... to the emergence of new kinds of welfare states and introduces the idea of a politics of distribution as an alternative analytical framework. It concludes by elaborating a conception of politics that has less to do with critique and denunciation than with experimentation and assessment and by suggesting...

... This chapter reviews the ubiquity of anti-distributionist sentiment in the domains both of scholarship and of practical policymaking and explores the masculinist and misogynistic bases of such hostility toward distribution. It then notes certain reasons to believe that this state of affairs may...

... This chapter reviews the way that new state programs of distribution intersect with existing processes and practices of distribution. There is a vast and rich regional literature on the multiple livelihood practices that are utilized by low-income people across the region, and on the social...

... This chapter explores the question of how the distributive demands that are especially visible in discussions around mineral wealth (and that typically focus on demands for the nationalization of industries) are being brought to bear on the new social payments that the previous chapters have...

... initiative when it finally arrived. While the two-decade arc of debate over the benefits and pitfalls of privatization concluded with Mumbai’s water infrastructures squarely in the public domain, market logic unmapped Mumbai’s water distribution network. privatization marketization hydrotechnology...