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Running on Hope: Female Community Health Labor in Rajasthan, India(Policy to Practice)

Running on Hope: Female Community Health Labor in Rajasthan, India(Policy to Practice)


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Throughout India, Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) visit households in their communities to deliver essential health services and link community members with key health benefits. Like many other female Community Health Workers across the world, ASHAs are often portrayed as virtuous, passive volunteers, selflessly providing services to their neighbors. The reality is more complicated and much more interesting. Drawing on ethnographic work in Rajasthan, Running on Hope follows ASHAs through striking personal transformations. From their positions as rural daughters-in-law--a particularly low-power position in Rajasthan--ASHAs have, over years of work, gained unprecedented autonomy for young rural women. They have also gained a deep understanding of what many argue is the exploitation involved in their low-ranking position in the health system. ASHAs often earn less than $100 per month for extensive work, well below the legal minimum wage. To counter this, many ASHAs have joined unions--an endeavor that has ultimately proven disappointing: union leaders' desires for political advancement are often at odds with ASHAs' own needs. However, ASHAs do not have connections, money, or social power to organize effectively on their own, without a political patron. In Running on Hope, authors Svea Closser and Surendra Singh Shekhawat interview women who work as ASHAs to learn about their organizing goals, their roles in their community as conduits to health education and resources, and their hopes for a better future.

About the Author :
Svea Closser is an associate professor in the Department of International Health at Johns Hopkins University. Surendra Singh Shekhawat is an independent researcher in Jaipur, Rajasthan.

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"Running on Hope is a concise case study illustrating the positive ripple effects of ASHAs' work outside the home and the expansion of their mobility, public status, and respectability; yet it also shows how paltry remuneration constrains women and the ASHA system from meeting their full potential." --Lesley Jo Weaver, author of Sugar and Tension: Diabetes and Gender in Modern India "Running on Hope is a concise case study illustrating the positive ripple effects of ASHAs' work outside the home and the expansion of their mobility, public status, and respectability; yet it also shows how paltry remuneration constrains women and the ASHA system from meeting their full potential." --Lesley Jo Weaver, author of Sugar and Tension: Diabetes and Gender in Modern India "Running on Hope offers riveting insights into the lives, work, and activism of community health workers in India. Embracing collaborative ethnography, Closser and Shekawat amplify the voices of women as they organize and push for an end to their exploitation within the largest community health worker program in the world." --Kenny Maes, author of The Lives of Community Health Workers: Local Labor and Global Health in Urban Ethiopia​


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  • ISBN-13: 9780826507648
  • Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Vanderbilt University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 162
  • Series Title: Policy to Practice
  • Sub Title: Female Community Health Labor in Rajasthan, India
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0826507646
  • Publisher Date: 30 May 2025
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Weight: 390 gr


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