Rethinking Capitalist Development: Primitive Accumulation, Governmentality and Post-Colonial Capitalism

✍ Scribed by Kalyan Sanyal

• Publisher: Routledge India,
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 296
• Edition: 2014 Routledge India
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

n 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.

✦ Table of Contents

achine derived contents note: Preface and Acknowledgements ix
Chapter One
Introduction: Rethinking Capitalist Development 1
Chapter Two
Ship of Fools 44
Chapter Three
Accumulation as Development: The Arising of Capital 105
Chapter Four
De-essentializing Development: 168
Capital and Governmentality
Chapter Five
Difference as Hegemony: Capital and the Need Economy 189
Chapter Six
Conclusion: Towards a New Political Imaginary for 254
the Post-colonial World.