Gender, Governance and Empowerment in India
Seiten
2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-84264-8 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-84264-8 (ISBN)
Since the mid-1980s, the presence of women in governance has become a major marker of successful democracy in global and national discourses on the democratization of society. A diverse set of nation-states have legislatively mandated gender quotas to ensure the presence of elected women representatives (EWRs) in various rungs of governance. Since 1993, the Indian state has legislated a massive program of democratization and decentralization. As a result, more than 1.5 million EWRs have taken office within the lower rungs of governance or the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRI).
This book is an ethnography of the Indian state and its policy of legislated entry of women into political life. It argues that political participation of women is necessary to change the political practices in society, to make institutions more gender, class and caste representative, and to empower individual women to negotiate both formal and informal institutions. Its locus is the everyday life contexts of EWRs in the southern Indian state of Karnataka who negotiate their own meanings of politics, state, society, empowerment and political subjectivity. Analysing three factors – structural boundaries, sociocultural divisions and conjunctural limitations imposed on the participation of EWRs by political parties – the book demonstrates that the social embeddedness of PRIs within everyday practices and social relations of identity and power severely constrain and shape the political participation and empowerment of EWRs.
Providing a valuable insight into contemporary state and feminist praxis in India, this book will be of interest to scholars of grass-roots democracy, gender studies and Asian politics.
This book is an ethnography of the Indian state and its policy of legislated entry of women into political life. It argues that political participation of women is necessary to change the political practices in society, to make institutions more gender, class and caste representative, and to empower individual women to negotiate both formal and informal institutions. Its locus is the everyday life contexts of EWRs in the southern Indian state of Karnataka who negotiate their own meanings of politics, state, society, empowerment and political subjectivity. Analysing three factors – structural boundaries, sociocultural divisions and conjunctural limitations imposed on the participation of EWRs by political parties – the book demonstrates that the social embeddedness of PRIs within everyday practices and social relations of identity and power severely constrain and shape the political participation and empowerment of EWRs.
Providing a valuable insight into contemporary state and feminist praxis in India, this book will be of interest to scholars of grass-roots democracy, gender studies and Asian politics.
Sreevidya Kalaramadam is Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at William Paterson University, USA.
1. Introduction 2. The State as Field 3. Decentralization and the Conditions Of Participation 4. EWRs and the Burden of "Bringing Development 5. Negotiating a Fine Balance: "Private" in the Public Sphere 6. EWRs and the Politics Of Parties, Civil And Political Society 7. Conclusion: Unleashing the Potential of PRIs
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.4.2016 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series |
| Zusatzinfo | 3 Tables, black and white; 3 Line drawings, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 362 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Östliche Philosophie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-415-84264-6 / 0415842646 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-415-84264-8 / 9780415842648 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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