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Researcher : Prof. Amena Mohsin
Colonialism not only colonised our institutions but
also our minds, so we dare not even challenge. Perhaps
this is more of a truism for dominant than the less
privileged and those that have been kept out of the
axis of power. Women and indigenous people constitute
a core of this. The dominant paradigms of poverty and
development have been appropriated by economic indicators
to the exclusion of the human, the cultural and social.
In other words it does not take into account the total
development of the human being in harmony within and
without. With the above in perspective the proposed
research endeavours to look into the following. (a)
To interrogate and examine the existing literature (more
specifically the alternative literature) on development
and poverty; (b) To review the location of women and
the indigenous people within the existing literature;
(c) To review the literature on people's view on poverty,
focusing upon the feminist and the indigenous literature;
(d) On the basis of selected case studies, identify
women's and indigenous people's perceptions, aspirations,
dreams and challenges to the existing paradigms. The
study areas will constitute: middle class career women;
garment workers; sex workers from the women's side and
the indigenous communities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts
(CHT) and the rakhaine community in Cox's Bazaar will
be chosen to represent views from the indigenous people.
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