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Logics of Empowerment: Development, Gender, and Governance in Neoliberal India - Softcover

Sharma, Aradhana

 
9780816654536: Logics of Empowerment: Development, Gender, and Governance in Neoliberal India
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0816654530 ISBN 13: 9780816654536
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2008

Synopsis

A critical look at the globally dominant development strategy of “empowerment”

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 empower those rural Indian women who have been pushed aside. She details the awkward ideological articulations and paradoxical outcomes of this unique activist-cum-government organizational structure and usage of empowerment.

Bringing much-needed specificity to the study of neoliberalism, Logics of Empowerment fosters a deeper understanding of development and politics in contemporary India.

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About the Author

Aradhana Sharma is assistant professor of anthropology and feminist studies at Wesleyan University. She is the coeditor of The Anthropology of the State: A Reader.

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Publisher
Univ Of Minnesota Press
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0816654530
ISBN 13 
9780816654536
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
296