Imagining India in discourse : meaning, power, structure

• Main Author: Dutta, Mohan J. (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer, 2017.
• Series: Anthropocene (Springer (Firm)) ; v. 14.
• Subjects: Since 1991; India > Economic conditions > 21st century.; India > Social conditions > 21st century.; India > Economic policy > 1991-2016.; India > Politics and government > 21st century.; India.; elektronické knihy; electronic books

The economic liberalization of India, changes in global structures, and the rapid emergence of India on the global landscape have been accompanied by the dramatic rise in popular, public, and elite discourses that offer the promise to imagine India. Written mostly in the future tense, these discours...

Table of Contents:

• Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1 Imagining India in Discourse; 1.1 India and Its Elites; 1.2 The English Language Press; 1.3 Imagination: Sites of Imagining India; 1.4 Power and Structure; 1.5 India's Economic Liberalization; 1.6 Meaning, Power, and Control; 1.6.1 The Power of Communication; 1.6.2 Communicative Inequality; 1.6.3 Communicative Inversion; 2 Discourses of Liberalization: Framing Economics; 2.1 Discourse, Power, and Communication Strategy; 2.1.1 Orienting to the Past; 2.1.2 Centering Economics to Society and Politics; 2.1.3 Differentiating Reason from Emotion.
• 2.2 Imagining India and Imagining Economics2.2.1 Prescription for Acceleration; 2.2.2 Markets, Freedom, and Aspirations; 2.2.3 Markets, Miracles, and Improved Lives; 2.2.4 Competition and Labor Laws; 2.3 Power, Control, and Imagination; 2.3.1 The Missing Subaltern; 2.4 Imagining India: Moral Dilemmas and Ethical Choices; 2.4.1 Civil Society, Market Logics, and Participation; 2.4.2 Greater Liberalization and Financial Globalization; 2.5 Discussion; 3 Innovation, Technology, and Development; 3.1 Technology as Development; 3.1.1 Technology and Industry; 3.1.2 Economy as Technology.
• 3.1.3 State, Free Market and Technology3.1.4 Technology and Market Reach; 3.1.5 Technology as Surveillance; 3.1.6 Technologies of Displacement; 3.2 Technology as Miracle; 3.2.1 Technology and Cultural Transformation; 3.2.2 Technocratic Problems of Development; 3.2.3 Technology as Development; 3.3 Discussion; 4 Food, Health, Shelter, and Education: Public Provisions and Private Industry; 4.1 Food, Agriculture, and Markets; 4.1.1 Growth and Agriculture; 4.1.2 Efficiency, Privatization, and Cash Transfer; 4.1.3 Agriculture, Contracts, and Global Commodity Chains.
• 4.1.4 Technologies of Agriculture4.1.5 Communicative Inversions and Erasures; 4.2 Health and the Market; 4.2.1 Individualization of Health; 4.2.2 Commoditization of Health; 4.2.3 Health and New Technologies; 4.3 Education and Efficiency; 4.4 Privatizing Education; 4.5 Competition; 4.5.1 Miracle Technologies; 4.5.2 Communicative Inversions and Erasures; 4.6 Shelter and Private Property: Redefined Spaces; 4.7 Narrative Structure and Discursive Constructions; 4.7.1 The Missing 'Other'; 4.8 Discussion; 5 State, Bureaucracy, and Politics: Contradictions in Interpretation.
• 5.1 Imagination and Birth of the State5.2 A Deficient State; 5.2.1 Public Sector and Government Control; 5.2.2 The State as Barrier; 5.2.3 The State as Incompetent; 5.3 Imaginations and Unleashed Opportunities; 5.3.1 A Strong State; 5.3.2 Management Rather than Civil Service; 5.3.3 Expertise and Discipline; 5.4 Discussion; 6 Culture and Communication: Old and New; 6.1 Markets and Cultures; 6.1.1 Markets and Emancipation; 6.1.2 Reforms and Culture; 6.1.3 Reforms as Bottom-up Enablers; 6.1.4 Reforms and Cosmopolitan Identities; 6.1.5 Culture and Economic Gains; 6.1.6 Communicating Reforms.