Interrogating Development: Insights from the Margins - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0198066414 ISBN 13: 9780198066415

Casa editrice: OUP India, 2010

Riassunto

This collection presents a new perspective on the role of culture in shaping the ambivalent attitude towards economic development of many marginalized people. The strength of this volume lies in how the essays provide examples from both within India and without, to illuminate old Dalit/Savarna and also Hindu/Muslim dynamics specific to India. The volume clearly defines how asymmetrical complementary relationships between Dalits and Savarnas are being replaced by short-term contractual labour relations that no longer involve long-term intergenerational reciprocal obligations.
The essays draw attention to the non-modern, non-Western agents that have rendered invisible the dynamics of cyclicity, bio-cultural regeneration, and social and ecological reproduction (SER). What the volume achieves is an understanding of the specifics of Western modernism and modernism in India. Also, through specific examples in India, the US, and elsewhere, it clarifies some of the profound differences between modern, capitalist processes of marginalization as well as non-modern ones.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Frédérique Apffel-Marglin is Professor Emerita, Department of Anthropology at Smith College, Northampton, MA, USA
; Sanjay Kumar is Secretary, Deshkal Society, Delhi
; Arvind Kumar Mishra is Assistant Professor, Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: OUP India
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0198066414
• ISBN 13: 9780198066415
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 360
• Redattore: Apffel-Marglin Frédérique, Kumar Sanjay, Mishra Arvind
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