Rethinking agency : developmentalism, gender and rights / Sumi Madhok.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Madhok, Sumi, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development.

Human rights.

Women's rights.

Physical Description:

xvi, 237 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2013.

Summary:

This book proposes a new theoretical framework for agency thinking by examining the ethical, discursive and practical engagements of a group of women development workers in north-west India with developmentalism and individual rights. Rethinking Agency asks an underexplored question, tracks the entry, encounter, experience and practice of developmentalism and individual rights, and examines their normative and political trajectory. Through an ethnography of a moral encounter with developmentalism, it raises a critical question: how do we think of agency in oppressive contexts? Further, how do issues of risk, injury, coercion and oppression alter the conceptual mechanics of agency itself? The work will be invaluable to research organisations, development practitioners, policy makers and political journalists interested in questions of gender, political empowerment, rights and political participation, and to academics and students in the fields of feminist theory, development studies, sociology, politics and gender studies. Book jacket.

Contents:

I Developmentalism, Agency and Rights: An Introduction 1

II Action, Agency, Oppression: Reformatting Agency for Oppressive Contexts 36

III Producing Subjects and Subjectivities for Development: The Women's Development Programme, Rajasthan 69

IV Rights and the Politics of Developing New Subjectivities 120

V Political Rights and Developmentalism: Three Self-Representations 170

VI Afterword 207.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-230) and index.

ISBN:

0415811929

9780415811927

OCLC:

806017235

Publisher Number:

99959117525