From Secular Reductionism to Religious Essentialism
Published by: Oxford University Press of America
The changing dynamics of engaging with the intersections of religion and gender through feminist praxis
Showing 41–50 of 124 results
Published by: Oxford University Press of America
The changing dynamics of engaging with the intersections of religion and gender through feminist praxis
Social justice that inspired millions to take to the streets of Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Libya
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Post-Mubarak Egypt is taken as a case study involving the informal devolution of power in managing sectarian relations between the majority Muslim and minority Christian populations between February 2011 and June 2012.
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
The article argues that attempts to methodologically capture the 'pulse of citizens' must be sensitive to its dynamic nature (requiring constant revision and verification) and sensitive to the highly specific contextual nature of its expression and decryption.
Published by: IDS
Drawing on different perspectives, this IDS Bulletin takes a fresh look at how local governance 'really' works and how it could become more accountable, effective and legitimate to support development that favours poor and marginalised people.
Published by: IDS
This paper examines the nature of the political struggle over the status, role and identity of women in Egypt in between the two revolutions (January 2011 and June 2013).
Published by: Zed Books
Women the world over are being prevented from engaging in politics. Women’s political leadership of any sort is a rarity and a career in politics rarer still.
Published by: Routledge
This article explores the politics of knowledge involved in understanding and responding to epidemics in an era of global health governance and biosecurity.
We need to challenge the structural sources of inequalities inherent in policies, laws, institutional mechanisms and thinking. However, there remains something very disconcerting about how the integration of gender into development has left it disconnected from the public.
Published by: IDS
The uprisings in the Arab region generated much hope among significant proportions of the population that a rupture with the status quo would herald a new era marked by bread, freedom and social justice/human dignity, the catchphrase of many of the revolts.