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Podcast: New Books in Communications
Episode: Janaki Srinivasan, "The Political Lives of Information: Information and the Production of Development in India" (MIT Press, 2022)
Description: The Political Lives of Information: Information and the Production of Development in IndiaĀ (MIT Press, 2022), written by Janaki Srinivasan andĀ published by MIT Press in October 2022, examines how the definition, production, and leveraging of information are shaped by caste, class, and gender, and the implications of thisĀ for development. Information, says Srinivasan, has fundamentally reshaped development discourse and practice.Ā In this study, she examines the history of the idea of āinformationā and its political implications for poverty alleviation. She presents three cases in Indiaāthe circulation of price information in a fish market in Kerala, government information in informa...