Arjun Shankar

Brown Saviors and Their Others

Race, Caste, Labor, and the Global Politics of Help in India

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781478025092
• ISBN-10: 1478025093
• Artikelnr.: 66762544

Autorenporträt

Arjun Shankar is Assistant Professor of Culture and Politics at Georgetown University and coeditor of Curiosity Studies: A New Ecology of Knowledge.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Encountering Saviorism  vii
Premise One: Global Shadows  vii
Premise Two: Nervous Ethnography  xii
Introduction: Brown Saviorism  1
I. Theorizing Saviorism
1. Global Help Economics and Racial Capitalism  31
2. The Racial Politics of the Savarna Hindu (or the Would-Be Savior)  45
II. Neocolonial Saviorism
3. Poverty’s Motivational Double Bind (or Neo-Mathusian Visions)  63
4. Fatal Pragmatism (or the Politics of “Going There”)  75
5. The Case of Liberal Intervention  85
6. Hindu Feminist Rising and Falling  95
7. Gatekeepers (or the Anti-Muslim Politics of Help)  107
III. Urban Saviorism
8. The Road to Accumulation  121
9. Urban Altruism/Urban Corruption  133
10. A Global Death  145
11. The Insult of Precarity (or “I Don’t Give a Damn”)  157
12. AC Cars and the Hyperreal Village  167
IV. Digital Saviorism
13. Digital Saviors  181
14. Digital Time (and Its Others)  193
15. Digital Audit Culture (or Metadata)  203
16. Digital Scaling (or Abnormalities)  215
17. Digital Dustbins  227
Conclusion: Against Saviorism  239
Acknowledgments  251
Notes  257
Bibliography  299
Index  323