University of Manitoba

Faculty Member, Political Studies

Professor

About

Radhika Desai is Professor at the Department of Political Studies, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. She is the author of Slouching Towards Ayodhya: From Congress to Hindutva in Indian Politics (2nd rev ed, 2004) and Intellectuals and Socialism: 'Social Democrats' and the Labour Party (1994), a New Statesman and Society Book of the Month, and editor of Developmental and Cultural Nationalisms (2009). She is also the author of of numerous articles in Economic and Political Weekly, New Left Review, Third World Quarterly and other journals and in edited collections on parties, political economy, culture and nationalism. She is working on two books ­Capitalist Geopolitics and its Cosmopolitan Myths: Dispelling 'Globalization' and 'Empire' (2011) and The Making of the Indian Capitalist Class (2012).

She co-edits the Future of Capitalism book series with Pluto Press with Alan Freeman

She is co-editing Volume 27 of Research in Political Economy with Paul Zarembka

She serves on the Editorial Boards of Canadian Political Science Review, Critique of Political Economy, E-Social Sciences, Pacific Affairs and the World Review of Political Economy

Contact Information

Address: Department of Political Studies
527 Fletcher Argue Building
University of Manitoba
R3T 5V5
Canada

Telephone: 204-474-9818