Description
Book SynopsisDrawing from ethnographic fieldwork and postcolonial theory, Sarah A. Radcliffe centers the experiences of rural indigenous women in Ecuador to show how the efforts of development agencies to reduce social and economic equality fail because they do not reckon with the legacies of colonialism.
Trade Review"Radcliffe’s book, well grounded in theory and research, is an important read for scholars of Latin American development and gender. Highly recommended." -- E. E. O'Connor * Choice *
"Sarah Radcliffe's recent book offers a rich ethnography of indigenous women in Ecuador which specifically addresses how they encounter and experience development interventions." -- Jessica Hope * Journal of Development Studies *
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Dilemmas of Difference represents a timely contribution to the critical literature on indigenous women and development and to the debate of neoliberal instrumentalization of difference.... Overall, with a genealogy of development frameworks contrasted with indigenous women’s experience, Radcliffe demonstrates the persistence of postcolonial stereotypes and colonial assumptions of social difference that produce indigenous women’s dissatisfaction with development." -- María Moreno * American Anthropologist *
"Radcliffe’s book represents a powerful contribution to critical development studies and the discipline of geography." -- Emily Billo * Journal of Latin American Geography *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Introduction. Development and Social Heterogeneity 1
1. Postcolonial Intersectionality and the Colonial Present 37
2. The Daily Grind: Ethnic Topographies of Labor, Racism, and Abandonment 75
Interlude I 121
3. Crumbs from the Table: Participation, Organization, and Indigenous Women 125
4. Politics, Statistics, and Affect: "Indigenous Women in Development" Policy 157
Interlude II 189
5. Women, Biopolitics, and Interculturalism: Ethnic Politics and Gendered Contradictions 193
6. From Development to Citizenship: Rights, Voice, and Citizenship Practices 225
7. Postcolonial Heterogeneity: Sumak Kawsay and Decolonizing Social Difference 257
Notes 291
Glossary 295
Bibliography 329
Index 359
