Dilemmas of Difference

Sarah A. Radcliffe is Professor of Latin American Geography at the University of Cambridge and coauthor of Indigenous Development in the Andes: Culture, Power, and Transnationalism, also published by Duke University Press.

• Acknowledgments  ixIntroduction. Development and Social Heterogeneity  11. Postcolonial Intersectionality and the Colonial Present  372. The Daily Grind: Ethnic Topographies of Labor, Racism, and Abandonment  75Interlude I  1213. Crumbs from the Table: Participation, Organization, and Indigenous Women  1254. Politics, Statistics, and Affect: "Indigenous Women in Development" Policy  157Interlude II  1895. Women, Biopolitics, and Interculturalism: Ethnic Politics and Gendered Contradictions  1936. From Development to Citizenship: Rights, Voice, and Citizenship Practices  2257. Postcolonial Heterogeneity: Sumak Kawsay and Decolonizing Social Difference  257Notes  291Glossary 295Bibliography  329Index  359

"Radcliffe’s book, well grounded in theory and research, is an important read for scholars of Latin American development and gender. Highly recommended." - E. E. O'Connor (Choice) "Sarah Radcliffe's recent book offers a rich ethnography of indigenous women in Ecuador which specifically addresses how they encounter and experience development interventions." - Jessica Hope (Journal of Development Studies) "Dilemmas of Difference represents a timely contribution to the critical literature on indigenous women and development and to the debate of neoliberal instrumentalization of difference.... Overall, with a genealogy of development frameworks contrasted with indigenous women’s experience, Radcliffe demonstrates the persistence of postcolonial stereotypes and colonial assumptions of social difference that produce indigenous women’s dissatisfaction with development." - María Moreno (American Anthropologist) "Radcliffe’s book represents a powerful contribution to critical development studies and the discipline of geography." - Emily Billo (Journal of Latin American Geography)