Aseem Shrivastava
Aseem Shrivastava ( Hindi असीम श्रीवास्तव ) is an Indian environmental economist , philosopher and freelance writer. He deals with the effects of globalization and specifically the upheavals that India has experienced since entering the world economy in the 1990s.
Life
Shrivastava comes from a family of manufacturers, but decided not to join the family business in order to pursue an academic career. He studied economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and received his doctorate in environmental economics and development economics on forest management in the Himalayas. In the following years he taught economics in India and the USA. He taught philosophy at the Nordic College in Norway . Since 2005 he has been working as a freelance author, lecturing on issues of globalization and appearing as a social and environmental activist. He lives in Delhi today .
Work and philosophy
In 2012 he was a speaker at the World Conservation Congress in South Korea , and in 2013 at the World Social Forum in Tunisia .
His work focuses on the political, social, ecological and economic developments in India since the 1990s. He complains that a blind belief in progress is misleading India and other emerging economies . They would have opened up to a brutal capitalism that pollutes the environment, but still does not create enough jobs and drives the citizens into a desperate competition of all against all. He criticizes plans of official Indian politics to accelerate urbanization and the associated further rural exodus as a wrong path.
His theses are well received by young Indians who are critical of capitalism as well as in the middle-class milieu, where there is a nostalgic mood with a longing for the lost pre-industrial India.
Shrivastava sees intellectual sources for an independent, socially and ecologically compatible Indian path in Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi , especially his Hind Swaraj . In his view, there are viable alternatives to Hindu nationalism , as it is currently determining Indian politics.
Publications
- with Ashish Kothari: Churning the Earth: The Making of Global India. Penguin Global, 2012, ISBN 978-0-670-08625-2 .
- 25 Years Of Economic Liberalization In: Economic & PoliticalWeekly. Vol. 51, No. July 29th, 16th. 2016.
Web links
- Information on A. Shrivastava in the German National Library
- Aseem Shrivastava speaks about Dignity of the Earth in the TEDxLSRCollege . published on January 5, 2015.
- Lecture Churning the Earth: The Making of Global India at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies , held on September 30, 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ ces.williams.edu
- ↑ a b c Jan Roß : Aseem Shrivastava: Gandhi instead of capitalism . In: The time . Issue 44/2018.
- ↑ https://penguin.co.in/author/aseem-shrivastava/ author page of Penguinbooksindia
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| SURNAME | Shrivastava, Aseem |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian environmental economist, philosopher and freelance writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |