Shoba Arun

Development and Gender Capital in India

Change, Continuity and Conflict in Kerala

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Using Kerala as a model, this book explores the forces of globalisation and how they are embedded within power structures. Through narratives of women's lived experiences in the private and public domains, it highlights the 'anomie of gender' through complexities and contradictions via processes of modernity, development and globalisation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9781138221963
• ISBN-10: 1138221961
• Artikelnr.: 57056722

Autorenporträt

Shoba Arun is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Gender and Development: A Bourdieusian Framework 3.
Situating Gender Capital in Kerala 4. Matriliny and Kinship: Transforming
Gendered Habitus 5. ICTs and Gender Capital at Work 6. Migrating Gendered
Capital 7. Victimization, Symbolic Violence and Complicity 8. Legitimate
Capital and the Adivasi Deficit 9. Conclusion