Degrees Without Freedom? Education, Masculinities, and Unemployment in North India

Name: Degrees Without Freedom? Education, Masculinities, and Unemployment in North India
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ISBN: 9780804757430

ISBN-10: 0804757437

ISBN-13: 9780804757430

Edition: 2008

Authors: Craig Jeffrey, Patricia Jeffery, Roger Jeffery

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"Degrees Without Freedom?" re-evaluates debates on education, modernity, and social change in contemporary development studies and anthropology. Education is widely imputed with the capacity to transform the prospects of the poor. But in the context of widespread unemployment in rural north India, it is better understood as a contradictory resource, providing marginalized youth with certain freedoms but also drawing them more tightly into systems of inequality. The book advances this argument through detailed case studies of educated but unemployed or underemployed young men in rural western Uttar Pradesh. This book draws on fourteen months' ethnographic research with young men from middle…

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 11/29/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.770



Acknowledgments


The Authors



Introduction


Chandbir


Sen, Education and Freedom


Global Youth Cultures


Styles of Appropriation


Gendered Styles


Grounding Un/under-Employment


Research Strategy


Argument and Structure of the Book



The Political Economy of Uttar Pradesh


The Political Economy of UP


Employment and Education in Bijnor District


In Search of Distinction: Jat Educational and Employment Strategies


'War Against Fate': Muslim and Chamar Strategies


Conclusions



Masculinity on a Shoestring? The Cultural Production of Education


Imagining Education


Hegemonized Young Men?


Conclusions



From Canefield to Campus (and Back Again): The Social Strategies of Educated Jats


Rich Farmers in Post-Colonial India


Sonu


Reinvesting in Education


'Semi-bourgeois' Work


Dust, Soil and Shifting Jat Masculinities


Social Differences among the Jats


Conclusions



Dalit Revolution? New Politicians in Uttar Pradesh


New Politicians as Political Intermediaries


Urbane Geographies: New Politicians as Social Animators


The Popular Receptions of Netas' Ideas


Conclusions



Muslims' Strategies in an Age of Insecurity


Zamir


Valuing Education


Alternative Routes: Manual Labor and Islamic Masculinities


The Counter-narratives of 'Uneducated' Men


The Social Dangers of 'Acting Islamic'


Conclusions



Down and Out in Nangal and Qaziwala: The Cultural Politics of Resentment


Introducing Amarpal


Chamars' Search for Fallback Work


Timepass Cultures


Muslim and Jat Resentment


Conclusions



Conclusions


Reproducing Difference


Grounding Modernities


Degrees Without Freedom? Rethinking Education


Bibliography


Index