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Logics of empowerment : development, gender, and governance in neoliberal India / Aradhana Sharma.
Van Pelt Library HQ1240.5.I4 S53 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sharma, Aradhana.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in development--India--Uttar Pradesh.
- Women in development.
- Mahilā Samākhyā (Project : Uttar Pradesh, India).
- Economic development projects--India--Uttar Pradesh.
- Economic development projects.
- Poor women--Services for--India--Uttar Pradesh.
- Poor women.
- Public welfare--India.
- Public welfare.
- Neoliberalism.
- Poor women--Services for.
- India.
- Neoliberalism--India.
- India--Uttar Pradesh.
- Physical Description:
- xxxvii, 260 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- Celebratory news features about India's thriving middle class tell only part of the story of the country's recent economic rise, frequently glossing over the 300 million Indians who live on the margins and struggle to survive under economic liberalization. How do those cast out of their country's successes perceive and respond to their position and mobilize against disempowerment?
- Aradhana Sharma takes up these questions, focusing on the work of an innovative women's program called Mahila Samakhya that is part governmental and part nongovernmental and strives to empower those rural Indian women who have been pushed aside. Detailing the awkward ideological articulations and paradoxical outcomes of this unique activist-cum-government organization, Logics of Empowerment fosters a deeper understanding of development and politics in contemporary India.
- Contents:
- Empowerment assemblages : a layered picture of the term
- Engendering neoliberal governance : welfare, empowerment, and state formation
- Empowering moves : paradoxes, subversions, dangers
- Staging development : a drama in north India
- (Cross)talking development : state and citizen acts
- Between women? : the micropolitics of community and collectivism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-238) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780816654529
- 0816654522
- 9780816654536
- 0816654530
- OCLC:
- 214322736
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