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.
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.
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
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
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