عنوان

Constructing an actionable environment :

شماره

TLets414586

عنوان اصلي

Constructing an actionable environment :

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Cornish, Flora

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

collective action for HIV prevention among Kolkata sex workers

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2004

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

امتياز متن

2004

متن يادداشت

How can marginalised communities organise a project to yield significant social change? This thesis theorises the resources which enable such community organisation to work. Participation, empowerment and conscientisation are understood, not through a logic of quantity which creates linear dimensions, but through a logic of concrete qualities. A pragmatist approach is taken, to define our constructs in terms of the actions being undertaken by participants, within specific, qualitatively distinctive domains. Activity theory is used to theorise participation as a process of collective activity, which is supported by shared rules, a division of labour and shared goals, and which is challenged by divergences of interest. A community case study of the Sonagachi Project, a successful HIV prevention project run by sex workers in Kolkata (India), is used to investigate participation. The case study is based on interviews and group discussions with sex workers and Project workers (sex workers employed by the Project), and observation of the daily activities of the Project. Sex workers relate to the Project as a source of support in solving their individual problems, gaining new powers, but not acting as collectivity members. Project workers are constituted as collectivity members, whose action interlocks with that of their colleagues, through participating in the politicising discourse of the Project, which states that sex workers should be granted "workers' rights", and through learning the rules of participation in meetings and the hierarchical division of labour. To be allowed to operate, the Project has to carefully adjust to local power relations, with madams, political parties, and funding agencies, in collaborative-adversarial relationships. In conclusion, the scope of participation is defined as producing significant, yet circumscribed, local change. To intervene in a fractured community is a political process in which the provision of new resources is both necessary and potentially divisive.

موضوع مستند نشده

HM Sociology

موضوع مستند نشده

R Medicine (General)

موضوع مستند نشده

RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Cornish, Flora

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y