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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821763303321

Autore

Sharma Aradhana

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8166-6651-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Disciplina

305.48/969409542

Soggetti

Economic development projects - India - Uttar Pradesh

Neoliberalism - India

Poor women - Services for - India - Uttar Pradesh

Public welfare - India

Women in development - India - Uttar Pradesh

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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