In Dilemmas of Difference Sarah A. Radcliffe explores the relationship of rural indigenous women in Ecuador to the development policies and actors that are ostensibly there to help ameliorate social and economic inequality. Radcliffe finds that development policies’s inability to recognize and reckon with the legacies of colonialism reinforces long-standing social hierarchies, thereby reproducing the very poverty and disempowerment they are there to solve. This ineffectiveness results from failures to acknowledge the local population's diversity and a lack of accounting for the complex intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, class, and geography. As a result, projects often fail to match beneficiaries' needs, certain groups are made invisible, and indigenous women become excluded from positions of authority. Drawing from a mix of ethnographic fieldwork and postcolonial and social theory, Radcliffe centers the perspectives of indigenous women to show how they craft practices and epistemologies that critique ineffective development methods, inform their political agendas, and shape their strategic interventions in public policy debates.
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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.
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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
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"Radcliffe’s book, well grounded in theory and research, is an important read for scholars of Latin American development and gender. Highly recommended."
"Dilemmas of Difference is an important contribution to postcolonial studies and provides a critical understanding of the durability and malleability of particular development categories and concepts as they are deployed in the development practice. Deeply attentive to the subtleties and contradiction of forms of essentialism, Sarah A. Radcliffe's arguments resonate widely not only in Latin America but across large parts of the Global South. This book will speak to audiences across the social sciences and humanities, both in and outside of Latin America."
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ISBN
9780822360100
Publisert
2015-10-30
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Duke University Press
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544 gr
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229 mm
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152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Engelsk
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Heftet
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