Challenging the NGOs
Subtitle: Women, Religion and Development in India (Tauris Academic Studies)
Publisher: Tauris Academic Studies
Published: July 8, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781845111526
Subjects: Non-governmental organizations (NGOs); Sociology - General; Religion (General); Sociology Of Organizations; Social Science; Sociology; Developing Countries; Economic Conditions; Gender Studies; Social Science / Third World Development; General; India; Non-governmental organizations; Women and religion; Women in development
First sentence: I begin this chapter with an overview of the criticisms of the development discourse by a number of scholars who argue that it is a discourse founded on a hierarchy of knowledge that privileges Western thought over other cultures.