Contents
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Politics of Empowerment
1. Empowerment Assemblages: A Layered Picture of the Term
2. Engendering Neoliberal Governance: Welfare, Empowerment, and State Formation
3. Empowering Moves: Paradoxes, Subversions, Dangers
4. Exhuming Development: A Drama in North India
5. (Cross)Talking Development: State and Citizen Acts
6. Between Women? The Micropolitics of Community and Collectivism
Conclusion: Terra Incognita, or a Politics without Guarantees
Notes
Bibliography
Index