The Political Lives of Information Information and the Production of Development in India

• Autor Principal: Srinivasan, Janaki (auth)
• Formato: Electrónico Capítulo de libro
• Idioma: inglés
• Publicado: Cambridge The MIT Press 2022
• Series: Information Society Series
• Subjects: Political structure & processes; Asian history; Central government policies; Politics of information; Right to Information RTI campaign; price information; informational determinism; information orders; information kiosks; India
• Acceso en liña: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

How the definition, production, and leveraging of information are shaped by caste, class, and gender, and the implications for development. Information, says Janaki Srinivasan, has fundamentally reshaped development discourse and practice. In this study, she examines the history of the idea of "...