%0 Journal Article
%T Neoliberal crises of social work in the Global South: Ethnography of individualizing disability and empowerment practice in India
%A Vandana Chaudhry
%J International Social Work
%@ 1461-7234
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0020872818767501
%X This article examines the World BankĄ¯s disability and development projects in rural South India and illuminates neoliberalismĄ¯s dangers for social work theory and practice in the Global South. Based on a multi-year ethnographic study involving participant observation and interviews with multiple stakeholders, it critically examines the individualized model of empowerment promoted by self-help groups in light of the structural and cultural realities of rural disability. It highlights the dangers of individualization and responsibilization of self-help group interventions and traces how disabled subjectivities are shaped in line with neoliberal governmentality. Foregrounding disability and global south perspectives on neoliberalism ¨C often overlooked in social work scholarship ¨C this article contributes an intersectional and transnational perspective to social work
%K Development
%K disability
%K ethnography
%K India
%K neoliberalism
%K World Bank
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0020872818767501