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  • Red Tape

    Bureaucracy, Structural Violence, and Poverty in India

    by Akhil Gupta ...
    Series series A John Hope Franklin Center book
    Red Tape presents a major new theory of the state developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and widespread poverty in India, the world's fourth largest economy, Gupta conceives of the relation between the state in India and the poor as one of structural violence. Every year this violence kills between two and three million people, especially women and ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Love, Learn, Play

    A Simple Formula for a Happier, More Meaningful Life

    by Akhil Gupta ...
    Despite unprecedented levels of material success, billions today feel unfulfilled, anxious, and disconnected.In Love, Learn, Play, Akhil Gupta—a former driver equity leader turned global seeker—offers radical yet deeply intuitive solution: real well-being arises when we engage our deepest human longings to love to learn and to play in whatever we do.Drawing from his remarkable journey—from global ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Future of Futurity

    Affective Capitalism and Potentiality in a Global City

    by Purnima Mankekar, Akhil Gupta ...
    Series series The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures
    In The Future of Futurity, Purnima Mankekar and Akhil Gupta examine the lives and experiences of call center agents in India’s business process outsourcing (BPO) industry, who live in Bengaluru and work for customers in the Global North. Mankekar and Gupta show how futurity—an affective-temporal potentiality and mode of being that emphasizes the unfolding of time—enables BPO workers to strive for ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Some Sizes Fit All

    by Akhil Gupta ...
    An oft-repeated dictum every time a company fails to replicate its past successes when introducing a new product or entering a new market is that one size does not fit all. Business gurus advise that every new situation, market and environment calls for a fresh approach and requires 'unlearning' what one might have learnt elsewhere, even if that had met with great success. While this statement may ... Read more

    $4.19 USD

  • Culture, Power, Place

    Explorations in Critical Anthropology

    Edited by Akhil Gupta, James Ferguson ...
    Anthropology has traditionally relied on a spatially localized society or culture as its object of study. The essays in Culture, Power, Place demonstrate how in recent years this anthropological convention and its attendant assumptions about identity and cultural difference have undergone a series of important challenges. In light of increasing mass migration and the transnational cultural flows ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Intelligent Communication and Automation Systems

    Edited by Akhil Gupta, Bandana Sharma, Suman Lata Tripathi, Kamal Sharma ...
    This comprehensive reference text discusses concepts of intelligence communication and automation system in a single volume. The text discusses the role of artificial intelligence in communication engineering, the role of machine learning in communication systems, and applications of image and video processing in communication. It covers important topics including smart sensing systems, ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Postcolonial Developments

    Agriculture in the Making of Modern India

    by Akhil Gupta ...
    This definitive study brings together recent critiques of development and work in postcolonial studies to explore what the postcolonial condition has meant to rural people in the Third World. Focusing on local-level agricultural practices in India since the “green revolution” of the 1960s, Akhil Gupta challenges the dichotomy of “developed” and “underdeveloped,” as well as the notion of a ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • OSCEs for Medical Finals

    by Hamed Khan, Iqbal Khan, Akhil Gupta, Nazmul Hussain, Sathiji Nageshwaran ...
    OSCEs for Medical Finals has been written by doctors from a variety of specialties with extensive experience of medical education and of organising and examining OSCEs.The book and website package consists of the most common OSCE scenarios encountered in medical finals, together with checklists, similar to OSCE mark schemes, that cover all of the key learning points students need to succeed. Each ... Read more

    $45.00 USD

  • The Promise of Infrastructure

    Edited by Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta, Hannah Appel ...
    From U.S.-Mexico border walls to Flint's poisoned pipes, there is a new urgency to the politics of infrastructure. Roads, electricity lines, water pipes, and oil installations promise to distribute the resources necessary for everyday life. Yet an attention to their ongoing processes also reveals how infrastructures are made with fragile and often violent relations among people, materials, and ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The State in India after Liberalization

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Akhil Gupta, Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    This book assesses the impact of liberalization on practices of government and relations between state and society. It is clear that liberalization as state policy has complex forms of regulation and deregulation inbuilt, and these policies have resulted in dramatic increases in productivity and economic wealth but also generated spectacular new forms of inequality between social groups, regions, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Territories of Poverty

    Rethinking North and South

    by Ananya Roy, Emma Shaw Crane, Jamie Peck, Bill Maurer, Rebecca Peters, Christina Gossman, Alyosha Goldstein, Nik Theodore, Erica Kohl-Arenas0, Hiba Bou Akar1, Stephanie Ullrich2, Luis Flores3, Anh-Thi Le4, Ju Hui Judy Han5, Vincanne Adams6, Stuart Schrader7, Loïc Wacquant8, Teddy Cruz9, Akhil Gupta0, Somaya Abdelgany1, Michael Katz2 ...
    Series series
    Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging theoretical interventions that traverse social histories of the American welfare state and critical ethnographies of international development regimes, these essays confront how poverty is constituted as a problem. In the process, the book analyzes bureaucracies of ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

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    Migration, Work, and Citizenship in an Age of Insecurity

    by Valerie Preston, Robert Latham, Leah Vosko ...
    Liberating Temporariness? explores the complex ways in which temporariness is being institutionalized as a condition of life for a growing number of people worldwide. The collection emphasizes contemporary developments, but also provides historical context on nation-state membership as the fundamental means for accessing rights in an era of expanding temporariness - in recognition of why pathways ... Read more

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