“If We Stayed at Home, Nothing Would Change”: Gendered Acts of Citizenship From Mozambique and Pakistan
This article investigates how women emerged as political subjects through protests in two post-colonial contexts: the Hazara women’s...
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This article investigates how women emerged as political subjects through protests in two post-colonial contexts: the Hazara women’s...
Attempting to increase authorities' accountability for their actions has become a mainstay of development practice in recent decades....
While much is known about how citizens mobilize and make claims for accountability in more democratic, stable, and peaceful settings,...
It is increasingly common for international development actors to work in difficult and fragile settings, yet much of our understanding...
Published by: International Journal of Qualitative Methods
How do chronically poor and marginalized citizens interact with and make claims to the different public authorities that exist in...
Aid agencies that support public accountability reforms commonly do so in the same places, and with similar state and civil society...
Emergencies heighten societies’ need to be governed. Accordingly, the COVID-19 pandemic put systems of public governance under severe...
Published by: Wiley
In recent years, a growing literature has emerged analysing how organised citizen action can achieve more accountable and inclusive...
Published by: Wiley
Fragility and closing civic space present significant challenges for research, making research processes more onerous and difficult,...
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper draws on evidence from the Action for Empowerment and Accountability (A4EA) research programme to show how women express their political agency and activism and seek accountability in repressive contexts.