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Raju Das teaches historical-geographical materialism, international development, state-society relations, and social struggles. He is on the editorial board of Science&Society (New York) and is also a member of its manuscript collective. As well, he is a member of the editorial board of Professional Geographer, and a member of the editorial advisory board of Dialectical Anthropology.
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Research Interests
Economic development and its geographical unevenness; Poverty; Agrarian change, and (agro-) globalization, Developmental policies of the state; radical social movements; social capital (critique), Theoretical work on class relations, capitalism, the state, and capitalist development under imperialism; space-society relations
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| Book Chapters |
Das, R. J. 2010. ‘Peasants’, in Barney Warf (ed). Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Sage, Thousand Oaks, California.
Das, R. J. 2010. ‘Radical Peasant Movements and Rural Distress in India: A Study of the Naxalite Movement’ in W. Ahmad, A. Kundu and R. Peet (eds). India’s New Economic Policy, Routledge, New York.
Das R. J. 2009. ‘Capital and Space’. In Kitchin R, Thrift N (eds) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Volume 1, pp. 375-381. Oxford: Elsevier.
Das R. J, Chilvers S. 2009. ‘Colonialism, Internal’. In Kitchin R, Thrift N (eds) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Volume 2, pp. 189-194. Oxford: Elsevier.
Das, R. J. 2006. ‘Marxist theories of the state’, in Steven Pressman ed. Alternative theories of the state, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, pp.64-90.
Das, R. J. 2004. ‘Green Revolution’, in Raymond Abruzzi ed. Guide to World Health and Nutrition, Macmillan, New York.
Das, R. J. 2000. ‘The Green Revolution in India: The Distributive Consequences’ in A. G. Noble, B. Thakur, A. Mukherji and F. Costa. eds., Geographic and Planning Research Themes for the New Millenium: Felicitations in Honor of Ashok K. Dutt, Vikas, New Delhi, pp. 213-225.
| Journal Articles |
Das, R. J. 2012. ‘From labour geography to class geography: Reasserting the Marxist theory of Class, Human Geography: A New Radical Journal, 5(1), 19-35
Das, R. J. 2012. ‘Forms of Subsumption of labour under capital, class struggle and uneven development’, Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 44:2, 178-200
Das, R. J. 2012. ‘Dirty picture of neoliberalism’, Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal [Australia]
Das, R. J. 2012. ‘Developmental Crisis and Dialectics of Protest Politics: Presenting the Absent and Absenting the Present’, Economic and Political Weekly, XLVII (6), 24-26
Das, R. J. 2011. ‘The World is Facing a Triple Crisis: What is (not) to be done?’, Sanhati: Fighting Neoliberalism.
Das, R. J. 2010. Capitalism, class struggle and uneven development, Working paper series, Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur, India.
Das, R. J. 2009. ‘Class Relations, Material Conditions, and Spaces of Class Struggle in Rural India’, Human Geography: A New Radical Journal, 2:3, 52-74.
Das, R.J. 2009. ‘What’s the Left to do in India?’, Socialist Project Review, April-June, No. 26, 58-60.
Das, R. J. 2007c. ‘Looking, but Not Seeing: State and/as Class in Rural India’, Journal of Peasant Studies, 34: 3-4, pp. 408-440.
Das, R. J. 2007b. ‘Introduction: Peasant, state and class’, Journal of Peasant Studies, 34:3-4, pp. 351-370.
Das, R. J. 2007a. Edited. A special issue on Peasant, state and class, in Journal of Peasant Studies, 34: 3-4, July/October; pp. 351-666.
Das, R. J. 2006. ‘Putting social capital in its place’, Capital and Class, No. 92, pp.65-92.
Das, R. J. 2005. ‘Rural society, the state and social capital in Eastern India: A critical investigation’, Journal of Peasant Studies, 32:1, pp.48-87.
Das, R. J. 2004. ‘Social capital and poverty of wage labourers: problems with the social capital theory’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 29:1, pp. 27-45.
Das, R. J. 2002. ‘The Green Revolution and Poverty: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination of the Relation Between Technology and Society’, Geoforum, Vol. 33:1, pp. 55-72.
Das, R. J. 2001. ‘Class, Capitalism and Agrarian Transition: A Review and Critique of Some Recent Arguments’, Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol 29:1, pp. 155-174.
Das, R. J. 2001. ‘The Spatiality of Social Relations: An Indian Case-study’, The Journal of Rural Studies, Vol. 17:3, pp. 347-362.
Das, R. J. 2001. ‘The Political Economy of India (A Review Article)’, New Political Economy, Vol. 6:1, pp.103-117.
Das, R. J. 2000. ‘The State-Society Relation: The Case of an Anti-poverty Policy’, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, Vol. 18:6, pp. 631-650.
Das, R. J. 1999. ‘The Spatiality of Class and State Power: The Case of Indian Land Reforms’, Environment and Planning A, Vol. 31:12, pp. 2103-2126.
Das, R. J. 1999. ‘Geographical Unevenness of India’s Green Revolution’, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 29:2, pp.167-186.
Klak, T. and Das, R. J. 1999. ‘The Underdevelopment of the Caribbean and Its Scholarship’, Latin American Research Review, Vol. 34:3, pp. 209-224.
Das, R. J. 1999. ‘Politicism and Idealism in State Theory’, Science and Society, Vol. 63:1, pp. 97-104.
Das, R. J. 1998. ‘The Social and Spatial Character of the Indian State’, Political Geography, Vol. 17:7, pp. 787-808.
Das, R. J. 1998. ‘The Green Revolution, Agrarian Productivity and Labor’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 22:1, pp. 122-135.
Das, R. J. 1996. ‘State Theories: A Critical Analysis’, Science and Society, Vol. 60:1, pp.27-57.
Das, R. J. 1995. ‘Poverty and Agrarian Social Structure -- A Case-Study in Rural India’, Dialectical Anthropology, Vol. 20:2, pp. 169-92.
Das, R. J. and Dutt, A. K. 1993. ‘City-size Distribution and Primate City Characteristics in India - A Temporal Analysis’, Geo-Journal, Vol. 29:2, pp. 125-137
| Conference Papers |
2010. 'Working long hours for low wages: The Case of Aqua-laborers in Orissa, India’, Association of American Geographers’ conference, Washington D.C. (April)
2010. Invited Panelist on ‘Geography of Post Fordism – Theory of Class’ (with Jamie Peck, Richard Peet, Richard A. Walker, Neil Smith, David Featherstone), Association of American Geographers’ conference, Washington D.C. (April)
2009. ‘The Maoist Problem’, Invited to give a talk at a roundtable organized at the University of Texas, Austin (November).
2009. ‘Marx’s Capital, Capitalism, Class Struggle, and Uneven Development’, Department of Geography, York University, Toronto (September).
2008. ‘Social Solidarity and social development’, Invited paper presented to the Conference on Population Studies, Fakir Mohan University, , March.
2007. 'The class character of social capital’, Canadian Association for the study of International Development (CASID), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, June.
2005. ‘Towards a historical-geographical materialist framework for the understanding of The post-colonial Indian state’, a keynote address to the National Association of Geographers of India (NAGI), at the NAGI Annual conference, Bangalore, India, December.
2005: ‘Radical Social movements, Development, and the State: Investigating India’s Naxalite Movement’, the Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Denver.
2004: ‘State-society synergy’, the Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Philadelphia.
2002: Chief Guest at the Post Graduate Department of Sociology, Ravenshaw College, Cuttack, Orissa, India, Silver Jubilee Celebration; Gave a talk on ‘Critical knowledge and intellectuals’, March 9.
2002: ‘Social capital of the working class’, the Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, New Orleans.
2001: ‘The social capital theory of global development: A critique and reconstruction’, the Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, New York.
2001: Invited panelist on ‘India in the global economy’, Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, New York.
2000: ‘The state and poverty’, the 16th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Edinburgh, September.
2000: ‘The state and poverty alleviation’, an invited lecture delivered at the Department of Economics, University of Dundee, November, 2000.
1998: ‘The state and rural change’, the Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Boston.
1997: ‘The political economy of the Indian state: Does India’s Integrated Rural Development program work?’, the Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Ft. Worth, 1997.
1996: ‘The green revolution, socio-spatial development, and the state’, the Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Charlotte.
1995: ‘The state and uneven development in India’, the Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Chicago.
| Book Reviews |
Das, R.J. 2002. Review of 'Trade liberalization and poverty: a handbook'. London: Department for International Development (DFID) and Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution., Progress in Development Studies, vol. 2:4, 356-357.
Das, R. J. 2004. Review of ‘Globalization and marginality in geographical space: Political, economic and social issues of development in the new millennium’, Scottish Geographical Journal, vol. 120:3, pp 258-260.
| Public Lectures |
2010. ‘Development of Capitalism and Capitalist Development’, Invited paper delivered at Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India (December).
2000: ‘State theory and poverty alleviation’, an invited lecture delivered at the Center for Development Studies, Bhubaneshwar, India.
| Forthcoming |
'Capitalism and Regime Change in the (Globalizing) World of Labour', Journal of Contemporary Asia
Raju Das teaches historical-geographical materialism, international development, state-society relations, and social struggles.
He is on the editorial board of Science&Society (New York) and is also a member of its manuscript collective. As well, he is a member of the editorial board of Professional Geographer, and a member of the editorial advisory board of Dialectical Anthropology.
Area of Specialization
GeographyDegrees
Ph.D. (Geography), The Ohio State University
M. A. (Urban Studies), University of Akron
Master of Philosophy (in Geography) (Part 1), University of Delhi
M. A. (Geography), University of Delhi
B. A. (Honors) (Geography), Utkal University
Professional Leadership
Membership In Professional Organizations
Member, Association of American Geographers Member, Editorial Board of Science&Society: A Journal of Marxist Thought and Analysis; also member of its manuscript collective. Member, Editorial Board of the Professional Geographer Member, Editorial Advisory Board of Dialectical Anthropology
Research Interests:
Economic development and its geographical unevenness; Poverty; Agrarian change, and (agro-) globalization, Developmental policies of the state; radical social movements; social capital (critique), Theoretical work on class relations, capitalism, the state, and capitalist development under imperialism; space-society relationsAll Publications
| Book Chapters |
Das, R. J. 2010. ‘Peasants’, in Barney Warf (ed). Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Sage, Thousand Oaks, California.
Das, R. J. 2010. ‘Radical Peasant Movements and Rural Distress in India: A Study of the Naxalite Movement’ in W. Ahmad, A. Kundu and R. Peet (eds). India’s New Economic Policy, Routledge, New York.
Das R. J. 2009. ‘Capital and Space’. In Kitchin R, Thrift N (eds) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Volume 1, pp. 375-381. Oxford: Elsevier.
Das R. J, Chilvers S. 2009. ‘Colonialism, Internal’. In Kitchin R, Thrift N (eds) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Volume 2, pp. 189-194. Oxford: Elsevier.
Das, R. J. 2006. ‘Marxist theories of the state’, in Steven Pressman ed. Alternative theories of the state, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, pp.64-90.
Das, R. J. 2004. ‘Green Revolution’, in Raymond Abruzzi ed. Guide to World Health and Nutrition, Macmillan, New York.
Das, R. J. 2000. ‘The Green Revolution in India: The Distributive Consequences’ in A. G. Noble, B. Thakur, A. Mukherji and F. Costa. eds., Geographic and Planning Research Themes for the New Millenium: Felicitations in Honor of Ashok K. Dutt, Vikas, New Delhi, pp. 213-225.
| Journal Articles |
Das, R. J. 2012. ‘From labour geography to class geography: Reasserting the Marxist theory of Class, Human Geography: A New Radical Journal, 5(1), 19-35
Das, R. J. 2012. ‘Forms of Subsumption of labour under capital, class struggle and uneven development’, Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 44:2, 178-200
Das, R. J. 2012. ‘Dirty picture of neoliberalism’, Links: International Journal of Socialist Renewal [Australia]
Das, R. J. 2012. ‘Developmental Crisis and Dialectics of Protest Politics: Presenting the Absent and Absenting the Present’, Economic and Political Weekly, XLVII (6), 24-26
Das, R. J. 2011. ‘The World is Facing a Triple Crisis: What is (not) to be done?’, Sanhati: Fighting Neoliberalism.
Das, R. J. 2010. Capitalism, class struggle and uneven development, Working paper series, Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur, India.
Das, R. J. 2009. ‘Class Relations, Material Conditions, and Spaces of Class Struggle in Rural India’, Human Geography: A New Radical Journal, 2:3, 52-74.
Das, R.J. 2009. ‘What’s the Left to do in India?’, Socialist Project Review, April-June, No. 26, 58-60.
Das, R. J. 2007c. ‘Looking, but Not Seeing: State and/as Class in Rural India’, Journal of Peasant Studies, 34: 3-4, pp. 408-440.
Das, R. J. 2007b. ‘Introduction: Peasant, state and class’, Journal of Peasant Studies, 34:3-4, pp. 351-370.
Das, R. J. 2007a. Edited. A special issue on Peasant, state and class, in Journal of Peasant Studies, 34: 3-4, July/October; pp. 351-666.
Das, R. J. 2006. ‘Putting social capital in its place’, Capital and Class, No. 92, pp.65-92.
Das, R. J. 2005. ‘Rural society, the state and social capital in Eastern India: A critical investigation’, Journal of Peasant Studies, 32:1, pp.48-87.
Das, R. J. 2004. ‘Social capital and poverty of wage labourers: problems with the social capital theory’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 29:1, pp. 27-45.
Das, R. J. 2002. ‘The Green Revolution and Poverty: A Theoretical and Empirical Examination of the Relation Between Technology and Society’, Geoforum, Vol. 33:1, pp. 55-72.
Das, R. J. 2001. ‘Class, Capitalism and Agrarian Transition: A Review and Critique of Some Recent Arguments’, Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol 29:1, pp. 155-174.
Das, R. J. 2001. ‘The Spatiality of Social Relations: An Indian Case-study’, The Journal of Rural Studies, Vol. 17:3, pp. 347-362.
Das, R. J. 2001. ‘The Political Economy of India (A Review Article)’, New Political Economy, Vol. 6:1, pp.103-117.
Das, R. J. 2000. ‘The State-Society Relation: The Case of an Anti-poverty Policy’, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, Vol. 18:6, pp. 631-650.
Das, R. J. 1999. ‘The Spatiality of Class and State Power: The Case of Indian Land Reforms’, Environment and Planning A, Vol. 31:12, pp. 2103-2126.
Das, R. J. 1999. ‘Geographical Unevenness of India’s Green Revolution’, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 29:2, pp.167-186.
Klak, T. and Das, R. J. 1999. ‘The Underdevelopment of the Caribbean and Its Scholarship’, Latin American Research Review, Vol. 34:3, pp. 209-224.
Das, R. J. 1999. ‘Politicism and Idealism in State Theory’, Science and Society, Vol. 63:1, pp. 97-104.
Das, R. J. 1998. ‘The Social and Spatial Character of the Indian State’, Political Geography, Vol. 17:7, pp. 787-808.
Das, R. J. 1998. ‘The Green Revolution, Agrarian Productivity and Labor’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 22:1, pp. 122-135.
Das, R. J. 1996. ‘State Theories: A Critical Analysis’, Science and Society, Vol. 60:1, pp.27-57.
Das, R. J. 1995. ‘Poverty and Agrarian Social Structure -- A Case-Study in Rural India’, Dialectical Anthropology, Vol. 20:2, pp. 169-92.
Das, R. J. and Dutt, A. K. 1993. ‘City-size Distribution and Primate City Characteristics in India - A Temporal Analysis’, Geo-Journal, Vol. 29:2, pp. 125-137
| Conference Papers |
2010. 'Working long hours for low wages: The Case of Aqua-laborers in Orissa, India’, Association of American Geographers’ conference, Washington D.C. (April)
2010. Invited Panelist on ‘Geography of Post Fordism – Theory of Class’ (with Jamie Peck, Richard Peet, Richard A. Walker, Neil Smith, David Featherstone), Association of American Geographers’ conference, Washington D.C. (April)
2009. ‘The Maoist Problem’, Invited to give a talk at a roundtable organized at the University of Texas, Austin (November).
2009. ‘Marx’s Capital, Capitalism, Class Struggle, and Uneven Development’, Department of Geography, York University, Toronto (September).
2008. ‘Social Solidarity and social development’, Invited paper presented to the Conference on Population Studies, Fakir Mohan University, , March.
2007. 'The class character of social capital’, Canadian Association for the study of International Development (CASID), University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, June.
2005. ‘Towards a historical-geographical materialist framework for the understanding of The post-colonial Indian state’, a keynote address to the National Association of Geographers of India (NAGI), at the NAGI Annual conference, Bangalore, India, December.
2005: ‘Radical Social movements, Development, and the State: Investigating India’s Naxalite Movement’, the Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Denver.
2004: ‘State-society synergy’, the Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Philadelphia.
2002: Chief Guest at the Post Graduate Department of Sociology, Ravenshaw College, Cuttack, Orissa, India, Silver Jubilee Celebration; Gave a talk on ‘Critical knowledge and intellectuals’, March 9.
2002: ‘Social capital of the working class’, the Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, New Orleans.
2001: ‘The social capital theory of global development: A critique and reconstruction’, the Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, New York.
2001: Invited panelist on ‘India in the global economy’, Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, New York.
2000: ‘The state and poverty’, the 16th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Edinburgh, September.
2000: ‘The state and poverty alleviation’, an invited lecture delivered at the Department of Economics, University of Dundee, November, 2000.
1998: ‘The state and rural change’, the Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Boston.
1997: ‘The political economy of the Indian state: Does India’s Integrated Rural Development program work?’, the Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Ft. Worth, 1997.
1996: ‘The green revolution, socio-spatial development, and the state’, the Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Charlotte.
1995: ‘The state and uneven development in India’, the Association of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Chicago.
| Book Reviews |
Das, R.J. 2002. Review of 'Trade liberalization and poverty: a handbook'. London: Department for International Development (DFID) and Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution., Progress in Development Studies, vol. 2:4, 356-357.
Das, R. J. 2004. Review of ‘Globalization and marginality in geographical space: Political, economic and social issues of development in the new millennium’, Scottish Geographical Journal, vol. 120:3, pp 258-260.
| Public Lectures |
2010. ‘Development of Capitalism and Capitalist Development’, Invited paper delivered at Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India (December).
2000: ‘State theory and poverty alleviation’, an invited lecture delivered at the Center for Development Studies, Bhubaneshwar, India.
| Forthcoming |
'Capitalism and Regime Change in the (Globalizing) World of Labour', Journal of Contemporary Asia
