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D. Narayana
Bio: D. Narayana is an academic researcher from Centre for Development Studies. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poverty & Social exclusion. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 4 publications receiving 60 citations.
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TL;DR: Kudumbashree, the Poverty Eradication Mission for the Indian State of Kerala, operates through female-only Neighbourhood Groups, which aim to con....
Abstract: 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 con...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a relational approach to the study of poverty, and use this to critically evaluate state strategies for identifying and alleviating poverty in Kerala, India, and trace these from national planning documents through to their point of implementation.
20 citations
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.
2 citations
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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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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TL;DR: In this article, the authors study how these entangled cultures of caste and development translate into social network structures using data on friendship ties from a south Indian village. And they find that although caste continues to be important in shaping community structures and leadership in the village's network, its influence varies across different communities.
Abstract: Cultures of caste in much of rural India have become entangled with institutions of rural development. In community-driven development, emphasis on "local resource persons" and "community spokespersons" has created new opportunities for brokerage and patronage within some villages, which interact with existing forms of authority and community afforded by caste identity and intra-caste headmanship. In this article, we study how these entangled cultures of caste and development translate into social network structures using data on friendship ties from a south Indian village. We find that although caste continues to be important in shaping community structures and leadership in the village's network, its influence varies across different communities. This fluidity of caste's influence on community network structures is argued to be the result of multiple distinct yet partially overlapping cultural-political forces, which include sharedness afforded by caste identity and new forms of difference and inequality effected through rural development.
72 citations
TL;DR: In the global south, a number of governments in the global South have instituted programs which provide regular cash grants to poor people as discussed by the authors. But these programs do not necessarily signal an epochal shift to a post-neoliberal era.
Abstract: Since the mid-1990s, a number of governments in the global South have instituted programmes which provide regular cash grants to poor people. The results of cash transfer programmes have impressed those searching for ways to improve welfare: the depth of poverty has been reduced, more children are being educated and vaccinated, and the poor are more likely to get jobs and start enterprises. Advocates of social democracy are hopeful that this heralds the possibility of comprehensive social protection. Experiments in welfare in the global South do not, however, inevitably signal an epochal shift to a postneoliberal era. They form part of an increasingly heterodox approach which combines an enduring emphasis on liberalized economic growth with bolder biopolitical interventions for the poor.
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