John Charles Harriss (born England, 1945) is an emeritus professor of international studies at
Simon Fraser University
Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a public research university in British Columbia, Canada, with three campuses, all in Greater Vancouver: Burnaby (main campus), Surrey, and Vancouver. The main Burnaby campus on Burnaby Mountain, located from ...
, and visiting faculty at the London School of Economics and SOAS. In 2017, Harris was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
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.
Career
After earning his PhD, Harriss taught at the
University of East Anglia
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and became the Dean of the School of Development Studies in 1987. In the early 1990s he joined the faculty of
London School of Economics
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as Programme Director in Development Studies, in what was to become DESTIN, a postgraduate institute (now a Department) As Programme Director, he also was a managing editor of the ''Journal of Development Studies'' from 1999 until 2004.
Harriss stayed at the London School of Economics until 2007, when he moved to Vancouver to become
Simon Fraser University
Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a public research university in British Columbia, Canada, with three campuses, all in Greater Vancouver: Burnaby (main campus), Surrey, and Vancouver. The main Burnaby campus on Burnaby Mountain, located from ...
's (SFU) Director of the School of International Studies. Harriss eventually stepped down as Director in 2012. He also became Editor-in- Chief of the ''Canadian Journal of Development Studies'' from 2010 until 2014.
In 2017, Harriss was one of three professors from SFU to be elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Fellowship of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC) is an award granted to individuals that the Royal Society of Canada judges to have "made remarkable contributions in the arts, the humanities and the sciences, as well as in Canadian public life ...
.
Publications
* 1982 ''Capitalism and Peasant Farming: agrarian structure and ideology in northern Tamil Nadu''. Oxford University Press.
* 1984 (eds. with Mick Moore)
Development and the rural-urban divide'. Routledge.
* 1990 (with K P Kannan and G Rodgers) ''Urban Labour Market Structure and Job Access in India: a study of Coimbatore''. International Institute of Labour Studies, Geneva.
*1992 (ed.) ''Rural Development: theories of peasant economy and agrarian change.'' Hutchinson.
* 1995 ''The New Institutional Economics and Third World Development''. London: Routledge (edited with Janet Hunter and Colin Lewis)
* 1995 ''The Politics of Humanitarian Intervention''. London: Pinter (edited)
* 1999 ''Managing Development: Understanding Inter-Organisational Relationships''. London: Sage Publications and the Open University (edited, with Tom Hewitt and Dorcas Robinson)
* 2000 ''Reinventing India: Liberalization, Hindu Nationalism and Popular Democracy.'' Cambridge: Polity Press; and Delhi: Oxford University Press (with Stuart Corbridge).
* 2001/2002 ''Depoliticizing Development: the World Bank and Social Capital''. Delhi: LeftWord, UK and US Editions London: Anthem Press 2002.
* 2006 ''Power Matters: Essays on Institutions, Politics and Society in India''. Delhi: Oxford University Press.
* 2004 ''Politicising Democracy: Local Politics and Democratisation in Developing Countries'' (editor, with Kristian Stokke and Olle Tornquist). London: Palgrave Macmillan (also published in Bahasa Indonesia as ''Politasi Demokrasi: Politik Lokal Baru''. Jakarta: Lembaga Kajian Demokrasi dan Hak Asasi)
* 2008 (with Barbara Harriss-White) ''Green Revolution and After: Studies in the Political Economy of Rural Development in South India.'' London: Anthem Press.
* 2010 ''Globalization and Labour in China and India: Impacts and Responses'' (editor, with Paul Bowles). London: Palgrave MacMillan
* 2011 ''Understanding India’s New Political Economy: A Great Transformation?'' (edited, with Sanjay Ruparelia, Sanjay Reddy and Stuart Corbridge) London and New York: Routledge
* 2013 ''India Today: Economy, Politics and Society'' (with Stuart Corbridge and Craig Jeffrey). Cambridge: Polity Press/ Oxford University Press, Delhi
* 2014 ''Keywords for Modern India'' (with Craig Jeffrey). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
* 2016 ''Reinventing Social Democratic Development: Insights from Indian and Scandinavian Comparisons'' (eds. with Olle Törnquist). Copenhagen, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press. (draft chapte
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References
External links
Google Scholar
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Living people
Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge
Alumni of the University of East Anglia
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Academics of the London School of Economics
Simon Fraser University faculty
1945 births