A jumble of needs : women's activism and neoliberalism in the colonias of the Southwest / Rebecca Dolhinow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dolhinow, Rebecca.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in community organization--New Mexico--Case studies.

Women in community organization.

Community leadership--New Mexico--Case studies.

Community leadership.

Women civic leaders--New Mexico--Case studies.

Women civic leaders.

Working poor--Housing--New Mexico--Case studies.

Working poor.

Mexicans--Social conditions--New Mexico--Case studies.

Mexicans.

Slums--Social aspects--New Mexico--Case studies.

Slums.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Many immigrant communities along the U.S. border with Mexico are colonias, border settlements lacking infrastructure or safe housing. A Jumble of Needs examines the leadership of Mexican women immigrants in three colonias in New Mexico, documenting the role of NGOs in shaping women's activism in these communities. Ethnographer Rebecca Dolhinow, who worked in the colonias, uncovers why such attempts to exercise political agency are so rarely successful.Central to the relationship between NGOs and women activists in colonias, Dolhinow argues, is the looming presence of the neoliberal political p

Contents:

The production of colonias as neoliberal spaces

The production of women as neoliberal leaders

Empowerment and politicization in the colonias

The place of NGOs in daily life.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4606-X

0-8166-7340-3

OCLC:

646068316