Distinguished Chair on Migration and Forced Migration Studies
PUBLICATIONS OF THE CHAIR SINCE 2015
♦ Podcast: A Cultural Battle Is Being Fought in Every Village in West Bengal , The Wire, 20 April 2021 CLICK HERE
♦ The Bengal elections are knocking at the door. How will the parties, the Trinamul Congress (TMC) and the CPM in particular, respond? Can they form a united front by combining the crucial populist currents in their favour? Eminent political scientist Ranabir Samaddar, founder of the Calcutta Research Group explores these questions in a dialogue | ‘Time for Left to re-imagine class, populism’, The Teleghraph, 07 January 2020 CLICK HERE
♦ Interview | ‘At the Stroke of Midnight, Migrant Workers Became Aliens in a Double Sense’, The Wire, 23 April 2020 CLICK HERE
♦ A CRG E-Book Publication, Border of An Epidemic: COVID 19 and Migrant Workers , April 2020 CLICK HERE
♦ “Debate: What Are We Missing When Talking of Education in West Bengal?,” The Wire, 9 July 2019 CLICK HERE
♦ ‘Protirodher Poth Sahaj Noy [The Path to Resistance is Not an Easy One]’, Anandabazar Patrika, 5 July 2019 CLICK HERE
♦ India: A general Election, Emerging Model of Power and Populist Resistance, Open Democracy, 25 June 2019 CLICK HERE
♦ Chikitsha Sankater Sthayi Samadhan Adou Sambhab? (Is a long term solution to the ‘crisis’ in public health possible?) Eisamay, 24 June 2019 CLICK HERE
♦ India’s Looming Crisis of Citizenship: A Paradox of Protection and Power, The Wire, 12 April 2019,CLICK HERE
♦ Neoliberal Capitalism in India, Re-work, Humboldt University, Berlin, 22 March 2019
♦ (Edited) From Popular Movements to Rebellion: The Naxalite Decade (New Delhi: Social Science Press, 2018)
♦ (Co-edited) Political Ecology of Survival: Life and Labour in the River Lands of East and North-East India (Hyderabad: Orient Black Swan, 2018)
♦ Popular Uprising in Paris and Left’s Fear of Populism, Alternatives International, 14 December 2018, CLICK HERE
♦ The NRC Process and the Spectre of Statelessness in India, The Wire, 25 October 2018, CLICK HERE
♦ (Co-edited), The Rohingya in South Asia: People without a State (New York: Routledge,2018)
♦ (Co-edited), Logistical Asia (Singapore: Springer, 2018)
♦ (Authored) Karl Marx and the Postcolonial Age (New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2017)
♦ (Co-authored), “Workers’ Struggles and Autonomy: Strategic and Tactical Considerations” in Dario Azzellini and Michael G. Kraft, The Class Strikes Back: Self Organized Workers’ Struggles in the Twenty-First Century (Leiden: Brill, 2017)
♦ “Borders of Labour and Refugee Economies”, Refugee Watch, Issue 50, December 2017
♦ “The Ecological Migrant in Postcolonial Time” in Andrew Baldwin and Giovanni Bettini (eds.), Life Adrift: Climate Change, Migration, Critique (London and New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017)
♦ “The Logistical City”, IIC Quarterly, Special Issue on “The Contemporary Urban Conundrum”, Winter 2016-Spring 2017
♦ “Power and Responsibility at the margins: The Case of India in the Global Refugee Regime”, Refuge, Volume 33, No 1, 2017
♦ “Une critique postcoloniale de l’accumulation contemporaine du capital” (French translation of “A Postcolonial Critique of capital Accumulation Today”, Actuel Marx, 61, 2017
♦ Autonomy in India: Tactical and Strategic Considerations on the New Wave of Workers’ Struggles, Viewpoint, January 2017 CLICK HERE
♦ Ranabir Samaddar Speaks on Rohingya Crisis : It is also a Question of Human Rights, Ananadabazar Patrika, 2017 CLICK HERE
♦ A long month in the life of turbulent West Bengal, Catch News, 2017 CLICK HERE
♦ The Logistical City, 2017 CLICK HERE
♦ Mamata’s pro-poor policies alone may not be enough to stop BJP in Bengal, 2017 CLICK HERE
♦50 years of Naxalbari: why the new milieu it spawned is still relevant today, 2017 CLICK HERE.
♦ The Crisis of 1974: Railway Strike and the Rank and File, Primus Books, 2017.
♦ Accumulation in Post-Colonial Capitalism, co-edited with Iman Kumar Mitra and Samita Sen, Springer, 2017.
♦ “Education, Inequality, and Neo liberalism” in Avinash Kumar Singh (ed.), Education and Empowerment in India, London and New York: Routledge, 2016
♦ A Post-Colonial Enquiry into Europe’s Debt and Migration Crisis, Springer, 2016.
♦ Cultures of Governance and Peace A Comparison of EU and Indian Theoretical and Policy Approaches, co-edited with J. Peter Burgess and Oliver P. Richmond, Manchester, 2016
♦ “Forced Migration Situations as exceptions in History?” International Journal of Migration and Border Studies. CLICK HERE
♦ “A life beyond boundaries”: Benedict Anderson 1936-2015, Biblio , January-February 2016. CLICK HERE
♦ Human Migration as Crisis of Europe”, Economic and Political Weekly, L (51), 19 December 2015 CLICK HERE
♦ “Beyond the Frame of Practical Reason: The Indian Evidence Act and Its Performative Life”, Diogenes, 60 (3-4), 2015
♦ “The Indian Railway Workers and the Crisis of 1974”, Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society, 18, December 2015
♦ “The Politics of Indebtedness and Government”, Alternatives (Montreal), October 2015 CLICK HERE
♦ “The Violent Foundations of Citizenship” in Samir K. Das (ed.), India: Democracy and Violence (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2015)
♦ “The Post-Colonial Bind of Greece”, August 2015 CLICK HERE
♦ “Violence along the Indo-Bangladesh Border”, Broken Rifle: War Resisters’ International, 103, August 2015 CLICK HERE
♦A Report on Rohingyas : The Emergence of a Stateless Community. CLICK HERE
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