Velká dramata - obyčejné životy: postkomunistické zkušenosti českého venkova
In: Ediční řada studie 38
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In: Ediční řada studie 38
In: Africa today, Band 60, Heft 4, S. 25-45
ISSN: 0001-9887
In: Young: Nordic journal of youth research, Band 21, Heft 2, S. 193-210
ISSN: 1741-3222
Framed within debates on space, youth mobility and globalization, this article examines representations of space in rural youth's narratives of their own future. In contrast to other research on youth in 'peripheral' areas, it is found that positive representations of both own locality and country prevail among the youth in the communities investigated, and that spatial mobility is sought for in limited ways. It is argued that the wish to remain 'local' among the youth and their positive views on own locality are in part predicated on relative favourable regional economic conditions, but should also be seen in connection with their increased engagement with global 'electronic' youth culture. The representations of rural life at the core of the youth's expressions of belonging rest on an image of the rural idyll, however, which is often conflated with an image of the perfect middle class family.
In: Rethinking borders
In: Skriftserien / University of Bergen, Centre for Women's and Gender Research 17
In: Forum for development studies: journal of Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and Norwegian Association for Development, Band 49, Heft 2, S. 155-174
ISSN: 1891-1765
In: Studies in comparative international development: SCID, Band 55, Heft 1, S. 27-47
ISSN: 1936-6167
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In: Studies in comparative international development: SCID, Band 55, Heft 1, S. 27-47
ISSN: 1936-6167
In: Progress in development studies, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 39-51
ISSN: 1477-027X
This paper explores how differently situated actors in Norway and Ethiopia relate to global gender and development policies and interpret the concept gender equality. We show that a universalizing gender language influenced by both United Nations policies and the World Bank's gender discourse have made strong imprints on how gender equality is conceptualized at policy and grassroots levels in Ethiopia and in Norwegian gender and aid policies. However, diverging meanings of gender equality also emerged in our research, showing how an apparently dominant terminology may be transformed by actors whose conceptualizations are contextually embedded, selective and strategic.
In: Halle studies in the anthropology of Eurasia 4
In: Critical Asian studies, Band 49, Heft 4, S. 481-500
ISSN: 1472-6033
In: Critical Asian studies, Band 49, Heft 4, S. 481-500
ISSN: 1467-2715
Framed within a discussion of boundary work and its many facets, this article develops a critical understanding of the discourses that shape the material and symbolic hierarchies of power asserted by employers of domestic workers in Indian households. We analyze the nature of discourses that are mobilized in the boundary work practiced by different groups of employers in India as they negotiate their relationships with their domestic workers. Drawing on fieldwork in Mumbai and Chennai, our analysis outlines two different discourses within the nature of boundary work - one centered on the trope of benevolent maternalism and another which mobilizes a market-based trope - and delineate how these diverge and converge in the relationship between employers and domestic workers. We also show how these discourses differ according to two key factors: on the one hand, whether the employers hire full-time or part-time workers, and on the other hand, the specific positional attributes of the employers in terms of age, occupation, and family background. We argue that these two discursive categories are not watertight compartments, but are located on a spectrum, and that employers therefore exhibit elements of both maternalism and market-based approaches within the relationship with their workers. (Crit Asian Stud/GIGA)
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