Middle East, and within India, from the regional perspective of Kerala. It assesses the claim that migration flows do not yield to a particular framing, highlighting the necessity of rethin…
Asian Development Bank, policy conditionalities and the social democratic governance: Kerala Model under pressure
This case study of the implications of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) loan on the Indian state of Kerala explores how neoliberal reforms have impacted on the state's much-acclaimed social model of development. Notwithstanding resistance, the state moves towards market-driven reforms wherein external funds are privileged over internal resources, the reasons for which are probed within the context of social structures of accumulation and emergent…
Ecospatiality: Transforming Kerala’s post-flood ‘riskscapes’
Kerala’s 2018 floods and landslides offer great lessons on risk governance and climate policies. The challenges in each phase of rescue, relief and rebuilding were addressed in this case study. Through the strategic use of ‘ecospatiality’, it is shown that the ‘state–society synergy’ does exist in its potentiality, although, by and large, it is ignored in already existing ‘riskscape’ scholarship. However, the context of this study proves to be an…
Muthanga: A Spark of Hope
On 19 February 2003, the armed police of the currently rightwing government of the Indian state of Kerala descended on over one thousand adivasi1 families— men, women and children—who had peacefully settled on the fringes of the Muthanga range of the Wayanad Wild Life Sanctuary, driving them out in a most brutal fashion and even killing one of those women who resisted. The state had failed to give any prior warning of the police action, nor was a…
Community—Coca-Cola Interface: Political-Anthropological Concerns on Corporate Social Responsibility
By critiquing corporate social responsibility (CSR) as discourse and practice, it is argued in this article that CSR conceals its own invention and intentions. CSR is found to be problematic as it is yet another legitimating discursive domain that serves only the colonization process of corporate, oligarchic power structures. The present article attempts to traverse the complex maze that currently constitutes the theory and practice of CSR throug…
Asian Development Bank, policy conditionalities and the social democratic governance: Kerala Model under pressure
This case study of the implications of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) loan on the Indian state of Kerala explores how neoliberal reforms have impacted on the state's much-acclaimed social model of development. Notwithstanding resistance, the state moves towards market-driven reforms wherein external funds are privileged over internal resources, the reasons for which are probed within the context of social structures of accumulation and emergent…
Development, Democracy and the State: Critiquing the Kerala Model of Development
1 The Kerala Model: situating the critique K. RAVI RAMAN PART 1 Historical perspectives: caste, religion and development 2 Caste, public action and the Kerala Model K.T. RAMMOHAN 3 'Community' as de-imagining nation: relocating the Ezhava movement in Kerala J. REGHU 4 Negotiating the Hindu state and nationalism:travails in the making of a community M.M. KHAN PART 2 Contemporary political economy 5 Freedom, economic reform and the Kerala 'Model' M…
Transverse Solidarity: Water, Power, and Resistance
Conceived as Transverse Solidarity, the Cola Quit Plachimada struggle in a rural hamlet in the Indian state of Kerala reveals how the socio-economic sustainability of communities is of as much importance as environmental, cultural, and political justification for a social movement and its success. The implicit theoretical notion is further enriched and elucidated by the ethnographic narration of a plurality of contested issues and struggles at mu…
Currents and eddies: Indian-Middle East migration processes
Migration begets migration in a constant flow of currents and eddies with people moving in to fill the niches vacated by emigrants thus blurring boundaries and spaces. This paper explores the nested complexities of the migration processes between India and the Middle East, and within India, from the regional perspective of Kerala. It assesses the claim that migration flows do not yield to a particular framing, highlighting the necessity of rethin…
Business, Ethnicity, Politics, and Imperial Interests: The United Planters' Association of Southern India, 1893–1950
The United Planters' Association of South India (UPASI), formed in 1893 at the zenith of British colonial rule in India, was an organization dedicated to the interests of British planters, mainly tea planters, of South India. In the first half century of its history, UPASI enjoyed an unusual degree of effectiveness and control. Its authority and reach owed to the fact that, unlike many other planters' organizations of the time, such as the Ceylon…
Subaltern Modernity: Kerala, the Eastern Theatre of Resistance in the Global South
In engaging with the debate on modernity, this article constructs the notion of a 'subaltern modernity' as a process of epistemological - spatial/temporal/agential - coalescence constituting a transverse solidarity politics. This is empirically informed by the narratives of the livelihood-environmental resistance launched by subalterns in the Indian state of Kerala, known for its twin legacies - of communist government and social development - wh…
Smart cities: Advances in research—An information systems perspective
Can the Dalit woman speak? How ‘intersectionality’ helps advance postcolonial organization studies
Through a sustained engagement with postcolonial/subaltern studies scholarships, I would inquire into how intersectionality as an approach could advance an argument in the context of the postcolonial organization studies. This would ensure a submerged possibility of understanding ‘workplace resistances’ and their varied dynamics. The case study involves both contemporary ethnographic and in-depth historical accounts sourced from the Dalit women’s…
Ecospatiality: Transforming Kerala’s post-flood ‘riskscapes’
Kerala’s 2018 floods and landslides offer great lessons on risk governance and climate policies. The challenges in each phase of rescue, relief and rebuilding were addressed in this case study. Through the strategic use of ‘ecospatiality’, it is shown that the ‘state–society synergy’ does exist in its potentiality, although, by and large, it is ignored in already existing ‘riskscape’ scholarship. However, the context of this study proves to be an…
Federalizing Citizenship: The Kerala State Government’s Protests Against the CAA
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Kerala, 1956 to the Present: India's Miracle State
'Kerala is different, but not in the way we think.' Economic change in this southern state has fascinated economists. Most studies focused on the state's unusual human development, asked how a poor and economically stagnant state could achieve high levels of education and healthcare and pointed to politics and government policy to answer the question. Little of that scholarship took history seriously. History, this book says, shows that the found…
Political Ecospatiality: Livelihood, Environment, and Subaltern Struggles in Kerala
Political Ecospatiality offers a new perspective on subaltern struggles and raises the issue of how people with limited lobbying power can still organise to defend their honour or livelihood-environmental ecospatial systems. The book narrates and analyses the historical and contemporary situations that shape and reshape the strategies and practices of larger livelihood-environmental and identity politics in Kerala by drawing parallels from the re…
Analysing the Bronze Casting Development of Contemporary and Traditional Sculpture in Tamilnadu
The art of sculpture in Tamil Nadu, India, pulsates with the rhythm of a vibrant history. For millennia, bronze casting has been a cornerstone of this artistic tradition, breathing life into deities, heroes, and narratives. However, contemporary expressions rise within this landscape, challenging and complementing the established forms. This article delves into this dynamic interplay, analysing the development of traditional and contemporary scul…
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