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2013
Franke, Richard W.
and Barbara H. Chasin. 2013. Cooperatives
and Capitalism: Selected International Comparisons. Paper presented at the
International Conference on Cooperatives in Transition in the Era of
Globalization. Organized by the Uralungal Labour Contract Co-operative Society Ltd. and Tata
Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. 18-20 September. Kozhikode.
2008
Franke, Richard W. 2008. Local Planning: The Kerala Experiment. Paper presented at the Left Forum. Cooper Union: New York. 15 March 2008. Published in Spannos, Chris. 2008. Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century. Oakland, CA: AK Press. Pages 130−135.
Video Version of the Presentation at the Left Forum:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3N25DJstKQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icXjGdDur4s&feature=related
2007
IN SPANISH: The Kerala Experiment in
Democratic Decentralization:An
Overview for Bolivarian Activist. EL EXPERIMENTO DE
DESCENTRALIZACIÓN DEMOCRÁTICA EN KERALA: UN PERSPECTIVA GENERAL
PARA LOS ACTIVISTAS BOLIVARIAN. Presented in Caracas, 7 July,
2007.
2004
Elamon, Joy, Richard W. Franke and
B. Ekbal. 2004. Decentralization
of Health Services: The Kerala Peoples Campaign. International Journal
of Health Services 34(3):681−708.
September 2004.
2003
The Mararikulam Experiment: Women-Owned Cooperatives in Kerala
-- A People's Alternative to Corporate Dominated Globalization. GEO
(Grassroots Economic Organizing Newsletter) 57:811. March 2003.
2002
Democratic Decentralization: The Kerala Experience in International Perspective. Presented at the Seminar "A Decade after the 73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendments." AKG Centre for Research and Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, 18- 19 May 2002
The Mararikulam Experiment: An International Perspective. Paper presented at the Seminar on Decentralization, Social Security, and Sustainable Development. St. Michael’s College, Chertala, Alappuzha, Kerala, Closing Plenary Session, 13 May, 2002
2001
Fueling
Economic Growth Through Democratic Participation: Three Lessons from Kerala,
India. Chautauqua Institution Lecture Series, Week Seven. 10 August 2001. Listen to the Audio
Version in the Chautauqua Great Lectures Series.
2000
The Kerala Decentralisation Experiment: Achievements, Origins, Implications. Presented at the International Conference on Democratic Decentralisation. 23-28 May 2000. Kerala University. Thiruvananthapuram. Sponsored by the Kerala State Planning Board.
Lessons in Democracy from Kerala State, India, the Presidential Invited Lecture for University Day, 25 March 1999, Montclair State University.
Kerala: A Valid Alternative to the New World
Order. (Reply to Joseph Tharamangalam) Bulletin of
Concerned Asian Scholars 30(3):25-28.
July-September 1998. With Barbara H. Chasin.
1997
Power to the (Malayalee) People: Kerala's 9th Plan -- People's Plan Campaign for Local Democracy. With Barbara H. Chasin. Also published in: Economic and Political Weekly 32(48):3061-68. November 29-December 5 1997 and Z Magazine 11(2):16-20. February 1998.
Thomas Isaac, T. M., Richard W. Franke, and M. P. Parameswaran. 1997. From anti-feudalism to sustainable development: the Kerala People's Science Movement. Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 29(3):34-44.
Democracy at Work in an Indian Industrial Cooperative: the Story of Kerala Dinesh Beedi. Presented at the 1997 Socialist Scholars Conference: Radical Alternatives on the Eve of the Millennium. Borough of Manhattan Community College. 30 March 1997.
Is the Kerala Model Sustainable? Lessons From the Past -- Prospects for the Future. Presented at the International Conference on Kerala's Development Experience: National and Global Dimensions. Sponsored by the Institute of Social Sciences, 9-11 December, 1996. With Barbara H. Chasin. The link here is to the revised and updated version of the paper that appears in Parayil, Govindan. 2000. Kerala: The Development Experience: Reflections on Sustainability and Replicability. London and New York: Zed Books. Pages 16-39.
Female-Headed Households: A Continuing Agenda for the Kerala Model? Presented at the Symposium on Women in Kerala: Past and Present. Government College for Women. Thiruvananthapuram. 11-12 February 1995. Published in Economic and Political Weekly 31(10):625-630 (March 9, 1996). With Barbara H. Chasin.
Report on the
First International Congress of Kerala Studies. A summary of the
conference that took place at the AKG Centre and Kerala University in
Thiruvananthapuram 27-29 August 1994. Published in the Bulletin of Concerned
Asian Scholars 26(3):72-73. With Barbara H. Chasin.
Feeding Programmes
and Food Intake in a Kerala Village. Economic
and Political Weekly 28(8-9):355-60. February 20-27, 1993.
Land Reform Versus Inequality in Nadur Village, Kerala. Journal of Anthropological Research 48(2):81-116. Summer 1992.
One Hundred Million Women are Missing. Exchange with Amartya Sen in the New York Review of Books. 24 October 1991.
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