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Maximum Governance: Managerial Populism And Violent Infrastructures In The New India, Mila T. Samdub
Maximum Governance: Managerial Populism And Violent Infrastructures In The New India, Mila T. Samdub
Masters of Environmental Design Theses
Alongside rampant state violence, the systematic disenfranchisement of minorities and a draconian approach to dissent, since 2014 India has been the site of a relentless project of managerial competence. Projects like the Aadhaar biometric identity programme, the government’s embrace of performance indices, and the construction of a massive new capital in central Delhi – the case studies at the heart of this thesis – promise a new, transforming nation, characterised by Narendra Modi’s slogan “maximum governance, minimum government”. Dramatizing efficiency and transparency against the perceived inefficiency and corruption of the old India, such projects’ aesthetics allow a violent Hindu majoritarian …