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Liberalization as Layering: Electricity and India s
Fragmented State[1]
Lecture | March 3 | 12-2 p.m. | Stephens Hall[2], 10
(ISAS Conf. Room)
Speaker: Elizabeth Chatterjee[3], UK-India Education
Research Initiative (UKIERI) Fellow for 2015
Moderator: Pranab Bardhan[4], Professor of Graduate
School, Department of Economics, UC Berkeley
Sponsor: Institute for South Asia Studies[5]
Talk by Elizabeth Chatterjee, UK-India Education Research
Initiative (UKIERI) Fellow for 2015.
Talk Abstract: How have economic reforms changed the
Indian state? The power sector, lying at the heart of
distributive politics and capitalist accumulation,
provides a useful lens on this question. In this paper,
Elizabeth Chatterjee uses power sector evidence to
suggest a revised account of India s partial and painful
liberalization process. Reform has proceeded not through
displacement of older statist organizations, but through
a process of ad hoc institutional layering or
organizational creation without much destruction. The
result of this piecemeal process, Chatterjee suggests, is
a dysfunctional state-market hybrid system, in which the
state remains both indispensable and incoherent.
Speaker Bio: Elizabeth (Liz) Chatterjee is a Fellow of
All Souls College, Oxford, and is completing her
doctorate at the Oxford Department of International
Development. She researches and teaches on South Asian
politics, with a particular focus on public
administration and the politics of economic reform in
India. Liz's current project uses India's troubled
electricity sector as a lens to explore the state's
transitions in the liberalization era. She focuses
especially on the dynamics of institutional change and
the persistence of state intervention in the economy. Her
work shows that the state remains simultaneously more
indispensable and more chaotic than much theory might
suggest. Liz will be in residence at the Institute for
South Asia Studies from February 18 through March 15 as
the UK-India Education Research Initiative (UKIERI)
Fellow for 2015. A travel book based on Liz's fieldwork,
Delhi: Mostly Harmless, was published by Random House
India in 2013. On the side, she also writes on the social
and cultural history of procrastination, the
quintessential modern problem .
References
1. http://southasia.berkeley.edu/events/Liz_Chatterjee.pdf (link)
2. http://www.berkeley.edu/map/googlemap/?stephens (link)
3. http://southasia.berkeley.edu/elizabeth-chatterjee (link)
4. http://eml.berkeley.edu/~webfac/bardhan/bardhan.htm (link)
5. http://southasia.berkeley.edu/ (link)
Date Published: 2015-03-25 19:14:27
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