{"product_id":"degrees-without-freedom-craig-jeffrey-9780804757430","title":"Degrees Without Freedom?: Education, Masculinities, and Unemployment in North India","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDegrees Without Freedom?\u003c\/i\u003e re-evaluates debates on education, modernity, and social change in contemporary development studies and anthropology. Education is widely imputed with the capacity to transform the prospects of the poor. But in the context of widespread unemployment in rural north India, it is better understood as a contradictory resource, providing marginalized youth with certain freedoms but also drawing them more tightly into systems of inequality. The book advances this argument through detailed case studies of educated but unemployed or underemployed young men in rural western Uttar Pradesh. This book draws on fourteen months' ethnographic research with young men from middle caste Hindu, Muslim, and ex-Untouchable backgrounds. In addition to offering a new perspective on how education affects the rural poor in South Asia, \u003ci\u003eDegrees Without Freedom?\u003c\/i\u003e includes in-depth reflection on the politics of modernity, changing rural masculinities, and caste and communal politics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Craig Jeffrey, Patricia Jeffery, Roger Jeffery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804757437\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804757430\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/29\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.87h x 6.09w x 0.56d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2008 pg. 140","brand":"Craig Jeffrey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981259833599,"sku":"9780804757430","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0e532238-4402-4dc4-a1e6-dbee84ae61e6.jpg?v=1683254539","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/degrees-without-freedom-craig-jeffrey-9780804757430","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}