Feldman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4589 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Feldman |
| APELLIDO | Feldman |
| FIRMA | FELDMAN |
| AFILIACIONES | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7137-2448 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 50 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 304 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1975 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Introduction to the Special Issue
The future -as a theme, research orientation, and mode of framing societal challenges -is becoming important in the social sciences.Yet the absence of collective action in many such accounts makes clear the potential contribution of social movement studies.In social movement studies, meanwhile, the future has been discussed directly and indirectly.Assumptions about timing, activist orientations towards the future, and causation are embedded in un…
Feminization, rural transformation, and wheat systems in post-soviet Uzbekistan
This paper examines how rural transformation in Uzbekistan alters gender norms and roles and, consequently, affects women's involvement in agriculture. We focus on the role that contextual factors, particularly kinship relations, government goals, and institutional structures each contribute to rural transformation and male out-migration, and how these, in turn, increase women's work in wheat production and processing. The wheat is the most impor…
Displacement and the production of difference
This paper explores Hindu East Bengali/Pakistani/Bangladeshi belonging as a contingent relation of inclusion that is constitutive of securing majoritarian rule. I argue that despite their formal citizenship status, Hindus are produced as undeserving others, as proxy citizens, a status that casts them as having questionable loyalty to their country of birth. I explore this production as a relation of in-situ displacement, a characterization that r…
In-Situ Displacement
This paper introduces the concept of in-situ displacement-displacement without mobility-as an analytic for understanding the place of Hindus in Muslim majority East Bengal, East Pakistan, and Bangladesh, a national formation that is best defined as one of a changing identification with Pakistan and India, and, subsequently, as a sovereign country in South Asia. Elaborating the contributions of Corrigan and Sayer on state formation and law, the pa…
Gender Trouble
This entry engages Judith Butler's contribution to troubling gender for what it portends for feminist sociological inquiry. Drawing on her exploration of the social construction of sex and gender, it suggests that despite feminist sociological contributions to understanding gender relations and acknowledging the specificity of women's experience, the field has paid scant attention to Butler's epistemic critique of binary logic. The entry suggests…
The Epistemological and Ethical Challenges of Archiving and Sharing Qualitative Data
This article identifies the epistemological and ethical problems that accompany the growing mandate to archive and share qualitative data. We call attention to the potential consequences of "shared access" for data that is premised on meaning-making and interpretation embedded in interactions between the researcher and those they study. We argue that context specificity and the co-constitutive processes of qualitative data production preclude the…
Legal” Land Appropriation as Sanctioned by the Vested Property Act(s)
In this chapter, I interrogate the Vested Property Act ( VPA ) to explore one aspect of the uneven and contradictory project of democratic state formation in Bangladesh. The Act, initially sanctioned by the state of the then-East Pakistan, and continued in independent Bangladesh through various military regimes and democratically-elected governments, paved the way for the displacement of millions of Hindus from both ownership rights and their sec…
Bangladesh in 2015
The year 2015 was the most violent in Bangladesh since independence. A growing sense of fear and insecurity prevailed, along with a crisis of governance that limited social accountability. However, there were notable contributions to global climate change initiatives, and the Land Boundary Agreement with India offered enclave dwellers the rights of citizenship after almost 70 years
The Hindu as Other
Constructing religious difference as a national security threat, the Vested Property Act, whose legacy dates from the period of East Pakistan, marks Bangladeshi Hindus as citizens whose allegiance to the country is always suspect. This paper explores the social production of Hindu difference through legal claims to the right to private property. I draw on shifting policy reforms to show how land rights and the control of private property, embedde…
Bangladesh in 2014
Despite a positive economic outlook in 2014, political tensions and income inequalities continue to challenge the country’s democratic image. Power has been concentrated in the executive, state violence has increased, and there is pressure to improve working conditions and infrastructure in the garment sector. For the re-elected Awami League government, addressing employment issues is essential, given its focus on attracting foreign investment
Mainstreaming Gender in Politics in Bangladesh
Gender mainstreaming’ has been regarded as one of the strongest approaches to deal with the issue of equality policy for women. In order to mainstream women in the political process, a number of NGOs have been carrying out different programs in Bangladesh for building awareness among women so that they could opt for participation in the political process. The paper analyzes the role of NGOs in the process of mainstreaming gender in politics in Ba…
"Not as Sheep Led to Slaughter"? On Trauma, Selective Memory, and the Making of Historical Consciousness
A major post-Holocaust psychoethical dilemma seems to be the product of a collective repression of a long pre–World War II history that has almost disappeared from modern memory. In this forgotten past, the contested victim trope—"as sheep to slaughter"—that aroused much concern in the wake of the Holocaust had in fact been alive for centuries. Amazingly, its negation, the call for resistance "not as sheep led to slaughter," has had an even longe…
Community-making in times of displacement
This concluding essay integrates the various contributions of this special volume to conceptualize how South Asian migrant communities, whether in the UK, Bangladesh, or the US, respond to and negotiate multiple experiences of displacement and resettlement. I draw attention to the place of Islam – as religion, institutional context, social connection, and moral community – among young men and women in these multiple sites to highlight the salienc…
The Politics of International Assessments
This paper explores the career of the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge Science and Technology and Development (IAASTD) from its inception, the publishing of its reports, and its place in ongoing debates on global agriculture, food security, poverty reduction, social equity and sustainable development. We highlight the disputes and disruptions that characterize the IAASTD process and attempts to marginalize its findings. Followin…
Land expropriation and displacement in Bangladesh
This paper examines land grabbing in Bangladesh and views such seizures through the lens of displacement and land encroachment. Two different but potentially interacting displacement processes are examined. The first, the char riverine and coastal sediment regions that are in a constant state of formation and erosion, are contested sites ripe for power plays that uproot small producers on their rich alluvial soils. The second examines new pattern…
Accumulating Insecurity
Whither Historical Capitalism
Shame and honour
Drowned Out
Social Regulation in the Time of War
The ‘war on terror’ is an iconic example of state violence—the transgression by one state violating the sovereignty of another. However, state violence is neither limited to cross-national transgressions nor associated only with wartime. Rather, state violence, and not only the threat of violence, constitutes politics everywhere and requires for its understanding rethinking development in the idiom of violence, where it is important to interpret …
Highway Courtesans
Courtesan, whore, tramp ... each term evokes something quite different—a lover living in the ostentation of the palace; the lady of the day or night who supports herself and her family by selling her
The seductive quality of central human capabilities
In an era when relativism and questions of modernity have unsettled the premises and goals of the development project, there is a seductive quality to the universalism of Nussbaum's capabilities approach. We query Nussbaum's philosophically based contribution and raise epistemological concerns about her commitment to a list of central human capabilities. We argue that attention to state forms and practices, as well as unequal power relations, mus…
Bengali state and nation making
Dams, roads, ports, mines, and other ''megaprojects'' both reflect and instantiate the larger social projects of colonialism, development, and globalisation.In this article, we define megaprojects as those which transform landscapes rapidly, intentionally, and profoundly in very visible ways.We argue that (1) displacement is intrinsic to mega-project development and that both are socio-natural phenomena, (2) the definition of displacement must be…
Bengali state and nation making
Paradoxes of institutionalisation
Through an analysis of how Bangladeshi NGOs have become institutionalised, the author examines patterns of bureaucratisation and professionalisation to argue that NGOs are part of a process of incorporation that mediates opposition to gender and other structural inequalities. Two important tendencies--the growing partnership between NGOs, the state, and donor agencies, and the discursive shift from social welfare and redistribution to individuali…
Land expropriation and displacement in Bangladesh
This paper examines land grabbing in Bangladesh and views such seizures through the lens of displacement and land encroachment. Two different but potentially interacting displacement processes are examined. The first, the char riverine and coastal sediment regions that are in a constant state of formation and erosion, are contested sites ripe for power plays that uproot small producers on their rich alluvial soils. The second examines new pattern…
Feminist Knowledge Claims, Local Knowledge, and Gender Divisions of Agricultural Labor
Issues raised by the feminist epistemic critique of social science are used to examine what is meant by local knowledge and its contribution to analyses of agricultural sustainability. Employing the concepts of partial perspective, lived experience, and the complexity of social context, this paper focuses attention on the juxtaposition of local and scientific knowledge and challenges those interpretations of local knowledge production that ignore…
NGOs and Civil Society
While nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are recognized for the important role they play in development planning, particularly as sites for democratic change, little attention is given to how they prefigure the economic and social reorganization of everyday life and provide a venue for privatization and the liberalization of previously nationalized economies. This article examines the transformation of NGOs in Bangladesh since independence agai…
Shame and honour
Moving targets
Paradoxes of institutionalisation
Through an analysis of how Bangladeshi NGOs have become institutionalised, the author examines patterns of bureaucratisation and professionalisation to argue that NGOs are part of a process of incorporation that mediates opposition to gender and other structural inequalities. Two important tendencies--the growing partnership between NGOs, the state, and donor agencies, and the discursive shift from social welfare and redistribution to individuali…
Purdah and Changing Patterns of Social Control among Rural Women in Bangladesh
Using data gathered in 1966 and between 1975 and 1982 this paper shows how changes in womens productive activities and in the demand for female wage labor have affected the accoutrements and expression of purdah among Bangladeshi villagers. Purdah is defined as the specific pattern of exchange between the sexes. Purdah incorporating as it does patterns of social control in combination with religous justification changes in saliency as social cond…
The use of private health care providers in rural Bangladesh
The seductive quality of central human capabilities
In an era when relativism and questions of modernity have unsettled the premises and goals of the development project, there is a seductive quality to the universalism of Nussbaum's capabilities approach. We query Nussbaum's philosophically based contribution and raise epistemological concerns about her commitment to a list of central human capabilities. We argue that attention to state forms and practices, as well as unequal power relations, mus…
The Epistemological and Ethical Challenges of Archiving and Sharing Qualitative Data
This article identifies the epistemological and ethical problems that accompany the growing mandate to archive and share qualitative data. We call attention to the potential consequences of "shared access" for data that is premised on meaning-making and interpretation embedded in interactions between the researcher and those they study. We argue that context specificity and the co-constitutive processes of qualitative data production preclude the…
Introduction to the Special Issue
The future -as a theme, research orientation, and mode of framing societal challenges -is becoming important in the social sciences.Yet the absence of collective action in many such accounts makes clear the potential contribution of social movement studies.In social movement studies, meanwhile, the future has been discussed directly and indirectly.Assumptions about timing, activist orientations towards the future, and causation are embedded in un…
Bangladesh in 2014
Despite a positive economic outlook in 2014, political tensions and income inequalities continue to challenge the country’s democratic image. Power has been concentrated in the executive, state violence has increased, and there is pressure to improve working conditions and infrastructure in the garment sector. For the re-elected Awami League government, addressing employment issues is essential, given its focus on attracting foreign investment
"Not as Sheep Led to Slaughter"? On Trauma, Selective Memory, and the Making of Historical Consciousness
A major post-Holocaust psychoethical dilemma seems to be the product of a collective repression of a long pre–World War II history that has almost disappeared from modern memory. In this forgotten past, the contested victim trope—"as sheep to slaughter"—that aroused much concern in the wake of the Holocaust had in fact been alive for centuries. Amazingly, its negation, the call for resistance "not as sheep led to slaughter," has had an even longe…
Rural Women Discovered
The Hindu as Other
Constructing religious difference as a national security threat, the Vested Property Act, whose legacy dates from the period of East Pakistan, marks Bangladeshi Hindus as citizens whose allegiance to the country is always suspect. This paper explores the social production of Hindu difference through legal claims to the right to private property. I draw on shifting policy reforms to show how land rights and the control of private property, embedde…
Mainstreaming Gender in Politics in Bangladesh
Gender mainstreaming’ has been regarded as one of the strongest approaches to deal with the issue of equality policy for women. In order to mainstream women in the political process, a number of NGOs have been carrying out different programs in Bangladesh for building awareness among women so that they could opt for participation in the political process. The paper analyzes the role of NGOs in the process of mainstreaming gender in politics in Ba…
Feminization, rural transformation, and wheat systems in post-soviet Uzbekistan
This paper examines how rural transformation in Uzbekistan alters gender norms and roles and, consequently, affects women's involvement in agriculture. We focus on the role that contextual factors, particularly kinship relations, government goals, and institutional structures each contribute to rural transformation and male out-migration, and how these, in turn, increase women's work in wheat production and processing. The wheat is the most impor…
The Politics of International Assessments
This paper explores the career of the International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge Science and Technology and Development (IAASTD) from its inception, the publishing of its reports, and its place in ongoing debates on global agriculture, food security, poverty reduction, social equity and sustainable development. We highlight the disputes and disruptions that characterize the IAASTD process and attempts to marginalize its findings. Followin…
Social Regulation in the Time of War
The ‘war on terror’ is an iconic example of state violence—the transgression by one state violating the sovereignty of another. However, state violence is neither limited to cross-national transgressions nor associated only with wartime. Rather, state violence, and not only the threat of violence, constitutes politics everywhere and requires for its understanding rethinking development in the idiom of violence, where it is important to interpret …
Feminist interruptions
Using a feminist episteme I examine the exclusion of the East Bengal/East Pakistan experience in constructions of contemporary narratives of Partition. Including the double colonialism of East Bengal, its particular location in the ethnic and religious hierarchies of the region, and the simultaneity of separation and violence as well as freedom and social mobility challenges the emergent meta-narrative of violence by contributing a contradictory …
Negotiating Difference
Research on immigrant women workers in the United States and Third World women employed by multinational corporations in export-enclaves has highlighted how global movements of capital and labor are expressed in changing labor processes, working conditions, and ethnic relations in the workplace. Notably absent from this body of literature are the ways in which rural, white American women respond to the new work environments offered by direct fore…
Conditions influencing rural and town women's participation in the labor force
In-Situ Displacement
This paper introduces the concept of in-situ displacement-displacement without mobility-as an analytic for understanding the place of Hindus in Muslim majority East Bengal, East Pakistan, and Bangladesh, a national formation that is best defined as one of a changing identification with Pakistan and India, and, subsequently, as a sovereign country in South Asia. Elaborating the contributions of Corrigan and Sayer on state formation and law, the pa…
Legal” Land Appropriation as Sanctioned by the Vested Property Act(s)
In this chapter, I interrogate the Vested Property Act ( VPA ) to explore one aspect of the uneven and contradictory project of democratic state formation in Bangladesh. The Act, initially sanctioned by the state of the then-East Pakistan, and continued in independent Bangladesh through various military regimes and democratically-elected governments, paved the way for the displacement of millions of Hindus from both ownership rights and their sec…
Bangladesh in 2015
The year 2015 was the most violent in Bangladesh since independence. A growing sense of fear and insecurity prevailed, along with a crisis of governance that limited social accountability. However, there were notable contributions to global climate change initiatives, and the Land Boundary Agreement with India offered enclave dwellers the rights of citizenship after almost 70 years
The Spatiotemporal Pricing of Some Urban Public Services
The paper discusses pricing schemes for some public services in urban areas with regard to equity and efficiency, taking into consideration the residential geography of cities, in terms of the spatial pattern of population density and the level of income. Spatial pricing schemes that use a distance criterion, especially distance from city center, are shown to be inadequate for purposes of equity and efficiency-the reason being the weakness of dis…
Conditions influencing rural and town women's participation in the labor force
The use of private health care providers in rural Bangladesh
Rural Women Discovered
Purdah and Changing Patterns of Social Control among Rural Women in Bangladesh
Using data gathered in 1966 and between 1975 and 1982 this paper shows how changes in womens productive activities and in the demand for female wage labor have affected the accoutrements and expression of purdah among Bangladeshi villagers. Purdah is defined as the specific pattern of exchange between the sexes. Purdah incorporating as it does patterns of social control in combination with religous justification changes in saliency as social cond…
Constraints Challenging the Cooperative Strategy in Bangladesh
Research Article| August 01 1984 Constraints Challenging the Cooperative Strategy in Bangladesh Shelley Feldman; Shelley Feldman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Florence McCarthy Florence McCarthy Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1984) 4 (2): 11–21. https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-4-2-11 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Perm…
Behind the Poison Cloud
Other| May 01 1986 Behind the Poison Cloud: Union Carbide's Bhopal Massacre Larry Everest. Behind the Poison Cloud: Union Carbides's Bhopal Massacre. Chicago: Banner Press. 1985. 192 pp. Shelley Feldman; Shelley Feldman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Florence E. McCarthy Florence E. McCarthy Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1986) 6…
Human Rights as Class Conflict
Research Article| August 01 1987 Human Rights as Class Conflict: A Reconceptualization of the Issues Florence E. McCarthy; Florence E. McCarthy Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Shelley Feldman Shelley Feldman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1987) 7 (1_and_2): 64–67. https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-7-1_and_2-64 Views Icon Views Arti…
Persistence of the smallholder, withering away of the small farmer
Bhaduri, Rahman and Arn's article on the persistence of small farms in the April 1986 issue of The Journal of Peasant Studies is reviewed. The article raises a number of critical points for understanding the effects of capitalist penetration of land‐holding patterns in Bangladesh. It is argued that the discussion would benefit from a refined methodological and definitional focus to avoid misrepresenting processes of polarisation. Particular atten…
Basic Needs, Women, and Development
This study uses a household survey to analyze the situation of a group of squatters the residents of katchi abadis in Lahore City Pakistan. The study examines poor peoples own perceptions of their basic needs and priorities. Specifically the study 1) identifies policies and programs directed toward the needs of poor urban families in upgraded and non-upgraded abadis 2) examines the social and cultural conditions of these families and their awaren…
The Invisible Resource
Women, Employment and the Family in the International Division of Labor
Women Workers and Global Restructuring
Economy and Culture in Pakistan
Family and low income housing in Karachi, Frits Selier security and value - squatter dwelling in Karachi, Jan van der Linden the impact of migration on Pakistan's economy and society, Omar Noman marriage and power - tradition and transition in an urban Punjabi community, Michael Fischer Pakistani women in a changing society, Hamza Alavi competing doctors, unequal patients - stratified medicine in Lahore, Wenonah Lyon nationhood and the nationalit…
Mujer y crisis
Feminist Knowledge Claims, Local Knowledge, and Gender Divisions of Agricultural Labor
Issues raised by the feminist epistemic critique of social science are used to examine what is meant by local knowledge and its contribution to analyses of agricultural sustainability. Employing the concepts of partial perspective, lived experience, and the complexity of social context, this paper focuses attention on the juxtaposition of local and scientific knowledge and challenges those interpretations of local knowledge production that ignore…
Patriarchy and Economic Development
At the end of the twentieth century, after four world conferences on women, debates on the impact of economic development on the lives and status of women - including their life-options and opportunities for betterment - continue unresolved. Is patriarchy on the decline, or is it merely its form that is changing? What effect does development have on gender relations, and how do patriarchal structures affect the development process? The chapters i…
NGOs and Civil Society
While nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are recognized for the important role they play in development planning, particularly as sites for democratic change, little attention is given to how they prefigure the economic and social reorganization of everyday life and provide a venue for privatization and the liberalization of previously nationalized economies. This article examines the transformation of NGOs in Bangladesh since independence agai…
Nonfarm Activity and Rural Household Income
Negotiating Difference
Research on immigrant women workers in the United States and Third World women employed by multinational corporations in export-enclaves has highlighted how global movements of capital and labor are expressed in changing labor processes, working conditions, and ethnic relations in the workplace. Notably absent from this body of literature are the ways in which rural, white American women respond to the new work environments offered by direct fore…
Women, Work, and Economic Reform in the Middle East and North Africa
This work explores the connections between gender relations and economic reform in the Middle East and Africa. The book begins with an overview of the political economy of women's employment and education and concludes with an exploration of future possibilities for gender relations
Feminist interruptions
Using a feminist episteme I examine the exclusion of the East Bengal/East Pakistan experience in constructions of contemporary narratives of Partition. Including the double colonialism of East Bengal, its particular location in the ethnic and religious hierarchies of the region, and the simultaneity of separation and violence as well as freedom and social mobility challenges the emergent meta-narrative of violence by contributing a contradictory …
Response to Oded Stark
Exploring Theories of Patriarchy
Bengali state and nation making
Dams, roads, ports, mines, and other ''megaprojects'' both reflect and instantiate the larger social projects of colonialism, development, and globalisation.In this article, we define megaprojects as those which transform landscapes rapidly, intentionally, and profoundly in very visible ways.We argue that (1) displacement is intrinsic to mega-project development and that both are socio-natural phenomena, (2) the definition of displacement must be…
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