Pub Date : 2023-12-24DOI: 10.1177/14649934231205358
Fiona Samuels, M. Molyneux, Jasmine Gideon
Cuba remains one of the few countries still governed by a communist party. Despite its socialist commitments, including to gender equality, these have not been fully achieved and norms concerning gender roles are often at variance with revolutionary values. Focusing on youth and particularly young women, this article draws on primary data collected in Cuba in 2018–19 to explore young people’s sexual and reproductive health decisions. The analysis highlights how despite the family planning services and educational opportunities made available to them, young women’s reproductive and sexual choices are often determined by men and by values that accord primacy to marriage and motherhood, as conservative values are increasingly gaining a foothold.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-24DOI: 10.1177/14649934231210429
Suyeon Lee
In 2018, the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) created a new policy marker for disaster risk reduction (DRR) to help member states to monitor and report the progress made on the mainstreaming of DRR into their development activities. Drawing on this DRR marker, this study found that DAC members’ DRR mainstreaming remains in the incipient stage, with a significant gap between rhetoric and action. Important areas for improvement include a more comprehensive understanding of disaster risk; increased funding for activities principally targeting DRR, larger scale projects; enhanced financial stability without compromising other development objectives; and further integration of DRR and climate change adaption into development projects.
{"title":"How Is Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction Progressing in Terms of Development Cooperation? A Portfolio Analysis of DRR Aid","authors":"Suyeon Lee","doi":"10.1177/14649934231210429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934231210429","url":null,"abstract":"In 2018, the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) created a new policy marker for disaster risk reduction (DRR) to help member states to monitor and report the progress made on the mainstreaming of DRR into their development activities. Drawing on this DRR marker, this study found that DAC members’ DRR mainstreaming remains in the incipient stage, with a significant gap between rhetoric and action. Important areas for improvement include a more comprehensive understanding of disaster risk; increased funding for activities principally targeting DRR, larger scale projects; enhanced financial stability without compromising other development objectives; and further integration of DRR and climate change adaption into development projects.","PeriodicalId":47042,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Development Studies","volume":"291 1‐2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139160945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-18DOI: 10.1177/14649934231210099
Elsje Fourie, B. Dito, K. Gudeta, Karen Schelleman-Offermans, Valentina Mazzucato, K. Jonas
Observers of Ethiopia’s entry into export-oriented global value chains generally agree that social upgrading is crucial if these chains’ largely female workforce is to reap the benefits of participation. They disagree, however, on the extent to which a ‘business case’ can be made to involve in this upgrading the managers who link frontline workers to international buyers. This article takes a novel approach to these questions by directly asking these managers and those who advise them on human resources how they understand the well-being of their frontline workers. Drawing on 37 qualitative semi-structured interviews, we find great variation in the extent to which such actors are interested in pursuing worker well-being and social upgrading beyond basic compliance. This is indeed due in part to the sectoral dynamics that have shaped managers’ views of what constitutes a profitable labour regime but also by sociocultural factors that include managers’ own national contexts, gender and class.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-13DOI: 10.1177/14649934231195721
Julia Fischer-Mackey
Are development practitioners interested in research? If so, what kinds of research interest them, and for what purposes? Is the research they have access to meeting their needs for program design and management? These questions are central to understanding why research is used (or not), yet they are often overlooked by efforts to promote development research use. I interviewed practitioners in Washington, DC and Uganda to explore how they relate to research, and I identified six types of interest in research. Understanding practitioners’ diverse interests in research, and better aligning research agendas and knowledge mobilization efforts with them, may lead to more research use and more informed development practices.
{"title":"What Do Practitioners Want from Research? Exploring Ugandan and American Development Practitioners’ Interest in Research","authors":"Julia Fischer-Mackey","doi":"10.1177/14649934231195721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934231195721","url":null,"abstract":"Are development practitioners interested in research? If so, what kinds of research interest them, and for what purposes? Is the research they have access to meeting their needs for program design and management? These questions are central to understanding why research is used (or not), yet they are often overlooked by efforts to promote development research use. I interviewed practitioners in Washington, DC and Uganda to explore how they relate to research, and I identified six types of interest in research. Understanding practitioners’ diverse interests in research, and better aligning research agendas and knowledge mobilization efforts with them, may lead to more research use and more informed development practices.","PeriodicalId":47042,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Development Studies","volume":"111 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139003682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-13DOI: 10.1177/14649934231210100
A. Bazbauers, Nadeen Madkour
Multilateral development bank (MDB) engagement with ‘gender’ is controversial in review and uneven in practice. The authors analyse 1,928 gender-focused projects financed by the World Bank and regional development banks between 1967 and 2021. We propose three eras into which MDB gender engagement divides and argues that isomorphic pressures have aligned their approaches. The article concludes that gender is not an investment priority and projects have conceptually narrowed over time to focus on private entrepreneurship at the expense of addressing systemic gendered inequalities. This is significant for what the MDB finance signals to investors the feasibility of development projects.
{"title":"Gender and the Multilateral Development Banks: From WID to GAD to Retroliberal WID","authors":"A. Bazbauers, Nadeen Madkour","doi":"10.1177/14649934231210100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934231210100","url":null,"abstract":"Multilateral development bank (MDB) engagement with ‘gender’ is controversial in review and uneven in practice. The authors analyse 1,928 gender-focused projects financed by the World Bank and regional development banks between 1967 and 2021. We propose three eras into which MDB gender engagement divides and argues that isomorphic pressures have aligned their approaches. The article concludes that gender is not an investment priority and projects have conceptually narrowed over time to focus on private entrepreneurship at the expense of addressing systemic gendered inequalities. This is significant for what the MDB finance signals to investors the feasibility of development projects.","PeriodicalId":47042,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Development Studies","volume":"2 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139005407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-12DOI: 10.1177/14649934231206302
Jens Koehrsen, Marian Burchardt
Religious organizations have become crucial actors in international development. However, scholarly discussions have largely ignored the dynamics that shape their impact on the ground. This article examines these dynamics by assessing three claims about the specific developmental assets of religious organizations: (a) their credibility in the eyes of their beneficiaries; (b) their control over far-flung social networks; and (c) the idea that religious organizations pursue alternative visions of development. Drawing on existing research, we study these claims in two development sectors: healthcare and environmental sustainability. The results complicate linear narratives of the positive impact of religions on development. Dynamics internal to the religious field sometimes lead to practices that run counter to the Sustainable Development Goals, while institutional pressures in the field of international development push religious organizations to become more similar to their secular counterparts. We suggest the need for alternative frameworks that go beyond prevailing secularization and de-secularization narratives to pay attention to the institutional field dynamics that shape religious development initiatives.
{"title":"Religion and Development: Alternative Visions, Credibility, and Networks as Religious Assets for Sustainable Development?","authors":"Jens Koehrsen, Marian Burchardt","doi":"10.1177/14649934231206302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934231206302","url":null,"abstract":"Religious organizations have become crucial actors in international development. However, scholarly discussions have largely ignored the dynamics that shape their impact on the ground. This article examines these dynamics by assessing three claims about the specific developmental assets of religious organizations: (a) their credibility in the eyes of their beneficiaries; (b) their control over far-flung social networks; and (c) the idea that religious organizations pursue alternative visions of development. Drawing on existing research, we study these claims in two development sectors: healthcare and environmental sustainability. The results complicate linear narratives of the positive impact of religions on development. Dynamics internal to the religious field sometimes lead to practices that run counter to the Sustainable Development Goals, while institutional pressures in the field of international development push religious organizations to become more similar to their secular counterparts. We suggest the need for alternative frameworks that go beyond prevailing secularization and de-secularization narratives to pay attention to the institutional field dynamics that shape religious development initiatives.","PeriodicalId":47042,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Development Studies","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139008022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.1177/14649934231193813
Katy Jenkins
This paper critically explores how women anti-mining activists conceptualize development, in the context of living with and resisting large-scale resource extraction in Cajamarca, Peru. I contend that participatory photography provides an opportunity to contest hegemonic development narratives and the notions of ‘lack’, ‘poverty’ and ‘progress’ that are bound up with such narratives, enabling participants to simultaneously evoke both hoped-for alternative futures and nostalgic renditions of a threatened present. Moving beyond an explicit and immediate focus on the socially and environmentally destructive nature of large-scale mining, I explore how the women instead document productive Andean livelihoods and everyday ways of life, capturing the ways in which hoped-for futures are enacted in the present. The women activists articulate their resistance through photography, identifying and celebrating practices of hope in their everyday lives and communities and providing an emotive counter-narrative to extractive-led neoliberal development discourses. The paper reveals that participatory photography approaches generate critical insight into the emotion-suffused ways in which development is understood by grassroots activists in contexts of extractivism.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-19DOI: 10.1177/14649934231202053
Nihaya Jaber
Bliesemann de Guevara, B., & Bøås, M. (eds), Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International Intervention: A Guide to Research in Violent and Closed Contexts (Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2022), 288 pp. Hardback £75.00 and US $115.00. ISBN 9781529206883
Bliesemann de Guevara, B., & Bøås, M. (eds), Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International Intervention：布里斯托尔：布里斯托尔大学出版社，2022 年），288 页。精装本 75.00 英镑，115.00 美元。国际标准书号 9781529206883
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Pub Date : 2023-11-19DOI: 10.1177/14649934231209515
Antonio Sianes
Myers, G. 2020: Rethinking Urbanism: Lessons from Postcolonialism and the Global South. Bristol: Bristol University Press. 250pp., £79.99. ISBN: 9781529204452 (paperback).
Myers, G. 2020：重新思考城市化：后殖民主义和全球南方的教训》。Bristol：布里斯托尔：布里斯托尔大学出版社。250pp.ISBN: 9781529204452（平装本）。
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Pub Date : 2023-11-14DOI: 10.1177/14649934231193452
Mitra Tanomand
Bahana, D., Singh, S. and Msibi, T. (ed.), South Africa: Gender, Sexuality, and Violence in South African Educational Spaces (Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), 315 pp., £109.99 (cloth), £109.99 (paper), ISBN: 9783030699871 paper.
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