{"id":7304,"date":"2011-01-03T12:02:52","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T20:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=7304"},"modified":"2011-07-25T13:23:59","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T20:23:59","slug":"karim%e2%80%99s-new-book-on-microfinance-makes-huffington-post%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cmost-anticipated%e2%80%9d-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/karim%e2%80%99s-new-book-on-microfinance-makes-huffington-post%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cmost-anticipated%e2%80%9d-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamia Karim\u2019s New Book about Microfinance on Huffington Post\u2019s \u201cMost Anticipated\u201d List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-7309\" href=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?attachment_id=7309\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7309\" title=\"KarimCover\" src=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/KarimCover-194x300.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"155\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/KarimCover-194x300.gif 194w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/KarimCover-97x150.gif 97w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/KarimCover.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/a>CSWS Associate Director Lamia Karim&#8217;s upcoming book has made it to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/anis-shivani\/the-most-anticipated-book_1_b_802469.html#s216577&amp;title=Lamia%20Karim%2C%20%27Microfinance%20and%20Its%20Discontents%3A%20%20Women%20in%20Debt%20in%20Bangladesh%27%20%28University%20of%20Minnesota%20Press%2C%20March%2031%29\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post&#8217;s Most Anticipated List of Books for 2011<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh<\/em> is due out from University of Minnesota Press the end of March.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=4837\" target=\"_blank\">Lamia Karim<\/a> is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Oregon.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"synopsis\" href=\"http:\/\/www.upress.umn.edu\/book-division\/books\/microfinance-and-its-discontents\" target=\"_blank\">Publisher&#8217;s Synopsis<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The first feminist critique of the much-lauded microcredit process in Bangladesh<!--more--><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2006 the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh won the Nobel Peace Prize for  its innovative microfinancing operations. This path-breaking study of  gender, grassroots globalization, and neoliberalism in Bangladesh looks  critically at the Grameen Bank and three of the leading NGOs in the  country. Amid euphoria over the benefits of microfinance, Lamia Karim  offers a timely and sobering perspective on the practical, and possibly  detrimental, realities for poor women inducted into microfinance  operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a series of ethnographic cases, Karim shows how NGOs use social  codes of honor and shame to shape the conduct of women and to further an  agenda of capitalist expansion. These unwritten policies subordinate  poor women to multiple levels of debt that often lead to increased  violence at the household and community levels, thereby weakening  women\u2019s ability to resist the onslaught of market forces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA compelling critique of the relationship between powerful NGOs and  the financially strapped women beholden to them for capital, this book  cautions us to be vigilant about the social realities within which women  and loans circulate\u2014realities that often have adverse effects on the  lives of the very women these operations are meant to help.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CSWS Associate Director Lamia Karim&#8217;s upcoming book has made it to the Huffington Post&#8217;s Most Anticipated List of Books for 2011. Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh is due out from University of Minnesota Press the end&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/karim%e2%80%99s-new-book-on-microfinance-makes-huffington-post%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cmost-anticipated%e2%80%9d-list\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,20,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-csws-staff","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7304"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9929,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7304\/revisions\/9929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}