Provincial Globalization in India: Transregional Mobilities and Development Politics

ISBN-13: 9780367589165 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 194 str.

Carol Upadhya; Mario Rutten; Leah Koskimaki

Opis

This book analyzes the social consequences of the transmission of migrant resources to provincial places in India.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Transregional Mobilities and Provincial Transitions in India, Leah Koskimaki and Carol Upadhya 2. Reciprocity and Contestation: Diaspora Philanthropy in Central Gujarat, Natascha Dekkers and Mario Rutten 3. Diaspora Philanthropy and the Globalization of Education in Punjab: Conflicting Visions of Development, Kaveri Qureshi 4. Frustrations and Alliances: The Politics of Migrant Funding for Muslim Education in Central Gujarat, Sanderien Verstappen 5. Transnational Citizens as ‘Development Partners’ in Coastal Andhra, Sanam Roohi 6. Development Destinations and Networked Dreams: Transnational Giving in Dakshina Kannada, Sulagna Mustafi and Leah Koskimaki 7. Punjabi Dalit Transnational Mobility: Challenging Caste Inequalities, Steve Taylor 8. From Agrarian Landlords to Transnational Entrepreneurs: Reconfiguring Political Influence in Coastal Karnataka, Leah Koskimaki 9. A ‘Love for Land’: Transregional Property Investments in Andhra, Carol Upadhya

O autorze

Carol Upadhya is Professor in the School of Social Sciences at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bengalura, India, where she directs the Urban and Mobility Studies Programme. She is the author of Reengineering India: Work, Capital, and Class in an Offshore Economy (2016).

Mario Rutten (late) was Professor of Comparative Anthropology and Sociology of Asia at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He was the author of Asian Capitalists in the European Mirror (1994), Farms and Factories (1995), Rural Capitalists in Asia (Routledge Curzon, 2003), and ‘You had a Nice Holiday?: Stories about Anthropological Fieldwork (in Dutch, 2007).

Leah Koskimaki is a sociocultural anthropologist and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa. Previously she conducted research with the Provincial Globalisation Programme at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) in Bengalura, India.