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Political Power and Social Theory Volume 40

Marxist Thought in South Asia

Edited by

Kristin Plys

University of Toronto, Canada

Priyansh

University of Toronto, Canada

And

Kanishka Goonewardena

University of Toronto, Canada

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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About the Editors

Kristin Plys is an Associate Professor in the History and Sociology Departments at the University of Toronto. For 2023–2024, she is the J. Clawson Mills Scholar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is the author of Brewing Resistance (2020), winner of the global sociology book award from the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, and co-author, with Charles Lemert, of Capitalism and Its Uncertain Future (2022).

Priyansh is a PhD Student in Physical Cultural Studies at the University of Toronto. His research broadly focuses on the relationship between sport and politics today, with particular attention devoted to the neoliberal Indian state's interventions in sport policy.

Kanishka Goonewardena is a Professor of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto and co-editor of Space, Difference, Everyday Life: Reading Henri Lefebre. His recent writings on critical theory, urban studies, and imperialism have appeared in various academic and popular journals such as Historical Materialism, Antipode, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Progressive Planning, Jacobin, and Spectre.

About the Contributors

Muhammad Azeem is an Associate Professor at LUMS University Lahore and teaches Labour Law, Critical Legal Theory, and International law from the perspective of the South. He published his book titled Law, State and Inequality in Pakistan with Springer in 2017. Some of his notable publications are in Third World Quarterly, Law and Development Review, and Comparative Labour Law and Policy Journal.

Himani Bannerji is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at York University, Toronto, Canada. Her research and writing life extends between Canada and India, with interests encompassing anti-racist feminism, Marxism, critical cultural theories, and historical sociology. Her publications include The Ideological Condition: Selected Essays on History, Race and Gender (2020), Demography and Democracy: Essays on Nationalism, Gender and Ideology (2011), Inventing Subjects: Studies in Hegemony, Patriarchy and Colonialism (2001), The Dark Side of the Nation: Essays on Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Racism (2000), and Thinking Through: Essays on Feminism, Marxism and Anti-Racism (1995). Her most recent research on Marx has appeared in Marcello Musto (ed), Rethinking Alternatives with Marx: Economy, Ecology and Migration (2021), Marcello Musto (ed), Marx’s Capital after 150 Years: Critique and Alternative to Capitalism (2019), A. K. Bagchi and A. Chatterjee (eds), Marxism: With and Beyond Marx (2014), E. Dua and A. B. Bakan, Theorizing Anti-Racism (2014), and S. Mojab (ed), Marxism and Feminism (2015). Her forthcoming book, Decolonization and Humanism: The Postcolonial Vision of Rabindranath Tagore (Tulika) examines the modernity and radical humanism of Rabindranath Tagore.

Devaka Gunawardena is a political economist and independent researcher. He holds a PhD and MA in Anthropology from the University of California – Los Angeles and a BA in Postcolonial Studies from Wesleyan University. He is a frequent contributor to the Sri Lankan publications the DailyFT and Polity. His research interests include Marxism and agrarian studies, and he regularly writes and co-writes on the political economy of Sri Lanka in forums such as The Wire and the Economic and Political Weekly in India.

Salman Haider is a poet, theatre artist, and playwright from Pakistan currently living in exile in Canada.

Ahilan Kadirgamar is a Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka. He holds a PhD in Anthropology from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, an MA in Economics from the New School for Social Research and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a fortnightly columnist in the Daily Mirror, an Editorial Board Member of the Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences, and a Board Member of Himal Southasian Magazine. His research interests include agrarian change, co-operatives, and economic alternatives, and he regularly writes on the political economy of Sri Lanka in forums such as The Hindu and the Economic and Political Weekly in India. He is currently the Honorary Chair of the Northern Co-operative Development Bank and served on the Central Bank of Sri Lanka appointed committee to draft the Economic Development Framework for a Northern Province Master Plan (August 2018).

Ayyaz Mallick is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool (UK). His research interests include Marxist and postcolonial theory, with a focus on labour, social movements, and urban politics in Pakistan. His publications in English and Urdu have explored issues of state theory, urban development and restructuring, and the relationship between “particular” and “universal” in social theory and political practice. His academic work has appeared in Antipode, Studies in Political Economy, Urban Geography, and Tarikh [History]. He has also written for newspapers and other popular outlets such as Jacobin, The News, Novara Media, and Socialist Project.

Umaima Miraj is a PhD Student of Sociology at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on understanding women's revolutions in anti-colonial movements through a revolutionary feminist world-systems perspective.