The wild east : criminal political economies in South Asia / / edited by Barbara Harriss-White, Lucia Michelutti
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The wild east : criminal political economies in South Asia / / edited by Barbara Harriss-White, Lucia Michelutti
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| Pubblicazione: | London : , : UCL Press, , 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xiii, 365 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 364.13230954 |
| Soggetto topico: | Business enterprises - Corrupt practices - India |
| Business enterprises - Corrupt practices - Bangladesh | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | Harriss-WhiteBarbara |
| MicheluttiLucia | |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of boxes -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The criminal economics and politics of black coal in Jharkhand, 2014 -- 2. Jharia's century-old fire kept ablaze by crime and politics -- 3. Sand and the politics of plunder in Tamil Nadu, India -- 4. Himalayan 'hydro-criminality'? Dams, development and politics in Arunachal Pradesh, India -- 5. Crime in the air: spectrum markets and the telecommunications sector in India -- 6. The inter-state criminal life of sand and oil in North India 7. 'Red sanders mafia' in South India: violence, electoral democracy and labour -- 8. The 'land and real estate mafia', West Bengal, East India -- 9. Politics, capital and land grabs in Punjab, India -- 10. The politics of contracting in provincial Bangladesh -- 11. Putting out the Baldia factory fire: how the trial of Karachi's industrial capitalism did not happen -- Epilogue South Asian criminal economies -- Appendix Laws alleged or established to have been broken - with main offenders -- Glossary -- Index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The Wild East bridges political economy and anthropology to examine a variety of il/legal economic sectors and businesses such as red sanders, coal, fire, oil, sand, air spectrum, land, water, real estate, procurement and industrial labour in South Asia. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The wild east |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910682517803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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