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

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Degrees Without Freedom? re-evaluates debates on education, modernity, and social change in recent development studies and anthropology. Education is widely imputed with the capacity to change into the prospects of the poor. But within the context of widespread unemployment in rural north India, it’s better understood as a contradictory resource, providing marginalized youth with certain freedoms but in addition 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 caste Hindu, Muslim, and ex-Untouchable backgrounds. Along with offering a new standpoint on how education affects the agricultural poor in South Asia, Degrees Without Freedom? includes in-depth mirrored image at the politics of modernity, changing rural masculinities, and caste and communal politics.

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