Full Description
This volume explores the links between gender, space and agency in India. It offers fresh perspectives and frameworks within which these links can be analyzed across diverse geographical contexts in India.
The chapters in this volume are based on field studies which showcase how agency is gendered. The volume examines how gender and agency are fashioned by a multitude of everyday contexts, socio-economic processes, policy interventions and geographic phenomenon and manifest in diffusion of education, decentralization of politics, rising social inequalities, poverty, green revolution, mechanization of agriculture and even drought.
This book will be of interest to researchers, teachers and practitioners of human geography, social and cultural geography, and those interested in geographies of gender. It will also be helpful for policy makers interested in the issues of gender and development in India.
Contents
1. Gender, Space and Agency in India: Exploring Regional Genderscapes 2. Pierre Bourdieu's Symbolic Violence: Scripting Gender Among Assamese Middle-Class Women in Higher Education 3. The Power of Social Spaces In Enabling Girls' Education In India: Perspectives From Indian Origin Students in The US 4. Interrogating Gender, Property Rights and Witch-Hunting in Jharkhand, India 5. Gender and Agency in Decentralized Political Spaces In Rural West Bengal 6. Mahila Panchayats of Delhi: Scripting Agency within Low Income Urban Neighbourhoods 7."It Is Better to Die Than to Live Like This": Widowhood, Economic Denial And Violence In Rural Punjab 8.'This Is Our Area and That Is Theirs': Scripting The Spatiality Of Migrant Masculinity In Goa, India 9. Watercentric Roles And Women's Spaces: Narratives From Drought-Prone Villages Of Gujarat 10. Numbers, Bodies, Love, and Babies: Gender and territory in Ladakh 11. Reinterpreting Resistance and Agency: Excavating Feminist Counterspaces within Indigenous Feminisms
