Call for Contributions: Volume 33, Issue 2: Women’s leadership in politics and governance: understanding the potential of transformative feminist leadership

Anandita GhoshCall for contributions

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

Shivani SatijaUncategorized

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

Anandita GhoshBlog

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

Anandita GhoshBlog

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)

Anandita GhoshUncategorized

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

Anandita GhoshUncategorized

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)

Anandita GhoshCall for contributions

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 …

Women, Work, and the Digital Economy: Our new Issue

Anandita GhoshBlog

The Gender & Development team is happy to share its November 2022 issue on Women, Work and the Digital Economy. The massive scale at which the economy is undergoing digitalisation – in the form of digital labour platforms, mobile technologies and digital financial services, has had a transformative effect on work, labour relations, mobility of goods, people and services, and …

The link between Unpaid Care Work, Poverty and  Gender-Based Violence: Are we advocating enough for Care supporting policies?

Anandita GhoshUncategorized

By Sharmishtha Nanda, Ruth Oloo, Amber Parkes, Anam Parvez Care is central to the well-being of humans.  Globally, women provide more than three-quarters of unpaid care work and make up two-thirds of the paid care workforce[1]. The goods and services produced through unpaid care work are critical in sustaining the “economically active” labour force on a daily and generational basis[2]. …

Call for Contributions: Volume 31, Issue 2&3: Decolonising Knowledge and Practice (Closed)

Anandita GhoshCall for contributions

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 …