Brown Saviors and Their Others : Race, Caste, Labor, and the Global Politics of Help in India /

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"In Brown Saviors and Their Others Arjun Shankar draws from his ethnographic work with an educational NGO to investigate the practices of "brown saviors"-globally mobile, dominant-caste, liberal Indian and Indian diasporic technocrats who drive India's help economy. Shankar argue...

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Auteur principal: Shankar, Arjun, 1984- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Social policy.
Public welfare > Moral and ethical aspects.
Marginality, Social > Economic aspects.
Capitalism > Social aspects.
Altruism > Economic aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Capitalism > Social aspects > India.
Marginality, Social > Economic aspects > India.
Social stratification > Economic aspects > India.
Public welfare > Moral and ethical aspects > India.
Altruism > Economic aspects > India.
Altruism > Political aspects > India.
India.
India > Social policy.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Global help economies and racial capitalism
  • The racial politics of the Savarna Hindu (or the would-be savior)
  • Poverty's motivational double bind (Or neo-Malthusian visions)
  • Fatal pragmatism (or the politics of "going there")
  • The caste of liberal intervention
  • Hindu feminist rising and falling
  • Gatekeepers (or the anti-Muslim politics of help)
  • The road to accumulation
  • Urban altruism/urban corruption
  • A global death
  • The insult of precarity or "I don't give a damn"
  • AC cars and the hyperreal village
  • Digital saviors
  • Digital time
  • Digital audit culture (or app worlds)
  • Digital scaling
  • Digital dustbins.

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