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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: In this paper, the authors draw on insights from theories of structuration, governmentality and gendered empowerment to explore understandings of how individual human agency shapes and is shaped by social relationships and institutions.
Abstract: Participatory approaches to natural resource management encompass ideas about the desirability of citizens actively engaging in the institutions, policies and discourses that shape their access to resources. Underpinning such approaches are assumptions about the nature of human agency. Purposive individual action is seen as instrumentally desirable as well as potentially radical and transformatory. Through participation in collective resource management it is claimed that people can re‐negotiate norms, challenge inequalities, claim their rights and extend their access. This paper draws on insights from theories of structuration, governmentality and gendered empowerment to explore understandings of how individual human agency shapes and is shaped by social relationships and institutions. It outlines six factors that constrain and enable the exercise of agency for different people; cosmologies, complex individual identities, the unequal interdependence of livelihoods, structure and voice, embodiment and emo...

167 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present empirical evidence of gender inequity from focus group discussions with women farmers in four Southeast Asian countries: Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines using the framework recommended by the WEAI.

167 citations

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TL;DR: Significant positive effects of the economic empowerment intervention on adolescents' self-rated health and mental health functioning are revealed and health andmental health functioning were found to be positively associated with each other.

167 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the potential efficacy of radio, telephony and the Internet as tools of direct poverty alleviation in the latter is discussed. But, the authors do not consider the impact of radio and telephone services on the economic development of the latter.
Abstract: Information and communications technologies (ICTs) are powerful tools for empowerment and income generation in developing countries. The cost-effectiveness of different ICTs does vary between developed and less developed countries, however. This article reviews the potential efficacy of radio, telephony and the Internet as tools of direct poverty alleviation in the latter. While the requirements for their successful utilisation make radio and telephone far more suitable technologies for the poor, traditional ICTs can act as a sustainable intermediary for them to gain indirect access to the power of the Internet. Governments should concentrate on opening up private and community provision of broadcasting and widening access to telephone services, so that they can effectively play this intermediary role.

166 citations

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TL;DR: This paper examined the impact of perceived economic competition with immigrants on support for empowering and non-empowering forms of assistance for immigrants, and found that people higher in social dominance orientation were less willing to endorse empowerment for immigrants than were people lower.
Abstract: Based on models of intergroup competition and social dominance, we examined the impact of perceived economic competition with immigrants on support for empowering and non-empowering forms of assistance for immigrants. In Study 1, a manipulation of perceived economic competition with immigrants caused attenuated support for empowerment but not for non-empowering forms of help. In Study 2, people higher in social dominance orientation were less willing to endorse empowerment for immigrants than were people lower in social dominance orientation, and this relation was mediated by the belief that economic and power gains for immigrants result in economic and power losses for members of host populations. It is suggested that people’s desire to maintain a discrepancy in economic and power resources between immigrants and host populations undermines support for empowering forms of help for immigrants.

166 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20241
20233,100
20226,409
20212,123
20202,550
20192,576