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 …
Call for Contributions: Volume 33, Issue 3: Beijing +30 (Closed)
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 …
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, …
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 …
Call for Contributions: Volume 31, Issue 2&3: Decolonising Knowledge and Practice (Closed)
The history of knowledge production and dissemination cannot be understood outside of the history of colonialism, patriarchy and capitalism that in turn underpin current neoliberal frameworks and institutions. Knowledge production is a process that entails power and is historically full of examples of colonial extraction and appropriation of knowledge systems from indigenous communities Furthermore, in the current global political context, which …
CLOSED Call for Contributions: Women, Work and the Digital Economy
In 2016, the digital economy was valued at USD 11.5 trillion, or 15 per cent of the world’s GDP, and it is projected to grow rapidly – but are women and other socio-economically marginalised groups able to reap the benefits of this growth? Globally, there is a glaring gender digital divide, especially in the Global South, that manifests at the …
Call for Contributions: Migrants in a Global Economy
THIS CALL IS NOW CLOSED Our March 2019 issue will focus on Migrants in a Global Economy. Migration is at the top of the development agenda, not least because of the increasing numbers of people who are undertaking the very risky journey to seek refuge and better lives in richer parts of the world. And migration is a gender issue. …