Logics of empowerment
Subtitle: development, gender, and governance in neoliberal India
By: Aradhana Sharma.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780816654529; 9780816654536
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
Description: Bringing much-needed specificity to the study of neoliberalism, 'Logics of Empowerment' fosters a deeper understanding of development and politics in contemporary India.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Empowerment assemblages : a layered picture of the term; title: Engendering neoliberal governance : welfare, empowerment, and state formation; title: Empowering moves : paradoxes, subversions, dangers; title: Exhuming development : a drama in north India; title: (cross)talking development : state and citizen acts; title: Between women? : the micropolitics of community and collectivism.