Investigating Developmentalism

Dev Nath Pathak is Assistant Professor of Sociology at South Asian University, New Delhi, India. He is the author of Living and Dying: Meanings in Maithili Folklore (2018), the editor of Another South Asia! (2017), and, most recently, co-editor of Intersections of Contemporary Art, Anthropology and Art History in South Asia: Decoding Visual Worlds (with Sasanka Perera, 2019). Amiya Kumar Das teaches sociology at Tezpur University, Assam, India, and is the assistant editor of Explorations: the E-Journal of the Indian Sociological Society. His main research is broadly in the areas of sociology of governance, development sociology and sociology of health and illness.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Developmentalism: On a Trope of (Dis)Enchantment.- Part One: Discontentment and Disenchantment.- Chapter 2: The Danger of Development Today: An Inevitable Polemic.- Chapter 3: The Enchantment of Urbanization: Closer Look at Market's Narrative in Indian Cities.- Part Two: Dramatics and Enchantment.- Chapter 4: The Art of Showing: Imagining Development in Indian Mediascape.- Chapter 5: Crafting Development and Developing Craft: An On-going Dialogue.- Chapter 6: Documentaries and the Development Project: Filmmaking as a Discursive Practice.- Chapter 7: "Tayyari Jeet Ki": The Production of Childhood as a Cultural Trope of Developmentalism.- Part Three: Details of Discontents.- Chapter 8: Development, Marginality, and 'Contested Space' in th eCoastal Kerala, South India.- Chapter 9: Resurgence of Community in the Midst of Despair: Development's Changing Course in Northeast India.- Chapter 10: (Re)producing Middle Class" On Developmentas Middle Classes Mission.- Chapter 11: Frictions in Resistance: Imagining Post-neoliberal Developmental Possibilities.