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Red tape : bureaucracy, structural violence, and poverty in India / Akhil Gupta.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gupta, Akhil, 1959-
- Series:
- John Hope Franklin Center book.
- A John Hope Franklin Center book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poverty--Government policy--India.
- Poverty.
- Public welfare--India.
- Public welfare.
- Political corruption--India.
- Political corruption.
- Bureaucracy--India.
- Bureaucracy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (384 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Poverty as biopolitics
- "The state" and the politics of poverty
- Corruption, politics, and the imagined state
- Narratives of corruption
- "Let the paper train run" : bureaucratic writing as state practice
- Literacy, bureaucratic domination, and democracy
- Population and neoliberal governmentality.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786613862679
- 9781283550222
- 1283550229
- 9780822394709
- 0822394707
- OCLC:
- 806521130
- Publisher Number:
- 9786613862679
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