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Rethinking Agency : Developmentalism, Gender and Rights

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 1138660264
ISBN-13 9781138660267
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint Routledge India
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Jan 21st, 2016
Print length 254 Pages
Weight 324 grams
Dimensions 14.00 x 21.60 x 1.80 cms
Ksh 10,350.00
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Through detailed theoretical and empirical examination of the actual processes of social and personal transformation that individuals undergo as a result of their contact with developmentalism and individual rights, Rethinking Agency tracks the entry of developmentalism and its accompanying ideas in a social context marked by severe gender subordination.

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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