Digital India and the Poor: Policy, Technology and Society

ISBN-13: 9780367496203 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 190 str.

Suman Gupta

Opis

Digital India and The Poor examines how the poor are evoked in contemporary Indian political discourse. It studies the ways in which the disadvantaged are accounted for in the increasingly digitized political economy, commercial and public policy, media, and academic research.

 

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Theme, Method, Terms, Structure   PART 1: Top-Down  2. Experiments in Slums, 1999-2006  3. From ‘Informal Sector’ to ‘Financial Inclusion’, 2004-2014  4. ‘Financial Inclusion’ Initiatives, 2014-2017  PART 2: On the Ground  5. Domestic Workers and the Performance of Hierarchy  6. Domestic Workers and Technology  7. Conclusion: Slippages

O autorze

Suman Gupta is Professor of Literature and Cultural History at the Open University, UK. He has held visiting positions at Delhi University, India; Peking University, China; University of Texas Austin, USA; Federal University of Campinas, Brazil, among others. He is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Roehampton University, UK. He has authored various publications including Usurping Suicide: The Political Resonances of Individual Deaths (2017, co-author), Consumable Texts in Contemporary India: Uncultured Books and Bibliographical Sociology (2015), Globalization and Literature (2009), and The Theory and Reality of Democracy: A Case Study in Iraq (2006).