The Consciousness of Agency in Poverty and War: Participation in Rural Human Development

This book examines how people’s self-awareness is affected by both internal and external factors amid war and poverty. It explores how agency has influenced the inward human development of rural women who face triple disadvantages related to gender, ethnicity and access to economic power.

Vivianna Rodriguez Carreon, PhD, is a social scientist who has lectured in peace and conflict studies at The University of Sydney. She is an interdisciplinary scholar focusing on human development and exploring the inner and outer underpinning roots of human experience in human agency. As an action researcher, Vivianna is an international facilitator of awareness-based systems change.