Prof Naila Kabeer COL.5.04C

This course is available on the MSc in African Development, MSc in Development Management, MSc in Development Studies, MSc in Gender, MSc in Gender (Research), MSc in Gender, Media and Culture, MSc in Gender, Policy and Inequalities, MSc in Global Politics, MSc in Human Geography and Urban Studies (Research), MSc in Human Rights, MSc in Regional And Urban Planning Studies and MSc in Urban Policy (LSE and Sciences Po). This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

This course cannot be taken alongside GI407 Globalisation, Gender and Development.

This course will provide students with a thorough knowledge of theoretical and policy debates in the field of gender and development at local, national and international levels in an era of rapid globalisation. The course is organised as a number of themed blocks. The first deals with theories relating to policy, politics and power in the field of gender and international development. This is followed by three separate blocks, each organised around the feminist struggles over recognition, redistribution and representation as they play out in relation to various policy issues, including gender-based violence, the care economy, gender mainstreaming, social protection, land rights, gender quotas and collective action. Emphasis is placed on understanding the politics of framing within the policy domain, the tactics and strategies deployed by feminist scholars, advocates and activists in the struggle for interpretive power and the interactions between global institutions and local movements in shaping policy outcomes. Empirical illustrations are provided through a series of policy case studies and readings of ethnographies which explore in detail the processes of accommodation, negotiation, subversion and confrontation through which feminist actors have sought to exercise voice and influence.

10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of classes in the LT.

One essay of 1500 words to be handed in midway through the LT.

• Cornwall, A. , E. Harrison and A. Whitehead (eds) (2007) Feminisms in Development: Contradictions, contestations and challenges  London: Zed Books
• Kabeer, N., Sudarshan, R. and Milward, K (eds), 2013, Organizing Women Workers in the Informal Economy: Beyond the Weapons of the Weak London: Zed Books
• Marchand and, M., and Runyan, A. eds., (2011) Gender and Global Restructuring: Sightings, Sites and Resistances London: Routledge.
• Rai, S.M. and Waylen, G. (eds) (2008) Global Governance:  Feminist Perspective, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
• Razavi, S. (eds) (2012) Seen, heard and counted: rethinking care in a development context Oxford Blackwell
• Chant, S. (2011) The international handbook of gender and poverty: concepts, research, policy  London: Edward Elgar
• Saunders,K (Ed), (2002) Feminist Post-Development Thought. Rethinking modernity, post-colonialism and representation  New Dehli: Zubaan
• Kuiper, E. and D. Barker  (eds)  (2006) Feminist economics and the World Bank: history, theory, policy London: Routledge

Essay (100%, 4000 words) in the ST.