The concepts of poverty and development have many meanings in contemporary globalized societies. Development by definition implies desired changes in terms of livelihood, improved quality of life and ...better access to assets and services, etc. However in reality development programmes sometimes have negative consequences, perhaps unintended, multiplying the acute scarcity of resources and opportunities, or reproducing poverty. Also, the consequences of developmental programmes often appear to be out of focus, and seen at the ground level, there seems to be a gap between what is intended and what is actualized. In this framework, this paper presents a case study of the social, cultural and economic correlates of the development processes in Adadakulapalle, a settlement of Sugali peoples, once a semi-nomadic tribe, in Anantapur District of Andhra Pradesh, South India. The paper shows how factionalism and faction politics affect the implementation of development interventions. It also looks at the poverty in the settlement and focuses on the types of change that people have experienced with the implementation of different schemes by both government and other agencies. The type of change is discussed in the present study through the macro and micro analysis of development programmes.
Two novels by the Colombian writer Jorge Franco, Melodrama (2006) and Santa suerte (2010) represent women pushed to extreme conditions to which they have been expelled by force of the ambiance where ...they live. The representation of women in these two novels is not ordinary allocating their characters into a kind of borderline scenario. It means a kind of unknown frontier although it eventually becomes illustrative of contemporary times. These novels portray ordinary women who work to survive and their personal histories can be seen as habitual in our daily life. These novels can be analyzed by means of the post-colonial criticism because the characterization of those female roles allows to considering an underclass that has been undermined by the dominant power and the hierarchical ranking of our culture. These women establish a new identity shaped by their strength and an irreconcilable attitude toward the society that is still subjugating them. What motivates us to analyze this representation is its powerful profile and the portrayal of a cultural group that has been suffocated to the levels observed in these novels.
Las novelas "Melodrama" (2006) y "Santa suerte" (2010) de Jorge Franco presentan caracteres femeninos que llegan a extremos a los que los ha llevado el medio en que viven. La representación de la mujer en estas dos novelas se encuentra fuera de lo común y la sitúa en un espacio que podemos considerar fronterizo; es una frontera desconocida, pero reveladora de la época contemporánea. Las mujeres representadas trabajan para sobrevivir, y su historia personal se puede considerar frecuente en la vida diaria. Estas novelas nos proporcionan un espacio en el que podemos situar la crítica poscolonial, debido a que la caracterización femenina nos lleva a la consideración de una clase marginada que ha sido dominada mediante el poder y la jerarquización de nuestra cultura. Estas mujeres establecen una identidad nueva, una identidad que las sitúa en el reconocimiento de su fuerza irreconciliable con la sociedad que todavía las subyuga. Lo que nos motiva a analizar esta representación es la fuerza de su perfil y la caracterización que se establece de un grupo cultural que ha sido asfixiado hasta los niveles que observamos en esta narrativa.
Social security protection to the marginal groups in Asia requires not only national initiative and commitment but also a regional unified system as it is part of the labour cost which under the ...conditions of globalization can easily be negotiated by the power of international flow of capital. We propose a unified universal flat-rate pension for Asian countries and work out its theoretical arguments as well as its practical feasibility.
When Nick visits the café of his brother-in-law, Lombros, they become embroiled in a heated discussion over who is and who is not genuinely Greek. Nick takes the position that to be a true Greek you ...must not only have been born and raised in Greece but also speak Greek perfectly. On the other hand, Lombros takes the position that being Greek depends only on how much you love Hellenic culture and thereby what is in your heart. The conversation then turns into the real reason for Nick's visit. He wants to arrange a marriage between their sister-in-law, Penelope, and Yiannos, an older Greek man who owns a thriving restaurant. Yiannos's demand for a virgin bride threatens to doom any possibility of his marrying Penelope, until Lombros's cook, Josephine, saves the day with a fool-proof plan for Penelope to pass the “test of the sheet.”
Our ethnographic study of Palestinian Israeli women at the Hebrew University explores how these women construct space into place as they construct themselves. Tracing the women's experiences in the ...dormitories, Jerusalem, and Israel/Palestine, we show how the women acquire knowledge of the gendered and national organization of space and develop practices for using this knowledge to negotiate power relations. Using an analytical understanding of space as constituted of and by social relations, we expand on the work on space as text done by Lefebvre, de Certeau, and Moore. We show that it is the power to read places, or spatial literacy, which allows women and marginal groups to contest dominant power regimes.
This paper discusses the reproduction of hegemony and social hierarchy through education. It brings together two case studies of marginal groups at a university-Russian Jewish immigrants and ...Palestinian Israeli women-who make sense of their position in social hierarchies and power relations through constant interpretative work on the various dimensions of university knowledge. The article reveals how marginal actors' interpretations of knowledge simultaneously are guided by students' positioning vis-à-vis the dominant collective and also articulate and redesign positioning. The two groups redesign their marginalities vis-à-vis the Israeli-Jewish collective by transforming knowledge to identity. In so doing, these groups reproduce national borders of Israeli social hierarchy, while working to change the meaning of these borders for their group's positioning.
Galt die multikulturelle Gesellschaft in den 1980er Jahren weithin als ein emanzipatorisches Projekt, so lost sie heute eher die Sorge vor autoritaren Milieustrukturen aus, die vor allem mit dem ...Islam assoziiert werden. Heiner Bielefeldt entwickelt das Konzept eines aufgeklarten Multikulturalismus, der sowohl seinen Grund als auch seine Grenzen in den Menschenrechten findet. Von diesem Konzept her analysiert er die aktuellen Kontroversen um Kopftuch, Religionsunterricht, Zwangsverheiratungen, Staatsburgertests und die Integration muslimischer Minderheiten. Der Band versteht sich als Beitrag zur aktuellen deutschen Integrationsdebatte.
In this article, we argue that considerations of public space should move beyond a concern for the visual and encompass a more fully embodied approach. On the basis of qualitative research in central ...Auckland, New Zealand, we explore the ways in which individuals and groups are marginalised through not only concerns for visual social order, but also other sensory considerations. Fieldwork in lower Queen Street, the city's pre-eminent commercial and pedestrian thoroughfare, revealed a widespread contradiction: business people and users of public space favour social diversity in principle, but recoil from embracing this diversity in practice. This was especially the case when the difference entailed visual, aural and touch-related challenges to orthodox assumptions regarding the consumption-based purposes of public space. We conclude that for public spaces to thrive, a certain amount of noise and embodied disorder must be tolerated.
