Appendix I: Mahila Samakhya Program Structural Hierarchy
Appendix I: Mahila Samakhya Program Structural Hierarchy Literacy camps, vocational trainings, Sanghas (village- Literacy centers at MSK school for women and level collectives) the village level girls in Karwi, Chitrakoot district, Uttar Pradesh Sahyogini (supervisor of cluster of ten villages) District Resource District Implementation Groups (NGOs, Unit (DIU) (coordinators, training groups) consultants, support staff) State MS Society State Office State Resource Group Executive Committee (with (project director, (NGOs, resource Government of India, consultants, institutions) State Government, support staff) women activists) National Resource Group (NRG) (guidance, support, policy) National Office (project director, consultants, support staff) Notes Introduction 1. James Ferguson, The Anti-Politics Machine: Development, Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 17. 2. Ibid. 3. Ibid. 4. Ibid., 18. 5. Michel Foucault (1971, 1973). 6. Ferguson (1990), 18. 7. Ibid., 20. 8. Ibid., 75–89. 9. Ibid., 255–256. 10. Ibid., 275. 11. Ibid. 12. Ibid., 274. 13. Ibid., 271–273. 14. Ibid., 276. 15. Ibid. 16. Ibid., 277. 17. I am modifying Ferguson’s argument based on my experience of a govern- ment program in India. Through his experience of the Thaba Tseka govern- ment project in Lesotho, he is led to disagree with Foucault’s argument that in the conduct of “biopolitics,” the state assumes a “central, coordinating, managing” role. Instead, Ferguson argues, “growth of power does not imply any sort
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