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Ravi Arvind Palat
Department of Sociology
Binghamton University
Binghamton, NY 13902
Phone (607) 777-4756
Fax (607) 777-4197
Ph. D (Sociology)
- Awarded with Distinction.
M. Phil History
1976 - 1978Jawaharlal Nehru UniversityNew Delhi
M. A. History
1973- 1976University of MadrasMadras
B. A. Economics
Citizenship / Indian
Permanent residency in New Zealand and the United States
Academic Posts / 2009- State University of New York Binghamton, NY
Chair, Department of Sociology
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
Associate Chair and Director of Graduate Studies in Sociology
2000 - 2008
Associate Professor of Sociology
2000Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore, MD
Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology
- Fall Semester
Senior Lecturer in Sociology
- 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 World-System, Capitalism in the 20th Century
Lecturer in Sociology
- Tenured 1996
Assistant Professor of Asian Studies
- Courses taught include Asian Humanities, Contemporary Asian Civilizations, Sociology of Directed Social Change, Sociology of Development, Proseminar in Asian Studies, Asia and the Modern World-System, Capitalism in 20th Century Asia
Adjunct Lecturer in Sociology
- Courses taught include Social Change in the Modern World, Workers and Workers’ Movements in Eastern Europe, Political Sociology
Distinctions/Awards / 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).
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 / “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,” 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. 9-15.
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,
“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. 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).
“‘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.
“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 Post-American 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-eui-Yoksawairon, 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 / “Maritime Trade, Political Relations, and Residential Diplomacy in the World of the Indian Ocean,” in Engseng Ho & Abdul Sheriff (eds.), Indian Ocean: Oceanic Connections and the Creation of New Societies, (forthcoming).
“Nomads and Kings: State Formation in Asia over the longue durée, 1250-1750,” in Richard Lee (ed.), History and the Social Sciences: Essays in Honor of Fernand Braudel, SUNY Press (forthcoming).
“Power Pursuits: Interstate Systems in Asia,” in Carlos Prieto del Campo (ed.), Dynamics of the Global Crisis: Antisystemic Movements and New Models of Hegemony—Essays in Honour of Giovanni Arrighi, London: Verso (forthcoming).
“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 deglistati 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.
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.
“Citizenship and Globalization,” in Gay Morgan & Paul Havemann (eds.), Re-Visioning 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 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. 159-62.
“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, 201-10.
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 / “Kennedy shows way forward for Bush,” South China Morning Post, September 18, 2001.
Reproduced as a resource paper by the International Peace Bureau, see
“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” ( 1999.
“The concept of national security,’ The Hindu, February 6, 1999.
“Violence against Christians in India” ( 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, 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 / “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 World-Economy: 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.
“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.