1st Edition
The Power in the Intimate Rethinking Empowerment in Development
Preface Introduction Part I How Power Speaks Before We Do 1. Empire Over Flesh 2. Locating the Personal in the Political—The Case of Peru 3. What Development Won’t Say Part II The Political In The Personal 4. How Inequality Shapes Intimacy 5. A Glimmer of Hope Amidst Adversity Part III The Body as a Political Resource 6. “As if I Owed Them Myself”: Sexual Pleasure Labour 7. Micropolitics of the Sensual Part IV From Structural Violence to Relational Ethics 8. “It’s Like a Conversation”: An Alternative Framework to Consent Part V The Intimate as Political 9. Towards a Feminist Praxis of Pleasure and Empowerment Afterword: Beyond the Numbers—A Feminist Rethinking of Empowerment in Development Appendix Key Terms and Concepts References Index
Biography
Katalin Zsiga is a Research Affiliate in the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy at King’s College London, UK, where she completed a PhD in Public Policy and Development. Her work examines the social dimensions of development and governance, with particular interests in power, inequality, empowerment, and wellbeing.
