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Empowerment
About: Empowerment is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 42112 publications have been published within this topic receiving 752953 citations.
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TL;DR: This article explored the nature and effects of workers' responses to the changes they confront in their work situations and found that worker agency shaped the fate of workplace transformation in subtle yet decisive ways, and that workplace transformation should be approached as a relational phenomenon whose outcome hinges on the orientations and practices that workers themselves adopt when confronting the restructuring of their jobs.
Abstract: Research on the new managerial regimes has been hampered by its neglect of the question of human agency—specifically, the nature of workers’ responses to the advent of the new forms of work organization. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in five manufacturing plants, the author seeks to overcome this limitation by exploring the nature and effects of workers’ responses to the changes they confront in their work situations. Although the data suggest ways in which outcomes rested on structural attributes, they also reveal that worker agency shaped the fate of workplace transformation in subtle yet decisive ways. Developing a fourfold typology of workers’ responses, the author shows how each type affected the path down which workplace change evolved. These findings suggest that workplace transformation should be approached as a relational phenomenon whose outcome hinges on the orientations and practices that workers themselves adopt when confronting the restructuring of their jobs.
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TL;DR: The experiences of two programs aimed at poor rural women in India suggest that postcolonial contexts might give us reason to reconsider commonly accepted characterizations of neoliberal states as discussed by the authors, and they were surprisingly different ideologies and goals (the earlier being a welfare program that provided tangible services and assets and the later one an empowerment program aimed at helping rural women to become autonomous rather than dependent clients of the state waiting for the redistribution of resources).
Abstract: The experiences of two programs aimed at poor rural women in India suggest that postcolonial contexts might give us reason to reconsider commonly accepted characterizations of neoliberal states. An anthropological approach to the state differs from that of other disciplines by according centrality to the meanings of the everyday practices of bureaucracies and their relation to representations of the state. Such a perspective is strengthened when it integrates those meanings with political economic, social structural, and institutional approaches. Although the two programs examined here originated in different time periods (one before and the other after neoliberal reforms) and embodied very different ideologies and goals (the earlier one being a welfare program that provided tangible services and assets and the later one an empowerment program aimed at helping rural women to become autonomous rather than dependent clients of the state waiting for the redistribution of resources), they were surprisingly al...
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01 Jan 1995
TL;DR: A brief history of participatory methodologies for environmental and social change can be found in this article, where the authors discuss the role of women's empowerment, empowerment and sustainable development.
Abstract: About the editors and contributors Acknowledgements Preface PART I Definitions, History and Issues 1 1. Participation, empowerment and sustainable development 3 RACHEL SLOCUM AND BARBARA THOMAS-SLAYTER 2. A brief history of participatory methodologies 9 BARBARA THOMAS-SLAYTER 3. Participation in context: key questions 17 DIANNE ROCHELEAU AND RACHEL SLOCUM PART II Methods and Ethics in Our Research and in Our Use of Media 31 4. Women's rendering of rights and space: reflections on feminist 33 research methods LOUISE FORTMANN 5. Media ethics: no magic solutions 41 RENUKA BERY PART III Tools for Environmental and Social Change 51 6. How to use the tools and how to facilitate 53 Activities, Resources and Benefits Analysis 59 Advocacy Planning 64 Communicating with Officials and Outsiders 68 Community Drama 72 Conflict Resolution I: Definition 75 Conflict Resolution II: Walking in Others' Shoes 78 Conflict Resolution III: Negotiation 82 Division of Labour Focus Groups Gender Analysis Activity Profile Gender Myths Gendered Resource Mapping Group Definition Household Interviews Institutional Diagramming and Analysis Land Use Feltboard Landscape/Lifescape Mapping Legal Rights I: Education Legal Rights II: The Woman's Walk Mapping the Body Network Formation Oral Life Histories Personal and Household Resources Photography Problem Solving: Trees, Ranking, Assessment Seasonal Activities Calendar Social Network Mapping Study Trips Time Line Variations Transects Video I: Developing a Community Project Video II: Demystifying the Technology Wealth Ranking Who Am I? Who Decides? Endnotes Bibliography
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TL;DR: A practice development methodology underpinned by critical social science is advocated because it focuses on achieving sustainable change through practitioner enlightenment, empowerment and emancipation and an associated culture, rather than focusing only on technical practice development.
Abstract: Different approaches to practice development are associated with different assumptions, and these need to be made explicit if practice development is to be transparent, rigorous and systematic in its intentions and approaches. A practice development methodology underpinned by critical social science is advocated because it focuses on achieving sustainable change through practitioner enlightenment, empowerment and emancipation and an associated culture, rather than focusing only on technical practice development. Implications of different worldviews about practice development for facilitation and outcome evaluation are highlighted. Emancipatory practice development underpinned by critical social science is argued as synonymous to emancipatory action research.
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TL;DR: Some of the areas of community, organizational, and societal level social intervention and policy ostensibly based on the concept of empowerment, including neighborhood voluntary associations, self-help groups, competence-building primary prevention, organizational management, health care and educational reforms, and national and international community service and community development policies are outlined.
Abstract: The popularity, and subsequent ambiguity, in the use of the term “empowerment” has created an even greater need for reassessment in the applied context than in the theory and research literatures. This paper outlines some of the areas of community, organizational, and societal level social intervention and policy ostensibly based on the concept of empowerment. These include neighborhood voluntary associations (for environmental protection, community crime prevention, etc.), self-help groups, competence-building primary prevention, organizational management, health care and educational reforms, and national and international community service and community development policies. Issues in applying social research to community organizations and to legislative and administrative policy making are reviewed. Ten recommendations are offered, including the value of a dialectical analysis, for helping researchers and policy makers/administrators make more effective use of empowerment theory and research.
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