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Authored Books

Raman, Ravi (2009) Global Capital and Peripheral Labour: The History and Political Economy of Plantation Workers in India. New York; London: Routledge. (Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series)

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Raman, Ravi, ed. (2010) Development, Democracy and the State: Critiquing Kerala Model of Development. New York and London: Routledge. (Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series)

Raman, Ravi and Lipschutz, Ronnie D., eds. (2010) Corporate Social Responsibility: Comparative Critiques. USA: Palgrave Macmillan. (International Political Economy)

Book Chapters

Steur, Luisa (2010) 'Adivasi workers' struggles and the Kerala model: Interpreting the past, confronting the present.' In: Raman, Ravi, (ed.), Development, democracy and the state: Critiquing the Kerala Model of development. London: Routledge, pp. 221-236. (Routledge contemporary South Asia series ; 28)

Raman, Ravi and Ajit, D. (2010) 'Commercial Microfinance in India: Loan Angels or Loan Sharks.' In: Raman, Ravi and Lipschutz, Ronnie D., (eds.), Corporate Social Responsibility: Comparative Critiques. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (International Political Economy)

Raman, Ravi (2010) 'Corporate Social Responsibility, Local Livelihood and Human Rights: The Case of Coca Cola in India.' In: Raman, Ravi and Lipschutz, Ronnie D., (eds.), Corporate Social Responsibility: Comparative Critiques. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (International Political Economy)

Raman, Ravi (2010) 'In-Migration vs Out-Migration.' In: Jones, Terry-Ann and Mielants, Eric, (eds.), Mass Migration in the World-System: Past, Present and Future. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, pp. 122-143. (Political economy of the world-system annuals, v. 31)

Raman, Ravi (2010) 'Strange Bedfellows? Critiquing Corporate Social Responsibility.' In: Raman, Ravi and Lipschutz, Ronnie D., (eds.), Corporate Social Responsibility: Comparative Critiques. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (International Political Economy)

Raman, Ravi (2007) 'Plachimada Resistance: A Postdevelopment Social Movement Metaphor?' In: Ziai, Aram, (ed.), Exploring Post-Development: Theory and Practice, Problems and Perspectives. New York; London: Routledge. (Routledge Studies in Human Geography)

Raman, Ravi (2006) 'Commodity Chain Trap? Struggling Lives in Kerala's Tea Plantations.' In: Rajasenan, D. and de Groot, Gerard, (eds.), Industrial economy of Kerala : nodes and linkages. Cochin, India: Directorate of Publications and Public Relations, Cochin University of Science and Technology for EU-Asia Link Project of the International Centre for Economic Policy and Analysis, Dept. of Applied Economics, CUSAT, Cochin, pp. 125-148.

Raman, Ravi (2004) 'Muthanga: A Spark of Hope.' In: Kapferer, Bruce, (ed.), State, Sovereignty, War. New York: Berghahn Books, pp. 107-124. (Critical interventions, v. 5)

Raman, Ravi (1999) 'Labour Under Imperial Hegemony: The case of Tea Plantation Labour in South India, 1914-1946.' In: Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi, (ed.), South Indian Economy. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Raman, Ravi (1997) 'Intervention in the Western Ghats: An Inquiry into the Historical Processes of Loss of Biodiversity and Community Sources of Livelihood.' In: Pushpangadan, P., Ravi, K. and Santhosh, V., (eds.), Conservation and Economic Evaluation of Biodiversity: papers presented at the Indo-British Workshop held at the Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute, Thiruvananthapuram, India in February 1996. New Delhi: Oxford and IBH Pub.

Journal Article

Raman, Ravi (2014) 'Business, Ethnicity, Politics, and Imperial Interests: The United Planters' Association of Southern India, 1893–1950.' Business History Review, 88 (1). pp. 73-95.

Raman, Ravi (2012) '‘Currents and eddies’: Indian-Middle East migration processes.' Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 5 (2). pp. 189-205.

Raman, Ravi (2012) 'Environmental Modernity.' Seminar: The Monthly Symposium (637). pp. 33-38.

Raman, Ravi (2010) 'Transverse Solidarity: Water, Power and Resistance.' Review of Radical Political Economics, 42 (2). pp. 251-268.

Raman, Ravi (2009) 'Asian Development Bank, Policy Conditionalities and Social Democratic Governance: Kerala Model Under Pressure?' Review of International Political Economy, 16 (2). pp. 284-308.

Raman, Ravi (2008) 'Environmental Ethics, Livelihood and Human Rights: Subaltern-Driven Cosmopolitanism?' Nature and Culture, 3 (1). pp. 82-97.

Raman, Ravi (2007) 'Community–Coca-Cola Interface: Political Anthropological Concerns of Corporate Social Responsibility.' Social Analysis, 51 (3). pp. 103-120.

Raman, Ravi (2005) 'Corporate Violence, Political Ecology and the Marginalised: Cola War in Plachimada.' Economic and Political Weekly, 40 (25). pp. 2481-2485.

Raman, Ravi (2004) 'Muthanga: A Spark of Hope.' Social Analysis, 48 (1). pp. 123-135.

Raman, Ravi (2004) 'Of Peripheral Labour: Trajectories of Dalit Labour in the Plantations in Southern India.' The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 47 (3).

Raman, Ravi and Bijoy, C. R. (2003) 'Muthanga: The Real Story: Adivasi Movement to Recover Land.' Economic and Political Weekly, 38 (20). pp. 1975-1982.

Raman, Ravi (2002) 'Breaking New Ground: The Adivasi Land Struggle in Kerala.' Economic and Political Weekly, 37 (10). pp. 916-919.