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As we launch our March 2021 issue on Health, we’re delighted to be sharing with you these ‘Visual Minutes’. Also known as a ‘graphic recording’, the minutes are a visual representation of some of the key themes and topics covered in the Health issue of the journal. We hope they inspire you to take a look at what’s inside this …
Liz Cooke, of G&D’s editorial team, introduces the March 2021 Health issue of the journal. There could scarcely be a more fitting time to be launching this latest issue of Gender & Development, which is focusing on health. As we were commissioning the issue this time last year, it was becoming clear that the COVID-19 outbreak – declared an international …
CALL NOW CLOSED In November 2021 we are publishing a special double issue on the theme of Feminist Protests and Politics in a World in Crisis. Closing date for ideas for articles is 2 March 2021. Call for Contributions: Feminist Protests and Politics in a World in Crisis The world is experiencing a multiplicity of crises. A climate catastrophe is looming, …
Co-editors Irene Dankelman and Kavita Naidu introduce the Climate Crisis issue of Gender & Development It cannot be ignored any longer: scientific studies on average temperature rises the warming of the oceans, and shrinking snow cover and melting glaciers bring us the message of a profound crisis in our global climate. In November 2020 alone, Central America experienced extremely dangerous Hurricane …
Mary Ann Clements and Caroline Sweetman introduce the new issue… and invite you to listen back to the live launch, here…. Welcome to the Reimagining International Development issue, inspired by an online Conference titled Healing Solidarity: Re-imagining International Development, the brainchild of Mary Ann Clements, guest editor for this issue. This involved almost 2500 activists, practitioners and thinkers interested in re-imagining international development practice, reflecting …
You may have missed the live launch for the first issue of 2020, focusing on Re-imagining Development – but never fear, we recorded it and you can watch and listen to it here
CALL NOW CLOSED We’ve had some amazing ideas for our Health issue which will be published in March 2021. We’re currently considering them. Global efforts to improve the health of women largely focus on improving sexual and reproductive health and rights, with targets for action. Yet there’s currently a global backlash against women’s rights, particularly affecting women in resource-poor contexts. …
THIS CALL IS NOW CLOSED Announcing our Climate Crisis issue’s Call for Contributions. The issue will be published in November 2020, and the deadline for us to receive ideas for articles is 6th January 2020. Five years after the international community signed the Paris Agreement, committing it to take action, climate crisis is now clearly evident, causing disasters and suffering …
Caroline Sweetman introduces the Feminist Values in Research issue Welcome to the Feminist Values in Research issue of Gender & Development. In May 2018, the journal and the Women and Development Study Group of the UK Development Studies Association co-hosted a seminar on feminist research to celebrate G&D‘s 25th birthday. Lata Narayanaswamy, University of Leeds, and Katy Jenkins, Northumbria University, …
Well worth a listen is G&D author Julia Smith’s podcast Why it’s important to focus on gender during an outbreak, on The Conversation website. Julia’s podcast is based on her article Overcoming the ‘tyranny of the urgent’: integrating gender into disease outbreak preparedness and response, published in our Humanitarian Action and Crisis Response issue (July 2019). In the article, Julia …