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Autore: |
Sharma Aradhana
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Titolo: |
Logics of empowerment : development, gender, and governance in neoliberal India / / Aradhana Sharma
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Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (300 p.) |
Disciplina: | 305.48/969409542 |
Soggetto topico: | Economic development projects - India - Uttar Pradesh |
Neoliberalism - India | |
Poor women - Services for - India - Uttar Pradesh | |
Public welfare - India | |
Women in development - India - Uttar Pradesh | |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Logics of empowerment ![]() |
ISBN: | 0-8166-6651-2 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910821763303321 |
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