A Jumble of Needs: Women’s Activism and Neoliberalism in the Colonias of the Southwest
Autor Rebecca Dolhinowen Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 apr 2010
Many immigrant communities along the U.S. border with Mexico are colonias, border settlements lacking infrastructure or safe housing. A Jumble of Needs examines the leadership of Mexican women immigrants in three colonias in New Mexico, documenting the role of NGOs in shaping women’s activism in these communities. Ethnographer Rebecca Dolhinow, who worked in the colonias, uncovers why such attempts to exercise political agency are so rarely successful.
Central to the relationship between NGOs and women activists in colonias, Dolhinow argues, is the looming presence of the neoliberal political project. In particular, the discourses of caretaking that NGOs use to recruit women into leadership positions simultaneously naturalize and depoliticize the activist work that these women do in their communities. Dolhinow discovers the connections between colonias as isolated communities and colonia leaders as political subjects who unintentionally reinforce neoliberal policy. In the long run, she finds, any politicization that might take place is limited to the women leaders and seldom involves the community as a whole.
Surprisingly, Dolhinow reveals, many NGOs promote neoliberal ideals, resulting in continued disenfranchisement, despite the women’s activism to better their lives, families, and communities.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780816650583
ISBN-10: 0816650586
Pagini: 248
Ilustrații: 5
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Minnesota Press
Colecția Univ Of Minnesota Press
ISBN-10: 0816650586
Pagini: 248
Ilustrații: 5
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Minnesota Press
Colecția Univ Of Minnesota Press
Notă biografică
Rebecca Dolhinow is assistant professor of women’s studies at California State University, Fullerton.
Cuprins
Acknowledgments, Abbreviations, Introduction, Part I. Neoliberalism on the Border, 1. The Production of Colonias as Neoliberal Spaces, 2. The Production of Women as Neoliberal Leaders, Part II. Women and NGOs3. Empowerment and Politicization in the Colonias, 4. The Place of NGOs in Daily Life, Epilogue, Notes, Bibliography, Index