Women’s Collectives and State-Led Development in West Bengal
Reimagining Selves During Counterinsurgency
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12321859 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lipika Kamra (0000-0001-6249-7671, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat—Narela Road, Sonipat, Haryana, India., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 352-370 |
| Publication date | 2020-11-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of South Asian Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0973-1741 • E-ISSN: 0973-1733 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0973174120965355 |
| OpenAlex | W3106868063 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 34 |
This article examines the micropolitics of state-directed women’s collectives in India called self-help groups. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a setting where development becomes a means of counterinsurgency for the state, it looks at how rural women in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal use these collectives to negotiate with the state and make claims on state actors. The article argues that rural women aspire to new individual selves through their membership of SHG collectives. Women reimagined their selfhoods through their access to the state-sponsored public sphere and building new roles for themselves within it. The argument is presented in conversation with research on self-help groups and microfinance initiatives for rural women, and it builds on work that examines the unintended consequences of such development interventions for women’s lives
Argument (complex analysis · Conversation · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnography · Ethnology · Negotiation · Political science · Psychological intervention · Social science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · South asia · State (computer science · West bengal · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Psychology · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · South Asian Studies and Diaspora
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |