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Ravi Arvind Palat Department of Sociology Phone (607) 777-4756 Binghamton University Fax (607) 777-4197 Binghamton, NY 13902 E-mail [email protected] Ravi Arvind Palat Education 1981 - 1988 State University of New York Binghamton, NY Ph. D (Sociology) • Awarded with Distinction. 1978 - 1981 Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi M. Phil History 1976 - 1978 Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi M. A. History 1973- 1976 University of Madras Madras B. A. Economics Citizenship Indian Permanent residency in New Zealand and the United States Academic Posts 2009- 2011 State University of New York Binghamton, NY Chair, Department of Sociology 2008 - present Professor of Sociology • Courses taught include World-systems Studies; Contemporary Capitalism; Asia in World-Historical Perspective; Comparative Hegemonies; Political Economy of Asia; Consuming Interests: Sociology of Food; Empire, Hegemony, and Terror; Sociology of Colonialism; Sociology of Contemporary Asia; Advanced Seminar on India and China; Social Change: Introduction to Sociology; Binghamton and the World-Economy 2006 - 2008 Associate Chair and Director of Graduate Studies in Sociology 2000 - 2008 Associate Professor of Sociology 2000 Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology • Fall Semester 1998 - 2000 University of Auckland New Zealand Senior Lecturer in Sociology • Courses taught include Sociology: Issues and Themes, Social Change and Modernization, Sociology of Colonialism, Social Theory: Change and Conflict, Sociology of Contemporary Asia, Asia and the Modern World- System, Capitalism in the 20th Century 2 1993 - 1997 Lecturer in Sociology • Tenured 1996 1989 - 1993 University of Hawaii Honolulu, HI Assistant Professor of Asian Studies • Courses taught include Asian Humanities, Contemporary Asian Civilizations, Sociology of Directed Social Change, Sociology of Development, Proseminar in Asian Studies, Asia and the Modern World- System, Capitalism in 20th Century Asia 1984 - 1988 State University of New York Binghamton, NY Adjunct Lecturer in Sociology • Courses taught include Social Change in the Modern World, Workers and Workers’ Movements in Eastern Europe, Political Sociology Distinctions/Awards Visiting Research Fellow, South Asia Institute, Ruprechts-Karl Universität Heidelberg, Germany, Feb-May 2013. Co-Director, Workshop on Shifting Geopolitical Ecologies and New Spatial Imaginaries, Hong Kong, June 6-8, 2012 (Sponsored by the Social Science Research Council, the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and the Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong, and the National University of Singapore. Visiting Senior Researcher. Barcelona Center for International Affairs, Barcelona, Spain, 2012. Visiting Senior Fellow, Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram (February 2012). Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (June 2010). Visiting Senior Fellow, Center for Asia-Pacific Social Transformation Studies (CAPSTRANS), University of Wollongong, Australia, 2007. Visiting Scholar, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (May— June 2001). Association of Pacific Rim Universities’ (APRU) Fellowship, 1999. Visiting Fellow, East-West Center, Honolulu (December 1994—February 1995). Resurgence of India and China in the World-Economy Work in Progress Americas in the Making of World-Economies in Early Modern Asia 3 Special Issue on “Migration and Borders of Citizenship,” Refugee Watch: A Books South Asian Journal on Forced Migration, 49, 2017 (guest editor with Shalini Randeria). The Making of an Indian Ocean World-System, 1250-1650: Princes, Paddy fields, Bazaars New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Capitalist Restructuring and the Pacific Rim, London: Routledge, 2004 (paperback, 2013). Special Issue on “Afghanistan, the United States, and Central Asia” Critical Asian Studies, XXXV, 2, June 2003 (guest editor with Mark Selden). Pacific-Asia and the Future of the World-System, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993 (editor). Articles “Empire, Food and the Diaspora: Indian Restaurants in Britain: South Asia: A Journal of South Asian Studies, XXXVIII, 2, 2015, pp. 1-16. “Asian Land Acquisitions in Africa: Beyond the ‘New Bandung’ or a ‘New Colonialism’?” Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, III, 1, 2014, pp. 125-50 (with William G. Martin) “From Native to Citizen: Colonial Genealogies of Citizenship in Contemporary EuroNorth America,” ‘Outiç! Journal of (post)European Philiosophy, IV, 2, September 2013, pp. 293-312. “Maps of Time, Clocks of Space: Changing Imaginaries of Asia,” Critical Asian Studies, XLV, 3, September 2013, pp. 397-410. “Geopolitics and New Spatial Imaginaries: An Introduction” Critical Asian Studies, XLV, 3, September 2013, pp. 393-96 (with Caglar Keyder). “Power Pursuits: Interstate Systems in Asia,” Asian Review of World History, I, 2, July 2013, pp. 227-63. “Much Ado About Nothing: World-historical Implications of the Re-emergence of China and India,” International Critical Thought, II, 2, May 2012, pp. 139- 55. “Cultures of War (Round Two),” Roundtable on John W. Dower’s Cultures of War, Critical Asian Studies, XLIII, 4, 2011, 621-622. “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds,” Roundtable on John W. Dower’s Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq, Critical Asian 4 Studies, XLIII, 3, 2011, pp. 444-49 “Convergence Before Divergence? Eurocentrism and Alternate Patterns of Historical Change,” Summerhill: Indian Institute of Advanced Study Review, XVI, 1, Summer 2010, pp. 42-58. “The World Turned Upside Down: The Rise of the Global South and the Contemporary Global Financial Turbulence,” Third World Quarterly. XXXI, 3, 2010, pp. 365-84. “Convenient Fictions, Inconvenient Truths: A Comment on Onis and Bayram,” New Perspectives on Turkey, no. 39, 2008, pp, 85-95. “A New Bandung? Economic Growth vs. Distributive Justice in the Emerging Powers of the Global South,” Futures, XL. 8, September 2008, pp. 721-34. “Faruk Tabak—A Tribute,” New Perspectives on Turkey, no. 38, 2008, pp. 9- 15. Abridged version in History Workshop Journal, LXVII, 1, Spring 2009, pp. 299-302. “India Suborned: The Global South and the Geopolitics of India’s Vote Against Iran,” Japan Focus, 24 October, 2005, http://japanfocus.org/article.asp?id=427 “On New Rules for Destroying Old Countries,” Critical Asian Studies, XXXVII, 1, March 2005, pp. 75-94. “Flailing Eagle, Crouching Tigers: Decline of US Power and New Asian Regionalism,” Economic and Political Weekly, XXXIX, 2, August 7, 2004, pp. 3620-3626. Translated into Korean in Dangdae Bipyeong, 27, Fall 2004, pp. 355- 69 Translated into Hungarian in Esmelet. 63, August 2004, pp. 78-97. “9/11, War Without Respite, and the New Face of Empire,” Critical Asian Studies, XXXV, 2, June 2003, pp. 163-74 (with Mark Selden). “‘Eyes Wide Shut’: Reconceptualizing the Asian Crisis,” Review of International Political Economy, X, 2, May 2003, pp. 169-94. “Is India Part of Asia?” Environment and Planning, D, Society and Space, XX, 6, November 2002, pp. 669-691. 5 Translated into Hungarian, “Ázsia része-e India?” Esmélet, 60, 2004, pp. 139-66. “Barbarians at the Gate? Restructuring Asia’s Pacific Rim After the Crash of 1997-98,” Economic and Political Weekly, XXXVI, 48, December 1-7, 2001, pp. 4473-4484. “Beyond Orientalism: Decolonizing Asian Studies,” Development and Society, XXIX, 2, December 2000, pp. 105-36. “Miracles of the Day Before? The Great Asian Meltdown and the Changing World-Economy,” Development and Society, XXVIII, 1, June, 1999, pp. 1-47. “Spatial Imaginaries of Capitalism: Dynamics of the Northeast Asian Regional Order,” Asian Perspectives, XXIII, 2, 1999, pp. 5-34. “Up the Down Staircase: Australasia in the ‘Pacific Century’,” Thesis XI, no. 55, November 1998, pp. 15-40. “Reinscribing the Globe: Imaginative Geographies of the Pacific Rim,” Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, XXIX, 1, January-March 1997, pp. 61-89. “Pacific Century: Myth or Reality?” Theory & Society, XXV, 3, June 1996, pp. 303-47. “Fragmented Visions: Excavating the Future of Area Studies in a Post- American World,” Review, XIX. 3, Summer 1996, pp. 269-315. Reprinted in Neil L. Waters (ed.), Beyond the Area Studies Wars: Toward a New International Studies, Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2000, pp. 64-106. Reprinted in Michael Peters (ed.), After the Disciplines: The Emergence of Cultural Studies, Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey, 1999, pp. 87-126. Translated into Korean in Keongil Kim (ed.), Chiyokyonku-eui- Yoksawairon, Seoul: Moonwhakwahksa, 1998, pp. 375-427. “A Rejoinder [to Sanjay Subrahmaniam],” Review, XII, 1, Winter 1989, pp. 149-154. “Popular Revolts and the State in Medieval South India: A Study of the Vijayanagara Empire (1360-1565),” Bijdragen tot de taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde, CXII, 1986, pp. 128-44. “The Incorporation and Peripheralization of South Asia, 1600-1950,” Review, X, 1, Summer 1986, pp. 171-208 (with K. Barr, J. Matson, V. Bahl & N. Ahmad). Translated into Japanese, 2002. “Control of Workers or Workers’ Control? Workers and Economic Development in Poland, 1945-81,” Insurgent Sociologist, XII, 1-2, Spring 1984, pp. 143-61 (with A. Chhachhi & P. Kurian). 6 “Movement Towards Workers’ Democracy: Solidarity in Poland,” Economic and Political Weekly, XVII, nos. 26, 27 and 28, June 26, July 3, and July 10, 1982, pp. 1073-1079, 1113-1118, 1164-1168 (with A. Chhachhi & P. Kurian). Chapters in Books “Revisiting Bhattacharya’s Swaraj in Ideas,” in Peter deSouza (ed.), Swaraj in Ideas, Routledge: New Delhi (forthcoming). “Dependency Theory and World-Systems
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