Inclusive Citizenship: Meanings and Expressions (Claiming Citizenship) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1842775499 ISBN 13: 9781842775493

Publisher: Zed Books, 2005

Synopsis

The absence of gender awareness in policy and planning in the past has given rise to a variety of efficiency, welfare and equity costs. This book develops an analytical framework and a set of tools which can assist planners, as well as trainers, to ensure that gender is systematically integrated into different aspects of their work. It offers an inventory of the kinds of assumptions which lead to gender-blind policy, and assesses integrationist and transformatory strategies by feminist advocates to influence the mainstream policy agenda. An analytical framework for examining the gender inequalities generated by key institutions through which development takes place occupies a central place in the book. A selection of original case studies from the Indian context serves to illustrate different aspects of the framework and its application.

About this title

About the Author

Naila Kabeer is a fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex.

Ramya Subrahmanian has also taught at the University of Sussex and is a consultant on gender and development.

Review

'How can human rights become part of the lived experience of those who continue to be denied those rights whether because of poverty, gender, ethnicity, caste or sexual orientation? This book develops a range of interesting cases documenting the promise and challenge of translating rights into reality. This is important, cutting edge work in the new discussions around rights, responsibilities, subjectivity and agency. Very highly recommended.' Gita Sen, Sir Ratan Tata chair professor and chairperson, Centre for Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management 'Naila Kabeer is to be congratulated for bringing together this collection of essays that give us a comparative perspective on citizenship in everyday life.' Mahmood Mamdani, Herbert Lehmann professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Columbia. 'The case studies in Inclusive Citizenship are powerful, absorbing stories, told with force and passion that compel the reader to internalise them. ... What warms my heart is that the examples in this book poignantly capture how individuals, social groups, women, and indigenous communities across the globe have not kept silent, allowing globalisation to run its course.' Krishnamurthy Pushpanath, campaign executive, Oxfam GB, UK 'Although the idea of citizenship is almost universal, little is known about what it means for ordinary people in the contemporary world in both industrialised and developing countries. This book is therefore a timely contribution to filling this gap.' Development Policy Review

Edition details

• Publisher: Zed Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1842775499
• ISBN 13: 9781842775493
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Kabeer Naila