John Harriss
Professor Emeritus
PhD, University of East Anglia
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School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University
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Professor Emeritus, Simon Fraser University
Cross-appointed to the Department of Global Development Studies and Cultural Studies Graduate Program.
Research Interests
Much of my research has been underpinned by an interest in the political economy of development. One expression of this is in my comparative work on the politics of development across India’s major states, and in recent writing on the political economy of development in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. But my research has ranged widely, from an early but still continuing interest in agricultural development and agrarian change, and a little later in labour studies, to more recent work on civil society and democratic politics, and on social policy. These came together in a study, carried on with Indian and Scandinavian scholars, on the possibilities of the renewal of social democratic development. Most of my research has been focused on India, though I have also worked in Indonesia, Malaysia and Mexico, as well as in the other South Asian countries. Current project: writing a new book on Indian politics and society.