Shankar Brown Saviors and Their Others

Race, Caste, Labor, and the Global Politics of Help in India
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2711-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten

Arjun Shankar draws from his long-term ethnographic work with an educational NGO in India to critique the role of the “brown savior”—the group of globally mobile, upper-caste, liberal Indian and Indian diasporic technocrats who dominate India’s contemporary help economy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shankar, Arjun

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: Encountering Saviorism vii
Premise One: Global Shadows vii
Premise Two: Nervous Ethnography xii
Introduction: Brown Saviorism 1
I. Theorizing Saviorism
1. Global Help Economics and Racial Capitalism 31
2. The Racial Politics of the Savarna Hindu (or the Would-Be Savior) 45
II. Neocolonial Saviorism
3. Poverty’s Motivational Double Bind (or Neo-Mathusian Visions) 63
4. Fatal Pragmatism (or the Politics of “Going There”) 75
5. The Case of Liberal Intervention 85
6. Hindu Feminist Rising and Falling 95
7. Gatekeepers (or the Anti-Muslim Politics of Help) 107
III. Urban Saviorism
8. The Road to Accumulation 121
9. Urban Altruism/Urban Corruption 133
10. A Global Death 145
11. The Insult of Precarity (or “I Don’t Give a Damn”) 157
12. AC Cars and the Hyperreal Village 167
IV. Digital Saviorism
13. Digital Saviors 181
14. Digital Time (and Its Others) 193
15. Digital Audit Culture (or Metadata) 203
16. Digital Scaling (or Abnormalities) 215
17. Digital Dustbins 227
Conclusion: Against Saviorism 239
Acknowledgments 251
Notes 257
Bibliography 299
Index 323

Über Autor(innen)

Arjun Shankar is Assistant Professor of Culture and Politics at Georgetown University and coeditor of Curiosity Studies: A New Ecology of Knowledge.