Dynamics of Difference

ISBN-13: 9780367547868 / Miękka / 2023 / 270 str.

Opis

This original conceptualization provides insights into the role of inequality in the processes of change in rural India. It presents in-depth analyses of the nature and form of inequality, and its causes and consequences. The volume examines interpersonal, intergroup, and intrapersonal inequalities in the country’s rural transformation.

Spis treści

Part I: Visualizing inequality  1. Processes of inequality  2. Processes of transformation  3. Vulnerability and escape  Part II: Interpersonal and intergroup inequalities  4. Tangible vulnerability  5. Gendered intangible inequality  6. Power and dominance  Part III: Intrapersonal inequalities  7. Intrapersonal inequality and distance dualism  8. Caste, power, and aspiration in structural dualism  9. Regional divergence in farmers’ suicides  10. Conceptualizing farmers’ suicides  11. Agricultural labour suicides in a Kerala village  12. Cultivator suicides in a Maharashtra village  13. Precariousness and suicide  Part IV: Negotiations of inequality  14. Aspirations and victimhood  15. Difference and inequality

O autorze

Narendar Pani is Professor and Head of the Inequality and Human Development Programme at National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, India.