Minority women negotiating citizenship : an action-research project; final technical report, April 1, 2006 - January 31, 2009
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2009
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Yugantar, Bangalore, Karnataka, IN
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The project was conceived in the aftermath of the Gujarat genocide (2002). Women who had survived violence took on agential roles in negotiating various institutions, seeking justice, compensation, livelihood, and survival for their families and their community. Overwhelmingly, the experience of poor women from such marginalized communities goes consistently unrecognized, unheard, and unacknowledged by state institutions. Womenâs negotiations of these institutions, and of community, shed light on the nature, complexity and content of their agency as well as the subtle shifts in accountability that take place in post-conflict situations. The project studies life-history narratives of Muslim women.
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WOMEN'S RIGHTS, VIOLENCE, CITIZENSHIP, ACTION RESEARCH, PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH, ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE, RELIGIOUS MINORITIES, WOMEN'S ROLE, INDIA--GUJARAT