Red tape
Subtitle: bureaucracy, structural violence, and poverty in India
By: Akhil Gupta
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780822350989; 9780822351108
Subjects: Political corruption; Poverty; Government policy; Public welfare; Bureaucracy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Poverty as biopolitics; title: "The state" and the politics of poverty; title: Corruption, politics, and the imagined state; title: Narratives of corruption; title: "Let the paper train run" : bureaucratic writing as state practice; title: Literacy, bureaucratic domination, and democracy; title: Population and neoliberal governmentality.