Dilemmas of Difference by Sarah A Radcliffe

Dilemmas of Difference by Sarah A Radcliffe

Drawing 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.

"Radcliffe’s book, well grounded in theory and research, is an important read for scholars of Latin American development and genderHighly 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) "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)

Sarah A. Radcliffe is Professor of Latin American Geography at the University of Cambridge and coauthor of Indigenous Development in the Andes: Culture, Power, and Transnationalism, also published by Duke University Press.

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ISBN 13	9780822359784
ISBN 10	0822359782
Title	Dilemmas of Difference
Author	Sarah A Radcliffe
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Duke University Press
Year published	2015-10-30
Number of pages	384
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