Ground Down by Growth: Tribe, Caste, Class and Inequality in 21st Century India (Anthropology, Culture and Society)

ISBN 10: 0745337686 / ISBN 13: 9780745337685

Verlag: Pluto Press, 2017

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Inhaltsangabe:

Why has India’s astonishing economic growth not reached the people at the bottom of its social and economic hierarchy? Travelling the length and breadth of the subcontinent, this book shows how India’s ‘untouchables' and ‘tribals' fit into the global economy. India’s Dalit and Adivasi communities make up a staggering one in twenty-five people across the globe and yet they remain amongst the most oppressed. Conceived in dialogue with economists, Ground Down by Growth reveals the impact of global capitalism on their lives. It shows how capitalism entrenches, rather than erases, social difference and has transformed traditional forms of identity-based discrimination into new mechanisms of exploitation and oppression. Through studies of the working poor, migrant labour and the conjugated oppression of caste, tribe, region, gender and class relations, the social inequalities generated by capitalism are exposed.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Alpa Shah is associate professor in anthropology at the London School of Economics, and the author of In the Shadows of the State: Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism, and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India. Jens Lerche is reader in labor and agrarian studies at SOAS, University of London. Richard Axelby is lecturer in development studies at SOAS, University of London. Dalel Benbabaali is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in area studies at the University of Oxford. Brendan Donegan is visiting fellow in anthropology at the London School of Economics. Jayaseelan Raj is assistant professor at the Centre for Development Studies in Kerala, India. Vikramaditya Thakur is assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Delaware. 
 

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Ground Down by Growth: Tribe, Caste, Class ...
Verlag: Pluto Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good