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Rethinking Empowerment : Gender and Development in a Global/Local World
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Rethinking empowerment as mentioned in this paper looks at the changing role of women in developing countries and rejects the established notion that empowerment in development is best understood and pursued at a local/global level.Abstract:
Rethinking Empowerment' looks at the changing role of women in developing countries and rejects the established notion that empowerment in development is best understood and pursued at a local/global level.read more
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Empowerment in Terms of Theoretical Perspectives: Exploring a Typology of the Process and Components across Disciplines.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an overarching framework across theories and disciplines for both academics and practitioners in the field of empowerment, and synthesize empowerment into five progressive stages and four cognitive elements in both personal and collective empowerment.
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Women and the State in Modern Indonesia
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss state gender ideologies and the women's health movement, early marriage, polygamy, and economic exploitation of women, and violence against women in general.
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ICT-Enabled Community Empowerment in Crisis Response: Social Media in Thailand Flooding 2011
TL;DR: This paper presents a qualitative case study of the 2011 Thailand flooding and shows how social media can empower the community from three dimensions of empowerment process (structural, psychological, and resource empowerment) to achieve collective participation, shared identification, and collaborative control in the community.
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Indigenous ecotourism in the Mayan rainforest of Palenque: empowerment issues in sustainable development
TL;DR: In this article, an adapted empowerment framework was used to assess community empowerment and its relationship with stakeholders' participation by collecting the views of internal and external stakeholders in indigenous ecotourism.