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Pedagogies of Development, Conceptions of Efficiency: Modern Managerialism in Industrial Ahmedabad, 1950s–1960s
No full textThis paper aims to trace the historical trajectory of management as a professional discipline in the post-independence period in India during the 1950s and 1960s. It tracks the discipline’s formative interests in the management of industrial labor, the views of its major proponents, and the processes through which the discipline sought generalized relevance within the postcolonial regime. It also discusses the intersection of managerial concerns with the globally emergent discourses on development and industrial reform and follows the eventual institutionalization of the discipline as an educational concern through the setting up of management schools. In doing so, the paper examines the modes and rationales through which managerialism established its own normative vocabulary and deployed it for assessing not just the objectives of industrial capital but also the newly consolidating postcolonial state and its developmental ambitions. This circulation of management ideas is analyzed by following the experiments that were conducted in the industrial enterprises of Ahmedabad by a group of textile industrialists, UN developmental pedagogues, and Ford Foundation consultants. Even when, in most cases, such studies on management did not succeed in achieving their ascribed goals, the paper demonstrates how managerialism maintained its relevance by parallelly turning its focus onto the postcolonial state and its developmental activities. Broadly, the paper argues that management in the mid-twentieth century functioned as a solution in search of a problem. It eventually acquired prominence by tautologically reading institutions and various aspects of the society as organizations that needed the prescription of management to resolve their operations
The Life and Death of the Rs 2,000 Note
No full textSouthern Urbanism marks an intervention not only at the level of analysis but also on the plane of language and semantics. It signals the limits of existing language that struggles to adequately address the realities of the South
Marriage Equality Judgment: The Missing Case of International Covenants
No full textThis article analyses the judgement on marriage equality delivered by a five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court of India on 17 October 2o23. The authors argue that, in holding that there is no fundamental right to marry under the Indian Constitution, the court has not taken into account binding international human rights treatises that categorically state the right to marry as a human right
Consumer Harms Arising From The Competition Dynamic Of E-Commerce Platforms In Malaysia
No full textThe structure of the digital market of e-commerce platforms is dynamic, with a combination of characteristics such as strong network effects, concentrated multi-sided platforms, extreme economies of scale and scope, low marginal costs, and high data returns. These strong network externalities within the multisided e-commerce market make the competitive environment in e-commerce significantly different from the conventional monogamous market as they create gatekeeper positions favouring a few incumbent e-commerce platforms. In these circumstances, gatekeeper incumbent e-commerce platforms often set commercial conditions that have the effect of undermining other players and potential rivals within the ecosystem. In this regard, there has been a trend of raising concerns globally on the inability of the conventional competition law framework to appreciate the extent of consumer harm arising thereto. Further, with the increasing trend in e-commerce, the potential harms arising thereon affect the market and particularly the individual end-user consumers in many ways, such as price discrimination. This research employs a doctrinal research method, wherein the primary data is obtained through systematic content analysis based on relevant reports and articles. This research identifies the consumer harms in the e-commerce platforms market based on theoretical analysis of competition law and consumer protection law focusing on digital market characteristics
Book Review on Consumer and SME Credit Law by Nora Beausang
No full textIn this book review, the authors review the book titled Consumer and SME Credit Law by Nora Beausang which addresses in detail legal requirements applicable to the provision of financial services to consumers/SMEs and conduct of business regulatory issues relevant to consumer protection in Ireland, a highly regulated common law jurisdiction. The book analyses how the Irish regulators and courts have dealt with the consequences of, and inevitable upsurge in, civil disputes arising from the fallout from the global financial crisis and an overheated residential property market in the context of national, EU and internationally-derived regulatory requirements
‘Dr BR Ambedkar: Now & Then’ Uses Bahujan Lens to Highlight Stories of Resistance
No full textThis is a review of Jyoti Nisha\u27s film, ‘Dr BR Ambedkar: Now & Then’. It argues that the documentary reverses the Brahminical gaze at multiple levels by standing firmly rooted in a Dalit-Bahujan standpoint, neatly portraying Ambedkar as a civilising force in a deeply casteist society