Sanyal, Paromita ; Rao, Vijayendra ; Majumdar, Shruti
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Abstract
This paper brings together sociological theories of culture and gender to answer the question – how do large-scale development interventions induce cultural change? Through three years of ethnographic work in rural Bihar, the authors examine this question in the context of Jeevika, a World Bank-assisted poverty alleviation project targeted at women, and find support for an integrative view of culture. The paper argues that Jeevika created new “cultural configurations” by giving economically and socially disadvantaged women access to a well-defined network of people and new systems of knowledge, which changed women’s habitus and broke down normative restrictions constitutive of the symbolic boundary of gender.
| Document type: | Working paper |
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| Publisher: | The World Bank |
| Place of Publication: | Washington, D.C. |
| Date: | 2015 |
| Version: | Secondary publication |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Oct 2015 |
| Number of Pages: | 58 |
| Faculties / Institutes: | Miscellaneous > Individual person |
| DDC-classification: | "Social services; association" |
| Controlled Keywords: | Bihar, Kulturwandel, Armut, Bekämpfung |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Bihar, Armutsbekämpfung, Kultureller Wandel / Bihar, Poverty Alleviation, Cultural Change |
| Subject (classification): | Anthropology Sociology |
| Countries/Regions: | India |
| Additional Information: | © World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/22667 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO |
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