Description
Rethinking Capitalist Development
Primitive Accumulation, Governmentality and Post-Colonial Capitalism
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Keywords
primitive; accumulation; production; hegemony; process; discourse; post-colonial; sector; transformation; postcolonial; Post-colonial Capital; World Development Report; Primitive Accumulation; Postcolonial Capital; Precapitalist Sector; Noncapitalist Production; Pre-capitalist Sector; Civil Society; Developmental Governmentality; Capitalist Sector; Developmental Practice; Hegemony Process; Historical Materialist Framework; Passive Revolution; Full Fledged Capitalism; Non-capitalist Production; Capitalist Transformation; Post-colonial Economic; Surplus Labor Power; Subsistence Sector; Pre-capitalist Modes; International Monetary Fund; Human Development Indexes; Imperialist Penetration; Informal Sector
Publication date: 04-2007
Support: Print on demand
Publication date: 10-2013
Support: Print on demand
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In this book, Kalyan Sanyal reviews the traditional notion of capitalism and propounds an original theory of capitalist development in the post-colonial context.
In order to substantiate his theory, concepts such as primitive accumulation, governmentality and post-colonial capitalist formation are discussed in detail. Analyzing critical questions from a third world perspective such as: Will the integration into the global capitalist network bring to the third world new economic opportunities? Will this capitalist network make the third world countries an easy prey for predatory multinational corporations? The end result is a discourse, drawing on Marx and Foucault, which envisages the post-colonial capitalist formation, albeit in an entirely different light, in the era of globalization.
1. Introduction: Rethinking Capitalist Development 2. Ship of Fools 3. Accumulation as Development: The Arising of Capital 4. De-essentializing Development: Capital and Governmentality 5. Difference as Hegemony: Capital and the Need Economy 6. Conclusion: Towards a New Political Imaginary for Post-colonial World