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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. It draws on fourteen months' ethnographic research with young men from middle caste Hindu, Muslim, and ex-Untouchable backgrounds. In addition to offering a new perspective on how education affects the rural poor in South Asia, "Degrees Without Freedom?" includes in-depth reflection on the politics of modernity, changing rural masculinities, and caste and communal politics.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology

• Full title: Degrees Without Freedom?
• Subtitle: Education, Masculinities, and Unemployment in North India
• Author: Jeffrey Craig, Patricia Jeffery, Roger Jeffery
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9780804757423
• ISBN: 0804757429
• ID: 04718356
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 454 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. November 2007

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