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Red tape : bureaucracy, structural violence, and poverty in India

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Publication details: New Delhi Orient Blackswan 2012Description: 368p xiiiISBN:
  • 9780822351108
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.300000 GUP
Contents:
Table of contents Acknowledgments ix; Part One. Introduction; 1. Poverty as Biopolitics 3; 2. The State and the Politics of Poverty 41; Part Two. Corruption ; 3. Corruption, Politics, and the Imagined State 75; 4. Narratives of Corruption 111; Part Three. Inscription; 5. "Let the Train Run on Paper": Bureaucratic Writing as State Practice 141; 6. Literacy, Bureaucratic Domination, and Democracy 191; Part Four. Governmentality ; 7. Population and Neoliberal Governmentality 237; Epilogue 279; Notes 295; References Cited 329; Index 355
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Table of contents
Acknowledgments ix;
Part One. Introduction;
1. Poverty as Biopolitics 3;
2. The State and the Politics of Poverty 41;
Part Two. Corruption ;
3. Corruption, Politics, and the Imagined State 75;
4. Narratives of Corruption 111;
Part Three. Inscription;
5. "Let the Train Run on Paper": Bureaucratic Writing as State Practice 141;
6. Literacy, Bureaucratic Domination, and Democracy 191;
Part Four. Governmentality ;
7. Population and Neoliberal Governmentality 237;
Epilogue 279;
Notes 295;
References Cited 329;
Index 355