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Agency, injury, and transgressive politics in neoliberal times
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Madhok, Sumi and Rai, Shirin (2012) Agency, injury, and transgressive politics in neoliberal times. Signs, Vol.37 (No.3). pp. 645-669. doi:10.1086/662939 ISSN 0097-9740.
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Abstract
Through an analysis of agency and risk, this article argues that an outcome-driven agenda of neoliberal developmentalism treats women’s agency as an instrument of social change without giving sufficient attention to existing power relations in which agential capacities are formulated and exercised, and in which risk is negotiated and managed. Analyzing the Women’s Development Programme in Rajasthan, India, we argue that an individualized development logic continues to disregard the injuries to those it mobilizes; we suggest that this trend needs to be challenged in order to support sustainable participation.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman J Political Science > JC Political theory |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Political activists, Indian women activists, Political participation -- India, Neoliberalism | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Signs | ||||
Publisher: | University of Chicago Press | ||||
ISSN: | 0097-9740 | ||||
Official Date: | 2012 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.37 | ||||
Number: | No.3 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 645-669 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1086/662939 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 20 December 2015 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 20 December 2015 |
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