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2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

9. The Development Industry and the Co-optation of Body Politics

Author : Wendy Harcourt

Published in: Bodies in Resistance

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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Abstract

The chapter interrogates the co-optation of feminist understandings of body politics in development practices and programs by constructing an ethnoscape of a recent South Asian training on gender, generations and sexuality. In a reflection on the potential of ruptures in the praxis of body politics, the chapter concludes with a consideration of how feminists can act from the ‘privilege of the middle’.

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Metadata
Title
The Development Industry and the Co-optation of Body Politics
Author
Wendy Harcourt
Copyright Year
2017
Book
Bodies in Resistance

Print ISBN: 978-1-137-47779-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-47780-4

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47780-4_9