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Discussion paper

Beyond GDP: A compendium of regional feminist perspectives

10/12/2024

4 documents

38 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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In this publication, leading feminist thinkers from Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, share perspectives on why we must move beyond gross domestic product (GDP) as the primary measure of societal progress. Drawing on regional examples, they demonstrate how the GDP-growth obsession is skewing policy-making towards measures […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

Private Sector Rapid Care Analysis Toolkit

29/10/2024

3 documents

78 pages long

Languages: English

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A Private Sector Rapid Care Analysis toolkit (PS RCA) is a rapid process for businesses and workers to understand the heavy responsibility and long hours of unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW), usually done by women workers. The guide also makes the case for why private sector companies should address UCDW as part of workers’ […]

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Journal article

Gendered Urban Cycling and the Ethics of Caring: Coming to voice in the streets of Tijuana and Oaxaca amidst the patriarcarro

19/09/2024

20 pages long

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Gendered Urban Cycling and the Ethics of Caring: Coming to voice in the streets of Tijuana and Oaxaca amidst the patriarcarro

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This article explores grassroots organisations and collectives of women cyclists in the cities of Tijuana and Oaxaca, Mexico. Taking a narrative approach, it delves into the idea of public space that emerges from their life histories, chronicles, and talk groups. It contends that the narratives of their urban practices and interventions, and of their lives […]

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Journal article

Imagining Black Feminist Geographies of Johannesburg Through Senzeni Marasela’s Creative (Un/Re)mapping of Johannesburg’s Mine Slopes

19/09/2024

20 pages long

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Imagining Black Feminist Geographies of Johannesburg Through Senzeni Marasela’s Creative (Un/Re)mapping of Johannesburg’s Mine Slopes

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Part of the project of philosophy is to problematise how the world is known, including destabilising geography as one of the dominant imperialist discourses. In the Afropolis, legacies of colonialism and Apartheid still work to uphold spatial inequality within urban spaces in ways that are both racialised and gendered. Black feminist scholar, Katherine McKittrick, provides […]

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Journal article

Public Spaces, Street Art, and the Challenges of Feminist Ecological Citizenship in Chile

19/09/2024

20 pages long

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Public Spaces, Street Art, and the Challenges of Feminist Ecological Citizenship in Chile

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While considerable literature examines the intersection between feminism and ecology, as well as the intersection between feminism and urbanism, few studies address the intersection between feminism and ecology by looking at aesthetic activism in the city. This essay explores the synergies and potential connections between the idea of body/territory and feminist ecological citizenship through the […]

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Journal article

The (Un)tenable Flaneuse: An inquiry into the politics of women walking in war-entrenched Kabul

19/09/2024

28 pages long

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The (Un)tenable Flaneuse: An inquiry into the politics of women walking in war-entrenched Kabul

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The article will trace the interrelations between Kabul’s constructed spatiality and the implications of women’s walks through the landscape in two primary texts – Taran Khan’s Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul and Samira Makhmalbaf’s At Five in the Afternoon – to trace the unique discourse and modalities of women’s resistance that they generate against […]

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Journal article

Plaza las Pioneras: An urban feminist space and the politics of the commons

19/09/2024

18 pages long

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Plaza las Pioneras: An urban feminist space and the politics of the commons

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There are very few feminist urban public spaces in the world and even fewer urban feminist commons. This paper focuses on the initiative and functioning of the Plaza las Pioneras in Montevideo, Uruguay. The Plaza is an innovative feminist public space and urban commons experience that opened in 2020 as an effort by the city’s […]

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Journal article

Engendering Migrant Counterpublics: Fun, care, solidarity, and resistance among Ethiopian domestic workers in Lebanon

19/09/2024

17 pages long

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Engendering Migrant Counterpublics: Fun, care, solidarity, and resistance among Ethiopian domestic workers in Lebanon

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Research documenting the re-configurations of ‘public–private’ boundaries encountered by migrant domestic workers has observed how they often create a sense of ‘home’ in public spaces in destination countries. Migrant workers’ occupation of, and interactions in, public spaces such as parks, malls, restaurants, and churches in effect create ‘private spheres’ where they can relax and be […]

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Journal article

Women’s Search for Public Space and Leisure in Agra: Cots, courtyards, and riverbank

19/09/2024

20 pages long

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Women’s Search for Public Space and Leisure in Agra: Cots, courtyards, and riverbank

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Historians have often highlighted the centrality of bazaars and the streets in urban public life in India as a space for politics and mobilisation. Historically, these bazaars and streets have been the domain of men, while spaces created by dominant urban planning logics like sequestered parks and enclosed marketplaces are marked by exclusion across various […]

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Journal article

Where and How Girls Play When They Are Too Old For Playgrounds? Young girls and the space of the Greek neighbourhood in urban, suburban, and rural childhood memories

19/09/2024

21 pages long

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Where and How Girls Play When They Are Too Old For Playgrounds? Young girls and the space of the Greek neighbourhood in urban, suburban, and rural childhood memories

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Gendered experience of public space during childhood and adolescence, both in the global North and in the global South, creates asymmetries and inequalities between girls and boys in terms of levels of autonomy, opportunities for play and socialising, and sense of social safety. Young Architecture students, who grew up in a variety of settlements in […]

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