This special issue seeks to explore and critically examine the various strategies feminist advocacy deploys to advocate for gender justice, present the interests of the historically oppressed, and also challenge and question the workings and operations of mainstream advocacy led, funded, and determined by the politics of the global North. Feminist advocacy efforts ensure that gender-based injustices are named and …
Disaster and Resilience: Intersectional approaches towards establishing resilient communities during crises: Our New Issue
Anandita Ghosh and Shivani Satija are pleased to introduce G&D’s special issue on disaster and resilience. People around the world are living amidst one type of disaster or another, be it war, extreme weather events, or industrial accidents, and their damaging implications. Unsurprisingly, disasters affect the most marginalised disproportionately – those residing in ecologically fragile regions; women, children, the elderly, …
Call for Contributions: Volume 33, Issue 3: Beijing +30 (Deadline Extended)
In July 2020, Gender & Development Journal published a special issue to mark the 25th anniversary of the UN Fourth World Conference on Women. The special issue offered a critical appraisal of the work done to achieve the goals of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA) and took stock of how much more needed to be done to realise a …
Gender and Public Space: Our new issue
Anandita Ghosh and Shivani Satija are pleased to share G&D’s special issue on Gender and Public Space. Gender and Development Journal’s March-July 2024 Issue on ‘Gender and Public Space’ is an effort towards engaging with the expanding body of work on the subject– as a theoretical field as well as a site of methodological experiments, collective politics, and creative labour. …
Call for Contributions: Volume 33, Issue 2: Women’s leadership in politics and governance: understanding the potential of transformative feminist leadership (Closed)
Women’s leadership in politics as well as in social movements and grassroots collectives have played a historic role in transforming the landscape of women’s social, legal, and political rights across the globe. Their participation in political and public spheres is integral to the achievement of social justice and has been a key demand and commitment in multiple international conventions. However, …
We are because she is: Celebrating Micere Githae Mugo
Firoze Manji[1] How does one summarize in an article the breadth and depth of our reflections about and love for this exceptional woman, Micere Githae Mugo? It is a fitting tribute to her that the majority of comments on social media and elsewhere have taken the form of celebrating her contributions rather than shedding tears. These tributes are filled with …
Decolonising Knowledge and Practice: Our new issue
The Gender & Development team is happy to share its July-November 2023 issue on Decolonising knowledge and practice As Gender & Development comes close to completing two years since its transition from its editorial base in Oxfam Great Britain to its new editorial home hosted by a consortium of six southern Oxfam affiliates comprising Oxfams Brasil, Colombia, India, KEDV (Turkey), …
Call for Contribution: Volume 32, Issue 3: Disaster and Resilience: intersectional approaches towards establishing resilient communities during crises (Closed)
Disasters are often the result of poor policy decisions and have severe development related implications on impoverished and disadvantaged communities in both global North and South. They are also more than just ‘events’ and their multidimensional implications continue to shape the collective lives and memories of those affected, far beyond the occurrences (also called a ‘disaster cycle’). Socially, economically and …
Women Human Rights Defenders: Our new issue
Whether resisting oppressive laws in Zimbabwe, peacebuilding in the former Yugoslavia, or speaking up for migrants on the US-Mexico border, women are leading the push for rights across the globe. Anandita Ghosh introduces the latest issue of the Gender & Development Journal on “Women Human Rights Defenders” The past decade and a half have seen a steady democratic decline as …
Call for Contributions: Volume 32, Issue 1: Gender and Public Space (Call Closed)
The meaning and purpose of public space continues to be discussed across the disciplines of geography, urban studies, and gender studies. Gendered access to public space has been widely deliberated in both academic and activist contexts in this century, with significant research on its relationship with caste, class, gender, and disability. Although public spaces are considered integral to cities, there …
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