ISBN:
9781478027119
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (363 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
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DDC:
305.900954
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface: Encountering Saviorism -- Premise One: Global Shadows -- Premise Two: Nervous Ethnography -- Introduction: Brown Saviorism -- I: Theorizing Saviorism -- 1. Global Help Economies and Racial Capitalism -- 2. The Racial Politics of the Savarna Hindu (or the Would-Be Savior) -- II: Neocolonial Saviorism -- 3. Poverty's Motivational Double Bind (or Neo-Malthusian Visions) -- 4. Fatal Pragmatism (or the Politics of "Going There") -- 5. The Caste of Liberal Intervention -- 6. Hindu Feminist Rising and Falling -- 7. Gatekeepers (or the Anti-Muslim Politics of Help) -- III: Urban Saviorism -- 8. The Road to Accumulation -- 9. Urban Altruism/Urban Corruption -- 10. A Global Death -- 11. The Insult of Precarity (or "I Don't Give a Damn") -- 12. AC Cars and the Hyperreal Village -- IV: Digital Saviorism -- 13. Digital Saviors -- 14. Digital Time (and Its Others) -- 15. Digital Audit Culture (or Metadata) -- 16. Digital Scaling (or Abnormalities) -- 17. Digital Dustbins -- Conclusion: Against Saviorism -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478027119?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781478027119
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