Suruchi Thapar‐björkert
Biographic Data
| ID | 3696563 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suruchi Thapar‐björkert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suruchi |
| FAMILY NAME | Thapar‐björkert |
| SIGNATURE | BJÖRKERT S T |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Politics as Negotiation
This article analyses processes of social change in rural India through an ethnographic analysis of everyday politics in two Indian states, Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. Its main argument is that even if overt resistance or 'noisy' collective action by the poor is rarely seen, a great deal of social change is occurring through a subtle 'politics of negotiation' whereby poor, low-caste agricultural labourers are questioning social norms that u…
Abortion Law Reforms in Colombia and Nicaragua
This article analyses two instances of abortion law reform in Latin America. In 2006, after a decades-long impasse, the highly controversial issue of abortion came to dominate the political agenda when Colombia liberalized its abortion law and Nicaragua adopted a total ban on abortion. The article analyses the central actors in the reform processes, their strategies and the opportunity contexts. Drawing on Htun's (2003) framework, it examines why…
Reassessing the research relationship
In this article we problematize the dualistic and binary model of researcher/researched interaction in the feminist methodological literature, which suggests that manipulation and exploitation only take place by the researcher. We contest assumptions that research participants occupy only one axis of identity, namely, 'oppressed victimhood'. Through our position as non-white/non-western and nonwhite/western researchers in a non-western research s…
Reassessing the research relationship
In this article we problematize the dualistic and binary model of researcher/researched interaction in the feminist methodological literature, which suggests that manipulation and exploitation only take place by the researcher. We contest assumptions that research participants occupy only one axis of identity, namely, 'oppressed victimhood'. Through our position as non-white/non-western and nonwhite/western researchers in a non-western research s…
Abortion Law Reforms in Colombia and Nicaragua
This article analyses two instances of abortion law reform in Latin America. In 2006, after a decades-long impasse, the highly controversial issue of abortion came to dominate the political agenda when Colombia liberalized its abortion law and Nicaragua adopted a total ban on abortion. The article analyses the central actors in the reform processes, their strategies and the opportunity contexts. Drawing on Htun's (2003) framework, it examines why…
Politics as Negotiation
This article analyses processes of social change in rural India through an ethnographic analysis of everyday politics in two Indian states, Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. Its main argument is that even if overt resistance or 'noisy' collective action by the poor is rarely seen, a great deal of social change is occurring through a subtle 'politics of negotiation' whereby poor, low-caste agricultural labourers are questioning social norms that u…
Reassessing the research relationship
In this article we problematize the dualistic and binary model of researcher/researched interaction in the feminist methodological literature, which suggests that manipulation and exploitation only take place by the researcher. We contest assumptions that research participants occupy only one axis of identity, namely, 'oppressed victimhood'. Through our position as non-white/non-western and nonwhite/western researchers in a non-western research s…
Abortion Law Reforms in Colombia and Nicaragua
This article analyses two instances of abortion law reform in Latin America. In 2006, after a decades-long impasse, the highly controversial issue of abortion came to dominate the political agenda when Colombia liberalized its abortion law and Nicaragua adopted a total ban on abortion. The article analyses the central actors in the reform processes, their strategies and the opportunity contexts. Drawing on Htun's (2003) framework, it examines why…
Politics as Negotiation
This article analyses processes of social change in rural India through an ethnographic analysis of everyday politics in two Indian states, Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. Its main argument is that even if overt resistance or 'noisy' collective action by the poor is rarely seen, a great deal of social change is occurring through a subtle 'politics of negotiation' whereby poor, low-caste agricultural labourers are questioning social norms that u…
Development economics (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Abortion (1 works) · Abortion law (1 works) · Agrarian society (1 works)