Overview

This book presents an alternative, critical perspective on the political economy of development and business. The everyday issues experienced by those on the margins are examined to highlight the Eurocentric bias at the centre of development theory, public policy, and business practices. Ruling class projects within these areas are critically evaluated in order to present a vision of development that recognises pluralistic traditions and people’s everyday experiences. Eurocentric liberal myopia and its praxis are outlined in development theory, public policy, and business practices. Particular focus is given to tribal planning, needs based development, public private partnerships, modes of capital accumulation, conscious capitalism, and creative business education. This book stands in defense of critical inquiry and pluriversal knowledge against the monolithic knowledge traditions and use of ruling class projects in development, public policy, and business ethics.It aims to explore new forms of economic transformation that are inclusive and worker led. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in the political economy, development economics, and international business.

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Author:   Bhabani Shankar Nayak
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
Weight:   0.467kg
ISBN:  

9783031110924

ISBN 10:   3031110927
Pages:   241
Publication Date:   01 October 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Political Economy of Development and Business  Dedication          Acknowledgements         Preface  Chapter-1   Colonial World of Postcolonial Historians and the Neoliberal Reinvention of Tribal Identity in India     Abstract              Introduction       Neoliberalism and Identity           The Idea of Identity         Identity as a reflection of one’s own self  Land, Environment and Identity Formations         Tribal Cosmology and Their Ideas on Identity        Tribal Identity in Post-Colonial India         Hinduisation, Territorialisation and the Changing Notion of Tribal Identity in India      Growth of NGOs and their impact on social development and identity formation           The Politics of Cooption and Dominance  Globalization and Tribal Identity: Territorialization of Labour and the Deterritorialization of Capital      Market Expansion, Crisis and the Disintegration of the Communal Identity               Sustaining the Exclusiveness for Inequality and Exploitation of Tribals       Conclusion          Chapter-2            Myth of Modernization and Development in Orissa          Abstract               Introduction       A Brief History of Mining and Industrialization in Orissa   Myth of Modernization, Industrialisation and Development in Orissa        Silenced Drums and Unquiet Woods        Conclusion          Chapter-3            Interrogating Social Capital and Denials of Development in the Planning for Tribal Development in India         Abstract               Introduction       Development as a concept           Development Versus Planning for Tribal Development in India    Seven Decades of Indian Planning and Tribal Development            Interrogating Social Capital, Voluntary Action for Tribal Development       Conclusion          Chapter-4            Capitalism and Transition of 'Needs’ Based Development to ‘Desired’ based Development     Abstract               Introduction       The idea of individuality and society among tribals in India            Market, Individual and Society    Locating Transitions in the Development Planning for Tribals in India        Revisiting of Freudian Ideas in the Tribal Development Policies in India     Conclusion          Chapter-5  Impossible Theorem and Possibilities of Development Studies      Abstract               Introduction       Pathways of Development Studies            Failures of Development Studies and Impossibility Theorem         The Question of Survival               Alternatives within Development Studies as a discipline   Conclusion          Chapter-6            Reification and Praxis of Public Private Partnerships in History      Abstract               Introduction       History of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in Economic Development Planning              Theoretical Trends of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs)  Conclusion          Chapter-7            Challenges of cultural relativism and the future of feminist universalism  Abstract               Introduction       Nature of Feminism, Universalism, and Cultural Relativism            Contradictions Between Feminism and Cultural Relativism            Universalism – Claims of Essentialism?    Feminism and Cultural Relativism - Similarities     Future Challenges and Alternatives          Conclusion          Chapter-8  Bhagavad Gita and Hindu Modes of Capitalist Accumulation in India          Abstract               Introduction       Canonisation of Gita as National Scripture             Hindu Religion and Capitalism in India     Theoretical Context from Social Structures of Accumulation to Religious Structures of Accumulation         Bhagavad Gita and Hindu Modes of Accumulation in India             Karma and Dharma (duty) led Regimes, Modes, and Structures of Accumulation     Domestication of labour and the spiritual economy of Bhakti (devotion)  Artha (wealth) and Gyana/Vidya (knowledge)      Moksa (deliverance or salvation) or Nirvana as the Theological Promise of Capitalism           Conclusion          Chapter-9      Bhagavad Gita in the making of conscious capitalism        Abstract               Introduction       Religion, capitalism and consciousness    Hindu religious consciousness, Bhagavad Gita and capitalism        Conclusion          Chapter-10     Eurocentric conceptualisation of risk in international business      Abstract               Introduction       Theoretical and conceptual trends to locate ‘risk’              Conclusion          Chapter-11         Decolonising business ethics from Eurocentric philosophy and advancing radical perspectives on pluriversal African business ethics              Abstract               Introduction       Why to advance business ethics in Africa?             Eurocentric Foundation of Business Ethics             Models and Praxis of Eurocentric Business Ethics in Africa             Decolonisation of Business Ethics and Advancing Pluriversal African Business Ethics     Conclusion          Chapter-12 Subjective and Objective Limits of Creative Business Education    Abstract               Introduction       Debates around Interdisciplinarity           ‘Creativity’, ‘Labour’ and ‘Capital’ in Creative Business Education curriculum               Interdisciplinary Limits of creative business education     200Conclusion          Chapter-13  Post-pandemic transformations: How and why COVID-19 requires International Business to rethink its praxis            Abstract               Introduction       The Covid-19 and International Business  International business and visions for a post Covid world               Re-configuring social foundations of international business and market    Customer to citizens as shareholders of international business     Towards post-pandemic transformations in international business            Conclusions        Chapter-14 Follies of State and Capitalism during the Covid-19 Crisis  Abstract               Introduction       Globalisation and Pandemic of Capitalist Crises   COVID-19, Fallacies of ‘Failed State’ Thesis, and Future of Developmental and Capitalist States  End of economic globalisation and rise of surveillance capitalism  Towards the forward march of workers led alternative globalisation         Conclusion          Bibliography      

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Prof. Bhabani Shankar Nayak is a political economist and works as Professor of Business Management and Programme Director of Strategic Business and Management at the University for the Creative Arts, UK. His research interests consist of closely interrelated and mutually guiding programmes surrounding political economy of religion, business, and capitalism, along with faith and globalisation, and economic policies. He is the author of Disenchanted India and Beyond: Musings on the Lockdown Alternatives (2020), China: The Bankable State (2021), Hindu Fundamentalism and the Spirit of Global Capitalism in India (2018) and Nationalising Crisis: The Political Economy of Public Policy in India (2007).

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