Gupta Red Tape

Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9470-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 383 Seiten

Reihe: A John Hope Franklin Center book

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gupta, Akhil

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.