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Rethinking agency : developmentalism, gender and rights /
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 entr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 con. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 237 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-230) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781317809548 1317809548 9781315816074 1315816075 |