How Women Talk in Indian Democracy

Sanyal, Paromita; Rao, Vijayendra; Prabhakar, Umang

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“…It may eventually lead to enhancing women's "capabilities" (Sen 1999), expanding their ability to participate in the social and civic life of a community and improve their quality of life. This cascading process of change has found support in recent evidence regarding group members' participation in grassroots political institutions in rural India (Palaniswamy et al 2019, Sanyal 2019 and the development of self-efficacy beliefs among widowed and abandoned women enrolled in microcredit SHGs (Newransky et al 2014).…”

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From Brides to Business Owners: Microfinance and Women’s Entrepreneurship

Sanyal¹

2019

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Women's entrepreneurship through microfinance programs has been celebrated as a model for reducing poverty and empowering women. Yet, evidence of the incidence of women's entrepreneurship has been disappointing, leading to much critique and controversy. This article presents case narratives of women enrolled in microfinance programs in rural India who took the leap onto entrepreneurship and used microcredit loans to expand or start their small-scale livelihoods enterprises. These narratives illustrate the particular economic and social conditions that are found in cases where women have transitioned from being dependent, gender-compliant housewives to sole-earners or main breadwinners. Marital failure, functional absence or retreat of husband, economic distress, living in a nuclear household, and absence of an adult son are consistently evident in all cases of women's entrepreneurship. This qualitative analysis helps us understand why women's entrepreneurship is not more widespread despite the availability of microcredit loans.

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From Brides to Business Owners: Microfinance and Women’s Entrepreneurship

Sanyal¹

2019

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“…This section is focused on democratic decentralization, a governmental activity which facilitates the organization of market expansion. Democratic decentralization is a multi-faceted institutional apparatus that has also deepened participatory electoral democracy and broadened representation and the empowerment of politically marginalized social groups (Chattopadhyay and Duflo, 2004; Sanyal et al, 2019). However, I focus on the emergent role of elected local bodies in deepening market expansion in rural areas, a phenomenon that the scholarship has not attended to so far.…”

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Cultivating a Market Like the State: Rural Development and Democratic Decentralization in India

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2020

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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Global policy organizations, financial institutions, and national governments have emphasized high-value agriculture in the world’s semi-arid areas inhabited by the greatest proportion of its poor, stressing linking households to markets to improve their well-being. This is assumed to involve state withdrawal and the ascendance of self-evident market forces. By means of ethnographic fieldwork in semi-arid western India, this paper discusses how the market does not arise spontaneously, but is deepened through state intensification. Rural households are imbricated with new markets by the state’s rendering of development policy market-driven, and through democratic decentralization, which has emerged as an instrument to facilitate the penetration of market actors into remote rural communities.

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“…Congruent with the line of research on differential recruitment (McAdam & Paulsen, 1993;Snow et al, 1980) along with the examples of differential participation (Barkan et al, 1995) and narrative strategies by social movement participants (Braunstein, 2015;García-86 The Qualitative Report 2021 Espín & Ganuza, 2017;Polletta, 1998aPolletta, , 1998bSanyal et al, 2019), I propose that participants differentially negotiate their activist identities and construct various definitions of activism. Not only do those who participate in a range of movement activities differentially identify as activists and non-activists, but participants provide elaborate reasons for their identity alignment through narratives and identity negotiations.…”

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Activists and Non-Activists: Differential Activist Identification in the Tea Party and Occupy Movements

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2021

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Semantically, “activist” and “activism” are convenient descriptors for participants in social movements and are commonly used by social movement scholars. This study demonstrates, however, that these labels obscure the complex decisions participants make in negotiating their involvement. Few researchers examine the importance of deconstructing traditional assumptions of activist identities and the nuances in activist negotiation and identification. Using qualitative research methods, this paper explores whether social movement participants engage in complex identity negotiations wherein they interactionally situate and critically assess their involvement. This research draws on in-depth interviews conducted with 58 social movement participants from two local-level, contemporary social movements: The Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street Movements. Respondents provided complex narratives about their activist and non-activist identities, which became apparent through analyzing the interviews using thematic coding. The findings show that respondents do negotiate their identities along a spectrum from activist to non-activist through interaction with other participants and critical assessment of their own involvement. These findings also reveal that the process of differential activist identification has short- and long-term implications for participant involvement and collective identity where disagreements over the activist label can fracture the organization and sustainability of a movement. By assessing the ways movement participants identify with activism and how they use their identification through interaction to promote or deconstruct group solidarity, we can begin to explore the consequences of this type of identity politics for contemporary social movements.

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How Women Talk in Indian Democracy

Cited by 18 publications

References 54 publications

From Brides to Business Owners: Microfinance and Women’s Entrepreneurship

From Brides to Business Owners: Microfinance and Women’s Entrepreneurship

Cultivating a Market Like the State: Rural Development and Democratic Decentralization in India

Activists and Non-Activists: Differential Activist Identification in the Tea Party and Occupy Movements

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