CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Part One INTRODUCTION
5. 1. Poverty as Biopolitics 3
6. 2. The State and the Politics of Poverty 41
7. Part Two CORRUPTION
8. 3. Corruption, Politics, and the Imagined State 75
9. 4. Narratives of Corruption 111
10. Part Three INSCRIPTION
11. 5. ‘‘Let the Train Run on Paper’’ 141
12. 6. Literacy, Bureaucratic Domination, and Democracy 191
13. Part Four GOVERNMENTALITY
14. 7. Population and Neoliberal Governmentality 237
15. Epilogue 279
16. Notes 295
17. References Cited 329
18. Index 355