Radcliffe Sarah A. Radcliffe

Dilemmas of Difference (eBook, PDF)

Indigenous Women and the Limits of Postcolonial Development Policy

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822375029
• Artikelnr.: 54782428

Autorenporträt

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.  

Inhaltsangabe

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