Women’s Collectives and Social Transformations in South Asia: Negotiations, Navigations and Self-making

Lipika Kamra and Debarati Sen

Journal of South Asian Development, 2020, vol. 15, issue 3, 309-315

Abstract: This introduction to the special issue lays out the importance of studying women’s collectives in South Asia. We argue in this issue that it is particularly important to examine collectives in this moment because transformations in South Asian women’s lives are increasingly described in individual terms in state policy and international development discourses. The emphasis on individual empowerment alone, however, effaces the subtle negotiations that women carry out with state actors, development workers, families, the market and their communities through collectives. The articles in the special issue examine how women’s participation in collectives and collective spaces enables them to imagine transformations in their lives. We also discuss the limitations of collectives-led transformation.

Keywords: Collectives; development; informal networks; social change; the state; women and development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1177/0973174120987091

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