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How the definition, production, and leveraging of information are shaped by caste, class, and gender, and the implications for development.

Information, says Janaki Srinivasan, has fundamentally reshaped development discourse and practice. In this study, she examines the history of the idea of “information” and its political implications for poverty alleviation. She presents three cases in India—the circulation of price information in a fish market in Kerala, government information in information kiosks operated by a nonprofit in Puducherry, and a political campaign demanding a right to information in Rajasthan—to explore three uses of information to support goals of social change. Countering claims that information is naturally and universally empowering, Srinivasan shows how the definition, production, and leveraging of information are shaped by caste, class, and gender.

Srinivasan draws on archival and ethnographic research to challenge

The Political Lives of Information Information

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      Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 04/10/2022
      ISBN13: 9780262544047, 978-0262544047
      ISBN10: 0262544040

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      How the definition, production, and leveraging of information are shaped by caste, class, and gender, and the implications for development.

      Information, says Janaki Srinivasan, has fundamentally reshaped development discourse and practice. In this study, she examines the history of the idea of “information” and its political implications for poverty alleviation. She presents three cases in India—the circulation of price information in a fish market in Kerala, government information in information kiosks operated by a nonprofit in Puducherry, and a political campaign demanding a right to information in Rajasthan—to explore three uses of information to support goals of social change. Countering claims that information is naturally and universally empowering, Srinivasan shows how the definition, production, and leveraging of information are shaped by caste, class, and gender.

      Srinivasan draws on archival and ethnographic research to challenge

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