... In chapter one, Shankar places the help economies more directly within the conceptual frame of racial, caste, and gendered capitalism. race caste gender capitalism ...

... digital caste system Digital India appification global help ...

... In “Against Saviorism,” Shankar returns to his humble hope for this book: to unsettle, if ever so slightly, the project of global help in places like India by reframing it within the racial and caste capitalist enterprise. To consider the help economy as part of a global racial and caste...

.... In particular, Shankar focuses on how CEO Krish develops a new way of understanding Sahaayaka's digital future through his travels back and forth between California's Silicon Valley and Bangalore's Silicon Valley. digital caste system Digital India appification global help ...

... and forth between California's Silicon Valley and Bangalore's Silicon Valley. digital caste system Digital India appification global help In chapter fourteen, Shankar thinks through the politics of digital time as it structures Sahaayaka's intervention. In particular Shankar shows how CEO...

..., and it delineates the ways in which early-boom art biennials contributed to present curatorial paradigms. Finally, this chapter contends that the many biennial conversions of the early biennial boom helped produce “global contemporary art,” a category that consists of art made within the relations of production...

..., ideologies, and labor stratifications associated with who and how to help that have been passed down from the colonial period while also masking other operations of power behind the racial politics of global brownness. In the case of India, these operations of power center largely on the transnational labor...

...Theorizing Saviorism Part 1 situates brown saviorism and the help economy within the workings of racial capitalism. In chapter 1, Shankar explains how the help economies have become the solution to the problem of surplus labor in racial capitalist systems by functioning as a market...

..., and religion—reemerge in how brown saviors, mentors, and those who live in the villages outside of Bangalore imagine who should be helped and how. Together, these five chapters show how Sahaayaka's interventions reinscribe neocolonial hierarchies within the governance structures associated with help...