"Traditional" women, "modern" water: Linking gender and commodification in Rajasthan, India

Geoforum

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 958-972

  O'Reilly, Kathleen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Commodification; Development; Gender; India; Latrines; NGOs; Water

Indexed keywords

GENDER; GENDER RELATIONS; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; MODERNITY; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; WATER RESOURCE; WOMENS STATUS;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; RAJASTHAN; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33750522288     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2006.05.008     Document Type: Article

References (68)

1. Agrawal A. Greener Pastures: Politics, Markets, and Community Among a Migrant Pastoral People (1999), Duke University Press, Durham, NC
2. Agarwal B. The Gender and Environment Debate: Lessons from India. Feminist Studies 18 1 (1992) 119-158
3. Agarwal B. Environmental Action, Gender Equity and Women's Participation. Development and Change 28 1 (1997) 1-44
4. Agarwal B. Participatory exclusions, community forestry, and gender: an analysis for South Asia and conceptual framework. World Development 29 10 (2001) 1623-1648
5. Arce N., and Long N. The dynamics of knowledge: interfaces between bureaucrats and peasants. In: Arce N., and Long N. (Eds). Battlefields of Knowledge: The Interlocking of Theory and Practice in Social Research and Development (1992), Routledge, London 211-246
6. Bakhtin M. The dialogic imagination: four essays. In: Morris P. (Ed). The Bakhtin Reader: Selected Writings of Bakhtin, Medvedev, Voloshinov (1994), Arnold, London 74-80
7. Bebbington A. Reencountering development: livelihood transitions and place transformations in the Andes. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 90 3 (2000) 495-520
8. Berry, K., 1997. When women get together: the politics of collective identity and difference in village women's organizations of Kangra, India. Ph.D. dissertation, Cornell University.
9. Burawoy M., Blum J.A., George S., Gille Z., Gowan T., Haney L., Klawiter M., Lopez S.L., O'Riain S., and Thayer M. Global Ethnography: Forces, Connections, and Imaginations in a Postmodern World (2000), University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
10. Burke T. Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women: Commodification, Consumption, and Cleanliness in Modern Zimbabwe (1996), Duke University Press, Durham, NC
11. Carney J., and Watts M. Disciplining women? Rice, mechanization, and the evolution of Mandinka gender relations in Senegambia. Signs 16 4 (1991) 651-681
12. Chatterjee P. The Nation and its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories (1993), Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
13. Cleaver F. Institutions, agency and the limitations of participatory approaches to development. In: Cooke K., and Kothari K. (Eds). Participation: The New Tyranny? (2001), Zed, London 36-55
14. Coles A., and Wallace T. Gender, Water and Development (2005), Oxford, Berg
15. Collins C. Applying Bakhtin in urban studies: the failure of community participation in the Ferguslie Park partnership. Urban Studies 36 1 (1999) 73-90
16. Cooke B., and Kothari K. Participation: The New Tyranny? (2001), Zed, London
17. Cowen M.P., and Shenton R.W. Doctrines of Development (1996), Routledge, New York, NY
18. Crewe E., and Harrison E. Whose Development? An Ethnography of Aid (2000), Zed, London
19. Escobar A. Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (1995), Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
20. Everett M. The ghost in the machine: agency in "poststructural" critiques of development. Anthropological Quarterly 70 3 (1997) 137-151
21. Ferguson J. The Anti-Politics Machine: 'Development', Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho (1990), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
22. Ferguson J. Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt (1999), University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
23. Gupta A. Postcolonial Developments (1998), Duke University Press, Durham, NC
24. Haraway D. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (1991), Routledge, New York, NY
25. Jackson C. Doing what comes naturally? Women and environment in development. World Development 21 123 (1993) 1947-1963
26. Jeffery P., and Jeffery R. Silver bullet or passing fancy? Girls' schooling and population policy. In: Jackson C., and Pearson R. (Eds). Feminist Visions of Development: Gender Analysis and Policy (1998), Routledge, London 239-258
27. Joshi V. Polygamy and Purdah (1995), Rawat, Jaipur
28. Joshi D., and Fawcett B. The role of water in an unequal social order in India. In: Coles A., and Wallace T. (Eds). Gender, Water and Development (2005), Berg, Oxford 39-56
29. Luthra B. Nehru and the place of women in Indian society. In: Nanda B.R. (Ed). Indian Women: From Purdah to Modernity (1976), Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi 1-15
30. Manzo K. Modernist discourse and the crisis of development theory. Studies in Comparative International Development 26 2 (1991) 3-36
31. McClintock A. No longer in a future heaven: gender, race, and nationalism. In: Mcclintock A., Mufti A., and Shohat E. (Eds). Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives (1997), Minnesota University Press, Minneapolis 89-112
32. Mies M. The Lace Makers of Narsapur: Indian Housewives Produce for the World Market (1982), Zed, London
33. Mitchell T. The Object of Development: America's Egypt. In: Crush J. (Ed). Power of Development (1995), Routledge, New York, NY 129-156
34. Moeckli J., and Braun B. Gendered natures: feminism, politics, and social nature. In: Castree N., and Braun B. (Eds). Social Nature: Theory, Practice, and Politics (2001), Blackwell, Oxford 112-132
35. Mohanty C.T. Under western eyes: feminist scholarship and colonial discourses. In: Mohanty C.T., Russo A., and Torres L. (Eds). Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism (1991), Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN
36. Mosse D. People's knowledge, participation and patronage: operations and representations. In: Cooke K., and Kothari K. (Eds). Participation: The New Tyranny? (2001), Zed, London 16-35
37. Mutersbaugh T. Bread or Chainsaws? Paths to mobilizing household labour for cooperative rural development in a Oaxacan village (Mexico). Economic Geography 75 1 (1999) 43-58
38. Nagar R. Mujhe Jawab Do! (Answer me!): Women's Grass-roots activism and social spaces in Chitrakoot (India). Gender, Place and Culture 7 4 (2000) 341-362
39. O'Reilly, K., 2002. Creating contradictions, recreating women: struggles over meanings and spaces of women's participation in a Rajasthan (India) drinking water supply project. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Iowa.
40. O'Reilly K. Competing logics of women's participation in a Rajasthan development project. In: Singh S., and Joshi V. (Eds). Institutions and Social Change (2003), Rawat, Jaipur 272-291
41. O'Reilly K. Developing contradictions: women's participation as a site of struggle within an Indian NGO. The Professional Geographer 56 2 (2004) 174-184
42. O'Reilly, K. Women fieldworkers and the politics of participation. Signs 31 (4), forthcoming.
43. O'Reilly, K. 'Where the knots of narrative are tied and untied': the dialogic production of gendered development spaces in Rajasthan, India. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, under review.
44. Padmadas S.S., Hutter I., and Willekens F. Compression of women's reproductive spans in Andhra Pradesh, India. International Family Planning Perspectives 30 1 (2004) 12-19
45. Page B. Paying for water and the geography of commodities. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 30 3 (2005) 293-306
46. Paley J. Marketing Democracy: Power and Social Movements in Post-Dictatorship Chile (2001), University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
47. Pigg S.L. Inventing social categories through place: social representations and development in Nepal. Society for Comparative Study of Society and History 34 3 (1992) 491-513
48. Project Social Side, 1998. Quarterly report.
49. Project Social Side, 1999. Quarterly report.
50. Project Social Side, 2000. Achievements 2000. Jaipur Printers Private Limited, Jaipur.
51. Project Social Side, no date. Leporello Leaflet. Popular Printers, Jaipur.
52. Project Social Side, no date. Handbook on Women's Participation.
53. Raheja G., and Gold A. Listen to the Heron's Words: Reimagining Gender and Kinship in North India (1994), University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
54. Rahnema M., and Bawtree V. The Post-Development Reader (1997), Zed, London
55. Rocheleau D., and Ross L. Trees as tools, trees as text: struggles over resources in Zambrana-Chaucey, Dominican Republic. Antipode 27 4 (1995) 407-428
56. Rocheleau D., Thomas-Slayter B., and Wangari E. Feminist Political Ecology: Global Issues and Local Experiences (1996), Routledge, New York, NY
57. Saberwal V. Pastoral Politics: Shepherds, Bureaucrats, and Conservation in the Western Himalaya (1999), Oxford University Press, New Delhi
58. Schroeder R.A. Shady practice: gender and the political ecology of resource stabilization in Gambian Garden/Orchards. Economic Geography 69 4 (1993) 349-365
59. Schroeder R.A. Shady Practices: Agroforestry and Gender Practices in the Gambia (1999), University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
60. Sen, G., Grown, C., 1985. Development, Crises and Alternative Visions. Third World Women's Perspectives. DAWN Secretariat, Bangalore.
61. Shiva V. Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development (1988), Zed, London
62. Smyth I. Gender analysis of family planning: beyond the 'feminist vs. population control' debate. In: Jackson C., and Pearson R. (Eds). Feminist Visions of Development: Gender Analysis and Policy (1998), Routledge, London 217-238
63. Springer J. State power and agricultural transformation in Tamil Nadu. In: Agrawal A., and Sivaramakrishnan K. (Eds). Social Nature: Resources, Representations, and Rule in India (2001), Oxford University Press, New Delhi, India 86-106
64. Unnithan-Kumar M. Identity, Gender and Poverty: New Perspectives on Caste and Tribe in Rajasthan (1997), Berghahn Books, Providence
65. Villareal M. The poverty of practice. In: Arce N., and Long N. (Eds). Battlefields of Knowledge: The Interlocking of Theory and Practice in Social Research and Development (1992), Routledge, London 247-267
66. Wallace, T., Coles, A., 2005. Water, gender and development: an introduction. In: Coles and Wallace (2005).
67. Watts M. Capitalisms, crises, and cultures I: Notes toward a totality of fragments. In: Pred A., and Watts M. (Eds). Reworking Modernity: Capitalisms and Symbolic Discontent (1992), Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick 1-19
68. Watts M. 'A new deal in emotions': theory and practice and the crisis of development. In: Crush J. (Ed). Power of Development (1995), Routledge, New York, NY 44-62