Red tape : bureaucracy, structural violence, and poverty in India / Akhil Gupta

• VerfasserIn: Gupta, Akhil 1959-
• Place / Publishing House: Durham, London : Duke University Press, 2012
• Leto izdaje: 2012
• Jezik: English
• Serija: A John Hope Franklin Center book
• Classification: 73.40 - Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines; 15.77 - Indischer Subkontinent
• Fizični opis: xiii, 368 Seiten; 24 cm
• Note: Poverty as biopolitics -- The state and the politics of poverty -- Corruption, politics, and the imagined state -- Narratives of corruption -- "Let the train run on paper" : bureaucratic writing as state practice -- Literacy, bureaucratic domination, and democracy -- Population and neoliberal governmentality; Literaturverzeichnis Seite [329]-354