Global Women's Work
Global Women's Work

Author: Beth English

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-12-07

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 1351713477

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This volume considers how women are shaping the global economic landscape through their labor, activism, and multiple discourses about work. Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of international scholars, the book offers a gendered examination of work in the global economy and analyses the effects of the 2008 downturn on women’s labor force participation and workplace activism. The book addresses three key themes: exploitation versus opportunity; women’s agency within the context of changing economic options; and women’s negotiations and renegotiations of unpaid social reproductive labor. This uniquely interdisciplinary and comparative analysis will be crucial reading for anyone with an interest in gender and the post-crisis world.

Dilemmas of Difference
Dilemmas of Difference

Author: Sarah A. Radcliffe

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2015-10-23

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 0822375028

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In Dilemmas of Difference Sarah A. Radcliffe explores the relationship of rural indigenous women in Ecuador to the development policies and actors that are ostensibly there to help ameliorate social and economic inequality. Radcliffe finds that development policies’s inability to recognize and reckon with the legacies of colonialism reinforces long-standing social hierarchies, thereby reproducing the very poverty and disempowerment they are there to solve. This ineffectiveness results from failures to acknowledge the local population's diversity and a lack of accounting for the complex intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, class, and geography. As a result, projects often fail to match beneficiaries' needs, certain groups are made invisible, and indigenous women become excluded from positions of authority. Drawing from a mix of ethnographic fieldwork and postcolonial and social theory, Radcliffe centers the perspectives of indigenous women to show how they craft practices and epistemologies that critique ineffective development methods, inform their political agendas, and shape their strategic interventions in public policy debates.

Gender Parity and Multicultural Feminism
Gender Parity and Multicultural Feminism

Author: Ruth Rubio-Marín

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0198829620

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This volume explores the connection between gender parity and multicultural feminism, both at the level of theory and in practice.

Handbook of Feminist Governance
Handbook of Feminist Governance

Author: Marian Sawer

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2023-02-14

Total Pages: 491

ISBN-13: 180037481X

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Compiling state-of-the-art research from 58 leading international scholars, this dynamic Handbook explores the evolution of feminist analytical and organising principles and their introduction into governance institutions in national, regional and global settings.

Indigenous and Afro-Ecuadorians Facing the Twenty-First Century
Indigenous and Afro-Ecuadorians Facing the Twenty-First Century

Author: Marc Becker

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2014-10-16

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1443869112

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The South American country of Ecuador provides a fascinating case study for understanding the construction and emergence of race and ethnic identities. While themes of ethnic identities, indigeneity, and race relations are commonly examined in our respective disciplines, it is less common to bring together essays with from scholars from such a broad variety of disciplines. The papers collected in this volume provide an opportunity to explore indigeneity in comparative perspective with the rest of the region, as well as to highlight the historically important but understudied Afro-Ecuadorian perspectives. The essays in this volume break out of the common tropes and themes that scholars typically employ in their studies of race and ethnicity in Ecuador. In examining Afro-Ecuadorians and Indigenous peoples through the lens of politics, culture, religion, gender, and environmental concerns, we come to a better understanding of the problems and promises facing this country. These essays convey a large diversity of perspectives, disciplines, and issues that reflect the richness and complexities of the social processes that are present in Ecuador.

Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous Peoples

Author: Henry Minde

Publisher: Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9059722043

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Review: "During the past decade there has emerged growing criticism largely from anti-essentialist social scientists and multicultural politicians advocating a critique of ethnic and indigenous movements, accompanied by a general backlash in governmental policies and public opinion towards ideigneous communities. This book focuses on the implication of change for indigenous peoples, their political, legal and cultural strategies."--BOOK JACKET

Cultural Management and Policy in Latin America
Cultural Management and Policy in Latin America

Author: Raphaela Henze

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-05-19

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 100038702X

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Cultural Management and Policy in Latin America provides in-depth insights into the education and training of cultural managers from interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives. The book focuses on the effects of neoliberalism on cultural policies across the region, and questions how cultural managers in Latin America deal not only with contemporary political challenges but also with the omnipresent legacy of colonialism. In doing so, it unpacks the methods, formats, and narratives employed. Reflecting on emerging and contemporary research topics, the book analyses the key literature and scholarly contexts to identify impacts in the region and beyond. The volume provides scholars, students and reflective practitioners with a comprehensive resource on international cultural management that helps to overcome Western-centric methods and theories.