Contemporary Critiques of Political Economy: Mapping Alternative Planetary Futures [Paperback]

This book analyses contemporary critiques of political economy and highlights the challenges to rethinking contemporary discourses and practices.

Ananta Kumar Giri is a Professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India. He has taught and done research in many universities in India and abroad. He has an abiding interest in social movements and cultural change, criticism, creativity and contemporary dialectics of transformation, theories of self, culture and society, and creative streams in education, philosophy and literature. Dr. Giri has written and edited around two dozen books in Odia and English, including Global Transformations: Postmodernity and Beyond (1998); Knowledge and Human Liberation (2013), Practical Spirituality and Human Development: Creative Experiments for Alternative Futures (editor, 2019); Mahatma Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo (editor, 2022); The Calling of Global Responsibility: New Initiatives in Justice, Dialogues and Planetary Realizations (2023); and Social Healing (2023).

Contemporary Contributions to Critiques of Political Economy: An Introduction and an Invitation - Ananta Kumar Giri?Part I: Contemporary Contributions to Critiques of Political Economy?1. Contemporary Contributions to Critiques of Political Economy and Alternative Planetary Futures: Political Economy, Moral Economy, Moral Sociology, Spiritual Ecology and Beyond- Ananta Kumar Giri?2. Moral Sociology and the Marxist-Humanist Critique of Property: Toward a Critical Social-Psychology of Morality- Robert Nonomura?3. Ensouling the Critique of Political Economy: From Marx and Jung to Degrowth - Julien-Fran?ois Gerber?4. From Gift to Debt: Rethinking Political Economy from a Radical Anthropological and Indigenoul“Ï