Table of Contents:
- Empowerment assemblages : a layered picture of the term -- Engendering neoliberal governance : welfare, empowerment, and state formation -- Empowering moves : paradoxes, subversions, dangers -- Staging development : a drama in north India -- (Cross)talking development : state and citizen acts -- Between women? : the micropolitics of community and collectivism -- Conclusion: Terra incognita, or a politics without guarantees.