caa a22 4500 467898030 CHVBK 20180406152809.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10708-006-0027-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10708-006-0027-8 Raju Saraswati Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 110067, New Delhi, India aut Contextualising gender empowerment at the grassroots: a tale of two policy initiatives [Elektronische Daten] [Saraswati Raju] The policy environment on gender is fraught with contradictions and contestation of varying degrees in India that does not disappear even as recent transformative mode of participatory initiatives seem to place women's agency at the core of empowerment agenda. Drawing from two collaborative projects at the grassroots, the paper argues that even well conceptualised projects miss the cutting edge distinction between women and gender and continue to engage with an instrumental logic of women's development and empowerment at the expense of issues of gender equality and equity in translating the intention into action. It is also observed, however, that spatially embedded social and cultural specificities impact policy discourse resulting in very different outcomes of conceptually comparable policy formulations. According to the author acknowledging spatiality of experiences provides a vantage point to critically engage with context-specific strategies to resolve gendered conflicts and tensions resulting from confining social relations and normative gender codes. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2006 Empowerment nationallicence Domain nationallicence Gender nationallicence Gendered spaces nationallicence India nationallicence Policy nationallicence State and women nationallicence GeoJournal Kluwer Academic Publishers 65/4(2006-05-01), 287-300 0343-2521 65:4<287 2006 65 10708 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-006-0027-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-006-0027-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Raju Saraswati Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 110067, New Delhi, India aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- GeoJournal Kluwer Academic Publishers 65/4(2006-05-01), 287-300 0343-2521 65:4<287 2006 65 10708 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer