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Logics of Empowerment: Development, Gender, and Governance in Neoliberal India
Author(s): Aradhana Sharma (Author)
- Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
- Publication Date: October 22, 2008
- Language: English
- Print length: 296 pages
- ISBN-10: 0816654522
- ISBN-13: 9780816654529
Book Description
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.Editorial Reviews
Book Description
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.About the Author
Aradhana Sharma is assistant professor of anthropology and feminist, gender, and sexuality studies at Wesleyan University.
