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:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Delhi ; Abingdon : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

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 con

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Abbreviations; Glossary; Acknowledgements; I. Developmentalism, Agency and Rights: An Introduction; II. Action, Agency, Oppression: Reformatting Agency for Oppressive Contexts; III. Producing Subjects and Subjectivities for Development: The Women's Development Programme, Rajasthan; IV. Rights and the Politics of Developing New Subjectivities; V. Political Rights and Developmentalism: Three Self-Representations; VI. Afterword; Bibliography; About the Author; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-138-66026-4

1-317-80953-X

1-315-81607-5

1-317-80954-8

9781315816074

OCLC:

874563042