Beschreibung:
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.
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