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Whose Money is it?‘: On Misconceiving Female Autonomy and Economic Empowerment in Low?income Households

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

With the new millennium has come a growing concern that the mainstreaming of Gender and Development (GAD) has not produced the expected...

An Unholy Trinity: The Church, the State, the Banks and the Challenges for Women Mobilising for Change in Nicaragua

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

In recent years, some commentators have applauded the World Bank’s ‘new’ focus on social policy and social protection as a sign of...

Holding it Together in a Crisis: Family Strengthening and Embedding Neoliberalism

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

We have begun to recognize the need to base our development approach more solidly on partnership (Nicolas Stern, former World Bank Chief...

Counting the Cost of Privatised Provision: Women, Rights and Neoliberal Health Reforms in Chile

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Under neoliberalism citizens in Chile and beyond have seen a reshaping of social service delivery, particularly in the health...

Reclaiming ‘Agency’, Reasserting Resistance

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

This article examines how concepts of women’s ‘agency’ have been appropriated and transformed by neoliberal discourses. Within...

Introduction: Intergenerational Transmissions: Cultivating Children’s Agency?

This IDS Bulletin reflects, as the first in the 40th anniversary volume, on some of the core areas of research and policy advocacy...

Troublesome Masculinities: Masculinity in Trouble

This article explores the notion of troublesome' masculinities that characterise much of the policy discourse and programme thinking on...

Violence, (In)security and Human Rights in Latin America

This article examines the relationship between violence, insecurity and human rights in Latin America. It explores the context in which...

Living on the Periphery: The Khawaja Siras of Pakistan

Published by: IDS

Academic literature suggests that development is inherently heteronormative in its narratives, policies and practices: as a result, ‘heterosexuality is normalized, naturalized, and privileged in societies of the global South, in the international development field, and in colonial and post/neo-colonial narratives of the so-called Third World or global South’ (Lind 2010: 7).