Gendered Entanglements: Re-visiting Gender in Rapidly Changing Asia: 10 (Gendering Asia) - Softcover

Ragnhild Lund (editor); Philippe Doneys (editor) & Bernadette P. Resurrección (editor)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8776941574 ISBN 13: 9788776941574

Publisher: NIAS Press, 2015

Synopsis

The overall objective of this volume is to revisit gender as a concept that can engage simultaneously with change and continuity in today's Asia, but with greater intellectual reflexivity to examine multiple, intersecting, and complex dimensions of identity and difference, and formerly unacknowledged sources of social power from institutions and their emerging discourses.

Individual chapters, written by gender scholars from Europe and Asia, critically examine the concept of gender in the context of emerging development issues relating to four broad thematic areas: 'Gender over Time', 'Power, Policy and Practices', 'Environment and Resources', and 'Justice and Human Rights'.

In so doing, they also address how gender has been changed, both as a normative process influencing social roles and relations and as an object and/or a concept of research.

About this title

About the Author

Ragnhild Lund is Professor of Geography at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Her current research interests are particularly related to processes of social change in the Global South, in particular mobility, forced migration, gender, youth and indigenous people in Asia.

Philippe Doneys is an assistant professor in Gender and Development Studies at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. His research interests cover issues related to gender and empowerment, gender and health (esp. HIV), migration and gender-based violence, particularly in South and Southeast Asia.

Bernadette (Babette) P. Resurreccion is a Senior Research Fellow at the SEI Asia Centre, Bangkok. She has considerable experience researching gender, livelihoods, climate change adaptation, migration, and natural resource management in Cambodia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Edition details

• Publisher: NIAS Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8776941574
• ISBN 13: 9788776941574
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 350