Gender and Development: Perspectives from Australia and the Pacific

This edited book critically examines if and how Gender and Development can address the contemporary challenges of the 21st century, focusing on the perspectives of scholars and practitioners from Australia and the Pacific. While Gender and Development has been highly influential, it is not without criticism. Gender and Development has been critiqued for giving insufficient attention to intersectionality and the racial and colonial dimensions of 'development', as well as issues of sexuality and sexual diversity. This book ties together current theory and specific case studies, to showcase how Gender and Development has been practiced in the region and how it can be further developed and improved. With the core principles of Gender and Development remaining salient for today, this book provides unique insights as to how Gender and Development can be revitalised for scholars of development studies, gender studies, sociology, political science, geography, law and public policy.

Chapter 1:
Introducing Gender and Development perspectives from Australia and the Pacific. -
Chapter 2:
Resisting Remembering Reclaiming GAD in the 21st century. -
Chapter 3:
Reframing Gender and Development in law reform the case of faatama advocates in Samoa. -
Chapter 4:
Gender and Development and Australia confronting Australias colonial past. -
Chapter 5:
How does feminist thinking in gender and development affect change in the Anthropocene Insights from Vietnam. -
Chapter 6:
Preserving womens empowerment advocating for Feminist Participatory Action Research. -
Chapter 7:
By design Australias role in supporting womens political leadership in the Pacific. -
Chapter 8:
Gender labour mobility and food insecurity in Pacific Islands Countries and Territories Primitive accumulation surplus populations and food insecurity. -
Chapter 9:
Pacific grounded approaches adaptive practices in gender climate organisations. -
Chapter 10:
Carbon credits and crediting women understanding the gender of ecological care labour in forest stewardship projects in India for fairer payments. -
Chapter 11:
Queer feminist disabled understanding young peoples activism to support the next generation of Gender and Development. -
Chapter 12:
More than add women and stir integrating gender and social sciences into agricultural research for development. -
Chapter 13:
Gender justice in Timor Leste understanding transformational change to local perceptions. -
Chapter 14:
Gender mainstreaming & other development fantasies.