Red Tape : Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India
Akhil. Gupta
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
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Utgitt | Durham : : Duke University Press, , 2012.
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Omfang | 1 online resource (384 p.)
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Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Acknowledgments; Part One. Introduction; 1. Poverty as Biopolitics; 2. The State and the Politics of Poverty; Part Two. Corruption; 3. Corruption, Politics, and the Imagined State; 4. Narratives of Corruption; Part Three. Inscription; 5. ''Let the Train Run on Paper'': Bureaucratic Writing as State Practice; 6. Literacy, Bureaucratic Domination, and Democracy; Part Four. Governmentality; 7. Population and Neoliberal Governmentality; Epilogue; Notes; References Cited; Index. - 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.
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Emner | Bureaucracy - India
Political corruption - India Poverty - Government policy - India Public welfare - India Vis mer... Antropologi
Business & Economics Byråkrati Economic History Fattigdom India Sosialantropologi india byråkrati korrupsjon fattigdom velferd politikk |
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Dewey | 302.3/50954 . - 306.0954
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ISBN | 9780822350989. - 9780822351108
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