Submitted by Jordan (jordanbiblio@gmail.com) on 2017-06-10T13:23:23Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2015_Alessandra Portugal.pdf: 13899906 bytes, checksum: a0b5284a124af0ac0b561f30eb4d1718 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Jordan (jordanbiblio@gmail.com) on 2017-06-10T16:41:29Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2015_Alessandra Portugal.pdf: 13899906 bytes, checksum: a0b5284a124af0ac0b561f30eb4d1718 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-10T16:41:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISS_2015_Alessandra Portugal.pdf: 13899906 bytes, checksum: a0b5284a124af0ac0b561f30eb4d1718 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-06-02 / Este trabalho analisa a história recente do grupo étnico Chiquitano da cidade de Vila Bela da Santíssima Trindade no estado do Mato Grosso. Os índios Chiquitano que lá se encontram, residem num bairro periférico, situado à margem esquerda do rio Guaporé, que fica “do outro lado da ponte e da cidade”. Apesar deles circularem pelo ambiente citadino, é raro encontrá-los como membros efetivos da comunidade formal. Enfocamos o processo de busca e reafirmação da identidade, que se dá através da organização social recente e da (re)invenção da cultura. Para construírmos nossa narrativa, abordamos as relações estabelecidas por estes índios com os seus pares e com o seu entorno assim como os seus deslocamentos espaciais, detendo-nos nas questões sobre identidade, etnicidade, memória e cultura. Estes foram os conceitos analíticos chaves do nosso percurso. Acrescentando-se à eles noções relativas a respeito do território. / This work is the fruit of the analysis on the recent History of the ethnic group 'Chiquitano' from Vila Bela da Santíssima Trindade, in the Mato Grosso state. The 'Chiquitano' lives in a quite specific periferic neighbourhood, situated by the margins of the Guaporé river; “on the other side of the bridge and town”. Although they circulate through a urban environment, it is rare to find them as pertaining a formal community. We do focus on the searching for identity and its reaffirming character, which is led through recent social organization and cultural revivification.

This dissertation examines the participation of women and NGOs in a rural development and empowerment project in India. The World Bank initiated Rural Women’s Development and Empowerment Project was funded with the primary objective of working towards women’s economic and social empowerment through the formation of self-help groups. Within the framework of Gender and Development (GAD), women’s development and participation has to fulfil both practical and strategic gender needs in order for them to gain, share and exercise power. In women’s development, the economic cannot be understood apart from the social and the political. Transformative or genuine participation for women involves a process of partnership where one or more forms of power are attained through social capital and the participants are able to surmount structural barriers. Genuine participation can be achieved only through the processes of partnership and control, that is, through the building of equitable relationships among the primary beneficiaries themselves and between the primary beneficiaries and external agents. The incentives to participate and the pattern of participation are influenced by the material expectations and the social reality of women. (For complete abstract open document)