John Idriss Lahai

Gender-Responsive Governance in Sierra Leone (eBook, ePUB)

The Transitions and Logic of Inequality

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates gender equality and women's empowerment in Sierra Leone, focusing in particular on women's interactions with the state and its development partners.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000901887
• Artikelnr.: 68340059

Autorenporträt

John Idriss Lahai is a scholar in applied international development, gender and women studies, transitional justice and human rights, multi-level governance in fragile states, refugee and migration studies, human geography, regional planning, and peace and conflict studies. He is the author of over a dozen books published by Routledge and Palgrave Macmillan, among other internationally recognized academic publishing houses. He is currently an affiliate of the School of Geography and Sustainable Communities and The Australian Centre for Culture, Environment, Society and Space (ACCESS) of the University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. Lahai sits on the advisory board of Rowman & Littlefield's newly constituted book series "Migration, Displacement, and Development." He has consulted/worked for several governments and international agencies (working on mitigating state fragility in the Global South).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; PART I: Theories, Concepts, and Issues; 1. Theorizing
Gender-Responsive Governance, Women's Agency and Empowerment, and the Logic
of (In)quality and Transitions to Equality; PART II: The Logic of
Inequality in the Bounded Spaces of Sexuality, Violence, and
Discrimination; 2. The Histories and Boundaries of State-Capture:
Sexuality, Power, and Belonging; 3. Locating Inequality in the Formal and
Informal Economic Sector; 4. How Society Created an Education Sector that
Propagated Inequality; 5. Politics, Electoral Violence, and Gender
Inequality; 6. Then Came the Era of a Civil War and Its Aftermath: Women's
Lives in War and Peace; PART III: The Logic and Transitions to
Gender-Responsive Governance, Equality, and Empowerment; 7. Feminizing the
Quasi-Institutional Interventions to End Sexual Violence; 8. Women, the
State, and the Rise of a Gender-Responsive Knowledge-Economy; 9. 'Let's
Quantify the Contributions of Women': Costing of Equality via
Gender-Responsive Budgeting; 10. Creating the 'Local State' and Expanding
the Decentralized Space for Women's Grassroots Political Participation