14h30 – 15h30 : Amateur media, open-ended memory, and visual constructions of Tamil identities, Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes (Cambridge) The port of Colombo c.1900 and from the visual to the invisible, Sujit Sivasundaram (Cambridge)
15h30 – 15h45 : Coffee break
15h45 – 17h00 : Taking the risk of being visible: some clinical issues about family therapy with Tamil refugees, Raffaella Cucciniello (Paris) Malaysian and Singaporean Urban policies and Tamil ethnoterritories, Delon Madavan (Paris)
17h15 – 18h15 : Final Discussion, in plenum
Panel II: Tamil societies and visibility – Tamil writers in exile In collaboration with FMSH-Programme Non-lieux de l’exil
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Session 2: 15h00 – 18h00: Tamil poets in exile (French and English panel)
Working paper par Byasdeb Dasgupta, docteur en économie de l’Université Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Inde. Financialization, Labour Market Flexibility, Global Crisis and New Imperialism – A Marxist Perspective. FMSH-WP-2013-34, juin 2013.
Docteur en économie de l’Université Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Inde, Byasdeb Dasgupta consacre sa thèse de doctorat (1996) à un sujet relatif aux problèmes des politiques gestion de la dette. Actuellement Professeur Associé à l’Université de Kalyani, West Bengal, il a dirigé le Département d’Economie de cette Université indienne de 2008 à 2010. Parmi ses nombreuses publications, figurent les ouvrages suivants: Unfreedom and Waged Work – Labour in Indian Manufacturing Industry (avec Sunanda Sen), Sage, New Delhi, 2009 ; Globalization, Foreign Capital and Development (avec Satanu Bhattacharya, Bishakha Ghosh et Archita Ghosh), Regal Publications, New Delhi, 2010 ; Non-Mainstream Dimensions of Global Political Economy: Finance and Labour – Essays in Honnour of Sunanda Sen, Routledge, Londres, 2013. Deux ouvrages sont à paraître en 2013 : External Dimensions of an Emerging Economy : India, Routledge, et Neoliberal Globalization, Global Capitalism and Inclusive Develpment: Theorizing India’s Economic Transition (avec Anjan Chakrabarti et Anup Dhar), Cambridge University Press.
Abstract
Financialization refers to the over-arching presence of the interest of global finance in every sphere of economic life – be it real or financial. Neo-liberalism, globalisation and financialization are three distinct yet mutually inter-related processes which at the present time are furthering the cause of global capitalism world over. The labour ultimately remains the risk-bearing factor in all these processes, which is obvious in terms of flexible labour regime. There is, on the one hand, de-regulation of finance and on the other, re-regulation of labour (through labour flexibility); and to our understanding global finance and its circuits of operation cannot be sustained without this flexible labour regime which ensures more and more transfer of surplus in the direction of finance. Global crisis is inherent in these processes of neoliberal globalisation and financialization through which present day global capitalism wants to thrive. So, an alternative needs to be sought in a pro-labour regime which would negate both financialization and neo-liberal globalization.
Keywords
financialization, global finance, labour market, flexibility, neo-liberalism, neo-imperialism
Financialisation, flexibilité du marché du travail, crise globale et néo-impérialisme – une perspective marxiste
Résumé
La «financialisation» est un processus qui suppose la suprématie de l’intérêt financier dans toutes les sphère de la vie économique. La finance n’a désormais plus aucun rapport avec l’activité économique réelle; elle a perdu son rôle traditionnel qui était de faire marcher l’économie réelle en servant de pont entre déficit et surplus. Mais la financialisation se nourrit de la flexibilité de travail qui aide à faire passer le surplus accumulé dans le secteur réel vers le secteur financier. Elle est elle-même est un processus «marchant à la dette», sur lequel se développent les circuits financiers. La crise globale est une réponse systémique au processus de financialisation, qui vit récemment les circuits financiers s’effondrer comme des château de cartes. Le système économique d’aujourd’hui est celui de la domination de l’économie globale par la finance telle que celle-ci fonctionne désormais dans le cadre de la financialisation. L’auteur analyse ici les rapports entre financialisation et flexilibilité du marché du travail et, en conséquence entre financialisation et crise globale.
Mots-clefs
financialisation, finance globale, marché du travail, flexibilité, néo-libéralisme, néo-impérialisme
Content
Section I: Financialization as a process
Section II: Class Processes and the Labour in the era of Financialization
Section III: Global Crisis and Labour
Section IV: Is New Imperialism Shaping the Current Global?
Conclusion
References
Working paper de Byasdeb Dasgupta, docteur en économie de l’Université Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Some Aspects of the External Dimensions of Indian Economy in the Age of Globalisation. FMSH-WP-2013-30, avril 2013.
Docteur en économie de l’Université Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Inde, Byasdeb Dasgupta consace sa thèse de doctorat (1996) à un sujet relatif aux problèmes des politiques gestion de la dette. Actuellement Professeur Associé à l’Université de Kalyani, West Bengal, il a dirigé le Département d’Economie de cette Université indienne de 2008 à 2010. Parmi ses nombreuses publications, figurent les ouvrages suivants: Unfreedom and Waged Work – Labour in Indian Manufacturing Industry (avec Sunanda Sen), Sage, New Delhi, 2009 ; Globalization, Foreign Capital and Development (avec Satanu Bhattacharya, Bishakha Ghosh et Archita Ghosh), Regal Publications, New Delhi, 2010 ; Non-Mainstream Dimensions of Global Political Economy: Finance and Labour – Essays in Honnour of Sunanda Sen, Routledge, Londres, 2013. Deux ouvrages sont à paraître en 2013 : External Dimensions of an Emerging Economy : India, Routledge, et Neoliberal Globalization, Global Capitalism and Inclusive Develpment: Theorizing India’s Economic Transition (avec Anjan Chakrabarti et Anup Dhar), Cambridge University Press.
Abstract
External dimensions of Indian economy in the age of globalisation are viewed in this paper in terms of unabated opening up of the economy with respect to both trade and foreign capital flows. This paper empirically shows that with more opening up of the economy there is more and more transfer of financial resources abroad from the Indian economy. So opening up through neoliberal globalisation is a ploy of global capitalism to extract super duper surplus from India. Analytically also the paper makes an attempt to negate the recent policy reforms (as is imminent in allowing FDI in multi-brand retail, aviations and insurance and in relentless efforts of the Government in slashing down fiscal deficit) as anti-growth and more attuned to the interests of global finance and capital.
Keywords
globalisation, India, Indian economy, global capitalism, economic opening up
Aspects des dimensions extérieures de l’économie indienne à l’âge de la globalisation
Résumé
Les dimensions extérieures de l’économie indienne à l’heure de la mondialisation sont analysées dans le cadre de l’ouverture continue de l’économie dans le domaine des échanges commerciaux et des flux de capitaux. Cette étude montre qu’avec cette ouverture, les transferts de ressources financières de l’économie indienne à l’étranger ne cessent de croître. La mondialisation libérale est ainsi une manière pour le capitalisme global d’extraire un surplus de l’Inde. L’analyse indique également que la politique de réforme du gouvernement indien (illustrée par l’ouverture des secteurs de la grande distribution, du transport aérien et de l’assurance aux capitaux étrangers ainsi que par l’effort mis sur la réduction du déficit fiscal) ne sert pas la croissance mais plutôt les intérêts de la finance globale et du capital.
Séminaire autour de Prof. Baladas Ghosal.
ICCR Chair in Indian Studies at the Russian State University, Moscow. Distinguished fellow, Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, New Delhi. Former Chairman, Centre for South, Southeast Asia, and Southwest Pacific Studies, J.Nehru University, New Delhi.
The main aspect of India’s foreign policy with special emphasis on India and her neighbours and India’s look east policy.
Mardi 2 juillet 2013, 17h
Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI)
Sciences-Po | salle du conseil, 4e étage
56, rue Jacob | Paris 75006
Organisation scientifique
Max-Jean Zins, dir. rech. CNRS-CERI, directeur du programme Inde / Asie du Sud, FMSH
Séminaire autour de Dr. Soofia Mumtaz. Social Anthropologist, Directeur d’Etudes Associé (DEA) – FMSH.
By looking at evidence from Pakistan and India, the talk will examine the frequency, nature, and motives behind honour killings in the two countries to determine whether honour killings in Pakistan are different in form and commission from those in neighbouring India with reference to religion.
Mercredi 3 juillet 2013 à 17h
Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme
190, avenue de France | Salle 318
75013 – Paris
Organisation scientifique
Max-Jean Zins, dir. rech. CNRS-CERI, directeur du programme Inde / Asie du Sud, FMSH
… ou comment produire, cuire et manger les aliments nous renseigne sur les transformations globales d’un pays et d’une société : l’Inde en plein changement
Séminaire autour de Amita Baviskar, Professeure de sociologie, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, Inde.
In the last three decades, although India has witnessed radical shifts in the modes of producing and consuming food, this has stimulated surprisingly little analytical attention. The changing political economy of food production and consumption and its role in reshaping social identities and agrarian environments remains remarkably understudied. This lecture outlines the preliminary contours of a project that attempts to analyze some of these shifts through a selective discussion of changing food practices in post-Independence western India. It delineates the widening circuits of food as a commodity form within the home and outside, spanned by the growth of processed foods and practices of ‘eating out’. It outlines the changing signification of food practices for different social groups, and considers some potential health and ecological implications arising from the transformation. It makes the case for focused attention on food as a way of understanding social change in India.
Amita Baviskar is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. Her research focuses on the cultural politics of environment and development. Her first book In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmada Valley (Oxford University Press) discussed the struggle for survival by adivasis in central India against a large dam. Her subsequent work further explores the themes of resource rights, subaltern resistance and cultural identity. More recently, she has focused on urban environmental politics, especially bourgeois environmentalism and spatial restructuring in the context of economic liberalization in Delhi. Her latest research examines changing food practices in western India in relation to the transformation of agrarian environments.
Amita Baviskar has edited Waterlines: The Penguin Book of River Writings (Penguin India); Waterscapes: The Cultural Politics of a Natural Resource (Permanent Black); Contested Grounds: Essays on Nature, Culture and Power (Oxford University Press); and Elite and Everyman: The Cultural Politics of the Indian Middle Classes (with Raka Ray, Routledge). She has taught at the University of Delhi, and has been a visiting scholar at Stanford, Cornell, Yale and the University of California at Berkeley. She was awarded the 2005 Malcolm Adiseshiah Award for Distinguished Contributions to Development Studies, the 2008 VKRV Rao Prize for Social Science Research, and the 2010 Infosys Prize for Social Sciences.
Organisation scientifique
Max-Jean Zins, Directeur Programme, France-Inde/Asie du Sud, FMSH, D.R. CNRS – Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, auteur d’une étude sur Cuisine et Politique en Inde, RFSP
Head, Department of Economics, University of Kalyani, West Bengal, India
…it will be the study of the space of labour in the new imperial order as fuelled by the destructive process of financialization all over the world – North and South alike…
Jeudi 8 novembre 2012 à 17h
Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme
Salle du Conseil B., (sous sol)
190, Avenue de France | Paris 13e
Organisation scientifique
Max-Jean Zins, CNRS – Centre d’Études et de Recherches Internationales
Directeur Programme France-Inde/Asie du Sud, FMSH
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Introduction : Max-Jean ZINS, FMSH-CNRS-CERI.
« L’impact de 1857 », Prof. Gautam CHAKRAVARTY, Université de Delhi.
« Syad Ahmed Khan et la communauté musulmane indienne dans le sillage de 1857», Prof. Belkacem BELMEKKI, Université d’Oran.
Les interventions, faites en anglais, seront suivies d’un débat. La grande révolte de 1857-58 de l’Inde, dite «grande mutinerie » dans l’historiographie coloniale, constitue un moment essentiel de l’histoire du sous-continent indien aujourd’hui divisé en trois pays indépendants, l’Inde, le Pakistan et le Bangladesh. Il s’agira d’évaluer en quoi les évènements de 1857-58, la politique et le comportement des Britanniques (répression, nouvelle attitude envers la colonie…), la mémoire des peuples et des communautés (Islam, Hindouisme…) ont déterminé l’histoire future de l’Inde, son nationalisme, ses débats, ses orientations.
Coordinateur scientifique : Prof. Michel Naumann (SARI, CICC, Université de Cergy Pontoise)
Can practices of local level democracy in France and India as fostered by their local governments be compared? If contextualized with their respective geographical expanse intertwined with their political history, levels of economic development, demographic attributes and cultural moorings, comparison would, at best be shallow. The purpose of this volume, the first of its kind, is to sensitize readers with the nuances of democratic decentralization, viewed from both the angles od demand and supply in India as well as France.
ISBN:
9788173049163
Title:
Indo-French Perspectives on local Government and Democracy
The book Globalization Foreign Capital and Development is the outcome of an International Conference at the Department of Economics of University of Kalyani in January 2008. The book encompasses several dimensions of international capital flows in the era of globalization and their impacts on developing countries. The topics covered are mostly with respect to the two most growing economies of the world at the moment China and India. A threadbare analysis is offered on the following areas concerning global capital flows and development foreign direct Investments (FDI) their determinants and impacts outward FDI flows from the developing countries like India international trade in parts and components and Continuer la lecture de Publication : Globalization, Foreign Capital and Development
Séjour : du 15/11/2011 au 15/12/2011
Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, School of Arts and Aesthetic, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067 Thème de recherche :Re-visiting the 1960s: France, India and a Prehistory of Globalization
Séjour : du 05/10/2011 au 05/11/2011
Head Department of Economics, H.R. College of Commerce & Economics, 123 D/W Road, Churchgate, Mumbai-400 020 Thème de recherche :Macroeconomic Aspects of Ageing and Retirement of College and University Teachers Some Indo-French Perspectives
Political Science, Centre d’Etudes des Mondes Africains (CEMAF-Aix-en-Provence)
Thème de recherche :« Abdul Aleem Siddiqui and Cosmopolitanism : A Muslim traveling preacher from India »
Infos sur le séjour :
Établissement d’origine : Centre d’Études des Mondes Africains (CEMAF – Aix en Provence) Établissement d’accueil : Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)
Dates de la mission : du 26 septembre au 27 octobre 2011
Séjour : du 01/09/2011 au 30/09/2011
Department of Economics, University of Rajasthan – Jaipur – 302 004 Thème de recherche :Quality of Regulation and Regulatory impact assessment in France