Red Tape - Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India

Informationen zum Autor Akhil Gupta Klappentext Akhil Gupta is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for India and South Asia at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India and a coeditor of Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology, both also published by Duke University Press. He is also a coeditor of The State in India after Liberalization: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science, The Anthropology of the State: A Reader, and Caste and Outcast. Zusammenfassung Examining the chronic! widespread poverty in India! the world's fourth largest economy! Akhil Gupta theorizes the relation between the state in India and the poor as one of structural violence. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Part One. Introduction 1. Poverty as Biopolitics 3 2. The State and the Politics of Poverty 41 Part Two. Corruption 3. Corruption, Politics, and the Imagined State 75 4. Narratives of Corruption 111 Part Three. Inscription 5. "Let the Train Run on Paper": Bureaucratic Writing as State Practice 141 6. Literacy, Bureaucratic Domination, and Democracy 191 Part Four. Governmentality 7. Population and Neoliberal Governmentality 237 Epilogue 279 Notes 295 References Cited 329 Index 355

Product details

• Authors: Akhil Gupta
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.07.2012
• EAN: 9780822351108
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5110-8
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: A John Hope Franklin Center Book; John Hope Franklin Center Book; A John Hope Franklin Center Book; John Hope Franklin Center Book
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Indien, Kulturwissenschaften, Regionalstudien