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Economics has been critiqued for its Euro-centric nature. It places at its locus a partial understanding of the European experience of capitalism's unfolding, brushing under the carpet the realities of colonialism, racialisation, and other forms of structural oppression that it crucially relies on. It, then, studies the rest of the world only with respect to this partial understanding. Critiquing this, we provide ways to decolonise and develop a South-centric framework to issues of economics / economic development.
Decolonizing Economics: An Introduction
Book Project with Polity Press
In this book, co-authored with Devika Dutt, Carolina Alves, and Ingrid Kvangraven, we assess how economics came to be Euro-centric, its cruical relaitionship with the development of capitalism, and provide a framework to begin the process of decolonsing it.
Decolonizing Economic Development
Special Issue for World Development
I am co-editing a Special Issue of Decolonising Economic Development with Ingrid Kvangraven, which carries contributions that engage with theoretical frameworks to provide a global South-centric view to study the issue of economics and applies them to study contemporary questions on economic development.
Development economics and the colonial encounter: Informality, caste, and postcolonial capitalist development in India
Journal article, currently Revise and Resubmit at World Development
In this work, co-authored with Snehashish Bhattacharya, we posit the ‘colonial encounter’, defined as a contradictory relation between capitalist and non-capitalist segments of an economy, as a critical and constitutive element in the process of postcolonial capitalist development. It points to the obfuscation of this encounter in the prevalent theoretical approaches in development economics, particularly focusing on the discourse on informal economy and the role of identity. It then foregrounds an emerging theoretical framework on postcolonial economic dynamics that frames the development process as being marked by an on-going and ever-occurring colonial encounter.
Political Economy of Occupation, Colonialism, and Conflict in Palestine
Symposium for Review of Radical Political economics
I co-edited a symposium on for Review of Radical Political Economics.
Introduction: Introduction to the Symposium on Political Economy of Occupation, Colonialism, and Conflict in Palestine', Review of Radical Political Economics, (57), 2, pp 260-265.
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Decolonising economic development: the role of development sector
Report published with BOND
In this report, with my co-author Ingrid Kvangraven, I explore who the UK's development sector has contended with the Eurocentric framework of the development project in which it is embedded. We find that given that the interventions of the sector often take the shape of a “governance of the poor” in service of the status quo, the extent to which the sector can actually break from this framework remains uncertain.
Coverage of the report
New research explores the role of the INGO sector in decolonising economic development (BOND)
Response to Bond’s report ‘Decolonising economic development: the role of development sector’. (Women’s resource center)
Move away from Eurocentric views, NGOs urged (Third Sector)
NGO umbrella body urges members to tackle root causes of poverty and inequality (Civil Society)
Podcast: Reimagining Development
Standing in the Way of Rigour? Economics' Meeting with the Decolonisation Agenda Journal article, published in Review of International Political Economy
In this article, co-authored with Ingrid Kvangraven, we discuss the scope for decolonizing economics teaching, and scrutinize what it would entail in terms of theory, methods, and pedagogy. Based on a survey of 498 respondents, we explore how economists across different types of departments (economics/heterodox/non-economics), geographical locations, and identities assess challenges to economics teaching, and charts out the challenges that decolonizing economics teaching entails and identifies potential for change.
Spot On Economies Research Forum | Surbhi Kesar / Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven: Decolonising Economics
Colonial Origins of Economics
Commentary piece, published in Economic and Political Weekly
In this commentary co-authored with, Ingrid Kvangraven and Devika Dutt, we argue that the Economics Nobel awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson reinforces Eurocentrism and a colonial world view.
Translations by other publications:
Les origines coloniales de la « science » économique | les économistes atterrés
Nobel de economía a Acemoglu, Johnson y Robinson. Dossier | Bitacora
Podcast:
Why is this year’s Nobel prize for Economic Sciences so controversial? | In Focus podcast with Surbhi Kesar
Diversifying and Decolonising Economics initiative | D-Econ
Member of the Steering Group
I am a Steering group member of the D-Econ initiative, which is a network of students and scholars working to diversify and decolonise economics. I am also one of the editors for the Decolonising Economics blog run by the initiative.
Other podcasts and interviews
Unlearning Economics | Decolonising Economics - Devika Dutt and Surbhi Kesar
Spot On Economies Research Forum | Decolonising Economics - Surbhi Kesar and Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven
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