In Brown Saviors and Their Others Arjun Shankar draws from his
ethnographic work with an educational NGO to investigate the
practices of “brown saviors”—globally mobile, dominant-caste,
liberal Indian and Indian diasporic technocrats who drive India’s
help economy. Shankar argues that these brown saviors actually
reproduce many of the racialized values and ideologies associated
with who and how to help that have been passed down from the
colonial period, while masking other operations of power behind the
racial politics of global brownness. In India, these operations of
power center largely on the transnational labor politics of caste.
Ever attentive to moments of discomfort and complicity, Shankar
develops a method of “nervous ethnography” to uncover the
global racial hierarchies, graded caste stratifications,
urban/rural distinctions, and digital panaceas that shape the
politics of help in India. Through nervous critique, Shankar
introduces a framework for the study of the global help economies
that reckons with the ongoing legacies of racial and caste
capitalism.
General
| Imprint: |
Duke University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
August 2023 |
| Firstpublished: |
2023 |
| Authors: |
Arjun Shankar
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
360 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4780-2509-2 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-4780-2509-3 |
| Barcode: |
9781478025092 |
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