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The Making of Good Work and Good People

This ePaper critically examines community health schemes in India through the lens of one of the largest cadres of community health workers in the world, the Accredited Social Health Activists or ASHAs. Focusing on in-depth qualitative research with a group of ASHAs in New Delhi, India, this study a...

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Hovedforfatter: Ramaswamy, Krithi D.
Format: Online
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Graduate Institute Publications 2025
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culture religion and identity
development policies and practices
rural development
discrimination
non-state actors and civil society
poverty
public management
health policies
work
women
gender
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFN Health, illness and addiction: social aspects
Online adgang:ONIX_20250106_9782940600564_111
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Summary:This ePaper critically examines community health schemes in India through the lens of one of the largest cadres of community health workers in the world, the Accredited Social Health Activists or ASHAs. Focusing on in-depth qualitative research with a group of ASHAs in New Delhi, India, this study aims to understand how work, labour, and volunteerism are understood in community health schemes. By mobilising sociological and anthropological literature on work, volunteerism and gendered frameworks of care, this research demonstrates how ideologies of altruistic service and morality are embedded in state narratives of social welfare and are used to undervalue the work of women from marginalised communities within public health care systems. At the same time, by centring the narratives of the ASHA workers themselves, this research also uncovers the complex social ties and narratives of community and care that the workers create to negotiate their precarious working conditions and advocate for their rights and their position within spaces of informalised formal work. We extend our heartfelt thanks to the Vahabzadeh Foundation for financially supporting the publication of best works by young researchers of the Graduate Institute, giving a priority to those who have been awarded academic prizes for their master’s dissertations.

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