Development as biopolitics: food security and the contemporary Indian experience

Tripathy, Jyotirmaya

doi:10.1080/17530350.2017.1354312

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“…In India, there is a preference for an authoritative leader who is strict and demanding, “but also caring and nurturing – very much like the karta , the paternalistic head of the extended family” (Kakar & Kakar, 2007, p. 18). Paternalism is not a bad word in Indian politics and is seen as a site of legitimacy, as mai baap sarkar (parent-like government) who ensures life and livelihood (Tripathy, 2017, p. 505). There is also an ascetic streak in Modi, as in giving up salt in his childhood, chilies, and even oil, something that may problematize the easy association of his persona with masculinity.…”

Section: Modi’s Developmental Masculinitymentioning

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The Developmental Desire: The Crucible of Masculinity, from Nehru to Modi

Tripathy

2023

Journal of Developing Societies

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The recent boom in critical literature engaging with the development/masculinity nexus in contemporary India requires unpacking and further critique, not to over-emphasize the need for a grounded understanding of that dyad. India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and the incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi are brought to conversation over their developmental thought vis-à-vis their masculinities and the way they reflected and guided people’s desire for development. While doing so, the article interrogates the tendency to see political leaders as the protagonists of change while ignoring their simultaneous production within the social discourses of their times. In the process it corrects the assumption that leaders like Nehru and Modi contained within them singular and coherent versions of what they believed development to be and proposes that far from being stable carriers of their developmental thought, they betrayed contradictions within and such spillages defined their developmental character.

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Section: Modi’s Developmental Masculinitymentioning

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The Developmental Desire: The Crucible of Masculinity, from Nehru to Modi

Tripathy

2023

Journal of Developing Societies

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“…Indeed, a range of studies have examined how geo-strategic perspectives on food as state security are increasingly playing out in national settings, in Qatar (Koch 2020; Monroe 2020), Japan (Barclay and Epstein 2013), India (Tripathy 2016), China (Zha and Zhang 2013), the Middle East and Gulf states (Babar and Mirgani 2014; Woertz 2013), Israel (Griver and Fishhendler 2021), and the EU (Bureau and Swinnen 2018). Jennifer Clapp (2017), in her larger-scale study of states' food self-sufficiency policies, details how leaders from even the world's most food self-sufficient nations continue to consider food and agriculture as a matter of national security, in zero-sum terms.…”

Section: Weaponized Food and State Securitymentioning

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Producing Food, Security, and the Geopolitical Subject

Zhou

2022

Linköping Studies in Arts and Sciences

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This PhD was a long journey, much of which felt like groping around in the dark. I say with certainty that I would not have made it to this endpoint, without those pockets of light and support beams that guided and even carried me forward at many critical points. Among them, my most special thanks go to Eva Lövbrand, without whose intellectual support and ever generous feedback the completion of this thesis would not have been possible. Your mix of kindness and criticality was just what I needed, and I can't be grateful enough. To Malin Mobjörk, thank you for being a voice of reason constraining my messier tendencies throughout these years, and for seeing this through to the end. And to Björn-Ola, whose practical advice and everpresent support both in and outside of the supervision context, I have deeply appreciated it.

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“…In their critique of Gupta (2012), Harriss and Jeffrey (2013, p. 519) argue that injustice is not the outcome of arbitrary bureaucratic action; rather, ‘it systematically reflects caste, class and gender privileges’. Returning to the legibility thesis, we may say that the Indian developmental state humanizes itself through schemes such as housing or food security (Tripathy, 2017). So far as the Fellowship is concerned, it was not intended as a thickening of bureaucracy nor an effort at de-bureaucratization but a creative vernacularization to make the state speak the language of the people.…”

Section: The State and The Peoplementioning

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Between People and the State: The Ambivalence of Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellowship in India

Tripathy

Mahaprashasta

2022

Journal of South Asian Development

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The Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellowship (PMRDF), a flagship programme of the Ministry of Rural Development to facilitate development programme delivery in districts affected by Maoist violence, was introduced in 2011 and suspended in 2014. Though in a state of limbo at present, PMRDF created a complex template where binaries such as state/people, top-down/participatory and security/development were transcended and new ways of belonging generated, so as to make the developmental state an everyday reality in the lives of people. In this potential of PMRDF as a knowledge field to move beyond developmental platitudes, we encounter the limits of academic vocabulary to adequately capture how development matters on the ground. The article draws from critical literature on the postcolonial developmental state, secondary material on the experience of the PMRD Fellows as well as primary sources drawn from the authors’ interaction with a Fellow from Odisha. It is proposed that through PMRDF, the developmental state established its legitimacy by reaching out to people in underdeveloped regions even as it vernacularized its authority and undermined its own bureaucratic institutions. And the Fellows, far from being carriers of state power, and contrary to their representation in available literature, imagined themselves primarily as champions of people in need of development.

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Development as biopolitics: food security and the contemporary Indian experience

Cited by 5 publications

References 12 publications

The Developmental Desire: The Crucible of Masculinity, from Nehru to Modi

The Developmental Desire: The Crucible of Masculinity, from Nehru to Modi

Producing Food, Security, and the Geopolitical Subject

Between People and the State: The Ambivalence of Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellowship in India

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