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Why the Development Industry Should Get Over its Obsession with Bad Sex and Start to Think About Pleasure
Published by: IDS
The development industry has emphasised the dangers of sex and sexuality in relation to population control, disease and violence. This negative approach to sex has been filtered through a view of gender which stereotypes men as predators, women as victims, and fails to recognise the existence of transgender people.
Decentralising Service Delivery?
Published by: IDS
Does the devolution of responsibility for service provision to elected local authorities improve the delivery of services to the poor? This is the major challenge of democratic decentralisation and a key benchmark for assessment. Many governments devolve power and resources to local bodies which assume responsibility for health, education and other essential services
Feminisms in Development: Contradictions, Contestations and Challenges
Published by: Zed Books
This collection of essays by leading feminist thinkers from North and South constitutes a major new attempt to reposition feminism within development studies. Confronting the enormous challenges for feminisms in development studies, this book provides real hope for dialogue and exchange between feminisms and development.
Aid that Works: Successful Development in Fragile States
Published by: The World Bank
This study investigates the attributes and effectiveness of donor-supported programmes and projects that worked well under difficult conditions in fragile states. Presented in this study are nine development initiatives in six less developed countries - Afghanistan, Cambodia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Timor Leste and Uganda.
Monsanto and Smallholder Farmers: A Case-study on Corporate Accountability
Published by: IDS
The Smallholder Programme (SHP) was an initiative undertaken by the transnational biotechnology, chemicals and seeds company, Monsanto....
Mobilising Citizens: Social Movements and the Politics of Knowledge
Published by: IDS
This paper reflects comparatively on a series of case studies of citizen mobilisation in both north and south, arguing that the politics of knowledge are now central. The cases focus on issues ranging from genetically-modified crops, vaccines, HIV/AIDS and occupational health, to struggles around water, housing, labour rights and the environment.
The Griqua Conundrum: Political and Socio-Cultural Identity in the Northern Cape, South Africa
Published by: Peter Lang
This book offers a reconceptualisation of indigenous people and their political involvement. It demonstrates the deep intertwining of constructions of indigenousness and identity with national, social and political histories and argues that differences and fractures within the indigenous movement - between leaders, spokespeople and ordinary men and women - shape the nature of indigenous politics both nationally and internationally.
Gender and Sexuality
Published by: IDS
Sexuality can bring misery through sexual violence, HIV/AIDS, maternal mortality, female genital mutilation, or marginalisation of those who break the rules, such as non-macho men, single women, widows who re-marry, sex workers, people with same-sex sexualities, and transgender people.