{"product_id":"brown-saviors-and-their-others-9781478025092","title":"Brown Saviors and Their Others","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArjun Shankar draws from his long-term ethnographic work with an educational NGO in India to critique the role of the brown saviorthe group of globally mobile, upper-caste, liberal Indian and Indian diasporic technocrats who dominate India's contemporary help economy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this ‘nervous’ and ‘sweaty’ ethnography of an education NGO in South India, Arjun Shankar offers an original, historically and theoretically robust analysis of the global helping economy, elaborating a complex system that unites racial capitalism, technocratic solutionism, neocolonialism and development ideologies under the figure of the ‘brown savior.’” -- Adia Benton, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African Studies, Northwestern University\u003cbr\u003e\"A needed take on the growing neoliberalization of caste values and racialization of cultural capital in the globalized world. The color-cosmetic desires penetrate into markets of patronship and subjecthood. The analogy of the brown savior is damning the philosophy of the underclass in the colonial width. 'Brown saviors' is a befitting jargon of the neoliberal postcolonial world. Brown is colonized and therefore it is global. Its structural hangouts are cultural, and thus it thinks of itself as a savior to its people because it has become a savior in the global economy and corporate diversity. This powerful manuscript, packed with accessible ethnography, points out the obvious in the room with demanding rigor and engaging theory. A dutiful addition to the global castes.\" -- Suraj Yengde, Harvard University\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBrown Saviors and their Others\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal to scholars and students of development studies, postcolonial and decolonial studies, and of critical race studies. The nervous ethnography that characterizes it is sure to enrich ongoing debates about what it would mean for ethnography to truly break from its colonial and white supremacist past and about what it would mean to address social inequality outside of a savior mentality and within a framework that seeks to undo the racial and caste hierarchies that are facilitated by our current global capitalist system.\" -- Nell Gabiam * Ethnic and Racial Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface: Encountering Saviorism  vii\u003cbr\u003e Premise One: Global Shadows  vii\u003cbr\u003e Premise Two: Nervous Ethnography  xii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Brown Saviorism  1\u003cbr\u003e I. Theorizing Saviorism\u003cbr\u003e 1. Global Help Economics and Racial Capitalism  31\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Racial Politics of the Savarna Hindu (or the Would-Be Savior)  45\u003cbr\u003e II. Neocolonial Saviorism\u003cbr\u003e 3. Poverty’s Motivational Double Bind (or Neo-Mathusian Visions)  63\u003cbr\u003e 4. Fatal Pragmatism (or the Politics of “Going There”)  75\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Case of Liberal Intervention  85\u003cbr\u003e 6. Hindu Feminist Rising and Falling  95\u003cbr\u003e 7. Gatekeepers (or the Anti-Muslim Politics of Help)  107\u003cbr\u003e III. Urban Saviorism\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Road to Accumulation  121\u003cbr\u003e 9. Urban Altruism\/Urban Corruption  133\u003cbr\u003e 10. A Global Death  145\u003cbr\u003e 11. The Insult of Precarity (or “I Don’t Give a Damn”)  157\u003cbr\u003e 12. AC Cars and the Hyperreal Village  167\u003cbr\u003e IV. Digital Saviorism\u003cbr\u003e 13. Digital Saviors  181\u003cbr\u003e 14. Digital Time (and Its Others)  193\u003cbr\u003e 15. Digital Audit Culture (or Metadata)  203\u003cbr\u003e 16. Digital Scaling (or Abnormalities)  215\u003cbr\u003e 17. Digital Dustbins  227\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Against Saviorism  239\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  251\u003cbr\u003e Notes  257\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  299\u003cbr\u003e Index  323","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409017381207,"sku":"9781478025092","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478025092.jpg?v=1730505111","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/brown-saviors-and-their-others-9781478025092","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}