Gender, Religion and Development in Rural Bangladesh
تاريخ الاضافة
24/07/2019
نوع المحتوى
Dissertation
Category
Ph.D.
الرابط للمحتوى
Subject Area
Gender, Religion and Development in Rural Bangladesh
الكاتب
Ainoon Naher
الوصف
This thesis examines the relationships between gender, religion and development in rural
Bangladesh in the context of a series of attacks on NGOs by ‘fundamentalist’ forces in
the country in the early part of the 1990s. Specifically, the focus is on the emergence of
rural women as a center of contention as events unfolded. My examination of the
discourses and various political, economic and social factors that surrounded or underlay
these events shows that the poor rural women in Bangladesh were being pulled in
different directions as a result of multiple forces operating in the context of structures of
inequality that existed at global, national, community and domestic levels. Based on
fieldwork carried in the village of Jiri in Chittagong, Bangladesh, the thesis argues that
while it is possible to see the attacks against NGOs as 'resistance' against 'Western' or
'elite' domination/exploitation, a closer look of events reveals that forms of gender
inequality operating at domestic and community levels are largely behind the targeting of
women beneficiaries of NGOs by the ‘fundamentalists’. The thesis also explores the
nature and extent of rural women's resistance to these events and concludes that instead
of representing the 'poor rural women' of Bangladesh only as victims, their active and
creative roles also must be stressed in our analysis.
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Ainoon Naher
Department of Ethnology - South Asia Institute - Heidelberg University
2005