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With a Little Help From our Friends: “Global” Incentives and “Local” Challenges to Feminist Politics in Brazil

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

What are the major challenges facing feminists working to achieve gender justice in the context of development today? How are we to go...

Reinvigorating Autonomous Feminist Spaces

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This IDS Bulletin, and the ‘Gender Myths and Feminist Fables’ workshop on which it draws, reflects on a sense of unease among...

The Centrality of the Social in African Farming

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

There is a tendency when examining African agriculture to speak about “the farmer”, their “farm”, their “farming system”, or...

Adaptation and Mitigation Through “Produced Environments”: The Case for Agriculture Intensification in Senegal

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

For the last 15 years, discussions and debates on the debilitating effects of climate change have become increasingly intense. The...

Doing Development with Men: Some Reflections on a Case Study from Mali

My interest in the issue of power started when I was studying Marx and his analyses of class-based power relations. However, I never...

Informality and Social Protection: Theories and Realities

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

(H)alf of the world’s population has no social security coverage at all. In many least developed countries, more than nine out of ten...

Social Protection and the Labour Market: Towards a Research Agenda

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Social policies can be viewed as ways of addressing basic human rights; as ways of remediating and compensating for the inequalities...

Researching the Determinants of Vulnerability to HIV among Adolescents

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa are exposed to diverse influences regarding lifestyles that are healthy and appropriate – running...

Adolescent Girls’ Vulnerability to HIV Infection in Dar es Salaam: The Need to Link Protection with Prevention Beyond Behaviour Change

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This article draws upon a comparative survey of young people’s vulnerability to HIV and primary research conducted in two wards of Dar...

Vulnerabilities of Feminist Engagement and the Challenge of Developmentalism n the South: What Alternatives?

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This article examines the challenge of feminist engagement in the South today. The analysis proceeds from the position that feminist...