Rethinking Agency: Developmentalism, Gender and Rights - Hardcover

Madhok, Sumi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415811929 ISBN 13: 9780415811927

Publisher: Routledge India, 2013

Synopsis

This book proposes a new theoretical framework for agency thinking by examining the ethical, discursive and practical engagements of a group of women development workers in north-west India with developmentalism and individual rights.

Rethinking Agency asks an underexplored question, tracks the entry, encounter, experience and practice of developmentalism and individual rights, and examines their normative and political trajectory. Through an ethnography of a moral encounter with developmentalism, it raises a critical question: how do we think of agency in oppressive contexts? Further, how do issues of risk, injury, coercion and oppression alter the conceptual mechanics of agency itself?

The work will be invaluable to research organisations, development practitioners, policy makers and political journalists interested in questions of gender, political empowerment, rights and political participation, and to academics and students in the fields of feminist theory, development studies, sociology, politics and gender studies.

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About the Author

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge India
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415811929
• ISBN 13: 9780415811927
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 254