Dilemmas of Difference: Indigenous Women and the Limits of Postcolonial Developm

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Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork and postcolonial theory, Sarah A. Radcliffe centers the experiences of rural indigenous women in Ecuador to show how the efforts of development agencies to reduce social and economic equality fail because they do not reckon with the legacies of colonialism.

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In Dilemmas of Difference Sarah A. Radcliffe explores the relationship of rural indigenous women in Ecuador to the development policies and actors that are ostensibly there to help ameliorate social and economic inequality. Radcliffe finds that development policies's inability to recognize and reckon with the legacies of colonialism reinforces long-standing social hierarchies, thereby reproducing the very poverty and disempowerment they are there to solve. This ineffectiveness results from failures to acknowledge the local population's diversity and a lack of accounting for the complex intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, class, and geography. As a result, projects often fail to match beneficiaries' needs, certain groups are made invisible, and indigenous women become excluded from positions of authority. Drawing from a mix of ethnographic fieldwork and postcolonial and social theory, Radcliffe centers the perspectives of indigenous women to show how they craft practices and epistemologies that critique ineffective development methods, inform their political agendas, and shape their strategic interventions in public policy debates.

Author Biography

Sarah A. Radcliffe is Professor of Latin American Geography at the University of Cambridge and coauthor of Indigenous Development in the Andes: Culture, Power, and Transnationalism, also published by Duke University Press. 

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction. Development and Social Heterogeneity  11. Postcolonial Intersectionality and the Colonial Present  372. The Daily Grind: Ethnic Topographies of Labor, Racism, and Abandonment  75Interlude I  1213. Crumbs from the Table: Participation, Organization, and Indigenous Women  1254. Politics, Statistics, and Affect: "Indigenous Women in Development" Policy  157Interlude II  1895. Women, Biopolitics, and Interculturalism: Ethnic Politics and Gendered Contradictions  1936. From Development to Citizenship: Rights, Voice, and Citizenship Practices  2257. Postcolonial Heterogeneity: Sumak Kawsay and Decolonizing Social Difference  257Notes  291Glossary 295Bibliography  329Index  359

Review

"Radcliffe's book, well grounded in theory and research, is an important read for scholars of Latin American development and gender. Highly recommended." -- E. E. O'Connor * Choice *"Sarah Radcliffe's recent book offers a rich ethnography of indigenous women in Ecuador which specifically addresses how they encounter and experience development interventions." -- Jessica Hope * Journal of Development Studies *"Dilemmas of Difference represents a timely contribution to the critical literature on indigenous women and development and to the debate of neoliberal instrumentalization of difference.... Overall, with a genealogy of development frameworks contrasted with indigenous women's experience, Radcliffe demonstrates the persistence of postcolonial stereotypes and colonial assumptions of social difference that produce indigenous women's dissatisfaction with development." -- María Moreno * American Anthropologist *"Radcliffe's book represents a powerful contribution to critical development studies and the discipline of geography." -- Emily Billo * Journal of Latin American Geography *

Review Quote

"Sarah Radcliffe's recent book offers a rich ethnography of indigenous women in Ecuador which specifically addresses how they encounter and experience development interventions."

Details ISBN0822360101 Author Sarah A. Radcliffe Short Title DILEMMAS OF DIFFERENCE Publisher Duke University Press Language English ISBN-10 0822360101 ISBN-13 9780822360100 Media Book Format Paperback Pages 384 Publication Date 2015-10-30 Year 2015 Imprint Duke University Press Subtitle Indigenous Women and the Limits of Postcolonial Development Policy Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States UK Release Date 2015-10-30 AU Release Date 2015-10-30 NZ Release Date 2015-10-30 US Release Date 2015-10-30 Edited by Paulo Knauss de Mendonca Birth 1944 Affiliation Amazon.com, Inc, Usa Position EDFRTR Qualifications Sir Alternative 9780822359784 DEWEY 305.4209866 Illustrations 20 illustrations Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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