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Empowerment
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the reconfiguration of social citizenship, or market citizenship, underway in Chile, as one crucial dimension of the refashioning of state institutions along neo-liberal lines in Latin America.
Abstract: This article explores the reconfiguration of social citizenship, or 'market citizenship', underway in Chile, as one crucial dimension of the refashioning of state institutions along neo-liberal lines in Latin America. It focuses on the 'civilizing' dimension of social citizenship, as an instance of the state's involvement in the regulation of subordinate populations. Specifically, the article studies the case of new social policy aimed at poverty alleviation. Inspired by Michel Foucault's late work but moving beyond it, it examines institutional transformation as on-the-ground practices through which policies take effect and sees 'market citizenship' as emerging from the rearticulation of the efforts of myriad individuals located at different levels of government, 'civil society', and poor and working-class communities. In this process, state agents are translators on the one hand of official documents into instances of participatory learning and empowerment, and on the other of people's realities into in...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a survey of the challenges and benefits of higher education for refugees in the Middle East, focusing on the following: 1.1. METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH and LIMITATIONS of the study 10 1.3.
Abstract: 3 LIST OF ACRONYMS 4 CHAPTER 1 – HIGHER EDUCATION IN PROTRACTED REFUGEE SITUATIONS: A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS? 6 1.1. AIMS AND RATIONALE OF THE STUDY 9 1.2. METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH AND LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY 10 1.3. OVERVIEW OF THE STUDY 13 CHAPTER 2 – TOWARD RESOLVING THE PARADOXES 15 2.1. SETTING THE SCENE: EDUCATING REFUGEES 16 2.1.1. THE EMERGING FIELD OF EMERGENCY EDUCATION 16 2.1.2. ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION ‘ON THE BASIS OF MERIT’ 17 2.1.3. THE TWO FACES OF EMERGENCY EDUCATION 20 2.2. AN EXPLORATION OF PARADOXES SURROUNDING HIGHER EDUCATION IN PROTRACTED REFUGEE SITUATIONS 22 2.2.1. FROM RELIEF TO DEVELOPMENT 27 2.2.2. HIGHER EDUCATION WITHOUT A NATION-STATE 32 2.2.3. FROM VICTIMISATION TO EMPOWERMENT 37 CHAPTER 3 – MAKING IT WORK: HIGHER EDUCATION FOR BURMESE REFUGEES IN THAILAND 44 3.1. THE PROTRACTED REFUGEE SITUATION IN THAILAND 46 3.2. EDUCATION IN THE REFUGEE CAMPS ALONG THE BORDER 50 3.2.1. REASONS FOR GROWING DEMAND FOR HIGHER EDUCATION 53 3.3. HIGHER EDUCATION ALONG THE BORDER 57 3.3.1. FROM RELIEF TO DEVELOPMENT: MOVING TOWARDS ACCREDITATION 58 3.3.2. CREATING SPACES FOR HIGHER EDUCATION TRANSCENDING NATION-STATES 64 3.3.3. EMPOWERING REFUGEES TO BECOME AGENTS OF DEVELOPMENT 71 CHAPTER 4 – CHALLENGES AND THE ROAD AHEAD 80 REFERENCES 88
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the elements that constitute women's autonomy in rural Pakistan and found that women in rural areas have lower economic autonomy but greater mobility and decision-making authority than women in Southern Punjab.
Abstract: The paper explores the elements that constitute women’s autonomy in rural Pakistan. Hitherto most research on women’s status in Pakistan has either been restricted to proxy measures of women’s status generally or to the urban areas. Community or region, each of which has distinctive features, have an overriding influence on this subject. Northern Punjabi women have lower economic autonomy but greater mobility and decision-making authority than women in Southern Punjab. Gender systems at the village level are also important predictors of women’s autonomy. Economic class has a weak and ambivalent influence on women’s autonomy in rural Punjab. Class influences both education and employment of women, these remains the routes to empowerment in rural settings. While most women in rural areas contribute economically, the majority works on the household farm or within the household economic unit. These women do not derive any additional autonomy as a result of this contribution. Paid employment, though offset by other restrictions on poor women, offers greater potential for women’s autonomy. Education, on the other hand, has a lesser influence on female autonomy in the rural Punjabi context.
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TL;DR: In this article, the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, a World Heritage Site in Indian Himalaya, was analyzed through participatory discussions covering 419 households distributed in 10 villages in the buffer zone.
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TL;DR: The situation challenged Delgado-Gaitan to redefine her role as a researcher as discussed by the authors, and she decided to become involved in the empowerment of parents as an informant and facilitator.
Abstract: In this article, Concha Delgado-Gaitan describes her experience as a researcher in Carpinteria, a predominantly Mexican-American community in California. After collecting data about family literacy practices through ethnographic observations and interviews, she began meeting regularly with parents to share her findings and solicit their input. These meetings became a turning point for Delgado-Gaitan, redirecting the focus of her research from literacy activities to the process of community empowerment as she learned from these parents about their own understanding of literacy and about their concerns regarding communication with schools. Through these meetings, the parents organized as a group, in order to demand that the school respond to their needs.The situation challenged Delgado-Gaitan to redefine her role as a researcher. After much internal debate and reflection, she decided to become involved in the empowerment of parents as an informant and facilitator. This article is the story of how this resea...
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