Anandita Ghosh and Shivani Satija present G&D’s special issue on transforming land and water rights amidst climate crises. Discussions on just and sustainable development are incomplete without a focus on gender, land and water rights, climate change and governance. Women, and Black, Indigenous, and Dalit women in particular, have long been excluded from decision-making spaces related to land tenure and …
Call for Contributions: Volume 34, Issue 1: Revisiting Feminist Advocacy (Open only for disability rights focused advocacy pieces until 9 September)
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 (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 …
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, …
Call for Contribution: Volume 33, Issue 1 Transforming land and water rights, improving rural livelihoods and carving just responses to the climate crisis (Closed)
Despite women’s overwhelming labour presence in agriculture around the world, a large proportion of women farmers do not own land (FAO 2011). Women and girls do not have the same right to land and property inheritance as men and boys in many countries, or if they do have these rights, they cannot exercise them because of the overarching systemic patriarchy, …
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 …