Values Deliberation and Collective Action
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Values Deliberation and Collective Action

Community Empowerment in Rural Senegal

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eBook - ePub

Values Deliberation and Collective Action

Community Empowerment in Rural Senegal

About this book

This book describes how a program of values deliberations–-sustained groupreflections on local values, aspirations, beliefs and experiences, blending with discussionsof how to understand and to realize human rights--led to individual and collectiveempowerment in communities in rural Senegal. The study explains what happens duringthe deliberations and shows how they bring about a larger process that results in improvedcapabilities in areas such as education, health, child protection, and gender equality. Itshows how participants, particularly women, enhance their agency, including theirindividual and collective capacities to play public roles and kindle community action. Itthus provides important insights on how values deliberations help to revise adverse gendernorms.

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Yes, you can access Values Deliberation and Collective Action by Beniamino Cislaghi,Diane Gillespie,Gerry Mackie in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Law & Civil Rights in Law. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9783319337555
eBook ISBN
9783319337562
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Civil Rights in Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Frontmatter
  3. 1. Introduction
  4. 2. Community Values and Aspirations as the CEP Arrives
  5. 3. Tostan’s Instructional Strategies
  6. 4. Learning and Values Deliberations During the Democracy and Human Rights Sessions (DHRS), 2010
  7. 5. One-and-a-Half Years After the Democracy and Human Rights Sessions, 2011
  8. 6. Long-Term Program Results
  9. 7. Analysis: How Values Deliberations Lead to Community Empowerment
  10. 8. Conclusion
  11. Backmatter