Organizing from the Margins: Grappling with “Empowerment” in India and South Africa

Nagar, Richa; Swarr, Amanda Lock

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“…Richa Nagar and Amanda Swarr (2005) acknowledged that women's empowerment is bound to be limited because gender is context specific to some extent. They showed how the empowerment of disenfranchised women in India and South Africa is made partial and contradictory by “the connectivities and divergences in the ways that a dominant discourse of empowerment is interpreted, critiqued, and/or reappropriated by grassroots activists in line with their own political agendas and context‐specific realities” (292).…”

Section: Gender Entrepreneurship and Placementioning

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Changing Places Through Women's Entrepreneurship

2009

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In this article, I focus on entrepreneurship as a gendered geographic process to examine how changes in people and place are linked. Although entrepreneurship is a process that is marked by deep stereotypical gender divisions, it is also one through which people can change the meaning of gender and the way in which gender is lived. In addition, entrepreneurship links people and place in a number of ways, most notably through networks of social relations in place. I discuss four geographic studies of women's entrepreneurship, each undertaken in a different country-Botswana, India, Peru, and the United States. These studies demonstrate that whereas entrepreneurship per se or access to microcredit alone is seldom sufficient to change the position of women or gender relations in a place, women are using entrepreneurship to change their lives and those of others and, in the process, are changing the places where they live. Key to this transformative process are programs of governmental and nongovernmental organizations and women's grassroots actions that are aimed at building women's skills, confidence, and business networks. Copyright (c) 2009 Clark University.

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“…9 9 Nagar and Swarr (2005, 275) described a meeting they had with SEWA representatives, in which they learned of SEWA's continued difficulties in addressing communal and patriarchal violence. …”

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Changing Places Through Women's Entrepreneurship

2009

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“…As part of our collaboration, we looked for new ways to engage in knowledge-making. Richa Nagar and her transnational feminist coauthors show how collaborative writing practices can provide opportunities for creative and subversive knowledge-making across many kinds of borders in and far beyond the academy (Nagar, 2014; Nagar & Swarr, 2010; Sangtin Writers & Nagar, 2006). Transnational feminist and other decolonial scholars consider ways to engage in knowledge-making that stretch, challenge, and disrupt what counts as expert research—and the notion of expertise itself (Rutazibwa, 2019).…”

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Flipping the Academic Conference, or How We Wrote a Peer-Reviewed Journal Article in a Day

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Is it possible to write a publishable, peer-reviewed academic paper in a day? We attempted this task in 2016, motivated by a desire to find new ways of doing academic work in the face of our growing sense of alienation within the neoliberal academy. This article provides our analysis of academic alienation and an auto-ethnography of our experiment. We discuss four lessons learned: (1) knowledge as a social relation, (2) time and the academy, (3) gender and collaborative writing, and (4) the contradictions and possibilities of anarchy and authorship. We also offer practical advice for scholars looking to engage in similar collaborations.

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“…The concept empowerment, for example as utilised in the 1990s by development agencies to address women's marginalisation, is premised on enabling people to have ‘the ability to choose, act and speak out’ (Parpart, 2013, p. 16). Empowerment approaches have been adopted across diverse fields including, for example, participatory development (Nagar & Swarr, 2005; Sharma, 2008) and social work projects (Thomson & Thorpe, 2004). Projects, using empowerment frameworks to work with poor women in the global South, have sought to ‘mobilise marginalised actors and raise their consciousness, not with an objective of reversing the existing power hierarchies, but to enable them to make their voices heard and to exercise greater control on the processes that shape their everyday lives’ (Weiringa cited by Nagar & Swarr, 2005, p. 291).…”

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Care experienced young people: Agency and empowerment

Priestley

2020

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Empowerment discourses have become fashionable in current policy and practice relating to young people, including those with care experience. Empowerment, however, is a slippery and contested concept, associated with neo-liberal discourses. An ecological understanding of agency offers more theoretically nuanced understandings of empowerment, taking account of the complex, temporal and relational factors, upon which empowerment is contingent. This paper utilises data generated through an 'empowerment group' for care-experienced young people; it illustrates how an ecological understanding of agency, as a heuristic, might further understanding of the lives of care-experienced young people.

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Organizing from the Margins: Grappling with “Empowerment” in India and South Africa

Cited by 12 publications

References 9 publications

Changing Places Through Women's Entrepreneurship

Changing Places Through Women's Entrepreneurship

Flipping the Academic Conference, or How We Wrote a Peer-Reviewed Journal Article in a Day

Care experienced young people: Agency and empowerment

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