1st Edition

Agency in Poverty and War Consciousness in Rural Human Development

By Vivianna Rodriguez Carreon Copyright 2025
212 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

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.