Akhil Gupta

Broschiertes Buch

Red Tape

Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India

Beschreibung

Examining the chronic, widespread poverty in India, the world's fourth largest economy, Akhil Gupta theorizes the relation between the state in India and the poor as one of structural violence.

Autor

Akhil Gupta is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for India and South Asia at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India and a coeditor of Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology, both also published by Duke University Press. He is also a coeditor of The State in India after Liberalization: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science, The Anthropology of the State: A Reader, and Caste and Outcast.

Produktdetails

• A John Hope Franklin Center Book
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 568g
• ISBN-13: 9780822351108
• ISBN-10: 0822351102
• Artikelnr.: 35213983