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Over the last couple decades, the tactics and goals of many NGOs have been shaped by processes em... more Over the last couple decades, the tactics and goals of many NGOs have been shaped by processes emerging from economic liberalization and globalization. One such trend involves the
“institutionalization, professionalization, depoliticization and demobilization of movements for social and environmental change,” (Choudry and Kapoor, 2013, 1). This is a phenomenon coined as “NGOization” (Choudry and Kapoor, 2013, 1). Nongovernmental organizations widely vary in their function and scope; the paradigm of development has changed the processes of NGOs through restructuring hierarchies between INGOs, the Indian state and grassroots organizations. These changes in the NGO framework have affected the Indian Women’s Movement through shifting representation and contributed to overall depoliticization.
My thesis investigates media narratives that shape four high profile rape cases from 2012 - 2014,... more My thesis investigates media narratives that shape four high profile rape cases from 2012 - 2014, beginning with the 2012 Delhi gang rape. Through a content analysis of English-language print news articles, I examine trends that arise in the midst of intensifying national debates surrounding women’s roles in India. Mass media is complicit in certain framings by finding relevance in “rape exceptionalism”, constructions of the “victim” and the “rapist”, and politics of the “blame game” surrounding these cases of sexual violence.
Over the last couple decades, the tactics and goals of many NGOs have been shaped by processes em... more Over the last couple decades, the tactics and goals of many NGOs have been shaped by processes emerging from economic liberalization and globalization. One such trend involves the
“institutionalization, professionalization, depoliticization and demobilization of movements for social and environmental change,” (Choudry and Kapoor, 2013, 1). This is a phenomenon coined as “NGOization” (Choudry and Kapoor, 2013, 1). Nongovernmental organizations widely vary in their function and scope; the paradigm of development has changed the processes of NGOs through restructuring hierarchies between INGOs, the Indian state and grassroots organizations. These changes in the NGO framework have affected the Indian Women’s Movement through shifting representation and contributed to overall depoliticization.
My thesis investigates media narratives that shape four high profile rape cases from 2012 - 2014,... more My thesis investigates media narratives that shape four high profile rape cases from 2012 - 2014, beginning with the 2012 Delhi gang rape. Through a content analysis of English-language print news articles, I examine trends that arise in the midst of intensifying national debates surrounding women’s roles in India. Mass media is complicit in certain framings by finding relevance in “rape exceptionalism”, constructions of the “victim” and the “rapist”, and politics of the “blame game” surrounding these cases of sexual violence.