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Agency, Injury, and Transgressive Politics in Neoliberal Times

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: Through an analysis of agency and risk, this article argues that an outcome-driven agenda of neoliberal developmentalism treats women’s agency as an instrument of social change without giving sufficient attention to existing power relations in which agential capacities are formulated and exercised, and in which risk is negotiated and managed. Analyzing the Women’s Development Programme in Rajasthan, India, we argue that an individualized development logic continues to disregard the injuries to those it mobilizes; we suggest that this trend needs to be challenged in order to support sustainable participation.

Source: Signs

DOI: 10.1086/662939

Authors: Sumi Madhok, Shirin M. Rai

Institutions: London School of Economics and Political Science, University of Warwick

Language: English

Topic: Gender, Education, and Development Issues

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Peace, justice, and strong institutions, Gender equality, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W2032893207

FWCI: 15.55

Cites: 61

Cited by: 113

Related to: 10