An Experiment in Feminist Technology in Local Governance: Revisiting the Question of ‘Invited Spaces’ of Participation in Kerala

Binitha V. Thampi and Aarti Kawlra

Review of Development and Change, 2019, vol. 24, issue 2, 205-223

Abstract: Abstract In this article, we foreground the potential for a space for collective deliberation and political subjectivities building among women leaders in local governance. We interrogate the Gramamukhya portal, which was initiated in 2011 and continued until 2015, as a democratic space to politicise the invited spaces of governance. Revisiting the question of women’s engagement in panchayati raj institutions in Kerala, we suggest that the practice of citizenship can become politically effective for women in governance if they use a platform that facilitates critical engagement from within and without the invited spaces of participation. This reflection becomes all the more significant given the contemporary political context of Kerala, where the women’s question is caught between developmentalist intentions of the state and right-wing political mobilisations at the grass-roots level.

Keywords: Decentralisation; women’s participation; local governance; invited spaces; feminist technology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1177/0972266119886676

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