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Red tape : bureaucracy, structural violence, and poverty in India / Akhil Gupta.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: A John Hope Franklin Center bookPublication details: Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.Description: xiii, 368 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780822351108 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.3/50954 23
Contents:
Poverty as biopolitics -- "The state" and the politics of poverty -- Corruption, politics, and the imagined state -- Narratives of corrupti on -- "Let the paper train run" : bureaucratic writing as state practic e -- Literacy, bureaucratic domination, and democracy -- Population and neoliberal governmentality.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-354) and index.

Poverty as biopolitics -- "The state" and the politics of poverty -- Corruption, politics, and the imagined state -- Narratives of corrupti on -- "Let the paper train run" : bureaucratic writing as state practic e -- Literacy, bureaucratic domination, and democracy -- Population and neoliberal governmentality.

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