Agency in Poverty and War

Consciousness in Rural Human Development
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-58652-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 490 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change

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.

It presents a multidisciplinary perspective on the intersection of war and poverty through narratives of surviving women. It advances understandings of how rural people, peasants, and Indigenous Peoples of Peru, particularly women, have experienced poverty and war as a combination of oppression, repression, and aggression. It explores their agency is affected and how it evolves during and after conflict in their search for truth and justice. It does this by taking the capability approach combined with insights from perspectives on raising consciousness and inner transformation in human development in which awareness of rural people’s experience enables them to be free and can move them from survival to conscious agents.

This book offers new narratives to evaluate the hazards of poverty and war and the potential human security for rural people agency and empowerment in building peace. It will be of interest to scholars and practitioners of development studies, peace and security, political Latin America geography, rural communities, peace and conflict studies, human development and political studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rodriguez Carreon, Vivianna

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.