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Abstract: Preface. Introduction 1. Gendered and Claiming a Place in the Androcentric Discipline of Geography: Revisiting the Familiar Saraswati Raju 2. 'Doing Gender' in Geography: An Indian Exploring Contemporary Feminist Methodologies Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt Part I. World of Work 3. Mobilities and Spaces: Gendered Dimension of Migration in Urban India Arpita Bannerjee 4. Creating New 'Places': Women and Livelihoods in the Globalising Town of Burdwan, West Bengal Pallabi Sil 5. Gender, Poverty and Microfinance: Women Self-Help Groups in Burdwan, West Bengal Gopa Samanta 6. Interrogating Temporal and Spatial Negotiations: Home as the Gendered Site for Working Women in Delhi Taneesha Devi Mohan Part II. Reproduction, Survival and Care 7. Expanding Masculine Spaces: Planned Births and Sex Composition of Children in India Mohammad Izhar Hassan 8. Neighbourhoods and Narratives: Contextualising Gender and Child Health in Urban Lucknow Manisha Singh Part III. Domestic and Public Spaces 9. Unequal They Stand: Decision-making and Gendered Spaces within Family Mohammad Sanjeer Alam 10. Are Public Places Gendered Spaces? A Case of Kolkata Tanusree Paul. References. About the Editors. Notes on Contributors. Index

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Abstract: The notion of empowerment has become a Western ‘buzzword’ within the development lexicon over recent decades, especially in relation to improving the socioeconomic and political status of women in the developing world. By exploring narratives of Canari indigenous women in the Ecuadorian Andes, this thesis considers the meaning of empowerment, as evolved and theorised by the West, in relation to an indigenous context. It employs an exploratory, interpretevist and phenomenological approach to understanding the everyday lived experience of individuals and how they engage with the world around them. It seeks to understand the processes that indigenous women might go through in order to become empowered, considers any potential factors that might influence processes of empowerment for indigenous women, in addition to observing the possible outcomes of empowerment in both their individual lives and for the wider community. It draws attention to the idea of collective empowerment, or power with, as a dominant feature of empowerment in Canari women’s lives, reflecting the significance of both the family and community in indigenous culture. Focusing on the individualism that pervades Western notions of empowerment does not always fit the meaning of empowerment in non-Western societies. This thesis seeks to demonstrate how.