Global Perspectives on Gender and Space: Engaging Feminism and Development

ISBN-13: 9780367669591 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 228 str.

Ann Oberhauser; Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo

Opis

Divided into three sections, Global Perspectives on Gender and Space showcases the following issues: One) the impact of neoliberal policies on transnational migration, public services and microfinance programs; Two) feminist and participatory methodologies employed in the evaluation of land use, women’s cooperatives and liberation strug

Spis treści

1. Engaging Feminism and Development: Worlds of Inequality and Change  Part I. Feminist Perspectives on Neoliberal Globalization 2. Gender Equity and Commercialization of Public Toilet Services  3. Out of the Kitchen’: Gender, Empowerment and Microfinance Programs in Sri Lanka  4. Neoliberalization, Gender and the Rise of the Diaspora Option in Jamaica  5. Stuck in a Groove’? Gender, Politics and Globalization in Anti-Sex Trafficking Policy Initiatives Part II. Gendering the Field: Participatory Feminist Research 6. Crossing Boundaries: Transnational Feminist Methodologies in the Global North and South 7. Examining Land Use and Gender Relations in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa through Qualitative Methods  8. Participatory Mapping of Women’s Daily Lives: Perspectives from Rural Uganda  9. Mapping Differential Geographies: Women’s Contributions to the Liberation Struggle in Tanzania  Part III. Gender, the Environment and Community-based Development 10. Gender, Livelihoods and the Construction of Climate Change among Masai Pastoralists  11. Gender Mapping in Post-Disaster Recovery: Lessons from Sri Lanka’s Tsunami  12. Ecodevelopment, Gender and Empowerment: Perspectives from India’s Protected Area Communities

O autorze

Ann M. Oberhauser is Professor of Geography at West Virginia University, USA.

Ibipo Johnston-Anumonwo is Professor of Geography at State University of New York College at Cortland, USA.