Finance Capital in Marxian Perspective

Dasgupta, Byasdeb

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“…, 2020) the positive impact of complexity should be observed at a larger spatial scale meaning that living in a complex region in terms of social capital should favour poverty alleviation. If confirmed, such a relationship would back the thesis of Putnam (1993) of social capital as a collective asset generating externalities for a society (Dasgupta, 2000). Overall, by connecting the notion of complexity to that of diversification in the field of social capital in rural areas, our analysis contributes to fill two gaps in the extant literature.…”

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“…Two main viewpoints emerged from the seminal works of Putnam (1993) and Portes (1998). According to Putnam (1993), social capital is a collective asset generating positive externalities at local scale via knowledge sharing, trust establishment and the development of collaborative norms (see also Dasgupta, 2000). On the contrary, the study of Portes (1998) stresses that social capital is an individual asset, excluding any effects at collective level (for more recent studies, see Heikkilä et al.…”

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Social capital, poverty alleviation and complexity in Africa. Evidence from rural areas

Scuderi

Tesoriere

Fasone

et al. 2022

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PurposeThe aim is to discuss the role of social capital in alleviating poverty in the rural setting of Africa by viewing it as an individual and collective asset.Design/methodology/approachThe authors use primary data from a survey on rural households living in three different districts in rural Africa. The authors design a social complexity index giving evidence on the poverty alleviation effect of complex patterns of civic participation at district level.FindingsResults support the view that social capital may mitigate poverty only if a rural household simultaneously participates in a plurality of social communities. Such mitigation is reinforced if she also lives in a socially complex district, whereas on the contrary the social complexity of a district, per se, is not enough to alleviate poverty.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to advance the knowledge of African rural areas and to identify potential developments of poverty policies in Africa based on diversified social capital as a valuable ingredient for poverty alleviation policies. This paper also contributes to the debate on social capital by showing that diversified social capital has a prevailing individual nature rather than a collective one.

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Section: Theoretical Framework and The Rationale Behind The Social Co...mentioning

confidence: 75%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Social capital, poverty alleviation and complexity in Africa. Evidence from rural areas

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“…Come to me, all ye who have been fucked, it told them, and I will show you how you can fuck others. 61 At this stalled juncture, Dasgupta depicts feelings of bafflement and disenchantment -emotional exhaustion even -on the part of his interviewees, who had experienced the Delhi of the times before the progressive liberalisation of trade after 1991. So fraught and complex is the new landscape depicted not only in Capital, but also in India Becoming, which at once has raised some from rags to riches and dispossessed others, that Boehmer and Davis astutely observe how even the very form of expression Dasgupta and Kapur employ to depict this landscape necessarily has to be stretched:…”

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“…Delhi whispered promises, even to the purest souls, of violence and demonic pleasures. Come to me, all ye who have been fucked, it told them, and I will show you how you can fuck others 61.…”

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The conjunctural spaces of ‘new India’: imagined geographies of 2010s India in representations by returnee migrants

Mendes

Lau

2018

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Focusing on returnee Indian authors, this article contributes to analytical perspectives on imagined geographies. We map the imagined geographies of 2010s Delhi and India as experienced and created by Indian returnee migrant authors, drawing on the hybrid nonfiction works India Becoming: A Portrait of Life in Modern India by Akash Kapur and Capital: The Eruption of Delhi by Rana Dasgupta. Juxtaposed, these texts sited on the borderline between fiction and nonfiction construct and produce knowledge on an imagined 'new India', textualised in literary form. Kapur and Dasgupta, having returned from long sojourns in the West are now India-based, privileged observers of and participants in the very subject of their study-the ground realities of contemporary, 21st century India-both temporally and geographically. As diasporic narrators of a 'new India', they stand within their physical landscapes as well as the created landscapes of their narrations. This article draws on the construction of imagined geographies, with a focus on the issue of affect and, relatedly, identification, desire, and transgression, and their impact on the representation of an imaginary homeland, to unpack the tension and dissonance between their imagined geographies of India-as residents and as members of the diaspora-and their lived geographies. We conclude that Kapur and Dasgupta's imagined geographies offer an alternative account of the contemporary processes that geographers are seeking to describe and explain. Not only do their imagined geographies impact reality but also construct new worlds and realities of 'new India' in literary representation. Their hybrid nonfiction texts position India globally, carefully un-glamorising the binary representations of 'India Shining' and 'Dark India', and recovering the multiplicity of presences in the conjunctural spaces of 'new India'.

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Finance Capital in Marxian Perspective

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Social capital, poverty alleviation and complexity in Africa. Evidence from rural areas

Social capital, poverty alleviation and complexity in Africa. Evidence from rural areas

The conjunctural spaces of ‘new India’: imagined geographies of 2010s India in representations by returnee migrants

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