Political Economies

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Çağatay, Nilüfer, and Korkuk Ertürk. 2004. “Gender and Globalization: A Macroeconomic Perspective.” Working Paper No. 19, Policy Integration Department, World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization, International Labour Office, Geneva.

Authors: Nilüfer Çağatay, Korkuk Ertürk

Topics: Economies, Gender, Globalization, Political Economies

Year: 2004

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Rosenfeld, Maya. 2002. “Power Structure, Agency, and Family in a Palestinian Refugee Camp.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 34 (3): 519–51.

Author: Maya Rosenfeld

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This article seeks to explain the generation, spread, and reproduction of post-secondary education in a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank since the inception of this process in the 1950s and into the 1990s, with a focus on the period of Israeli military occupation. It is based on the findings, qualitative and quantitative, of extended socio-anthropological field research that was carried out in Dheisheh camp in the years 1992–95. The conceptual framework that instructed the research methodology and the interpretation of the findings sought to combine a political-economy approach, which accords centrality to the determinants of the “system” of power relationships—in this case, primarily those of the military-occupation regime—with an analysis of “human agency” or praxis, particularly the reorganization of the division of labor in the refugee family household over the years and generations. Accordingly, the article explores and traces the inter-relationships among (1) “system-imposed” barriers and obstacles to the acquisition of education by Dheisheh refugees and to their education-related job mobility; (2) family-based patterns of organization that developed around the education and employment opportunities of second- and third-generation refugees in the face of impeding structural conditions; (3) the long-range consequences of the resultant “education and labor process” for the transformation of socio-economic relationships within the family and the community.

Topics: Displacement & Migration, Refugees, Refugee/IDP Camps, Education, Gender, Gendered Power Relations, Households, Political Economies Regions: MENA, Asia, Middle East Countries: Palestine / Occupied Palestinian Territories

Year: 2002

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Bergeron, Suzanne. 2010. “Gender, Development, and Global Householding.” Politics and Gender 6 (2): 281–88.

Author: Suzanne Bergeron

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That issues related to migration and global householding are finally being taken seriously by mainstream development institutions is clear from the focus of the United Nation's 2009 Human Development Report. Subtitled Overcoming Barriers: Human Mobility and Development, it is the first major intergovernmental organization publication to view transnational mobility as integral to human development. The report makes a strong case for recognizing that the impact of migration in relation to development aims is significant for both sending and receiving countries. As the report states repeatedly, the old nation-centered growth and antipoverty frameworks and policies no longer fit when migrants work in one country yet send remittances that reduce poverty and promote human development in another country. Similarly, global householding—the reconfiguration of household and family arrangements as people move across national boundaries—necessitates new frameworks for understanding human livelihood strategies at the micro level. In addition to making the case for taking transnational mobility seriously in development policy, the report offers a set of recommendations that are centered on migration management, regularization, and liberalization policies, such as bilateral temporary workers' agreements that allow nations to enhance growth and competitiveness while simultaneously securing their borders.

Topics: Development, Displacement & Migration, Migration, Economies, Poverty, Gender, Households, International Organizations, Political Economies

Year: 2010

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Bergeron, Suzanne. 2004. “Teaching Globalization through a Gender Lens.” Review of Radical Political Economics 36 (3): 314–20. doi:10.1177/0486613404267689.

Author: Suzanne Bergeron

Topics: Economies, Gender, Globalization, Political Economies

Year: 2004

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Bergeron, Suzanne. 2001. “Political Economy Discourses of Globalization and Feminist Politics.” Signs 26 (4): 983–1006. doi:10.2307/3175354.

Author: Suzanne Bergeron

Topics: Economies, Feminisms, Gender, Globalization, Governance, Political Economies

Year: 2001

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Benería, Lourdes. 1995. “Toward a Greater Integration of Gender in Economics.” World Development 23 (11): 1839–50.

Author: Lourdes Benería

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This paper argues that feminist analysis is finally making an impact in the field of economics. It begins with an historical overview of the alternative theoretical approaches that have discussed women's issues, particularly since the 1950s and 1960s, and it argues that, during the 1980s and 1990s, these approaches have tended to converge, at least partially, through the use of gender as a central category of analysis. The influence of postmodernism and the development of feminist theory have laid the basis for the task of transforming economics and engendering theory and policy. At the same time, feminist analysis has shifted from its main concentration on microeconomics to the discussion of macroeconomics. More specifically, the paper discusses two areas in which progress toward engendering economic analysis has been made since the late 1970s: (a) the visibility of women's work and its inclusion in labor force and national accounting statistics, and (b) macroeconomic issues, with focus on the area of gender and development and of structural adjustment policies, with particular reference to alternative models to the orthodox structural adjustment packages.

Topics: Economies, Gender, Political Economies

Year: 1995

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Bedford, Kate, and Shirin M. Rai. 2010. “Feminists Theorize International Political Economy.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 36 (1): 1–18.

Authors: Kate Bedford, Shirin M. Rai

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This article introduces the women and international political economy special issue of Signs, tracing its relationship to the crisis of neoliberalism as they developed concurrently and highlighting the key themes elucidated in the articles presented here. Three themes, which are reflected in different ways in these articles, are outlined in this introduction in order to illustrate the importance of gender in analyzing international political economy: first, the benefit of multilayered approaches to governance; second, new insights into debates about social reproduction and work; and, third, pressing concerns of intimacy and sexuality. In particular, the introduction foregrounds transnational and postcolonial approaches to political economy questions, including their application in a national frame. The article then identifies the gaps in the literature, and in the special issue itself, and concludes by reflecting on the Janus‐faced nature of crises. We suggest that discursive and political struggles are already taking place that challenge the power relations entrenched within international political economy. (JSTOR)

Topics: Feminisms, Gender, Political Economies

Year: 2010

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Barrientos, Stephanie, and Naila Kabeer. 2004. “Enhancing Female Employment in Global Production: Policy Implications.” Global Social Policy 4 (2): 153–69. doi:10.1177/1468018104045107.

Authors: Stephanie Barrientos, Naila Kabeer

Keywords: female employment, gender equity, global production

Topics: Economies, Gender, Women, Livelihoods, Political Economies

Year: 2004

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Bakker, Isabella. 2007. “Social Reproduction and the Constitution of a Gendered Political Economy.” New Political Economy 12 (4): 541–56. doi:10.1080/13563460701661561.

Author: Isabella Bakker

Topics: Gender, Political Economies

Year: 2007

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Armstrong, Jo, Sylvia Walby, and Sofia Strid. 2009. “The Gendered Division of Labour: How Can We Assess the Quality of Employment and Care Policy from a Gender Equality Perspective?” Benefits 17 (3): 263–75.

Authors: Jo Armstrong, Sylvia Walby, Sofia Strid

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Evaluating the quality of employment and care policy in relation to gender equality is important given the continuing inequalities between men and women in paid and unpaid work. However, assessment raises dilemmas: quality according to what criteria; quality for whom; and quality of what? It is proposed here that good quality means transformation in gender relations towards an equal distribution of paid and unpaid work, equal pay and de-segregation; that sensitivity to differences between women is required, but not the adoption of different quality standards; and that working towards the goal of transformation demands consideration of several interconnected policy arenas. Assessing quality is difficult; but it is possible - and it is crucial to achieving gender equality.

Topics: Economies, Care Economies, Gender, Gendered Power Relations, Gender Equality/Inequality, Governance, Livelihoods, Political Economies

Year: 2009