Dilemmas of Difference
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Dilemmas of Difference

Indigenous Women and the Limits of Postcolonial Development Policy

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Dilemmas of Difference

Indigenous Women and the Limits of Postcolonial Development Policy

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In Dilemmas of Difference Sarah A. Radcliffe explores the relationship of rural indigenous women in Ecuador to the development policies and actors that are ostensibly there to help ameliorate social and economic inequality. Radcliffe finds that development policies's inability to recognize and reckon with the legacies of colonialism reinforces long-standing social hierarchies, thereby reproducing the very poverty and disempowerment they are there to solve. This ineffectiveness results from failures to acknowledge the local population's diversity and a lack of accounting for the complex intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, class, and geography. As a result, projects often fail to match beneficiaries' needs, certain groups are made invisible, and indigenous women become excluded from positions of authority. Drawing from a mix of ethnographic fieldwork and postcolonial and social theory, Radcliffe centers the perspectives of indigenous women to show how they craft practices and epistemologies that critique ineffective development methods, inform their political agendas, and shape their strategic interventions in public policy debates.

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Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Year
2015
ISBN
9780822375029
Topic
Ciencias sociales
Subtopic
Antropología cultural y social

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction: Development and Social Heterogeneity
  5. Chapter 1: Postcolonial Intersectionality and the Colonial Present
  6. Chapter 2: The Daily Grind: Ethnic Topographies of Labor, Racism, and Abandonment
  7. Interlude I
  8. Chapter 3: Crumbs from the Table: Participation, Organization, and Indigenous Women
  9. Chapter 4: Politics, Statistics, and Affect: “Indigenous Women in Development” Policy
  10. Interlude II
  11. Chapter 5: Women, Biopolitics, and Interculturalism: Ethnic Politics and Gendered Contradictions
  12. Chapter 6: From Development to Citizenship: Rights, Voice, and Citizenship Practices
  13. Chapter 7: Postcolonial Heterogeneity: Sumak Kawsay and Decolonizing Social Difference
  14. Notes
  15. Glossary
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index