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Brown Saviors and Their Others: Race, Caste, Labor, and the Global Politics of Help in India
Duke University Press
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978-1-4780-2711-9
Publication date:
2023
In chapter ten, Shankar explores questions of primitive accumulation, economic mobility, and the contradictions of aspiration in the aftermath of the death of fieldworker Manoj's father. Manoj's father was a farmer whose death reflects the tragic phenomenon of farmers' suicide in India. Surprisingly, Manoj's attempts at reweaving life after a tragic loss also reveal some of the contradictions associated with fieldworker imaginaries of mobility through the NGO.
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