Red tape : bureaucracy, structural violence, and poverty in India /
"Red Tape presents a major new theory of the state developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and widespread poverty in India, the world's fourth largest economy, Gupta conceives of the relation between the state in India and the poor as one of...
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Durham, N.C. :
Duke University Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Poverty as biopolitics
- "The state" and the politics of poverty
- Corruption, politics, and the imagined state
- Narratives of corruption
- "Let the paper train run" : bureaucratic writing as state practice
- Literacy, bureaucratic domination, and democracy
- Population and neoliberal governmentality.