The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Development (Routledge International Handbooks)

__The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Development__provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for gender and development policy making and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary context. Specifically, it provides critical reviews and appraisals of the current state of gender and development and considers future trends. It includes theoretical and practical approaches as well as empirical studies. The international reach and scope of the__Handbook__and the contributors' experiences allow engagement with and reflection upon these bridging and linking themes, as well as the examining the politics and policy of how we think about and practice gender and development.Organized into eight inter-related sections, the Handbook contains over 50 contributions from leading scholars, looking at conceptual and theoretical approaches, environmental resources, poverty and families, women and health related services, migration and mobility, the effect of civil and international conflict, and international economies and development. This Handbook provides a wealth of interdisciplinary information and will appeal to students and practitioners in Geography, Development Studies, Gender Studies and related disciplines. Cover 1 Title 6 Copyright 7 CONTENTS 8 Acknowledgements 14 Notes on contributors 15 List of figures 22 List of tables 23 List of boxes 24 1 Introduction to The Handbook of Gender and Development 26 PART I The making of the field: concepts and case studies 34 2 Introduction to Part I 36 3 Men, masculinities, and development 39 4 Gender mainstreaming: changing the course of development? 49 5 Gender and postcolonialism 60 6 Gender and religion: ‘gender-critical turns’ and other turns in post-religious and post-secular feminisms 72 7 Feminist political ecology 83 8 Navigating gender and development 92 PART II Environmental resources: production and protection 104 9 Introduction to Part II 106 10 Changing access to land for women in sub-Saharan Africa 110 11 Gender, agrarian reforms and land rights 120 12 Exploring gendered rural spaces of agrobiodiversity management: a case study from Kerala, South India 131 13 Gender relations in biodiversity conservation and management 142 14 Colonisation and fire: gendered dimensions of indigenous fire knowledge retention and revival 154 15 Gender and livestock in developing nations 163 16 Fisheries and aquaculture need a gender counterrevolution 174 17 Gender in and gender and mining: feminist approaches 187 18 Just picking up stones: gender and technology in a small-scale gold mining site 198 PART III Perspectives on population and poverty 210 19 Introduction to Part III 212 20 Gender and poverty in the Global South 216 21 At home in the city? Gender and urban poverty 229 22 Caribbean kinship research: from pathology to structure to negotiated family processes 240 23 Gender, development, children and young people 250 24 Serving the transnational surrogate market as a development strategy? 261 PART IV Health, survival and services 270 25 Introduction to Part IV 272 26 Gender and health 275 27 Rethinking community and participation in water governance 286 28 Gender equality and developing world toilet provision 297 29 Gender, pollution, waste, and waste management 307 PART V Mobilities: services and spaces 318 30 Introduction to Part V 320 31 Transnational domestic work and the politics of development 323 32 Care, women and migration in the Global South 334 33 Gender, post-trafficking and citizenship in Nepal 344 34 Female sex trafficking: gendered vulnerability 355 35 Tourism and cultural landscapes of gender in developing countries 366 36 Impact of ICTs on Muslim women 378 37 Gendered costs to the “left behind”: a challenge to the migration and development nexus 390 38 Women and public spaces in rural China 400 39 The influence of gender and ethnicity in the creation of social space amongst women in rural Sri Lanka 408 PART VI Conflict and post-conflict: victims or victors? 414 40 Introduction to Part VI 416 41 La Ruta, The Pacific Way: Women for a Negotiated Solution to the Armed Conflict 421 42 Gender and post-conflict rehabilitation 432 43 Women, camps, and “bare life” 443 44 Researching sexual violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo: methodologies, ethics, and the production of knowledge in an African warscape 454 PART VII Economics: empowerment and enrichment 466 45 Introduction to Part VII 468 46 Crisis of capital accumulation and global restructuring of social reproduction: a conceptual note 471 47 Women producers, collective enterprise and fair trade 477 48 The entrepreneurial landscape for African women: sectors and characteristics from microenterprises to large businesses 490 49 Gendering entrepreneurship in Romania: survival in a post-communist borderland 504 50 Gender empowerment and microcredit in Bangladesh 515 51 Women, microcredit programs and repayment challenges: the Sri Lankan experience 523 PART VIII Development organizations: people and institutions 534 52 Introduction to Part VIII 536 53 Promoting gender equality in the changing global landscape of international development cooperation 540 54 Gender equality, women’s empowerment and the UN: what is it all about? 552 55 Building gender into vulnerability analysis: an example using the “Crunch Model” 563 56 Development people: how does gender matter? 575 57 Engendering understandings of faith-based organizations: intersections between religion and gender in development and humanitarian interventions 585 Index 596 "The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Development provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for gender and development policy making and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary context. Specifically, it provides critical reviews and appraisals of the current state of gender and development and considers future trends. It includes theoretical and practical approaches as well as empirical studies. The international reach and scope of the Handbook and the contributors' experiences allow engagement with and reflection upon these bridging and linking themes, as well as the an examination of the politics and policy of how we think about and practice gender and development. Organized into eight inter-related sections, the Handbook contains over 50 contributions from leading scholars, looking at conceptual and theoretical approaches, environmental resources, poverty and families, women and health related services, migration and mobility, the effect of civil and international conflict, and international economies and development. This Handbook provides a wealth of interdisciplinary information and will appeal to students and practitioners in Geography, Development Studies, Gender Studies and related disciplines"-- Provided by publisher The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Development provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for gender and development policy making and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary context. Specifically, it provides critical reviews and appraisals of the current state of gender and development and considers future trends. It includes theoretical and practical approaches as well as empirical studies. The international reach and scope of the Handbook and the contributors' experiences allow engagement with and reflection upon these bridging and linking themes, as well as the examining the politics and policy of how we think about and practice gender and development. Organized into eight inter-related sections, the Handbook contains over 50 contributions from leading scholars, looking at conceptual and theoretical approaches, environmental resources, poverty and families, women and health related services, migration and mobility, the effect of civil and international conflict, and international economies and development. This Handbook provides a wealth of interdisciplinary information and will appeal to students and practitioners in Geography, Development Studies, Gender Studies and related disciplines.