Bøker av 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.

Viva explores the growing role of women in Latin America focussing in particular on the construction of gender through political activism and the centrality of gender, class and ethnicity to the ideological construct of 'the nation'.

Focusing on the encounters of indigenous peoples with international development as they negotiate issues related to land, water, professionalization, and gender, this title offers an analysis of the diverse consequences of neoliberal development, and underscores questions about globalization, governance, cultural identities, and social movements.