Esayas Bekele Geleta
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 98809 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Esayas Bekele Geleta |
| NOMBRES | Esayas Bekele |
| APELLIDO | Geleta |
| FIRMA | GELETA E B |
| AFILIACIONES | Yahoo (United Kingdom) |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 6 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The pluses of pulses
This practical note demonstrates the role that haricot beans play in assisting women to become food and nutrition secure, to generate income, and to have sustainable livelihoods that are resilient to shocks. Based on qualitative research among female and male beneficiaries of a pulse innovation project implemented in southern Ethiopia, the note provides a summary of the critical voices of farmers, and the role that haricot beans play in empowerin…
The Challenges of Empowering Women
Within the last two decades, women's empowerment has been the central theme of international development policy and practice. This article seeks to elucidate the challenges of integrating gender in a development project to empower women. Drawing on the wider literature on women's empowerment, it constructs a framework to analyze the meaning of empowerment. The article then draws on the framework and empirical data gathered to illuminate the chall…
Microfinance and women's empowerment
Within the last two decades microfinance has been widely adopted as one of the best development strategies to reduce poverty and empower women in many developing countries. Drawing on ethnographic research undertaken in Ethiopia, this article elucidates the complexities of microfinance processes, and argues that current microfinance practice does not facilitate the participation of women in decision-making over the use and management of loans as …
Social Capital as Collateral
Group-based micro finance is a field in which the place of social capital in development has been given a central focus. The formation of micro group is based on tapping into the information that group members have about each other, thus relying on social capital. Group-based micro finance has also been explained as a means of creating social capital. This article, drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's conception of social capital, in contrast to the wide…
The politics of identity and methodology in African development ethnography
Since the reflexive turn in sociology and social anthropology, 'identity negotiation' and the 'insider/outsider' dilemma have been central topics of ethnographic literature. Much of the writings have exposed how the sociocultural biography and the identity of Western researchers interact, contradict and collaborate with the constructed 'self' of the participants of research. However, African development researchers have largely focused on describ…
Microfinance and the Politics of Empowerment
This article challenges the widely accepted assumption that the provision of microfinance to poor women through organizing them in groups empowers them. The current popular thinking in development studies considers microfinance as the best remedy not only for poverty, but also for social disintegration and women's subordination. This article argues that such analysis ignores the cultural roots of inequality, subordination and destitution. Drawing…
The politics of identity and methodology in African development ethnography
Since the reflexive turn in sociology and social anthropology, 'identity negotiation' and the 'insider/outsider' dilemma have been central topics of ethnographic literature. Much of the writings have exposed how the sociocultural biography and the identity of Western researchers interact, contradict and collaborate with the constructed 'self' of the participants of research. However, African development researchers have largely focused on describ…
Microfinance and the Politics of Empowerment
This article challenges the widely accepted assumption that the provision of microfinance to poor women through organizing them in groups empowers them. The current popular thinking in development studies considers microfinance as the best remedy not only for poverty, but also for social disintegration and women's subordination. This article argues that such analysis ignores the cultural roots of inequality, subordination and destitution. Drawing…
Microfinance and women's empowerment
Within the last two decades microfinance has been widely adopted as one of the best development strategies to reduce poverty and empower women in many developing countries. Drawing on ethnographic research undertaken in Ethiopia, this article elucidates the complexities of microfinance processes, and argues that current microfinance practice does not facilitate the participation of women in decision-making over the use and management of loans as …
Social Capital as Collateral
Group-based micro finance is a field in which the place of social capital in development has been given a central focus. The formation of micro group is based on tapping into the information that group members have about each other, thus relying on social capital. Group-based micro finance has also been explained as a means of creating social capital. This article, drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's conception of social capital, in contrast to the wide…
Social Capital as Collateral
Group-based micro finance is a field in which the place of social capital in development has been given a central focus. The formation of micro group is based on tapping into the information that group members have about each other, thus relying on social capital. Group-based micro finance has also been explained as a means of creating social capital. This article, drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's conception of social capital, in contrast to the wide…
The politics of identity and methodology in African development ethnography
Since the reflexive turn in sociology and social anthropology, 'identity negotiation' and the 'insider/outsider' dilemma have been central topics of ethnographic literature. Much of the writings have exposed how the sociocultural biography and the identity of Western researchers interact, contradict and collaborate with the constructed 'self' of the participants of research. However, African development researchers have largely focused on describ…
Microfinance and the Politics of Empowerment
This article challenges the widely accepted assumption that the provision of microfinance to poor women through organizing them in groups empowers them. The current popular thinking in development studies considers microfinance as the best remedy not only for poverty, but also for social disintegration and women's subordination. This article argues that such analysis ignores the cultural roots of inequality, subordination and destitution. Drawing…
Microfinance and women's empowerment
Within the last two decades microfinance has been widely adopted as one of the best development strategies to reduce poverty and empower women in many developing countries. Drawing on ethnographic research undertaken in Ethiopia, this article elucidates the complexities of microfinance processes, and argues that current microfinance practice does not facilitate the participation of women in decision-making over the use and management of loans as …
The Challenges of Empowering Women
Within the last two decades, women's empowerment has been the central theme of international development policy and practice. This article seeks to elucidate the challenges of integrating gender in a development project to empower women. Drawing on the wider literature on women's empowerment, it constructs a framework to analyze the meaning of empowerment. The article then draws on the framework and empirical data gathered to illuminate the chall…
The pluses of pulses
This practical note demonstrates the role that haricot beans play in assisting women to become food and nutrition secure, to generate income, and to have sustainable livelihoods that are resilient to shocks. Based on qualitative research among female and male beneficiaries of a pulse innovation project implemented in southern Ethiopia, the note provides a summary of the critical voices of farmers, and the role that haricot beans play in empowerin…
Economic growth (5 obras) · Economics (5 obras) · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Empowerment (4 obras) · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · Social science (3 obras) · Business (2 obras) · Ethnography (2 obras)