A5049469900- Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
- International Development and Aid
- Gender Politics and Representation
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Community Development and Social Impact
- Foucault, Power, and Ethics
- ICT in Developing Communities
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Global Educational Policies and Reforms
- International Science and Diplomacy
- Global Education and Multiculturalism
- Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
- South African History and Culture
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Economic, financial, and policy analysis
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Legal Issues in South Africa
- Environmental law and policy
- Political Science Research and Education
- Risk Perception and Management
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
University of Leeds
2014-2023
Durham University
2007
Development Studies Association (DSA) co-hosted a seminar of the same title, to celebrate journal's 25 th birthday.This issue includes articles initially presented there, alongside range others, commissioned in line with our usual practice from an open Call for Contributions.To ensure international development supports women's rights and gender equality, it is essential that feminist values infuse underpin every aspect research.Feminist research may be understood variety ways.The overarching...
Gender and development (GAD) has become a transnational discourse has, as result, generated its own elite elements. This elitism tended to be attributed Northern hegemony in how feminism been articulated then subsequently professionalised bureaucratised. What received less attention, what this paper highlights empirically, is Southern-based feminisms might themselves sites of discursive exclusion. The interrogates these concerns through an analysis professionalisation evidenced feminist...
Abstract The inclusion by Northern stakeholders of a discursively constructed category ‘Southern women's NGO’ – increasingly heralded as the ultimate organisational form grounded, subaltern, collective action has come to represent signifier commitments gender equality, poverty reduction and/or social justice. Southern NGOs are frequently credited with capacity facilitate marginalised groups conventionally excluded from development's frame. This critical review argues that this essentialism...
ABSTRACT This article argues that measures designed to improve the availability and accessibility of information as a key strategy facilitate development have become ends in themselves, de‐linked from their potential an impact on Southern knowledge systems may lead improved outcomes. The production dissemination ever‐greater volumes response concerns about uneven information, particularly for individuals intermediaries based global South, are unable address persistent problem fragmentation...
Abstract Motivation Gender equality is inherently bound with Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) provision, access, use. shapes experiences of projects services, from participation in design to ensuring access appropriate facilities. Many observers call for active attention gender throughout the project cycle, but there little evidence extent which this happens practice. Purpose The article examines evaluations WASH implementation identify good gender‐inclusive practices. It explores...
In this conceptual analysis, we set out some of the negotiations and tensions that emerge when try to build a shared understanding water (in)security through dual lenses feminist ethics care socio-ecological justice. We further reflect on how these theoretical shape our work in practice—how do actualise them an international, interdisciplinary partnership? actively seek engage all colleagues understand function power inequality relation distribution resources ways which intersectional...
In Engendering Transformative Change in International Development, Gillian Fletcher seeks to explain the failure of international development bring about positive change for which it claims e...
How do we ‘know’ the world? It is so vast a question that it feels, perhaps ironically, almost unknowable. Why does matter? not call to take an inventory of specific facts or perspectives, but ask in order help frame more critical and reflexive approach assumptions underpin (academic) perceptions WHAT counts as knowledge, HOW capture communicate knowledge WHO gets both shape present ideas academic (read: expert) knowledge. Taken together, these reflections can, believe, be very instructive...
Information and knowledge are frequently upheld as the cornerstones of development programmes. Poverty reduction measures delivered through social policies premised on need to ensure that both users providers services have access information. In contexts where poor marginalised groups largely excluded from uptake, Southern-based civil society is called upon act an interlocutor leverage their behalf achieve welfare objectives. Ensuring greatest number people timely relevant information,...
Increasing support to women’s organisations and networks facilitate empowerment is a growing strategy amongst range of Northern agencies, with particular emphasis on Southern women. This article argues that strategies employed by both NGOs promote the ‘empowerment’ women subvert hegemonic discourses through information-sharing privileging voices deny value-laden nature ‘information’ relative power universality dominant gender development narratives. It will illustrate how these narratives...