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Ananya Mukherjee-ReedDepartment of Political ScienceProfessor Chair, Political Science Founding-Director, International Secretariat for Human Development (ISHD) Office: S669, Ross Phone: (416) 736-2100 Ext: 20266/33197 Email: ananya@yorku.ca Primary website: http://www.yorku.ca/ananya Secondary website: http://www.yorku.ca/ishd | |
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My teaching and research focus primarily on development and inequality in the Global South, with a special emphasis on India. My latest book is Human Development and Social Power: Perspectives from South Asia (Routledge, London and New York 2008). The book offers a critical conceptualization of development by focusing on the themes of justice, political-economy, difference and agency. My forthcoming book is a co-edited volume Business Regulation and Non-state Actors: Whose Standards? Whose Development?(Oxford: Routledge, Routledge Series in Development Economics; in press). My earlier publications include Corporate Capitalism in Contemporary South Asia: Conventional Wisdoms and South Asian Realities (Palgrave-Macmillan, UK 2003); Perspectives on India's Corporate Economy: Exploring The Paradox of Profits,(Macmillan, UK 2001). My current work has two major dimensions. One concerns theorizations of development, particularly around questions of justice and inequality. The second concerns alternative practices and grassroots experiments for forging more just and democratic economic/societal organizations, with a case study of a grassroots women's movements in Kerala, India. For more on my work visit http://www.yorku.ca/ananya
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Research Interests
Poverty , Development and inequality, critical and alternative economics, India and South AsiaSelected Publications
Human Development and Social Power: Perspectives from South Asia , (New York and London: Routledge), 2008.
Business Regulation and Non-state Actors: Whose Standards? Whose Development?, co-edited with Darryl Reed, Peter Utting, Oxford: Routledge, Routledge Series in Development Economics (in press), 2011.
“Neoliberalism in India: How an elephant became a tiger and flew to the moon”, in Richard Westra (ed.) Confronting Global Neoliberalism: Third World Resistance and Development Strategies Clarity Press, Atlanta, 2009, pp.67-87.
“Interpreting the Euphoria: Business, Development and Global Institutions”, Clapp, J. and R. Wilkinson (eds.) Global Governance, Poverty and Inequality; (Routledge, London and New York,2010)
Perspectives on India's Corporate Economy: Exploring the Paradox of Profits, International Political Economy Series (Basingstoke and New York: Macmillan-Palgrave)
“Globalization and the Development of Co-operatives: The Challenges of the Alternative Globalization Movement” in D. Reed and JJ. McMurtry (ed.) Co- operatives in a Global Economy: The Challenges of Co-operation across Borders, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp.242-72; with Darryl Reed), 2008
Current Research Projects
- Millennium Development Research Grant : Developing Sustainable Value Chains for alternative development more...
- Constructing a North-South Knowledge Community for Development Research and Practice more...
- Development in the Aftermath of the Global Crisis more...
- Canada-Latin America Knowledge Partnership Phase II more...
- Corporate Social Responsibility and Societal Control more...
- Grassroots Networks and Women's struggle against poverty more...
- A Community-University Research Alliance for Southern Ontario's Social Economy more...
- Universitas Network more...
- Gender Perspectives from the Global South more...
- Universitas: Education and Training for Decent Work, Human Development and International Co-operation more...
- Fighting Urban Poverty Central America more...
- Linkages between Human Security and Human Development in South Asia more...
- Corporate Governance, Economic Reform and Development: The Case of India more...
- Economic Policy, Displacement and Development Ethics: An Indo-Canadian Dislogue more...
- Project more...
View Resarcher's Selected Publications
All Publications
| Books |
Human Development and Social Power: Perspectives from South Asia , (New York and London: Routledge), 2008.
(edited) Corporate Capitalism in Contemporary South Asia, (Basingstoke and New York: Macmillan-Palgrave)
Perspectives on India's Corporate Economy: Exploring the Paradox of Profits, International Political Economy Series (Basingstoke and New York: Macmillan-Palgrave)
Corporate Capitalism in Contemporary South Asia, Guest Editor for Special thematic issue of the journal Contemporary South Asia, July 2000 (Volume 9:2)
| Book Chapters |
“Interpreting the Euphoria: Business, Development and Inequality”), Clapp, J and R.Wilkinson (eds.) Global Governance, Poverty and Inequality (Routledge, London), 2010
“Neoliberalism in India: How an elephant became a tiger and flew to the moon”, in Richard Westra (ed.) Confronting Global Neoliberalism: Third World Resistance and Development Strategies Clarity Press, Atlanta, 2009, pp.67-87.
“Interpreting the Euphoria: Business, Development and Global Institutions”, Clapp, J. and R. Wilkinson (eds.) Global Governance, Poverty and Inequality; (Routledge, London and New York,2010)
“Human Rights and Human Development: A Social Power Perspective”, Osgoode Reader in Comparative Law and Political Economy entitled "Law in Transition: Human Rights, Development & Transitional Justice", edited by Peer Zumbansen & Ruth Buchanan, Osgoode Hall Law School (Hart Publishing, Oxford), forthcoming, 2010
“Globalization and the Development of Co-operatives: The Challenges of the Alternative Globalization Movement” in D. Reed and JJ. McMurtry (ed.) Co- operatives in a Global Economy: The Challenges of Co-operation across Borders, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp.242-72; with Darryl Reed), 2008
Entry on human development International Encyclopedia of Public Policy ― Governance in a Global Age. Global Political Economy Research Unit: Curtin University, Perth, Australia (electronic publication), 2007
“Conceptualising Corporate Capitalism: Conventional Wisdoms and South Asian Realities” in Mukherjee Reed A. (ed.) Corporate Capitalism in Contemporary South Asia, (Basingstoke and New York: Macmillan-Palgrave), 2003
“Governance and Development: Examining the Problematic Role of Corporate Profit Strategies” in Sanjay Mukherjee and Darryl Reed (ed.) Corporate Governance, Economic Reforms and Development (New Delhi: Oxford University Press 2003; paperback 2006).
“Corporate Governance in India: Three Historical Models and their Development Impact”, (with Darryl Reed) in Sanjay Mukherjee and Darryl Reed (ed.), Corporate Governance, Economic Reforms and Development, (New Delhi: Oxford University Press 2003; paperback 2006).
“Corporate Capitalism in Contemporary South Asia: Realities and Interpretations”, (with A.Kundu) in Contemporary South Asia (Volume 9:2). 2002
| Journal Articles |
“Partnerships for Development: Four Models of Business Involvement”, Journal of Business Ethics, full text available on line http://www.springerlink.com/content/f6081u1652515927; (with Darryl Reed) , 2008
“Cultural Liberty in Today's Diverse World: A Critique”, Indian Journal of Secularism, Volume 9 No.3 January – March. 2006
“Economic Reforms & Corporate Governance in India”, Journal of Business Ethics, May. 2002
“Gender Justice versus Religious Freedom in India: What Constitutions Can and Cannot Do", Atlantis, Spring 2001
“SAARC: From Statism to Economism,” Revue d’Études Internationales, Vol. XXIX, No. 1, March 1998, pp.71-84
“Regionalism in South Asia: Theory & Praxis,” Pacific Affairs, Summer 1997, Vol.70, no 2, pp.235-251.
“Rationalizing Losses in the Indian Coal Industry: A Revaluation of Relative Responsibilities,” Social Scientist vol. 17, no.11-12, November-December. 1989
“Use of Child Labor in India: Dynamics of Obscurantism,” Journal of Social and Economic Studies, 1988 annual number.
| Research Reports |
Urban Poverty in Central America, Report of study commissioned by United Nations Development Programme, Anti-Poverty Partnership Initiatives (co-authored). 2005
Rethinking Development Research in an Era of Globalization: Overcoming the North- South Divide, report of a workshop in response to a national initiative on internationalization led by the International Development Research Center (IDRC), Ottawa. 2003
Fighting Urban Poverty, Workshop Report prepared as Chief Rapporteur Workshop on Fighting Urban Poverty in Central America, York University, Toronto, April 18-19, (sponsored by United Nations Development Program, Anti-Poverty Partnership Initiatives). 2002
Human Security, Human Development & Regional Collaboration: Towards A NewPartnership between Canada and South Asia, report on study commissioned by the South Asian Regional Program, Canadian International Development Agency (co-authored). 2001
Knowledge and the Rethinking of Development: Implications of Human Development, paper commissioned for a project on human development the United Nations Office of Project Services (UNOPS), Rome, Italy. 2000
| Policy Papers |
Prospects for Democratic Development in South Asia and the EU’s role in Democracy Building , paper commissioned by International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), Stockholm, Sweden, 2008.
| Public Lectures |
Keynote speaker, launch of the Canadian Development Report 2010, North-South Institute, Munk International Center, University of Toronto, April 21
“Whose Merit? Whose Justice? Forging social (in)equality in Global India”, Judge School of Business, Cambridge University, UK, May 11, invited lecture
| Forthcoming |
Business Regulation and Non-state Actors: Whose Standards? Whose Development?, co-edited with Darryl Reed, Peter Utting, Oxford: Routledge, Routledge Series in Development Economics (in press), 2011.
My teaching and research focus primarily on development and inequality in the Global South, with a special emphasis on India. My latest book is Human Development and Social Power: Perspectives from South Asia (Routledge, London and New York 2008). The book offers a critical conceptualization of development by focusing on the themes of justice, political-economy, difference and agency. My forthcoming book is a co-edited volume Business Regulation and Non-state Actors: Whose Standards? Whose Development?(Oxford: Routledge, Routledge Series in Development Economics; in press). My earlier publications include Corporate Capitalism in Contemporary South Asia: Conventional Wisdoms and South Asian Realities (Palgrave-Macmillan, UK 2003); Perspectives on India's Corporate Economy: Exploring The Paradox of Profits,(Macmillan, UK 2001). My current work has two major dimensions. One concerns theorizations of development, particularly around questions of justice and inequality. The second concerns alternative practices and grassroots experiments for forging more just and democratic economic/societal organizations, with a case study of a grassroots women's movements in Kerala, India. For more on my work visit http://www.yorku.ca/ananya
I am the founding-director of the International Secretariat for Human Development (ISHD). ISHD's main objective is to stimulate the production of new forms of knowledge for human development where disciplinary barriers are dissolved, the divide between scholar and practitioner is overcome, and academic benefits of research are accompanied by concrete social benefits. All of ISHD's work stems from a vision of the university as an engaged social actor, whose task is not only to produce and disseminate knowledge but to foster non-exclusionary methods of knowledge production, to acknowledge the multiple sites of knowledge production and to open up potential alternative practices.
ISHD has worked with leading international organizations such as the International Labour Organization (ILO), Geneva; United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), Rome and United Nations Development Program (UNDP); as well, it has received research support from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada, and similar organizations.
Area of Specialization
Development and Inequality; women in the Global South; India/South Asia; alternative economicsDegrees
Ph.d (Economics and Public Policy), University of Southern California
MA in Economics , Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
Community Contributions
In 2011, I have become actively involved in promoting the work on Rabindranath Tagore, the world's first non-European Nobel Laureate. I have created a special website for this occasion.
Research Interests:
Poverty , Development and inequality, critical and alternative economics, India and South AsiaCurrent Research Projects
- Millennium Development Research Grant : Developing Sustainable Value Chains for alternative development
Project Type: Funded
Role: Principal InvestigatorFunders:
Shastri Indo - Canadian Institute - Constructing a North-South Knowledge Community for Development Research and Practice
Project Type: Funded
Funders:
Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) - Development in the Aftermath of the Global Crisis
Summary:
A grant for developing a research partnership with the Center for Development Studies, Kerala, India on development and the global financial crisisProject Type: Funded
Role: Principal InvestigatorCollaborator Institution: Center for Development Studies, Kerala, India
Funders:
Shastri Indo - Canadian Institute - Canada-Latin America Knowledge Partnership Phase II
Project Type: Funded
Role: Principal Investigator of sub-projectFunders:
International Development Research Center (IDRC) - Corporate Social Responsibility and Societal Control
Summary:
Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada, SSHRC, Round 1 of MCRIProject Type: Funded
Role: Principal InvestigatorFunders:
Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada - Grassroots Networks and Women's struggle against poverty
Summary:
A study of the Women's Development Network in Costa RicaRole: Principal Investigator
Funders:
Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) - A Community-University Research Alliance for Southern Ontario's Social Economy
Role: Co-investigator; Principal Investigator for a sub-project
Funders:
Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) - Universitas Network
Summary:
International University Partnerships for Local Human Development and Poverty ReductionRole: Principal Investigator
Funders:
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Gender Perspectives from the Global South
Summary:
Development & Dissemination of Gender-Related Teaching MaterialRole: Principal investigator
Funders:
International Development Research Center (IDRC) - Universitas: Education and Training for Decent Work, Human Development and International Co-operation
Role: Principal investigator
Funders:
International Labour Organization (ILO), Geneva - Fighting Urban Poverty Central America
Role: Principal investigator
Funders:
United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) - Linkages between Human Security and Human Development in South Asia
Role: Principal Investigator
Funders:
Canadian International Development Agency - Corporate Governance, Economic Reform and Development: The Case of India
Role: Co-investigator
Funders:
Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute - Economic Policy, Displacement and Development Ethics: An Indo-Canadian Dislogue
Role: Collaborator
Funders:
Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute - Project
Selected Publications
Human Development and Social Power: Perspectives from South Asia , (New York and London: Routledge), 2008.
Business Regulation and Non-state Actors: Whose Standards? Whose Development?, co-edited with Darryl Reed, Peter Utting, Oxford: Routledge, Routledge Series in Development Economics (in press), 2011.
“Neoliberalism in India: How an elephant became a tiger and flew to the moon”, in Richard Westra (ed.) Confronting Global Neoliberalism: Third World Resistance and Development Strategies Clarity Press, Atlanta, 2009, pp.67-87.
“Interpreting the Euphoria: Business, Development and Global Institutions”, Clapp, J. and R. Wilkinson (eds.) Global Governance, Poverty and Inequality; (Routledge, London and New York,2010)
Perspectives on India's Corporate Economy: Exploring the Paradox of Profits, International Political Economy Series (Basingstoke and New York: Macmillan-Palgrave)
“Globalization and the Development of Co-operatives: The Challenges of the Alternative Globalization Movement” in D. Reed and JJ. McMurtry (ed.) Co- operatives in a Global Economy: The Challenges of Co-operation across Borders, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp.242-72; with Darryl Reed), 2008
All Publications
| Books |
Human Development and Social Power: Perspectives from South Asia , (New York and London: Routledge), 2008.
(edited) Corporate Capitalism in Contemporary South Asia, (Basingstoke and New York: Macmillan-Palgrave)
Perspectives on India's Corporate Economy: Exploring the Paradox of Profits, International Political Economy Series (Basingstoke and New York: Macmillan-Palgrave)
Corporate Capitalism in Contemporary South Asia, Guest Editor for Special thematic issue of the journal Contemporary South Asia, July 2000 (Volume 9:2)
| Book Chapters |
“Interpreting the Euphoria: Business, Development and Inequality”), Clapp, J and R.Wilkinson (eds.) Global Governance, Poverty and Inequality (Routledge, London), 2010
“Neoliberalism in India: How an elephant became a tiger and flew to the moon”, in Richard Westra (ed.) Confronting Global Neoliberalism: Third World Resistance and Development Strategies Clarity Press, Atlanta, 2009, pp.67-87.
“Interpreting the Euphoria: Business, Development and Global Institutions”, Clapp, J. and R. Wilkinson (eds.) Global Governance, Poverty and Inequality; (Routledge, London and New York,2010)
“Human Rights and Human Development: A Social Power Perspective”, Osgoode Reader in Comparative Law and Political Economy entitled "Law in Transition: Human Rights, Development & Transitional Justice", edited by Peer Zumbansen & Ruth Buchanan, Osgoode Hall Law School (Hart Publishing, Oxford), forthcoming, 2010
“Globalization and the Development of Co-operatives: The Challenges of the Alternative Globalization Movement” in D. Reed and JJ. McMurtry (ed.) Co- operatives in a Global Economy: The Challenges of Co-operation across Borders, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp.242-72; with Darryl Reed), 2008
Entry on human development International Encyclopedia of Public Policy ― Governance in a Global Age. Global Political Economy Research Unit: Curtin University, Perth, Australia (electronic publication), 2007
“Conceptualising Corporate Capitalism: Conventional Wisdoms and South Asian Realities” in Mukherjee Reed A. (ed.) Corporate Capitalism in Contemporary South Asia, (Basingstoke and New York: Macmillan-Palgrave), 2003
“Governance and Development: Examining the Problematic Role of Corporate Profit Strategies” in Sanjay Mukherjee and Darryl Reed (ed.) Corporate Governance, Economic Reforms and Development (New Delhi: Oxford University Press 2003; paperback 2006).
“Corporate Governance in India: Three Historical Models and their Development Impact”, (with Darryl Reed) in Sanjay Mukherjee and Darryl Reed (ed.), Corporate Governance, Economic Reforms and Development, (New Delhi: Oxford University Press 2003; paperback 2006).
“Corporate Capitalism in Contemporary South Asia: Realities and Interpretations”, (with A.Kundu) in Contemporary South Asia (Volume 9:2). 2002
| Journal Articles |
“Partnerships for Development: Four Models of Business Involvement”, Journal of Business Ethics, full text available on line http://www.springerlink.com/content/f6081u1652515927; (with Darryl Reed) , 2008
“Cultural Liberty in Today's Diverse World: A Critique”, Indian Journal of Secularism, Volume 9 No.3 January – March. 2006
“Economic Reforms & Corporate Governance in India”, Journal of Business Ethics, May. 2002
“Gender Justice versus Religious Freedom in India: What Constitutions Can and Cannot Do", Atlantis, Spring 2001
“SAARC: From Statism to Economism,” Revue d’Études Internationales, Vol. XXIX, No. 1, March 1998, pp.71-84
“Regionalism in South Asia: Theory & Praxis,” Pacific Affairs, Summer 1997, Vol.70, no 2, pp.235-251.
“Rationalizing Losses in the Indian Coal Industry: A Revaluation of Relative Responsibilities,” Social Scientist vol. 17, no.11-12, November-December. 1989
“Use of Child Labor in India: Dynamics of Obscurantism,” Journal of Social and Economic Studies, 1988 annual number.
| Research Reports |
Urban Poverty in Central America, Report of study commissioned by United Nations Development Programme, Anti-Poverty Partnership Initiatives (co-authored). 2005
Rethinking Development Research in an Era of Globalization: Overcoming the North- South Divide, report of a workshop in response to a national initiative on internationalization led by the International Development Research Center (IDRC), Ottawa. 2003
Fighting Urban Poverty, Workshop Report prepared as Chief Rapporteur Workshop on Fighting Urban Poverty in Central America, York University, Toronto, April 18-19, (sponsored by United Nations Development Program, Anti-Poverty Partnership Initiatives). 2002
Human Security, Human Development & Regional Collaboration: Towards A NewPartnership between Canada and South Asia, report on study commissioned by the South Asian Regional Program, Canadian International Development Agency (co-authored). 2001
Knowledge and the Rethinking of Development: Implications of Human Development, paper commissioned for a project on human development the United Nations Office of Project Services (UNOPS), Rome, Italy. 2000
| Policy Papers |
Prospects for Democratic Development in South Asia and the EU’s role in Democracy Building , paper commissioned by International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), Stockholm, Sweden, 2008.
| Public Lectures |
Keynote speaker, launch of the Canadian Development Report 2010, North-South Institute, Munk International Center, University of Toronto, April 21
“Whose Merit? Whose Justice? Forging social (in)equality in Global India”, Judge School of Business, Cambridge University, UK, May 11, invited lecture
| Forthcoming |
Business Regulation and Non-state Actors: Whose Standards? Whose Development?, co-edited with Darryl Reed, Peter Utting, Oxford: Routledge, Routledge Series in Development Economics (in press), 2011.
