Troubling Empowerment : A feminist critique of a rural women and communication technology project
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2009
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Participatory research methodologies and interactive communication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly seen as offering ways of enhancing women’s empowerment and rural community development. However, some researchers suggest the need for caution about such claims. This book details findings from an evaluation of a feminist action research project that explored the impacts of ICTs for rural women in Queensland, Australia, in terms of personal, business and community development. Using praxis and poststructuralist feminist theories and methodologies, this innovative study presents a rigorous analysis and critique of women's empowerment and participation. This study demonstrates the value of adopting a critical yet pragmatic approach that takes diversity and difference, power-knowledge relations, and the contradictory effects of participation into account. This is argued to enable the development of more effective strategies for women’s empowerment, participation and inclusion. This book should be of particular interest to researchers, postgraduate students, and others working in the fields of communication, gender, and rural development, and feminist evaluation and ethnography. |
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VDM Publishing House Ltd. |
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http://www.vdm-publishing.com/ Lennie, June (2009) Troubling Empowerment : A feminist critique of a rural women and communication technology project. VDM Publishing House Ltd., Saarbrucken, Germany. |
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Copyright 2009 June Lennie and VDM |
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Creative Industries Faculty |
Palavras-Chave | #200102 Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies #160801 Applied Sociology Program Evaluation and Social Impact Assessment #rural women #empowerment #communication technologies #feminist evaluation #feminist poststructuralism #discourse analysis #inclusion |
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Book |