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From: Diana Moyer [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thu 2/10/2011 1:50 PM To: center-for-the-study-of-social-justice Subject: Feb. 18 CSSJ Colloquium: center-for-the-study-of-social-justice
Dear CSSJ Fellows-
Please join us on Friday, Feb. 18 for the next event of our Spring Colloquium. Rebecca Klenk will present "Development, Sustainability and Social Justice in Himalayan India" from 11:30-12:45 in Room 530 of the Haslam Business Building.
Dr. Klenk will present findings from her new book, Educating Activists: Development and Gender in the Making of Modern Gandhians. Her ethnography shows how rural women accept, refuse, reinterpret, and negotiate development's terms in a quest to improve their own communities. Klenk offers an account of Lakshmi Ashram, a remarkable Gandhian educational initiative for women and girls in Himalayan India. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, Educating Activists blends memories and stories with historical research and richly detailed ethnographic analysis to craft a compelling portrait of how women across two generations have engaged with issues of sustainability, poverty, gender equity, autonomy, and progress.
