Ravi Arvind Palat - Binghamton

Department of Sociology Binghamton University Binghamton, NY 13902

Phone (607) 777-4756 Fax (607) 777-4197 E-mail [email protected]

Ravi Arvind Palat Education

1981 - 1988 Ph. D (Sociology)

State University of New York

Binghamton, NY

 Awarded with Distinction.

Citizenship

1978 - 1981 M. Phil History

Jawaharlal Nehru University

New Delhi

1976 - 1978 M. A. History

Jawaharlal Nehru University

New Delhi

1973- 1976 B. A. Economics

University of Madras

Madras

Indian Permanent residency in New Zealand and the United States

Academic Posts

2009- 2011 State University of New York Chair, Department of Sociology

Binghamton, NY

2008 - present Professor of Sociology  Courses taught include World-systems Studies; 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 2006 - 2008 Associate Chair and Director of Graduate Studies in Sociology 2000 - 2008 Associate Professor of Sociology 2000 Johns Hopkins University Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology

Baltimore, MD

 Fall Semester 1998 - 2000 University of Auckland Senior Lecturer in Sociology

New Zealand

 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 WorldSystem, Capitalism in the 20th Century

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1993 - 1997 Lecturer in Sociology

 Tenured 1996 1989 - 1993 University of Hawaii Assistant Professor of Asian Studies

Honolulu, HI

 Courses taught include Asian Humanities, Contemporary Asian Civilizations, Sociology of Directed Social Change, Sociology of Development, Proseminar in Asian Studies, Asia and the Modern WorldSystem, Capitalism in 20th Century Asia 1984 - 1988 State University of New York Adjunct Lecturer in Sociology

Binghamton, NY

 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).

Work in Progress

Princes, Paddyfields, Bazaars: Wet-rice Cultivation and the Emergence of the Indian Ocean World-System, 1250-1650 (under review).

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Resurgence of India and China in the World-Economy Colonial Genealogies of Contemporary Citizenship Books

Capitalist Restructuring and the Pacific Rim, London: Routledge, 2004. 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

“From Native to Citizen: Colonial Genealogies of Citizenship in Contemporary EuroNorth America,” ‘Outis, September 2013, forthcoming. “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. 13955. “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 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,”

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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. 915. 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. 35569 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. 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.

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“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 PostAmerican 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-euiYoksawairon, 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). “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

“Dependency and World-Systems Analysis,” in Prasenjit Duara, Andrew Sartori & Viren Murthy (eds.), A Companion to Global Historical Thought, Wiley Blackwell, 2014, pp. 369-83 (forthcoming). “Maritime Trade, Political Relations, and Residential Diplomacy in the World of the Indian Ocean,” in Engseng Ho & Abdul Sheriff (eds.), Indian Ocean:

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Oceanic Connections and the Creation of New Societies, (forthcoming). “Nomads and Kings: State Formation in Asia over the longue durée, 12501750,” in Richard Lee (ed.), The Longue Durée and World-Systems Analysis, Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 2012, pp. 171-200. “Rise of the Global South and the Emerging Contours of a New World Order,” in Boike Rehbein & Jan Nederveen Pieterse (eds), Globalization and Emerging Societies: Development and Inequality, London: Routledge, 2009, pp. 39-60. “Un ritorno allo spirito di Bandung? L’ascesa degli stati nazionali nel Sud globale,” in M. Petrusewicz, J. Schneider & P. Schneider (eds.), I Sud. conoscere, capire, cambiare, Bologna: il Mulino, 2009, pp. 321-41. “Japan: Signs of Empire, Empire of Signs,” in F. Tabak (ed.) Allies as Rivals? U.S., Europe, and Japan in a Changing World-System, Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2005, pp. 103-26. “Of What World-System was pre-1500 ‘India’ a Part?” in S. Chaudhuri & M. Morineau (eds.), Merchants, Companies, and Trade, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp. 21-41 (with Immanuel Wallerstein). “Terence Hopkins and the Decolonization of World-Historical Studies,” in I. Wallerstein (ed.), Mentoring, Methods, and Movements: Colloquium in Honor of Terence K. Hopkins by his former students, Binghamton, NY: Fernand Braudel Center, 1998, pp. 39-46. “Curries, Chopsticks, and Kiwis: Asian Migration to Aotearoa/New Zealand in World-Historical Perspective,” in P. Spoonley, C. Macpherson & D. Pearson (eds.), Nga Patai: Racism and Ethnicity in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Palmerston North: Dunmore Press, 1996, pp. 35-54. “Historical Transformations in Agrarian Systems Based on Wet-Rice Cultivation: Towards an Alternate Model of Social Change, “ in P. McMichael (ed.), Food and Agrarian Orders in the World-Economy, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995, pp. 55-77. “The Making and Unmaking of Pacific-Asia,” in R. A. Palat (ed.), Pacific-Asia and the Future of the World-System, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993, pp. 3-20. “Symbiotic Sisters: Bay of Bengal Ports in the Indian Ocean World-Economy,” in R. Kasaba (ed.), Cities in the World-Economy, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1991, pp. 17-40. “The Vijayanagara Empire: Reintegration of the Agrarian Order of Medieval South India, 1336-1565,” in H. J. M. Claessen & P. van de Velde (eds.), Early State Dynamics, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1987, pp. 170-86. Policy Briefings

“A Fog or Myths about North Korea,” Notes internationals, Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, Notes internacionales, no. 72, Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, April 2013.

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“Resurgence of China and India: “A Profound Transformation,” Notes internacionales, no. 58, Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, June 2012 “Indignados in Perspective? Is Social Democracy irrelevant in a Post-Industrial Era in the West,” Notes internacionals, no. 53, Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, May 2012.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

“Labor-Intensive Industrialization in the Longue Durée,” XIIIth Economic History Congress, Buenos Aires, 22-26 July 2002, CD-ROM, International Economic History Association, 2002. http://www.eh.net/XIIICongress/cd/papers/25Palat244.pdf “Citizenship and Globalization,” in Gay Morgan & Paul Havemann (eds.), ReVisioning and Reclaiming Citizenship: 23-24 November 1998 Colloquium Proceedings, Hamilton, New Zealand: Center for New Zealand Jurisprudence, School of Law at the University of Waikato, 2001, pp. 73-77. “Spatial Imaginaries of Capitalism: Dynamics of the Northeast Asian Regional Order,” International Conference on the Dynamics of Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula, Seoul, Korea, May 27-28, 1999, pp.11-38.

Reviews and Essays

Review of Indian Ideology by Perry Anderson, Critical Asian Studies, XLV, 2, June 2013, pp. 323-30. Review of From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals who Remade Asia by Pankaj Mishra, Critical Asian Studies, XLV, 1, March 2013, 158-63. Review of The Political Economy of Craft Production: Crafting Empire in South India, c. 1350-1650 by Carla M. Sinopoli, Itinerario, XXIX, 3, 2005, 177-79. Review of Circumambulations in South Asian History: Essays on Honour of Dirk H. A. Kolff edited by Jos Gommans & Om Prakash, Itinerario, XXIX, 1, 2005, pp. 177-79. Review of India’s Nuclear Bomb: The Impact on Global Proliferation by George Perkovich, Metascience, XI, 3, November 2002, pp. 409-412. Review of Chinese Society: Change, Conflict and Resistance, Ed. by Elizabeth J. Perry & Mark Selden, China Information, XV, 1, Spring 2001. Review of The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capital, by Arif Dirlik, Journal of World History, XI, 1, Spring 2000, pp. 159-

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62. “Segmented Worlds, Fragmented Knowledge: Asian Studies, International Relations, and Cultural Identities after the Cold War,” The Asian Mode, #2, March, 1998, pp. 6-8. Review of East Asia and the World Economy by Alvin Y. So & Stephen W. K. Chiu, Sociological Inquiry, LXVI, 4, 1996, pp. 517-519. Review of The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 by E. J. Hobsbawm, Journal of World History, VIII, 1, Spring 1996, pp. 179-81. Review of Gendered by Design? Information Technology and Office Systems by Eileen Green, Jenny Owens & Den Pain (eds.), Social Science Computer Review, XIII, 1, Spring 1995, pp. 133-35. Review of Fiji: Coups in Paradise—Race, Politics and Military Intervention, by Victor Lal, South Asia in Review, XV, 4, August 1991, pp. 400-402. Review of Political and Social Writings (vols. 1 & 2), by Cornelius Castoriadis, Contemporary Sociology, XIX, 2, March 1990, pp. 400-402. Review of Political Regimes, Public Policy, and Economic Development: Agricultural Performance and Rural Change in the Two Punjabs by Holly Sims, Journal of Asian Studies, XLIX, 1, February 1990, pp. 191-93. Review of Peasant History in South India, by David Ludden, Journal of Asian History, XXI, 2, 1987, pp. 196-197. Review of Peasant and Artisan Resistance in Mughal India, by Irfan Habib, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, XIX, 1, 1987, pp. 70-71. Working Papers

“Civil Society in Asian Contexts,” Association of Pacific Rim Universities Working Paper, Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 2001 (with Muhammad Fuad, Lily Zubaidah Rahim, and Mayfair Yang). “Miracles of the Day Before? The Great Asian Meltdown and the Changing World-Economy,” Auckland Working Papers in Development Studies No. 1, Auckland, Centre for Development Studies, University of Auckland, 1999, 62 pages.

Instructional Material

Syllabi for undergraduate course on the Sociology of Colonialism and the graduate course on Comparative Hegemonies in Martha E. Giminez & Brian P. Hawkins, Teaching Sociology from a Marxist Perspective, Washington, DC: American Sociological Association, Fourth Edition, 2006, pp. 190-95. Syllabi for undergraduate course on the Sociology of Colonialism and the graduate course on Capitalism in the 20th Century in Martha E. Gimenez & Brian V. Klocke (eds.), Teaching Sociology from a Marxist Perspective, Washington, DC: American Sociological Association, 1998, pp. 168-83, 201-

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10. Reprinted: in Martha E. Gimenez & Brian V. Klocke (eds.), Teaching Sociology from a Marxist Perspective, Washington, DC: American Sociological Association, 2002. Articles in Papers of Public Opinion

“Meditation on the Egyptian Bloodbath,” OpenDemocracy, 23 August 2013 http://www.opendemocracy.net/ravi-arvind-palat/meditation-on-egyptianbloodbath “Egypt: Chronicle of a Death Foretold,” Letters, Economic and Political Weekly, XLVIII, 32, 10 August, 2013, p. 5. “Why European air-space was closed to the Bolivian President,” OpenDemocracy, 15 July 2013 http://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europemake-it/ravi-arvind-palat/why-european-air-space-was-closed-to-bolivianpresident “At Gezi Park, A Short Walk from Majority to Majoritarian,” The Hindu, 27 June 2013 (with Biray Kolluoglu). “The Indignados and the crisis in the Eurozone,” interviewed by Chuck Mertz of Chicago’s WUNR FM Radio, 12 May 2012. “La ‘innovación frugal’ es verdaderamente revolutionaria,” interview, El Nueva Lunes, 30 April-6 May, 2012. “Kennedy shows way forward for Bush,” South China Morning Post, September 18, 2001. Reproduced as a resource paper by the International Peace Bureau, see http://www.ipb.org/US-terror/articles.htm/south_china_morning_post.htm “India and the West,” The Hindu, December 4, 2000. “Zimbabwe’s evictions show law, media bias,” New Zealand Herald, April 17, 2000. “Corrupt, undemocratic Govt. deserved to go,” New Zealand Herald, October 15, 1999. “A Furore Over Xena” (http://www.artemista.com/library/palat01.shtml, http://www.xenamedia.com/articles/palat-17-04-99.htm, http://www.aschweb.com/xenaeyes/xena-articles/art-furore.html). 1999. “The concept of national security,’ The Hindu, February 6, 1999.

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“Violence against Christians in India” (http://www.tsoft.com/~cmwilson/Protest/Violence.html, http://poky.interspeed.net/xac14.html). 1999. “Indian Christians caught in tribal, political rows,” New Zealand Herald, January 26, 1999. “Iraq’s American Problem,” The Hindu, December 24, 1998. “Hypocrisy alive, well in the West,” New Zealand Herald, December 16, 1998. “The phenomenon of globalisation,’ The Hindu, December 14, 1998. Reprinted in The Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka), 20 December, 1998. “Placing credit in power without accountability,” New Zealand Herald, October 1, 1998. “Tragedy repeats itself (SE Asian crisis),” The Hindu, September 26, 1998. “Crony capitalism mixed bag of good and bad,” New Zealand Herald, September 8, 1998. “Varieties of ‘crony capitalists’,” The Hindu, August 22, 1998. “Maverick missile attacks won’t stop the cycle of world violence,” New Zealand Herald, August 26, 1998. “How Asian tests reveal ‘nuclear apartheid,’” The Press, June 3. 1998. “Nation state and national cultures lose their flavour in the globaloney,” The Independent, June 3, 1998. “Now India must be taken seriously,” New Zealand Herald, May 14, 1998. “Universities and the real world,” New Zealand Education Review, January 28, 1998. “A lost decade for Asia?”, The Hindu, December 12, 1997. “Asians victims of global economy,” New Zealand Herald, December 8, 1997. “Setting universities for the 21st century,” New Zealand Herald, October 15, 1996. “Why we should employ the American way,” New Zealand Education Review, September 27, 1996. “As Asian cash comes in Kiwi cash flies out,” New Zealand Herald, April 11, 1996. Reproduced in Resource Paper for New Zealand-Asia Policy Consultation on Human Rights, Sovereignty and Migration, New Zealand Asia Institute, June 14-16, 1996. “Asia-Pacific region in the changing world-economy,” Pacific Issues, 18,

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September, 1994. Editorial Boards, etc.

Member, Editorial Board, Review, Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University, 2002-10. Member, Editorial Board, Critical Asian Studies, 2002-. Member, Editorial Advisory Board for the book series, Pacific Formations: Global Relations in Asian and Pacific Perspective, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Member, International Advisory Board for the journal Development and Society.

Research Grants

Asian Migrations conference grant, State University of New York Conversations in the Disciplines, 2005-06 (collaborator). Individual Development Award, United University Professions, 2001. Staff Research Grant, Auckland University Research Council, 1995, 1996, 1997. Faculty Research Grant, Office of Research Relations, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1989. South West Asia and North Africa Program Fellowship, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1984. State University of New York Research Foundation Special Projects Fund Award. 1983. Graduate Assistantship, Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1981-84. University Grants Commission (India) Senior Research Fellowship, 1980-1981. University Grants Commission (India) Junior Research Fellowship, 1978-1980.

Seminar Presentations

“Maps of Time, Clocks of Space: Changing Imaginaries of Asia,” South Asia Institute, Ruprechts Karl Universität Heidelberg, Germany, May 7, 2013 AND at the Centro de Estudos Sociais, University of Coimbra, Portugal, May 10, 2013. “Empire, Food, and the Diaspora: Indian Food in Britain,” Centre for the Study of the Indian Diaspora, University of Hyderabad, 14 February, 2013. “Rise of China and India: What it signifies for the world-economy,” Sponsored by CASA Asia and the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs, Barcelona,

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17 May, 2012. “Towards an Agenda for Economic History,” Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, 9 February 2012. “Convergence Before Divergence? Eurocentrism and Alternate Patterns of Historical Change,” Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, 29 June 2010. “Dangerous Fortunes: Financial Crises in World-Historical Perspective,” Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, 5 June 2010. “The Dragon and the Elephant: Emergence of India and China in the WorldEconomy: India and China,” CAPSTRANS, University of Wollongong, Australia, 23 May, 2007. “Tandoori in Hot Garlic Sauce? Impact of the Rise of China and India on the World-Economy,” Department of Politics and Social Change, Research School of Asian and Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 14 May, 2007. “Asian Behemoths: Re-emergence of China and India,” Discipline of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney, Australia, 10 May, 2007. “Rise of China and India in the Contemporary World-Economy,” Development Studies, University of Auckland, 5 April 2007. “A New Bandung? Reconfiguring the World Order in the Twenty-First Century,” School of Social and Cultural Studies, Massey University, Albany, New Zealand, 4 April 2007. “Is India an Asian Country?” Center for Critical Theory and Transnational Studies, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 7 March 2003. “Rethinking Eurocentric Spatial Imaginaries: India as a Case Study” Department of Sociology seminar, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, 31, October, 2002. “Geopolitical Context of Nuclear Rivalry in South Asia,” Seminar on Conflict Management, Peace Economics, and Peace Science,” Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, 18 October, 2001. “Is India Part of Asia?’ Department of Asian Languages and Literature seminar, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 15 March, 2000.

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“Farming of Bones: Roots of Ethno-Religious Conflict in the Contemporary World,” Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, 22 November, 1999. “Global Roots of Local Politics,” Department of Sociology seminar, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 29 September, 1999. “Miracles of the Day Before: The Great Asian Meltdown of 1997-98 and the Changing World-Economy,” Seminar series on the Economic, Political, and Social Implications of the East Asian Financial Crisis, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, 10 February, 1999. “Beyond Orientalism: Decolonising the Social Sciences,” Annual Winter Seminar Series, Cultural and Policy Studies in Education, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 14 August, 1998. “The Buddha Would Not Have Smiled,” Nuclear Crisis in South Asia Seminar, New Zealand Asia Institute, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 23 July, 1998. “Globalization or Globaloney,” Department of Sociology seminar, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 9 April, 1997. “The Pacific Century: Myth or Reality?” Department of Sociology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, January 31, 1995. “Reapproaching Asian History” Department of History, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, January 25, 1995. “Decolonizing the Disciplines: Moving Beyond Eurocentric Categories of Analysis,” Department of Sociology Seminar, University of Auckland, New Zealand, June 7, 1994. “Pacific Century: Myth or Reality?” Development Forum, University of Auckland, New Zealand, March 21, 1994. “Transnationalization of Capital and the Paradox of Democracy: Free Markets, Decline of States, and Ethnic Conflicts,” Department of Political Science colloquium, University of Hawaii, March 1, 1993. “The Myth of an Impending Pacific Century,” Department of Sociology seminar, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, November 23, 1992. “Historical Context of Nineteenth Century Revolutions in Asia: Towards a Sociology of Money-Use,” Department of Sociology Colloquium, Department of Sociology, University of Hawaii, October 31, 1991. “White-Washing Colonialism: A Critique of Recent Interpretations of Eighteenth Century Indian History,” Center for South Asian Studies Colloquium, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, 23 September, 1991.

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Conference Papers

“Asian Land Acquisitions in Africa: Towards a New Transcontinental Agricultural Model?” Eighth International Convention of Asian Scholars, Macau, China, June 24-27, 2013 (with William G. Martin). “Underdevelopment Theory and How Europe Underdeveloped Africa,” 40 Years On, 40 Years Forward: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY 14-15 September, 2012 (with William G. Martin). “Parallels Between Systems: Alternate Patterns of State Formation,” Workshop on Empires and Networks: The Dynamics in Historical Asia,” Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, October 23, 2011. “Dangerous Fortunes: Financial Crises in Historical Perspective,” Conference on Global Capitalism and Transnational Class Formation, Prague, Czech Republic. October 16-18, 2011. “Divergence Before Convergence? Rethinking Patterns of Historical Change,” XXth Annual Conference of the World History Association, Beijing, China, July 7-11, 2011. “Much Ado About Nothing” World-Historical Implications of the ReEmergence of China and India,” Xth Conference on International Relations, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, June 15-17, 2011 (Keynote speaker). “Back to the Future: A World-Historical Perspective on India’s Essay in Democracy,” Conference on ‘Challenges to Democracy in South Asia,’ India International Centre, New Delhi, 15-16 January, 2011. “Dangerous Fortunes: Financial Crises in Historical Perspective,” XVIIth ISA World Congress of Sociology, Gothenburg, Sweden, 11-17 July 2010. “Things Fall Apart: Financial Crises over the Longue Durée,” Conference on ‘After the Gold Rush: Economic Crises and Consequences,” University of Iceland, Reykjavik, 27-28 May, 2010. “World Turned Upside Down: Rise of the Global South and the Contemporary Global Financial Turmoil,” Brazilian International Studies Association— International Studies Association Joint Meeting, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 21-24 July, 2009. “Historical Context of Anti-Systemic Movements in Continental Asia: Changes in Monetary Flows and Production Processes, 1815-1873,” History from a Global Perspective, Conference in Honor of Faruk Tabak, Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey, March 6-8, 2009 (with Faruk Tabak).

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“Nomads and Kings: State Formation in Asia over the longue durée 12501700,” Conference on the 50th Anniversary of the publication of Fernand Braudel’s “History and the Social Sciences,” Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations, Binghamton University, 24-25 October, 2008. "Maritime Trade, Political Relations, and Residential Diplomacy in the World of the Indian Ocean,” Conference on “The Indian Ocean: The Largest Cultural Continuum in the World,” Zanzibar Indian Ocean Research Institute, Stone Town, Zanzibar, Tanzania, 15-17 August, 2008. “Dangerous Liaisons: Hegemonic Transitions and Asian Regionalism,” Vth European Southeast Asian Studies Association Conference, Unìversìtà degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale,” Naples, Italy, 12-14 Sept 2007. “A New Bandung: Reconfiguring the World Order in the Twenty-First Century,” XVIth ISA World Congress of Sociology, Durban, South Africa, 2329 July 2006. “Issues raised in Forces of Labor from the Perspective of Contemporary Developments in India,” XVIth ISA World Congress of Sociology, Durban, South Africa, 23-29 July 2006. “A New Bandung: Economic Growth vs. Distributive Justice Among Emerging Powers in the Global South,” Workshop on “Come studiare I Sud?” Workshop, Camigliati, Italy, 25-30 June, 2006. “Imperial Expansion in an Eastern Mirror: State-making and Territorial Expansion in Asia, 1000-1700,” Workshop on Historical Expansions: The Historical Processes of Polity Expansion in Asia, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, 12-13 May, 2006. “Towards a Framework for the Social History of Asia: Socio-Historical Trajectories of Societies Based on Wet-Rice Cultivation,” Conference on ‘Writing Social Histories: Asian Historiographies and Political Regimes,’ Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, December 16-17, 2005. “Displacing Hegemony: Asia in the Decline of US Power,” 100th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, PA, 13-16 August, 2005. “East Africa in the Making of the Indian Ocean World-Economy,” XIVth Annual World History Association Conference, Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco, June 27-29, 2005. “Empire and Market: American Drive to Imperialism and Asian Regionalism,” International conference on ‘Development and Regionalism: Karl Polanyi’s Ideas and Contemporary World System Transformation,’ Hungarian Academy

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of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, 5-6 November, 2004. “Area Studies, Requiescat in Pace,” Conference on ‘The Question of Asia in the New Global Order,’ Duke University, Durham, NC, 1-2 October 2004. “Making Peripheral Working Classes: China and India Compared,” XCVIIIth Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, GA, 16-19 August 2003 (with Kaan Agartan). “Japan: Signs of Empire, Empire of Signs,” XXVIIth Annual Conference of the Political Economy of World-Systems, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 25-26 April 2003. “Diplomacies of Coercion: Logic of Nuclear Deterrence in South Asia After the US War With Afghanistan,” International Conference on Conflict Management, Peace Economics, and Development, Krakow University of Economics, Krakow, Poland, 18-20 October 2002. “Labor-Intensive Industrialization in the Longue Durée,” XIIIth International Economic History Congress, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 22-26 July, 2002. “Labor-Intensive Industrialization in the Longue Durée,” Workshop on LabourIntensive Industrialization in Global History: Asian Experiences and Comparative Perspectives, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, 18-19 December, 2001. “Reorienting Globalization: Dialectics of Social Change Along the Pacific Rim,” International Studies Association Convention, Hong Kong, July 26-28, 2001. “The Buddha Would Not Have Smiled: Geopoliticial Context of the South Asian Nuclear Tests,” Workshop on ‘Asia and the U.S. at War: The Twentieth Century Experience,’ Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, June 27-28, 2001. “Paradise Postponed? Restructuring the Economic Landscape Along Asia’s Pacific Rim,” XCVth Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington, DC, August 12-16, 2000. “Is India a Part of Asia?” Conference on ‘Approaching Asia from Asia: Journeys, Displacements, Themes’ sponsored by the Asian Studies Association of Australia and the Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Delhi at Sariska, India, February 20-21, 2000. “Unthinking the Pacific Century,” Pacific Rim in the 21st Century: The Next Generation Conference sponsored by the Asian Studies Institute of Victoria University of Wellington and the New Zealand Asia Institute, University of Auckland, New Zealand, August 27-31, 1999. “Spatial Imaginaries of Capitalism: Dynamics of the Northeast Asian Regional

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Order,” Conference on “The Dynamics of Northeast Asia and the Korean Peninsula,” the Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Kyungnam University, Seoul, South Korea, May 27-28, 1999. “Miracles of the Day Before? The Great Asian Meltdown and the Changing World-economy,” IIIrd Asia-Pacific Regional Conference of Sociology, Cheju National University, South Korea, 4-6 February, 1999. “Citizenship and Globalization,” Conference on Re-Visioning Citizenship, Center for New Zealand Jurisprudence, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, 23-24 November, 1998. “Beyond Orientalism: Decolonizing Asian Studies,” First International Convention of Asia Scholars, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, 25-28 June, 1998. “Rethinking Incorporation: Agency and Process,” PEWS Roundtable, 92nd Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Toronto, Canada, 9-13 August 1997. “Terence Hopkins and the Decolonization of World-Historical Studies,” Conference on “Mentoring, Methods and Movements: A Colloquium in Honor of Terence K. Hopkins,” New York, 15 August, 1996. “Decolonizing Theory: Moving Beyond Eurocentric Categories of Analysis,” XXth Annual Conference of the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, 6-9 December, 1995. “Global Restructuring and New Asian Migration to Aotearoa/New Zealand,” Sociological Association of Aotearoa (New Zealand) Annual Conference, Akaroa, New Zealand, 1-3 December, 1995. “Global Roots of Local Violence: Ethnic and Communal Conflict in India in World-Historical Context,” New Zealand Asia 2000 Conference on Religion and Politics in India, Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand, 31 August-3 September, 1995. “Transnationalization of Capital and the Paradox of Democracy: Free Markets, Decline of States, and Ethnic Conflicts,” Conference on “The State in Transition: Reimagining the Local, the National, and the Global,” La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, 6-8 August, 1993. “Area Studies in a Post-American World,” First Workshop on Critical Alternatives in Asia Pacific Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 22-23 May, 1993. “Historical Transformations in Agrarian Systems Based on Wet-Rice Cultivation: Towards an Alternate Model of Social Change,” XVIIth Annual Conference of the Political Economy of the World-Systems, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 15-17 April, 1993. “Building Castles on Crumbling Foundations: Excavating the Future of Area Studies in a Post-American World,” Keynote Address, Fifth Annual Graduate student Conference, School of Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Studies, University of Hawaii, 19 February, 1993.

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“Of What World-System Was Pre-1500 ‘India’ a Part?” International Colloquium on ‘Merchants, Companies and TradeThe Asian and European Scene in the Indian Context, 16th to 18th Century,’ Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, France, 30 May-2 June, 1991 (with Immanuel Wallerstein). “Port-Cities in the Indian Ocean World-Economy,” XIVth Annual Conference of the Political Economy of the World-System, University of Washington, Seattle, 29-31 March, 1991. “Construction of Extra-Class Identities in the Capitalist World-Economy,” Keynote Address, VIth Annual Symposium of the Center for South Asian Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 6-8 March, 1989. “Structures of Class Control in Late Medieval South Asia: The Construction of an Interstate System, 1300-1600,” XXXIXth Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Boston, 10-12 April, 1987. “South Asia in the Indian Ocean World-Economy,” 101st Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, 27-30 December, 1986. “From World-Empire to World-Economy: Changing Forms of Territorial Integration and Political Dominion in South India, 800-1600,” Conference on South Asia and World Capitalism, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 12-14 December, 1986. “Anti-Systemic Movements in the Periphery: Changing Contours of Class in Asian Empires, 1815-1873,” Xth Annual Conference on the Political Economy of the World-System, San Francisco State University, 2-3 March, 1986 (with Faruk Tabak). “The Incorporation and Peripheralization of South Asia, 1600-1950,” XIVth Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1-3 November, 1985 (with K. Barr, J. Matson, V. Bahl and N. Ahmad). “Popular Revolts and the State in Medieval South India: A Study of the Vijayanagara Empire (1360-1565),” XIIIth Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin at Madison, 2-4 November, 1984. “The Vijayanagara State in Medieval South India, 1336-1565,” Conference on the Early State and After, XIth International Congress of the Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Montréal, Canada, 17-19 August, 1983. Professional Activities

Pre-publication referee for American Journal of Sociology, Theory & Society, Asian Perspectives, Critical Asian Studies, Contemporary Pacific, Development & Society, Globalizations, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Journal of World History, Journal of International Relations and Development, positions: east asian cultures critique, Research in Political Economy, Southeast Asian Journal of Social Science and World Development. Pre-publication manuscript review for Routledge. Grant review for National Science Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Guest Editor (with Caglar Keyder), Special Feature on “Geopolitics and New Spatial Imaginaries,” Critical Asian Studies, XLV, 3, September 2013

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(forthcoming). Panel Organizer, “The New Bandung Turned Upside Down,” Eighth International Convention of Asian Scholars, Macau, China 24-27 June 2013. Affiliated Scholar, South Asia Institute, Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg, Germany, Spring 2013. Panelist, Quelle chance pour les nouvelles révolutions? Quels enjeux les nouveaux sujects politiqes?, Workshop on La copie du monde à revoir. Démocratiser la démocratie est-il illusoire?, Université Paris-Est Créteil and Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian Délégation en France, Paris, France, 18-19 October 2012. Dynamics of global crisis, antisystemic movements, and new models of hegemony," Museo Nacional Centro de Art Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, 28 May, 2009. Panelist, “The Financial and Military Underpinnings of Global Power Relationships,” International Conference on the Systemic Crisis of Capitalism: Dynamics of global crisis, antisystemic movements, and new models of hegemony," Museo Nacional Centro de Art Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, 26 May, 2009. Discussant, Conference on Black Liberation and the Spirit of ’57, Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University, 2-3 November 2007. Discussant, Conference on Labor Unions and Democracy in a Globalizing Asia, Sociology Department, Binghamton University, 5-6 October 2007. Organizer (with Pietro Masina), Panel on “Political Economy of New Regionalism in East Asia,” Vth European Southeast Asian Studies Association Conference, Unìversìtà degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale,” Naples, Italy, 12-14 Sept 2007. Panelist, “War, Crisis of Hegemony, and Unequal Development,” Workshop on Globalization and Unequal Development: The Political Challenge of Subaltern Movements,” Universidad Nómada & Laboratorio de Creación de Nuevas Máquinas Políticas Casa de América, Madrid, Spain, 27 June 2007. Panelist, “Globalization’s Regional Perspectives—Asia,” Workshop on Globalization and Unequal Development: The Political Challenge of Subaltern Movements,” Universidad Nómada & Laboratorio de Creación de Nuevas Máquinas Políticas Casa de América, Madrid, Spain, 26 June 2007. Panelist, “Development Strategies Before and After the Washington Consensus II,” Workshop on Globalization and Unequal Development: The Political Challenge of Subaltern Movements,” Universidad Nómada & Laboratorio de Creación de Nuevas Máquinas Políticas Casa de América, Madrid, Spain, 25 June 2007. Chair, Plenary Panel on “Migration and Political Activism in New York,” Conference on Asian Migrations, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY, 24-25 March, 2006.

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Member, Organizing Committee, Conference on Asian Migrations, State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY. Discussant, Panel on “Historiographies of Labour and Subaltern Groups (II),” Conference on Writing Social Histories: Asian Historiographies and Political Regimes, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 16-17 December, 2005. Organizer, Harpur College Dean’s Workshop series on The New Bandung, Binghamton University, 2005-06 Chair, Panel on Mediterranean Exchanges, XIVth Annual Conference of the World History Association, Ifrane, Morocco, 27-29 June, 2005. Roundtable on ‘Trends in World Poverty and Inequality: Is the World Moving in the Right Direction?’ 100th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, 2-5 September, 2004. Organizer, Harpur College Dean’s Workshop series on Globalization and the Refiguring of Urban Space, Binghamton University, 2002-2003. Coordinator, China-India Research Working Group, Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University, 2001-04. Organizer, Harpur College Dean’s Workshop series on Segmented Worlds, Fragmented Knowledge, Binghamton University, 2001-2002. Roundtable on “International Terrorism: Asian Responses,” State University College, Cortland, November 12, 2001. Organizer, Panel on “Asian Studies in an Age of Globalization,” First International Convention of Asian Scholars, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, 26-28 June, 1998. Participant, Political Economy of the World-System Roundtable, 92nd Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Toronto, Canada, 9-13 August, 1997. Discussant, Panel on “Globalization: Myths and Realities,” 91st Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, August 16-20, 1996. Discussant, Panel on “History and Cultural Criticism,” Symposium on Multiculturalism and Representation, College of Language, Literature, and Linguistics, University of Hawaii, April 27—May 3, 1994. Discussant, XIIth International Colloquium on the World-Economy, Tokyo and Nagoya, Japan, December 10-14, 1993. Discussant, Comparative Hegemonies Workshop, Fernand Braudel Center, Binghamton University, April 18-19, 1993. Coordinator, XVth Annual Conference on the Political Economy of the WorldSystem, University of Hawaii, March 28-30, 1991. Joint Coordinator, Research Working Group on India and China since 1947/49, Fernand Braudel Center, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1987-

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1988. Organizer, Panel on the Pre-Colonial State in South Asian History, XXXIXth Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Boston, April 10-12, 1987. Discussant, Panel on Alternative Approaches to Teaching about South Asia in Secondary Schools, 101st Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, December 27-30, 1986. Organizer, Panel on South Asia in a World-Historical Perspective, 101st Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, December 27-30, 1986. Co-Organizer, Conference on South Asia and World Capitalism, Tufts University, Medford, MA, December 12-14, 1986. Organizer, Panels on South Asia and the World-System, XIVth Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin at Madison, November 1-3, 1985. Coordinator, Research Working Group on South Asia, Fernand Braudel Center, 1984-1988. University Service

State University of New York at Binghamton Chair, Sociology Department, Assistant Professor Search Committee, 2012. Member, Sociology Department Assistant Professor Search Committee, 201011. Member, Sociology Department Visiting Professor Search Committee, 2010. Member, Budget Review Committee of the Faculty Senate Executive, 2009-11. Member, Sociology Department Senior Personnel Committee, 2008-. Member, Faculty Senate, 2008-11. Graduate Cabinet, Graduate School, 2006 -2008. Harpur College Undergraduate Awards Committee, 2001- 2003. Harpur College Council, 2001 Member, Sociology Department Initiating Personnel Committee, 2004-. Member, Initiating Personnel Committee, Asian and Asian-American Studies Program, 2004-06. Member, Asian and Asian-American Studies Visiting Professor Search Committee, 2001-02, 2004-06. Member, Asian and Asian-American Studies Program and History Department

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Joint Search Committee, 2003-2004. Member, Asian and Asian-American Studies Program Committee, 2001-06. Member, Graduate Committee, Department of Sociology, 2001-2003, 2005-11. Member, Search Committee, Department of Sociology, 2000-2001, 2005-06. Senior Research Associate, Fernand Braudel Center, 2000-2010. University of Auckland Member, Coordinating Committee, MA in Development Studies, Institute of Development Studies, 1994-2000. Equity Coordinator, Department of Sociology, 1999-2000. Member, Arts Faculty Promotions Advisory Committee, 1998. Member, Search Committee for Second Chair in Sociology, 1997. Member, Graduate Committee, Department of Sociology, 1994-1997. Member, Curriculum Committee, Department of Sociology, 1994-1995. University of Hawaii Member, Working Committee to establish an MA in International Studies, School of Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Studies, 1990-91. Member, Executive Committee, Center for South Asian Studies, School of Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Studies, 1989-1992. Member, Curriculum Committee, Asian Studies Program, 1989-1992.

World-Systems Analysis Areas of Concentration

Political Economy of Pacific-Asia Empires and Hegemonies Sociology of Food Historical and Comparative Sociology Contemporary Capitalism Sociology of Colonialism Ethnic Conflicts Political Sociology

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