Hegemonic Developments: The New Indian Middle Class, Gendered Subalterns, and Diasporic Returnees in the Event of Neoliberalism
Hegemonic Developments: The New Indian Middle Class, Gendered Subalterns, and Diasporic Returnees in the Event of Neoliberalism
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10.1086/652916
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发表时间：
2010-09-01
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1.9
通讯作者：
Ramamurthy, Priti
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作者：
Bhatt, Amy;Murty, Madhavi;Ramamurthy, Priti
“新中产阶级”作为一种政治建构，对女性主义国际政治经济学理论，特别是与发展有关的理论，具有重要的价值。新中产阶级的崛起通常与新自由主义并列，因此我们提供了一个新的理论化的新自由主义事件，并分析了一系列新中产阶级的迹象和主题在印度。质疑新印度妇女的形象在解决国家的社会时间和时空悖论的重复，我们认为，首先，下级妇女的形象是一个必要的计数器的新印度妇女。在国家舞台上，性别化的下层女性的到来是通过话语来庆祝的，这些话语表达了下层女性的身份，并留下了下层女性斗争的痕迹。她的性别身体构成了谁可以成为新中产阶级和新自由主义发展的先锋，谁不能。其次，我们认为，新中产阶级的形成正在通过涉及与家庭佣人交谈和为家庭佣人说话的阶级实践在侨民回归者的家庭中发生。回归者强烈要求鼓励阶级流动，并通过新自由主义政府来约束他们的仆人，这些政府借鉴了企业责任，专业精神和赋权的全球话语。这些发展脚本中穿插着对家政服务工作物质条件差的反思。本文对国际政治经济学的女性主义理论化的影响是方法论的，分析的和政治的。
The “new middle class” as a political construct is valuable for feminist theorizations of international political economy, particularly those concerned with development. The rise of the new middle class is usually juxtaposed with neoliberalism, so we offer a new theorization of neoliberalism‐as‐event and analyze an array of new‐middle‐class signs and subjects in India. Questioning the repetition of the figure of the new Indian woman in resolving the sociotemporal and spatiotemporal paradoxes of the nation, we argue, first, that the figure of the subaltern woman is a necessary counter to the new Indian woman. The arrival of the gendered subaltern on the national stage is celebrated through discourses that articulate and disarticulate the subaltern woman and bear the traces of subaltern struggles. Her gendered body constitutes the line between who can be new middle class and at the vanguard of neoliberal development and who cannot. Second, we argue that new‐middle‐class formation is taking place in the households of diasporic returnees through class practices that involve speaking to and for domestic servants. Returnees hold in tension urges to encourage class mobility and to discipline their servants through neoliberal governmentalities that draw on global discourses of corporate responsibility, professionalism, and empowerment. These development scripts are interspersed with reflections on the poor material conditions of domestic service work. The implications of this article for feminist theorizations of international political economy are methodological, analytical, and political.