Gender, Space and Agency in India (eBook, ePUB)

Exploring Regional Genderscapes
Redaktion: Datta, Anindita

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores the links between gender, space and agency in India. It offers fresh perspectives and frameworks within which these links can be analysed across diverse geographical contexts in India.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000176797
• Artikelnr.: 59847247

Autorenporträt

Anindita Datta is Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India. With over 20 years of teaching experience, she has published consistently in international peer-reviewed journals with interdisciplinary perspectives; served as a member on the international editorial boards for Gender, Place and Culture and Social and Cultural Geography; and is also a member of the Steering Committee, International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission on Gender and Geography. Her research interests are in the areas of feminist geography, conceptual traditions in geography and the social geography of India. She is particularly interested in indigenous feminisms, everyday geographies, geographies of care, spaces of resistance, and in issues of gendered and epistemic violence.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Gender, Space and Agency in India: Exploring Regional Genderscapes 2.
Pierre Bourdieu's Symbolic Violence: Scripting Gender Among Assamese
Middle-Class Women in Higher Education 3. The Power of Social Spaces In
Enabling Girls' Education In India: Perspectives From Indian Origin
Students in The US 4. Interrogating Gender, Property Rights and
Witch-Hunting in Jharkhand, India 5. Gender and Agency in Decentralized
Political Spaces In Rural West Bengal 6. Mahila Panchayats of Delhi:
Scripting Agency within Low Income Urban Neighbourhoods 7."It Is Better to
Die Than to Live Like This": Widowhood, Economic Denial And Violence In
Rural Punjab 8.'This Is Our Area and That Is Theirs': Scripting The
Spatiality Of Migrant Masculinity In Goa, India 9. Watercentric Roles And
Women's Spaces: Narratives From Drought-Prone Villages Of Gujarat 10.
Numbers, Bodies, Love, and Babies: Gender and territory in Ladakh 11.
Reinterpreting Resistance and Agency: Excavating Feminist Counterspaces
within Indigenous Feminisms