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PROFESSOR RAVI ARVIND PALAT

Department of Sociology, State University of New York at
Binghamton, New York

Ravi Arvind Palat is a professor of sociology at the State University of New
York at Binghamton. He has previously taught at the universities of Hawaii
and Auckland. He is the author of Capitalist Restructuring and the Pacific Rim
and Princes, Paddyfields, Bazaars: Wet-Rice Cultivation and the Emergence of the
Indian Ocean World-Economy, 1250-1650; and the editor of Pacific-Asia and the
Future of the World-System. His research interests are in the fields of historical
sociology and political economy and is currently working on two books, one on
creations of national cuisines and the other on neoliberalism and the growth
of migration.

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