Overview
"In """"Women and the Politics of Place"""", Wendy Harcourt and Arturo Escobar analyze women's economic and social justice movements by challenging traditional views. The authors reveal how an interrelated set of transformations around the body, environment, and the economy factors into place-based practices of women and how these provide alternative ways of advancement in these mobilizations. The book develops a conceptual framework based on the most current debates in anthropology, geography, ecology, feminist, and development studies. This guides academics, activists, and policymakers toward an understanding of how women are politically negotiating globalization. Also featured are the experiences of women working to defend their homelands on issues such as reproductive rights, land and community, rural and urban environments, and global capital. Written for wide use by academics, students, and practitioners, """"Women and the Politics of Place"""" bridges the division between academic and activist knowledge with an original analysis of global feminist issues."
Full Product Details
Author: Wendy Harcourt ,
Arturo Escobar
Publisher: Kumarian Press
Imprint: Kumarian Press
ISBN: 9781565492080
ISBN 10: 1565492080
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 30 December 2006
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"""This book is a welcome and sophisticated tool for understanding the places of women in the ever-evolving spaces of contemporary global politics and culture."" - Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of Oregon"""
This book is a welcome and sophisticated tool for understanding the places of women in the ever-evolving spaces of contemporary global politics and culture. - Lynn Stephen, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of Oregon
Author Information
Wendy Harcourt is a program adviser at the Society for International Development, an international development NGO and Editor of Development, the SID quarterly journal, and the current Chair of Women in Development, Europe. She writes extensively in the field of gender and development and has led several research and policy programs for SID, the UN, and European NGOs on globalization, alternative economics and gender, reproductive rights and health, culture and communications. Arturo Escobar is a professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His recent research has focused on the intersection among development, capital, and social movements in the Colombian Pacific region. Specifically, he is concerned with looking in the context of the transnational debates on rainforest political ecology and biodiversity conservation
