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How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.
The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes
Nation-building is thus a dominant discursive trope in Indian CSR and builds on the economic aspirations of the growing middle-class population and the political leadership’s own ambitions to join the ranks of the First World (Menon and Nigam 2008, Nilekani 2008; Varma 1999). The elements of this trope include technological advancement for the company/industry/country, investments in primary and higher education, partnership with State agencies and congruence with State objectives, greater urbanization, wealth-generation (in terms of economic growth indicators like GDP), and avowal of the so-called traditional societal values.
‘‘My Country’s Future’’: A Culture-Centered Interrogation of Corporate Social Responsibility in India
Rahul Mitra
In his recent book, Mark Duffield (2007:19) draws a stark contrast between “insured life” in the global North, and “non-insured surplus life” in the global South. The goal of transnational development intervention, he argues, is not to extend northern-style social protections to the population of the global South, but to keep the latter in their place—ensconced in their nations, communities and families, where they must be self-sufficient, and not make demands.
To Make Live or Let Die? Rural Dispossession and the Protection of Surplus Populations
Tania Murray Li
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