Gender, Identity and Development in Pakistan

Zusatztext "An enjoyable and insightful read with a strong, interesting narrative. Cook provides a well-researched ethnographic study that centers on issues of migration, ethnicity and racial identity, and assimilation." - Nupur Chaudhuri, Texas Southern University "An ethnographic study showing how Western women living in Pakistan as international development workers built new identities." - The Times Higher Education Supplement Informationen zum Autor NANCY COOK is Assistant Professor of Sociology, Brock University, USA. She is a faculty member of the interdisciplinary graduate programme in Globalization at McMaster University, USA. Klappentext An ethnographic study showing how Western women living in Pakistan as international development workers constructed new identities in a Muslim community. Cook shows how these transnational migrants both perpetuate and resist unequal global power relations in everyday life, tracing the legacy of this from the colonial period to the present. Zusammenfassung An ethnographic study showing how Western women living in Pakistan as international development workers constructed new identities in a Muslim community. Cook shows how these transnational migrants both perpetuate and resist unequal global power relations in everyday life! tracing the legacy of this from the colonial period to the present. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Points of Arrival and Departure Bazaar Situations Vulnerable and Spatialising Subjects "Free" Travellers and Developers Navigating Boundaries Another One in the Oven Conclusion: Ruptures and Recuperations?

Product details

• Authors: N Cook, N. Cook, Nancy Cook
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.07.2008
• EAN: 9781403979919
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-7991-9
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 217 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Comparative Feminist Studies; Comparative Feminist Studies
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; B, Gender Studies, Sociology, Feminism, Political Science, Indischer Subkontinent, Social & cultural anthropology, Political science & theory, Ethnography, geology, Feminism & feminist theory, Asian History, Geology, geomorphology & the lithosphere, Feminist Theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, History of South Asia, Asia—History