Sumi Madhok

Rethinking Agency

Developmentalism, Gender and Rights

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Through detailed theoretical and empirical examination of the actual processes of social and personal transformation that individuals undergo as a result of their contact with developmentalism and individual rights, Rethinking Agency tracks the entry of developmentalism and its accompanying ideas in a social context marked by severe gender subordination.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 299g
• ISBN-13: 9781138660267
• ISBN-10: 1138660264
• Artikelnr.: 44789099

Autorenporträt

Sumi Madhok is Lecturer in Transnational Gender Studies at the Gender Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations. Glossary. Acknowledgements. 1. Developmentalism,
Agency and Rights: An Introduction 2. Action, Agency, Oppression:
Reformatting Agency for Oppressive Contexts 3. Producing Subjects and
Subjectivities for Development: The Women's Development Programme,
Rajasthan 4. Rights and the Politics of Developing New Subjectivities 5.
Political Rights and Developmentalism: Three Self-Representations 6.
Afterword. Bibliography. About the Author. Index