June Lennie

Troubling Empowerment

A feminist critique of a rural women and communication technology project

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Participatory research methodologies and interactive
communication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly
seen as offering ways of enhancing women s
empowerment and rural community development. However,
some researchers suggest the need for caution about
such claims. This book details findings from an
evaluation of a feminist action research project that
explored the impacts of ICTs for rural women in
Queensland, Australia, in terms of personal, business
and community development. Using praxis and
poststructuralist feminist theories and
methodologies, this innovative study presents a
rigorous analysis and critique of women's empowerment
and participation. This study demonstrates the value
of adopting a critical yet pragmatic approach that
takes diversity and difference, power-knowledge
relations, and the contradictory effects of
participation into account. This is argued to enable
the development of more effective strategies for
women s empowerment, participation and inclusion.
This book should be of particular interest to
researchers, postgraduate students, and others
working in the fields of communication, gender, and
rural development, and feminist evaluation and
ethnography.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Seitenzahl: 484
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9783639168198
• ISBN-10: 3639168194
• Artikelnr.: 26767999

Autorenporträt

Dr June Lennie is a Senior Research Associate at Queensland
University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. She has
significant expertise in conducting action research and
evaluation projects and evaluation capacity building, and has
published widely in her field. She is the co-author of Action
Research and New Media (Hampton Press, 2009).