Fatal Pragmatism (or the Politics of “Going There”)

In chapter four, Shankar excavates the racialized global politics of Sahaayaka's founder Ramaswamy's raced, casteized, and classed ideologies undergirding his need to frequently visit rural schools. In turn, Shankar deploys the Freirian framework of “fatal pragmatism” to show how Ramaswmay's alliances with global partners, especially US business schools, render fatal his attempts at a more engaged, community-based organizational ethos.