Constructing Social Capital
Self-Help Groups and Rural Women's Development in India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5877403 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kuntala Lahiri‐dutt (0000-0003-1336-1422, Australian National University, corresponding author), Gopa Samanta (0000-0003-2856-9947) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 285-295 |
| Publication date | 2006-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1745-5863 • E-ISSN: 1745-5871 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1745-5871.2006.00390.x |
| OpenAlex | W2153948186 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
| References cited | 38 |
The success of the group approach in rural micro-finance among women has inspired the tendency to look at all networking as essentially good and desirable in rural community development, without acknowledging the entrenched caste, class, ethnic and religious hierarchies that lead to diversities among women. Government schemes designed for poverty alleviation among rural women tend to be influenced by concepts and models that have been successful elsewhere, but do not take into account the diversities of situations at the local level. Internationally popular catchwords are used indiscriminately without questioning how these concepts can work effectively in the specific local context. This paper examines why some 'self-help groups' fail by using the Development of Women and Children in Rural Areas (DWCRA) experience in India. The empirical survey was done over a period of two years in Burdwan, a relatively rich agricultural tract located in eastern India. We argue that whilst the 'group' has inherent benefits, it must never be allowed to become the paradigm in developmental policies for women
Agriculture · Caste · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnic group · Geography · Political science · Poverty · Rural area · Rural development · Social capital · Social science · Sociology · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Urban and Rural Development Challenges
Exploring Barriers to Inclusion of Widowed and Abandoned Women through Microcredit Self-Help Groups
Women-led development through micro-finance led interventions
Expansion, cohesion and diversity
Towards community-driven rural development
Sustained uptake of clean cooking practices in poor communities
Transformative Grassroots Leadership
Labouring Self-Help
Group Participation and Women Empowerment
Understanding Social Media Use and Political Participation
Kiva's Flat, Flat World
Women's participation in self‐help groups as a pathway to women's empowerment
Debating Outcomes for “Working” Women
Women’s Collectives and State-Led Development in West Bengal
Women’s Collectives and Social Transformations in South Asia
Women’s Collectives and Collective Action for Food and Energy Security
Collective Action, Envisioning the Future and Women’s Self-help Groups
Gendered isolation, idealised communities and the role of collective power in West Bengal self-help groups
How sanitary pads came to save the world
Self-help groups as platforms for development
Self help groups and politics
Fighting change
Microfinance through the Self Help Group-Bank Linkage Programme
Assessing the Effects of an Asset-Building Program in Resource-Constrained Households
Microcredit Self-Help Groups for Widowed and Abandoned Women in South India
Social inequality and access to social capital in microfinance interventions
Narratives of risk and poor rural women’s (dis)-engagements with microcredit-based development in Eastern India
Daily Bread
Self-help groups
Getting ahead collectively
Civil Society
Handbook of theory and research for the sociology of education
Democracies in Flux
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Social Capital and Economic Development
Reversed Realities
Social Capital
From Feminising to Engendering Development
Microequity and Microfinance
Gender planning in the third world
When and how far is group formation a route out of chronic poverty
Women in development
The Return of Civil Society
Class and Committees in a Norwegian Island Parish
Building Co-ops, Constructing Cooperation
Who is the Developed Woman
An International City Going 'Global
Measuring Women's Work in Developing Countries
Who Needs [Sex] When you can have [Gender]
Land and Power
State Formation in Community Spaces? Decentralization of Control over Forests in the Kumaon Himalaya, India
The Return of Civil Society
The Household and Shared Poverty in the Highlands of Central Sulawesi
Negotiating parentage
Participatory Development and the Appropriation of Agency in Southern Tanzania
Governing development
| Unique citing works | 28 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,75 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 27 |