Paromita Sanyal
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 108261 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Paromita Sanyal |
| PRENOMES | Paromita |
| SOBRENOME | Sanyal |
| ASSINATURA | SANYAL P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Florida State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9802-4905 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 121 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Can Credit Solve Poverty and Precarity? Explorations in the Margins of Metropolitan India
This paper examines the complex and uneven impact of credit on low-income urban households in India, with a focus on women’s borrowing practices and intra-household financial dynamics. Drawing on four years of ethnographic research and in-depth interviews in Mumbai, it moves beyond income-based measures of poverty to analyze credit’s role in asset accumulation and erosion and intergenerational mobility. While women borrowers show notable financia…
Caregiving and Care Receiving Among Asian Indian Immigrants in the Usa During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study examines the intersection of wellbeing and care experienced by first-generation Asian Indian high-skilled immigrants in the USA in spaces varying from the home to the neighborhood, city, and state in sending and receiving countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. The spread of COVID-19 resulted in new stressors that affected the physical, mental, and emotional health of interviewees, but many found ways to mitigate the effects of the pan…
Talk-based Analysis
Deliberative democracy has surpassed the boundary of normative theorizing and gained a foothold as a real-world model of governance. Its appeal is in the promise of deepening democracy by giving citizens direct voice in reaching collective decisions on civic matters. With this, how citizens participate in discussions aimed at decision-making has come to the centre stage of scholarly attention. This chapter offers a qualitative, talk-based approac…
How Women Talk in Indian Democracy
From Brides to Business Owners
Women's entrepreneurship through microfinance programs has been celebrated as a model for reducing poverty and empowering women. Yet, evidence of the incidence of women's entrepreneurship has been disappointing, leading to much critique and controversy. This article presents case narratives of women enrolled in microfinance programs in rural India who took the leap onto entrepreneurship and used microcredit loans to expand or start their small-sc…
Struggles and Strategies of Black Women Business Owners in the U.S
Black women start businesses at a rate above the national average. Yet, a revenue gap persists when compared to businesses owned by Black men and White men and women. Existing explanations for the differences in revenue highlight the lack of experience and limited access to start-up capital that constrain racial and gender minorities and also the type of industries in which they operate. Research specifically examining Black women business owners…
Oral Democracy
Oral Democracy studies citizens' voices in civic and political deliberations in India's gram sabhas (village assemblies), the largest deliberative institution in human history. It analyses nearly three hundred transcripts of gram sabhas, sampled within the framework of a natural experiment, allowing the authors to study how state policy affects the quality of discourse, citizens' discursive performances and state enactments embodied by elected le…
Associational Participation and Network Expansion
Group-based microcredit has become a globally adopted anti-poverty intervention. An important institutional variant of this is the self-help group (SHG) model, where non-commercialized lending is done through neighborhood-based savings and lending associations. We examine the effect of women's participation in SHGs in India on their social networks and social capital. We use household survey data, including rich social network information from se…
Recasting Culture to Undo Gender
This paper brings together sociological theories of culture and gender to answer the question – how do large-scale development interventions induce cultural change? Through three years of ethnographic work in rural Bihar, the authors examine this question in the context of Jeevika, a World Bank-assisted poverty alleviation project targeted at women, and find support for an integrative view of culture. The paper argues that Jeevika created new “cu…
Group-based Microcredit & Emergent Inequality in Social Capital
Microfinance and Its Discontents
Dignity through Discourse
Employing a view of culture as a communicative phenomenon involving discursive engagement, the authors argue that the struggle to break free of poverty is as much a cultural process as it is political and economic. The authors analyze public meetings in Indian village democracies, gram sabhas, where villagers are constitutionally empowered to make decisions regarding budgetary allocations for village development and beneficiary selection for anti…
Dignity Through Discourse
Employing a view of culture as a communicative phenomenon involving discursive engagement, which is deeply influenced by social and economic inequalities, the authors argue that the struggle to break free of poverty is as much a cultural process as it is political and economic. In this paper, they analyze important examples of discursive spaces - public meetings in Indian village democracies (gram sabhas), where villagers make important decisions…
From Credit to Collective Action
Can economic ties positively influence social relations and actions? If so, how does this influence operate? Microfinance programs, which provide credit through a group-based lending strategy, provide the ideal setting for exploring these questions. This article examines whether structuring socially isolated women into peer-groups for an explicitly economic purpose, such as access to credit, has any effect on the women's collective social behavio…
Capacity Building Through Partnership
Partnership and capacity building have become popular strategies among intermediary nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Partnership is viewed as a cure for centrally managed bureaucratic NGOs and capacity building as a measure for strengthening local NGOs. This article examines the case of an intermediary NGO that followed a unique strategy combining capacity building through partnership. Through this, it reveals the trade-offs involved in the …
Oral Democracy
Oral Democracy studies citizens' voices in civic and political deliberations in India's gram sabhas (village assemblies), the largest deliberative institution in human history. It analyses nearly three hundred transcripts of gram sabhas, sampled within the framework of a natural experiment, allowing the authors to study how state policy affects the quality of discourse, citizens' discursive performances and state enactments embodied by elected l…
From Credit to Collective Action
Can economic ties positively influence social relations and actions? If so, how does this influence operate? Microfinance programs, which provide credit through a group-based lending strategy, provide the ideal setting for exploring these questions. This article examines whether structuring socially isolated women into peer-groups for an explicitly economic purpose, such as access to credit, has any effect on the women's collective social behavio…
Dignity through Discourse
Employing a view of culture as a communicative phenomenon involving discursive engagement, the authors argue that the struggle to break free of poverty is as much a cultural process as it is political and economic. The authors analyze public meetings in Indian village democracies, gram sabhas, where villagers are constitutionally empowered to make decisions regarding budgetary allocations for village development and beneficiary selection for anti…
Group-based Microcredit & Emergent Inequality in Social Capital
How Women Talk in Indian Democracy
Struggles and Strategies of Black Women Business Owners in the U.S
Black women start businesses at a rate above the national average. Yet, a revenue gap persists when compared to businesses owned by Black men and White men and women. Existing explanations for the differences in revenue highlight the lack of experience and limited access to start-up capital that constrain racial and gender minorities and also the type of industries in which they operate. Research specifically examining Black women business owners…
Caregiving and Care Receiving Among Asian Indian Immigrants in the Usa During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study examines the intersection of wellbeing and care experienced by first-generation Asian Indian high-skilled immigrants in the USA in spaces varying from the home to the neighborhood, city, and state in sending and receiving countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. The spread of COVID-19 resulted in new stressors that affected the physical, mental, and emotional health of interviewees, but many found ways to mitigate the effects of the pan…
Capacity Building Through Partnership
Partnership and capacity building have become popular strategies among intermediary nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Partnership is viewed as a cure for centrally managed bureaucratic NGOs and capacity building as a measure for strengthening local NGOs. This article examines the case of an intermediary NGO that followed a unique strategy combining capacity building through partnership. Through this, it reveals the trade-offs involved in the …
Dignity Through Discourse
Employing a view of culture as a communicative phenomenon involving discursive engagement, which is deeply influenced by social and economic inequalities, the authors argue that the struggle to break free of poverty is as much a cultural process as it is political and economic. In this paper, they analyze important examples of discursive spaces - public meetings in Indian village democracies (gram sabhas), where villagers make important decisions…
From Credit to Collective Action
Can economic ties positively influence social relations and actions? If so, how does this influence operate? Microfinance programs, which provide credit through a group-based lending strategy, provide the ideal setting for exploring these questions. This article examines whether structuring socially isolated women into peer-groups for an explicitly economic purpose, such as access to credit, has any effect on the women's collective social behavio…
Dignity through Discourse
Employing a view of culture as a communicative phenomenon involving discursive engagement, the authors argue that the struggle to break free of poverty is as much a cultural process as it is political and economic. The authors analyze public meetings in Indian village democracies, gram sabhas, where villagers are constitutionally empowered to make decisions regarding budgetary allocations for village development and beneficiary selection for anti…
Microfinance and Its Discontents
Recasting Culture to Undo Gender
This paper brings together sociological theories of culture and gender to answer the question – how do large-scale development interventions induce cultural change? Through three years of ethnographic work in rural Bihar, the authors examine this question in the context of Jeevika, a World Bank-assisted poverty alleviation project targeted at women, and find support for an integrative view of culture. The paper argues that Jeevika created new “cu…
Group-based Microcredit & Emergent Inequality in Social Capital
Associational Participation and Network Expansion
Group-based microcredit has become a globally adopted anti-poverty intervention. An important institutional variant of this is the self-help group (SHG) model, where non-commercialized lending is done through neighborhood-based savings and lending associations. We examine the effect of women's participation in SHGs in India on their social networks and social capital. We use household survey data, including rich social network information from se…
Oral Democracy
Oral Democracy studies citizens' voices in civic and political deliberations in India's gram sabhas (village assemblies), the largest deliberative institution in human history. It analyses nearly three hundred transcripts of gram sabhas, sampled within the framework of a natural experiment, allowing the authors to study how state policy affects the quality of discourse, citizens' discursive performances and state enactments embodied by elected le…
How Women Talk in Indian Democracy
From Brides to Business Owners
Women's entrepreneurship through microfinance programs has been celebrated as a model for reducing poverty and empowering women. Yet, evidence of the incidence of women's entrepreneurship has been disappointing, leading to much critique and controversy. This article presents case narratives of women enrolled in microfinance programs in rural India who took the leap onto entrepreneurship and used microcredit loans to expand or start their small-sc…
Struggles and Strategies of Black Women Business Owners in the U.S
Black women start businesses at a rate above the national average. Yet, a revenue gap persists when compared to businesses owned by Black men and White men and women. Existing explanations for the differences in revenue highlight the lack of experience and limited access to start-up capital that constrain racial and gender minorities and also the type of industries in which they operate. Research specifically examining Black women business owners…
Talk-based Analysis
Deliberative democracy has surpassed the boundary of normative theorizing and gained a foothold as a real-world model of governance. Its appeal is in the promise of deepening democracy by giving citizens direct voice in reaching collective decisions on civic matters. With this, how citizens participate in discussions aimed at decision-making has come to the centre stage of scholarly attention. This chapter offers a qualitative, talk-based approac…
Caregiving and Care Receiving Among Asian Indian Immigrants in the Usa During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This study examines the intersection of wellbeing and care experienced by first-generation Asian Indian high-skilled immigrants in the USA in spaces varying from the home to the neighborhood, city, and state in sending and receiving countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. The spread of COVID-19 resulted in new stressors that affected the physical, mental, and emotional health of interviewees, but many found ways to mitigate the effects of the pan…
Oral Democracy
Oral Democracy studies citizens' voices in civic and political deliberations in India's gram sabhas (village assemblies), the largest deliberative institution in human history. It analyses nearly three hundred transcripts of gram sabhas, sampled within the framework of a natural experiment, allowing the authors to study how state policy affects the quality of discourse, citizens' discursive performances and state enactments embodied by elected l…
Can Credit Solve Poverty and Precarity? Explorations in the Margins of Metropolitan India
This paper examines the complex and uneven impact of credit on low-income urban households in India, with a focus on women’s borrowing practices and intra-household financial dynamics. Drawing on four years of ethnographic research and in-depth interviews in Mumbai, it moves beyond income-based measures of poverty to analyze credit’s role in asset accumulation and erosion and intergenerational mobility. While women borrowers show notable financia…
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