Logics of empowerment : development, gender, and governance in neoliberal India / Aradhana Sharma.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sharma, Aradhana.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development projects--India--Uttar Pradesh.

Economic development projects.

Neoliberalism--India.

Neoliberalism.

Poor women--Services for--India--Uttar Pradesh.

Poor women.

Public welfare--India.

Public welfare.

Women in development--India--Uttar Pradesh.

Women in development.

Mahilā Samākhyā (Project : Uttar Pradesh, India).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

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? In Logics of Empowerment, 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 empow

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-6651-2

OCLC:

318220537