Abstract
The international development industry presents the education and empowerment of racialised adolescent girls as a panacea for community, national and global problems. Equipping girls with ‘life skills’ has recently gained traction as the newest solution. Drawing on an ethnography of one such girl-targeted intervention by an international non-governmental organisation, this paper positions life skills as a form of affective labour. As neo-liberal development logics of affective enterprise are translated to empower non-elite girls in New Delhi, the gendered lessons shape new kinds of entrepreneurial Indian femininities and structure young women’s aspirations along regulated lines of caste and class.
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