Rethinking Agency
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Rethinking Agency

Developmentalism, Gender and Rights

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Rethinking Agency

Developmentalism, Gender and Rights

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This book proposes a new theoretical framework for agency thinking by examining the ethical, discursive and practical engagements of a group of women development workers in north-west India with developmentalism and individual rights.

Rethinking Agency asks an underexplored question, tracks the entry, encounter, experience and practice of developmentalism and individual rights, and examines their normative and political trajectory. Through an ethnography of a moral encounter with developmentalism, it raises a critical question: how do we think of agency in oppressive contexts? Further, how do issues of risk, injury, coercion and oppression alter the conceptual mechanics of agency itself?

The work will be invaluable to research organisations, development practitioners, policy makers and political journalists interested in questions of gender, political empowerment, rights and political participation, and to academics and students in the fields of feminist theory, development studies, sociology, politics and gender studies.

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Publisher
Routledge India
Year
2014
ISBN
9781317809531
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Gender Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. List of Abbreviations
  7. Glossary
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. I. Developmentalism, Agency and Rights: An Introduction
  10. II. Action, Agency, Oppression: Reformatting Agency for Oppressive Contexts
  11. III. Producing Subjects and Subjectivities for Development: The Women’s Development Programme, Rajasthan
  12. IV. Rights and the Politics of Developing New Subjectivities
  13. V. Political Rights and Developmentalism: Three Self-Representations
  14. VI. Afterword
  15. Bibliography
  16. About the Author
  17. Index