Women, Urbanization and Sustainability: Practices of Survival, Adaptation and Resistance (Gender, Development and Social Change)

This work considers the city as a gendered space and examines women’s experiences and engagement in both urbanization and sustainability. Such a focus offers distinctive insights into the question of what it means for a city to be sustainable, asking further how sustainability needs to work with gender and the gendered lives of cities’ inhabitants. Vitally, it considers women’s lives in cities and their work to forge more sustainable cities through a wide variety of means, including governmental, non-governmental and local grassroots and individual efforts towards sustainable urban life. The volume is transnational, offering case-studies from a wide range of city sites and sustainability efforts. It explores crucial questions such as the gendered nature and women’s experiences of current urbanization; the gendered nature of urban sustainability thinking and programmes; and local alternatives and resistances to dominant modes of addressing urbanization challenges. Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Introduction....Pages 1-14 Front Matter....Pages 15-15 Urban Labour and Livelihoods: Women, Postcolonial Developmental Governance and Rapid Employment Programmes in Honiara and Port Moresby....Pages 17-42 Immanent Politics in the Kampungs: Gendering, Performing and Mapping the Jakarta Economic Subject....Pages 43-65 Barrio Women’s Gendering Practices for Sustainable Urbanism in Caracas, Venezuela....Pages 67-89 Front Matter....Pages 91-91 Relational Trajectories of Urban Water Poverty in Lima and Dar es Salaam....Pages 93-117 What Is Being Sustained? Sustainability and Food Exchange Sites in Istanbul....Pages 119-153 Front Matter....Pages 155-155 Politics of Urban Space: Rethinking Urban Inclusion and the Right to the City....Pages 157-177 Disabled Women, Urbanization and Sustainable Development in Africa....Pages 179-198 Fragile Cities and Gender Based Violence: The Case of Rio de Janeiro....Pages 199-219 Gender Justice and the Politics of Sexual Harassment in Cairo....Pages 221-245 Back Matter....Pages 247-298