Dream Zones : Anticipating Capitalism and Development in India
- Submitting institution
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University of Edinburgh
- Unit of assessment
- 22 - Anthropology and Development Studies
- Output identifier
- 31101605
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.2307/j.ctt183p7r8
- Publisher
- Pluto Press
- ISBN
- 9780745333724
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph drew on five years of research in and around India’s special economic zones. The book represented the first detailed, ethnographic study of the politics of labour, dispossession and activism around these key sites of offshore production and industrialisation. The book demonstrates sustained research effort, and presents an extended analysis of the cultural, economic, and political investments in these zones as large-scale infrastructure development projects. The critical insights and arguments presented here were based on the author’s own Telugu language fieldwork in Andhra Pradesh, South India, including 12 months of apprenticeship on the floor of an offshore manufacturing unit.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Ch.4 (pp. 106-110) adapted from Cross’s 2011 article ‘Detachment as a corporate ethic: Materializing CSR in the diamond supply chain’, Focaal. Portions of ch.5 adapted from the 2009 article ‘From dreams to discontent: Educated young men and the politics of work at a Special Economic Zone in Andhra Pradesh’, Contributions to Indian Sociology (pp. 139-142), and the 2012 article ‘Technological intimacy: Re-engaging with gender and technology in the global factory’, Ethnography (pp. 137-138). Some paragraphs appear in both article and chapter but framed by significant new writing and analysis, situated within the book’s original thesis. Articles submitted to REF2014.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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