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Binitha V. Thampi
Other affiliations: Centre for Development Studies
Bio: Binitha V. Thampi is an academic researcher from Indian Institute of Technology Madras. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poverty & Politics. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 14 publications receiving 164 citations. Previous affiliations of Binitha V. Thampi include Centre for Development Studies.
Topics: Poverty, Politics, Social exclusion, Culture of poverty, Empowerment
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TL;DR: This article explored the extent to which success in local governance allowed these women entry into politics and gave them a greater presence within the public life, and found that successful women leaders are often the bearers of a specific form of power that has been historically associated with the deployment of sentiment and affect, and ideal femininity.
Abstract: The rapidly changing urban scenario seems to have important implications for gendering governance in Kerala. Thus, besides the different histories mediated by caste and community, the spatial location of women leaders in local governance appears to be of central importance in shaping their agency. This article which is based on the research about women leaders in local governance in Kerala in 2005-10 explores the extent to which success in local governance allowed these women entry into politics and gave them a greater presence within the public life. Generally it is seen that successful women leaders are often the bearers of a specific form of power that has been historically associated with the deployment of sentiment and affect, and ideal femininity, and that such power is understood to be crucial to local governance as well. However, an entirely different picture emerged from this study on women leaders of urban governance. Besides gentle power, successful women attribute their success equally to knowledge - of official norms and procedures.
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01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors look at state strategies for identifying and alleviating poverty in Kerala, and at the implementation and impact of these strategies within two districts of the State, and look at the way that poverty alleviation policies have been framed and implemented has meant that current poverty interventions have failed to reach some of the poorest and most marginalised individuals and communities.
Abstract: This briefing paper looks at state strategies for identifying and alleviating poverty in Kerala, and at the implementation and impact of these strategies within two Districts of the State. Kerala's approach to the management of poverty is shaped by national policy, which promotes economic self-reliance and political empowerment, and the State has shown innovation in its adaptation of these policy goals to its particular circumstances. However, at the grassroots level, the way that poverty alleviation policies have been framed and implemented has meant that current poverty interventions have failed to reach some of the poorest and most marginalised individuals and communities.
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TL;DR: Lindberg as discussed by the authors , Experience and Identity: A Historical Account of Class, Caste and Gender Among the Cashew Workers of Kerala, 1930-2000. New Delhi: Manohar Publishers, 2021, 386 pp., ₹ 1,350.
Abstract: Anna Lindberg, Experience and Identity: A Historical Account of Class, Caste and Gender Among the Cashew Workers of Kerala, 1930–2000. New Delhi: Manohar Publishers, 2021, 386 pp., ₹1,350. ISBN: 9789390729913 (Hardback).
01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: However, as a result of local political cultures and sustained patterns of social exclusion, some of the poorest and most marginalised women find it difficult to access the programme, and many of the women who are involved still lack decision-making power and autonomy.
Abstract: 139955Kerala's poverty eradication programme, Kudumbashree, aims to enhance women's economic development and enable women to become 'active citizens' The programme has been largely successful in terms of the numbers of women involved, their levels of engagement with the local state, and their increased ability to save money and access subsidised credit However this study suggests that, as a result of local political cultures and sustained patterns of social exclusion, some of the poorest and most marginalised women find it difficult to access the programme, and many of the women who are involved still lack decision-making power and autonomy
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TL;DR: Mitsch et al. as mentioned in this paper published a Journal of Ecological Engineering (JEE) article with the title of "The Future of Ecology: A Review of Recent Developments".
Abstract: Ecological Engineering: Journal of Ecotechnology. Editor-in-chief William J. Mitsch. Elsevier. 4/yr. DFL 361, $195.
1,161 citations
01 Jan 1992
TL;DR: The body politics of Julia Kristeva and the Body Politics of JuliaKristeva as discussed by the authors are discussed in detail in Section 5.1.1 and Section 6.2.1.
Abstract: Preface (1999) Preface (1990) 1. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire I. 'Women' as the Subject of Feminism II. The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire III. Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate IV. Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary and Beyond V. Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance VI. Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement 2. Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix I. Structuralism's Critical Exchange II. Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade III. Freud and the Melancholia of Gender IV. Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification V. Reformulating Prohibition as Power 3. Subversive Bodily Acts I. The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva II. Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity III. Monique Wittig - Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex IV. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions Conclusion - From Parody to Politics
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TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper employed content analysis to analyze the Chinese policies of targeted poverty alleviation using photovoltaic power from two points of view: the basic policy instruments and the project procedures.
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