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    Logics of Empowerment
    Development, Gender, and Governance in Neoliberal India

    Aradhana Sharma (Author)

    9780816654536

    Paperback / softback, published 22 October 2008

    296 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.666 kg

    A critical look at the globally dominant development strategy of “empowerment”

    Celebratory news 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 country’s successes perceive and respond to their position and mobilize against disempowerment?

    In Logics of Empowerment, Aradhana Sharma takes up these questions, focusing on the work of an innovative women’s program called Mahila Samakhya that is part governmental and part nongovernmental and strives to empower those rural Indian women who have been pushed aside. She details the awkward ideological articulations and paradoxical outcomes of this unique activist-cum-government organizational structure and usage of empowerment.

    Bringing much-needed specificity to the study of neoliberalism, Logics of Empowerment fosters a deeper understanding of development and politics in contemporary India.
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