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	Ravi A. Palat, Associate Professor Office: LT 304 Office hours as posted or by appointment. Phone: ext. ext. 7-4756 Email: palat@binghamton.edu CURRICULUM VITAE
Research interests include historical sociology, political economy, nationalism and ethnic conflict, social theory. Currently working on the historical sociology of the Indian Ocean region; on the links between forms of hegemonic control and the rise of fundamentalism; and on the parallel transformations of China and India since 1945. Earlier work centered on the political economy of east and southeast Asia in the context of contemporary transformations of the capitalist world-economy. These projects build on a long-standing research interest in excavating the Eurocentric biases of social theory. This is complemented by an examination of the intellectual premises of area studies programs and on conceptualizing space. Finally, he has begun studies of nationalism and ethnic conflict as integral elements of capitalist restructuring. Editor of Pacific-Asia and the Future of the World-System (1993); recent articles in Theory & Society, Economic and Political Weekly, Review, Asian Perspectives, Development & Society, Review of International Political Economy, Critical Asian Studies, among other journals. Teaches graduate seminars titled Political Economy of Asia, Asia in World-Historical Perspective, Comparative Hegemonies, among others; and undergraduate courses on the Sociologies of colonialism, contemporary Asia, and of food. On sabbatical in Spring 2007 as Senior Visiting Fellow at the Center for Asia Pacific Transformation Studies, University of Wollongong, Australia.
Recent Courses:
Sociology of Food Comparative Hegemonies
Recent Publications:
“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 “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. “On New Rules to Destroy 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). Capitalist Restructuring and the Pacific Rim. London: Routledge, 2004. Guest Editor, Special Issue on “Afghanistan, the United States, and Central Asia.” (With Mark Selden.) Critical Asian Studies, Volume XXXV, No.2, June 2003. “Eyes Wide Shut: Reconceptualization the Asian Crisis.” Review of International Political Economy, Volume X, No. 2 (May 2003): 169-94. “Is India Part of Asia?” Society and Space, Vol. XX, No. 6 (November 2002): 669-91. 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 o 1997-98.” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XXVI, No. 48 (December 1-7, 2001): 4473-4484. “Beyond Orientalism: Decolonizing Asian Studies.” Development and Society, Vol. XXIX, NO. 2 (December 2000): 105-36. “Citizenship and Globalization.” In Re-visioning and Reclaiming Citizenship: 23-24 November Colloquium Proceedings (Hamilton, NZ: School of Law of Wakaito, 2001): 73-77. “Fragmented Visions: Excavating the Future of Area Studies in a Post-American World,” In Michael Peters (ed.), After the Disciplines: The Emergence of Cultural Studies, Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey, 1999, pp. 87-126. 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. “Of What World-System was pre-1500 ‘India” a Part?” (With Immanuel Wallerstein.) In Merchants, Companies and Trade. Edited by S, Chaudhuri and M. Morineau. Cambrdige: Cambridge University Press, 1999). “Miracles of the Day Before? The Great Asian Meltdown and the Changing World-Economy.” Development and Society, Vol XXVIII, No. 2 (1999): 5-34. “Spatial Imaginaries of Capitalism: Dynamics of the Northeast Asian Regional Order.” Asian Perspectives, Vol. XXIII, No. 2 (June 1999): 1-47.