Performing Participatory Citizenship – Politics and Power in Kerala's Kudumbashree Programme

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20301366
AutoresGlyn Williams (0000-0003-0293-5574, University of Sheffield, autor correspondente), Binitha V Thampi (0000-0001-8998-420X, Indian Institute of Technology Madras), D Narayana (Centre For Development Studies), Sailaja Nandigama (0000-0001-9746-7368, Wageningen University & Research), Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya (0000-0002-6377-7007, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences Calcutta)
Ano2011
Volume47
Fascículo8
Páginas1261-1280
Data de publicação2011-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Journal of Development Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-0388 • E-ISSN: 1743-9140
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00220388.2010.527949
OpenAlexW2144886127
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas26
Referências citadas15

This article examines the operation of Kudumbashree, the Poverty Eradication Mission for the Indian State of Kerala. Kudumbashree operates through female-only Neighbourhood Groups, which aim to contribute to their participants' economic uplift, and to integrate them with the activities and institutions of local governance. As such, Kudumbashree echoes poverty alleviation programmes elsewhere in the Global South designed to link poverty alleviation to ‘active citizenship’. This article evaluates the programme, looking in turn at its impacts on women's participation in public space, its attempts to engineer participatory citizenship through engagement with the local state, and the wider consequences of its particular linking of participation and poverty alleviation for processes of exclusion within Kerala. It argues that although the programme has undoubtedly been successful in its scale and in supporting women's public participation, questions remain over both the autonomy of the ‘invited spaces’ it has created, and the underlying vision of poverty alleviation it embodies

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