Crises, poverty and gender inequality - current themes and issues, Shelley Feldman from survival strategies to transformation strategies - women's needs and structural adjustment, Diane Elson women and the economic crisis in the Caribbean, Helen I. Safa and Peggy Antrobus the Mexican debit crisis - ...
Shelley Feldman, Charles Geisler
This paper examines land grabbing in Bangladesh and views such seizures through the lens of displacement and land encroachment. Two different but potentially interacting displacement processes are examined. The first, the char riverine and coastal sediment regions that are in a constant state of for...
Shelley Feldman
While nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are recognized for the important role they play in development planning, particularly as sites for democratic change, little attention is given to how they prefigure the economic and social reorganization of everyday life and provide a venue for privatizati...
Shelley Feldman
Shelley Feldman
Through an analysis of how Bangladeshi NGOs have become institutionalised, the author examines patterns of bureaucratisation and professionalisation to argue that NGOs are part of a process of incorporation that mediates opposition to gender and other structural inequalities. Two important tendencie...
Shelley Feldman, Florence E. McCarthy
Using data gathered in 1966 and between 1975 and 1982 this paper shows how changes in womens productive activities and in the demand for female wage labor have affected the accoutrements and expression of purdah among Bangladeshi villagers. Purdah is defined as the specific pattern of exchange betwe...
Shelley Feldman
The contemporary Bangladesh economy is marked by sustained increases in women’s paid employment, a rise that began in the 1980s with complex and contradictory effects on the lives of women and communities. Today this increase in the numbers of employed women recasts gender relations and the gender a...
Shelley Feldman
Despite a positive economic outlook in 2014, political tensions and income inequalities continue to challenge the country’s democratic image. Power has been concentrated in the executive, state violence has increased, and there is pressure to improve working conditions and infrastructure in the garm...
Shelley Feldman
This study examines the distribution and differential use of private health care practitioners in one area of Bangladesh. It highlights the importance of gender, age and class factors as these impinge upon the utilization of different health care providers. Based on the complexity of these factors i...
Shelley Feldman
Using a feminist episteme I examine the exclusion of the East Bengal/East Pakistan experience in constructions of contemporary narratives of Partition. Including the double colonialism of East Bengal, its particular location in the ethnic and religious hierarchies of the region, and the simultaneity...
Series Foreword Introduction Bangladesh by Shelley Feldman and Desi Larson Brazil by Elizabeth KimJin Traver China by Xiaojun Tong and Shizhen Lu The Dominican Republic by B. J. Bryson and Tina Bryson Georgia by Nona Tsotseria Guatemala by David Keys Honduras by Raul Zelaya and Desi Larson India by ...
Shelley Feldman
Constructing religious difference as a national security threat, the Vested Property Act, whose legacy dates from the period of East Pakistan, marks Bangladeshi Hindus as citizens whose allegiance to the country is always suspect. This paper explores the social production of Hindu difference through...
Angeles-Reyes, Edna, Effendi, Tadjuddin N., Feldman, Shelley, Hart, Gillian et al.
The authors examine the dynamics and significance of employment diversification in rural Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand
Florence E. McCarthy, Shelley Feldman
Shelley Feldman, Florence E. McCarthy
Abstract Bhaduri, Rahman and Arn's article on the persistence of small farms in the April 1986 issue of The Journal of Peasant Studies is reviewed. The article raises a number of critical points for understanding the effects of capitalist penetration of land‐holding patterns in Bangladesh. It is arg...