In:
Contributions to Indian Sociology, SAGE Publications, Vol. 48, No. 1 ( 2014-02), p. 17-43
Abstract:
This article introduces the concepts of untimely coincidences of modes of production and structural contingencies in global capitalism to the study of neoliberalism in India and beyond. I argue that these concepts are crucial to revive a historical anthropology, which shows that neoliberalism is one of several possible manifestations of capitalism, past and present. The analytical gain of such a revised view on neoliberalism is then exemplified by a historical–anthropological account of the development of India’s first special economic zone, the Kandla Foreign Trade Zone, from 1965 to the late 1980s. Based on these findings, I conclude my plea for conceptual changes in anthropology’s approach to periodising national and global histories of neoliberalism.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0069-9667
,
0973-0648
DOI:
10.1177/0069966713502420
Language:
English
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
Publication Date:
2014
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2211875-5
detail.hit.zdb_id:
217246-X
SSG:
6,24
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