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Gender and Land Rights: Narratives of Women in Karnataka State, India
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Gender and Land Rights: Narratives of Women in Karnataka State, India
Yazar:
Albuquerque, Anna, author.
ISBN:
9780355991420
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1 electronic resource (182 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: A.
Advisors: Daniel Deslauriers Committee members: Agnes Flavia; Carol Whitfield.
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The subject of this inquiry is the connection between land ownership and the life stories of women in southern India. India is a land of constructed contrasts and inequities. From its precolonial caste system, to gender mores imported from Britain, and its modern status as the largest and most diverse democracy on Earth, the only thing one can say about Indian culture is that no one thing can be said about Indian culture. However, one of India's fundamental challenges is the impoverishment of millions of its citizens. A focus of this inquiry is the promulgation of poverty and disenfranchisement of women by systematically excluding them from land ownership. The overarching question of the study is: How does land ownership, or the lack thereof, affect the lives and livelihoods of women in southern India? My coresearchers are women participants who volunteered to explore this question with me.
This inquiry embraces and, in fact grows out of, the narrative methodology. This approach recognizes the sanctity of the individual and the particular. The various narratives are not to be "averaged" together to support some grand hypothesis about the way things are. Through the spontaneity of the interviewer--interviewee dynamic, this method brings the unexpected to the surface, and is therefore the method best suited to understanding processes at work in particular lived lives.
The significance of this study will be in its interconnection of poverty, gender, and land-rights initiatives in India and other nations. Using a fiercely specific focus of women and their land rights in Karnataka State, important themes and relevancies for further, more structured, inquiry may surface. From these particulars, ultimately important issues relating to structural processes and societal goals for land-rights can be informed.
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School code: 0392
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