Radcliffe Dilemmas of Difference

Indigenous Women and the Limits of Postcolonial Development Policy
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7502-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten

Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork and postcolonial theory, Sarah A. Radcliffe centers the experiences of rural indigenous women in Ecuador to show how the efforts of development agencies to reduce social and economic equality fail because they do not reckon with the legacies of colonialism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Radcliffe, Sarah A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction. Development and Social Heterogeneity 1

1. Postcolonial Intersectionality and the Colonial Present 37

2. The Daily Grind: Ethnic Topographies of Labor, Racism, and Abandonment 75

Interlude I 121

3. Crumbs from the Table: Participation, Organization, and Indigenous Women 125

4. Politics, Statistics, and Affect: "Indigenous Women in Development" Policy 157

Interlude II 189

5. Women, Biopolitics, and Interculturalism: Ethnic Politics and Gendered Contradictions 193

6. From Development to Citizenship: Rights, Voice, and Citizenship Practices 225

7. Postcolonial Heterogeneity: Sumak Kawsay and Decolonizing Social Difference 257

Notes 291

Glossary 295

Bibliography 329

Index 359

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah A. Radcliffe is Professor of Latin American Geography at the University of Cambridge and coauthor of Indigenous Development in the Andes: Culture, Power, and Transnationalism, also published by Duke University Press.