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Brown Saviors and Their Others
Race, Caste, Labor, and the Global Politics of Help in India
Taschenbuch von Arjun Shankar
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor
Arjun Shankar is Assistant Professor of Culture and Politics at Georgetown University and coeditor of Curiosity Studies: A New Ecology of Knowledge.
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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Fachbereich: Völkerkunde
Genre: Importe
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Völkerkunde
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781478025092
ISBN-10: 1478025093
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Shankar, Arjun
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Arjun Shankar
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.08.2023
Gewicht: 0,476 kg
Artikel-ID: 131044724
Über den Autor
Arjun Shankar is Assistant Professor of Culture and Politics at Georgetown University and coeditor of Curiosity Studies: A New Ecology of Knowledge.
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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Fachbereich: Völkerkunde
Genre: Importe
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Völkerkunde
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781478025092
ISBN-10: 1478025093
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Shankar, Arjun
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Arjun Shankar
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.08.2023
Gewicht: 0,476 kg
Artikel-ID: 131044724
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