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Identity, Inequity and Inequality in India and China - Governing Difference (Hardcover, New)
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Identity, Inequity and Inequality in India and China - Governing Difference (Hardcover, New)
Series: ThirdWorlds
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This volume explores how difference is constructed, manifested,
mobilised and obscured in socially uneven societies, particularly
those fuelled by neoliberal economic growth in the recent years.
The book approaches difference as a double edged concept that
allows one to make sense of the tensions that are played out
between 'cosmopolitan' convergence and 'multicultural' diversity,
between expanding middle classes and increasingly disenfranchised
poor groups, between the global and the local. The chapters in this
volume present a series of empirical explorations of how difference
is articulated, desired, levelled, governed and even subverted in
the socio-economically uneven landscapes of India and China. They
examine how difference emerges out of daily practice,
categorisation processes, dividing practices, nation building
efforts and identity projects. Through these empirical studies, we
see how difference is articulated along a number of axes:
differentiations of groups or persons according to hierarchies of
superiority/inferiority; the demarcation of difference as something
that is potentially disruptive and therefore in need of
containment; the 'celebration' of difference as diversity, and
finally, the ways in which difference comes to be internalised in
the shaping of individual identities. Another common theme that
binds a number of contributions is the exploration of the role of
the state in constructing and controlling these differences, and
the ways in which these interventions rearrange the
social-political landscapes. This book was published as a special
issue of Third World Quarterly.
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