02933nam 2200649Ia 450 991082176330332120200520144314.00-8166-6651-2(CKB)1000000000723053(EBL)433205(OCoLC)318220537(SSID)ssj0000193924(PQKBManifestationID)11180318(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000193924(PQKBWorkID)10232535(PQKB)11588293(MiAaPQ)EBC433205(MdBmJHUP)muse39392(Au-PeEL)EBL433205(CaPaEBR)ebr10277720(CaONFJC)MIL523283(EXLCZ)99100000000072305320140717d2008 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLogics of empowerment development, gender, and governance in neoliberal India /Aradhana Sharma1st ed.Minneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20081 online resource (300 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-5453-0 0-8166-5452-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 empowEconomic development projectsIndiaUttar PradeshNeoliberalismIndiaPoor womenServices forIndiaUttar PradeshPublic welfareIndiaWomen in developmentIndiaUttar PradeshEconomic development projectsNeoliberalismPoor womenServices forPublic welfareWomen in development305.48/969409542Sharma Aradhana1606272MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821763303321Logics of empowerment3931978UNINA