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Red Tape
Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India
Taschenbuch von Akhil Gupta
Sprache: Englisch

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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.

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.

Über den Autor

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.

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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780822351108
ISBN-10: 0822351102
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Gupta, Akhil
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 233 x 154 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Akhil Gupta
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.07.2012
Gewicht: 0,564 kg
Artikel-ID: 121444585
Über den Autor

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.

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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780822351108
ISBN-10: 0822351102
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Gupta, Akhil
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu, Ansas Meyer, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße: 233 x 154 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Akhil Gupta
Erscheinungsdatum: 17.07.2012
Gewicht: 0,564 kg
Artikel-ID: 121444585
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