Enacting Empowerment

20.07.2011

Englisch

9783940341013

pidi-Verlag

Nein

Sonja John

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Unbekannter Einband

Implications from the Oglala Oyate Woitancan Empowerment Zone

Before pursuing her doctorate in Political Science, Dr. Sonja John graduated from two master’s programs, in Lakota Leadership and Management at Oglala Lakota College, Kyle, South Dakota, and in Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin.

Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1. Political and Economic Disempowerment 1.2. Bottom-up Participatory Democratic Action 1.3. Propaedeutics: Location, History, Terminology 1.4. Structure of Thesis Chapter 2 Concepts of Empowerment 2.1. Empowerment in its Dimensions 2.1.1. Individual Empowerment 2.1.2. Community Development 2.1.3. Organizational Development as Professional Practice 2.2. Relevant Aspects for Effective Empowerment 2.2.1. Participatory Democracy for Poverty Reduction 2.2.2. Embededness in Civil Rights Movements 2.2.3. Adequate Economic Development 2.2.4. Enhancement of Knowledge and Education 2.3. Extracting a Suitable Approach towards Analyzing Empowerment Chapter 3 Methodology and Methods 3.1. Approach 3.1.1. Theoretical Ideas and Social Reality 3.1.2. Material 3.2. Evaluating Empowerment 3.2.1. Measurement Approaches 3.2.2. The ME Framework 3.3. Surveying Personal Evaluation of the Residents Chapter 4 Empowerment Zone 4.1. Empowerment Act 4.1.1. Round I 4.1.2. Round II 4.2. Oglala Oyate Woitancan Empowerment Zone 4.2.1. How the EZ Came to Pine Ridge 4.2.2. Concerns: Inclusion of Bennett County and Self-exclusion of Wounded Knee 4.2.3. Hope: Economic Progress 4.2.4. Strategic Plan 4.3. Adimistrational Design 4.3.1. District Task Forces 4.3.2. OOWEZ Main Board and Executive Office 4.3.3. Role of USDA 4.3.4. First Implications Chapter 5 Empirical Findings 5.1. Ten-Year Recapitulation Report 5.1.1. Grant Distribution 5.1.2. Projects and their Categories 5.2. Consulting the Empowerees 5.2.1. Employment Effects 5.2.2. One New Home 5.2.3. Education Does Not Equal Empowerment 5.2.4. Spiritual Healing to Wrestle Substance Abuse 5.2.5. Road and other Construction 5.3. OOWEZ Annual Reports 5.4. Implications Chapter 6 Red Taped Bureaucratic Roadblocks Along the Path of Development 6.1. Competing Logics 6.1.1. Family Values vs. Neo-liberal Logics 6.1.2. The Non-materialistic Value of Land 6.1.3. Relevant Knowledge 6.2. Self-determination 6.2.1. Political Autonomy 6.2.2. Institutionalized Empowerment 6.2.3. Non-participation 6.3. Empowwow 6.3.1. Beautification and Therapeutic Politics 6.3.2. Power Redistribution? 6.4. Conclusion References cited

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