Agency in Poverty and War - Consciousness in Rural Human Development

This book examines how people's self-awareness is affected by both internal and external factors amid war and poverty. It explores how agency has influenced the inward human development of rural women who face triple disadvantages related to gender, ethnicity and access to economic power.

List of contents

PART I
Introduction: The Inner and Outer Approach for Agency and Empowerment
Chapter 1 The point of departure: Armed conflict in rural areas of Peru
Chapter 2 Consciousness-Capabilities under the umbrella of human development and human security
PART II
Context: Dynamics of Human Insecurity
Chapter 3 Poverty and its forms of oppression
Chapter 4 War and its rawness through cruelty and repression
Part III
Analysis: Transitions of Injustice and Justice
Chapter 5 In the search for the truth
Chapter 6 Participation for peace
PART IV
Conclusion: Identifying threats to the Vital Core
Chapter 7: Acknowledging the power gap
Chapter 8: A hologram perception

About the author

Vivianna Rodriguez Carreon, PhD, is a social scientist who has lectured in peace and conflict studies at The University of Sydney. She is a transdisciplinary scholar focusing on human development and exploring the inner and outer underpinning roots of human experience in human agency. As a trauma-informed action researcher, Vivianna is an international facilitator of awareness-based systems change.

Summary

This book examines how people's self-awareness is affected by both internal and external factors amid war and poverty. It explores how agency has influenced the inward human development of rural women who face triple disadvantages related to gender, ethnicity and access to economic power.

Product details

• Authors: Vivianna Rodriguez Carreon
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.08.2024
• EAN: 9781032586526
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3258652-6
• No. of pages: 196
• Series: Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, Social groups, Poverty & unemployment, Warfare & defence, Social discrimination & inequality, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Warfare and defence, Natural disasters, Human Geography, Development Studies, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Armed Conflict, Poverty and precarity, Social discrimination and social justice, Social groups, communities and identities