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

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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 co...

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Main Author: Sharma, Aradhana
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008
Subjects:
Mahilā Samākhyā (Project : Uttar Pradesh, India)
Women in development > India > Uttar Pradesh.
Economic development projects > India > Uttar Pradesh.
Poor women > Services for > India > Uttar Pradesh.
Public welfare > India.
Neoliberalism > India.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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