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Paradoxes of empowerment : development, gender, and governance in neoliberal India /

Celebratory new features about India's thriving middle class tell only part of the story of the country's recent economic rise, frequently glossing over the 300 million Indians who live on the margins and struggle to survive under economic liberalization. How do those, cast out of their co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sharma,Aradhana
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: New Delhi : Zubaan, c2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • Empowerment assemblages : a layered picture of the term
  • Engendering neoliberal governance : welfare, empowerment, and state formation
  • Empowering moves : paradoxes, subversions, dangers
  • Staging development : a drama in north India
  • (Cross)talking development : state and citizen acts
  • Between women? : the micropolitics of community and collectivism
  • Conclusion: Terra incognita, or a politics without guarantees.