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Brown saviors and their others : race, caste, labor, and the global politics of help in India
Title
Brown saviors and their others : race, caste, labor, and the global politics of help in India / Arjun Shankar.
ISBN
9781478027119
1478027118
9781478025092
1478025093
9781478020110
1478020113
Publication
Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
Physical Description
1 online resource.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Other formats
Print version: Shankar, Arjun, 1984- Brown saviors and their others. Durham : Duke University Press, 2023
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 07, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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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