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Whose lives are worth more? Politicising research safety in developing countries

This article develops the ‘safety–emotion–power’ nexus and highlights the role of emotion in research by politicising the unequal power relationships between researchers and NGO staff members in defining danger and negotiating sa ...

Abstract - dwardle - 2010-11-07 18:12

Protecting children from trafficking in Benin: in need of politics and participation

This paper critically examines policy in Benin against child trafficking. Drawing on interviews and participant observation with adolescent labour migrants and their communities, it problematises both the assumptions underpinning anti-trafficking policy ...

Abstract - dwardle - 2012-06-13 15:57

Operationalising participatory research and gender analysis: new research and assessment approaches

Participatory research approaches are increasingly popular with scientists working for poverty alleviation, sustainable rural development, and social change. This introduction offers an overview of the special issue of Development in Practice journal on ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:00

Collaborative research as an anti-poverty tool: a research partnership between police and indigenous Australians

This paper reports on a collaborative research project that shows how participatory social research can be used as a strategy for combating social exclusion. The Crime Prevention Partnership Project brought together dominant and disempowered groups to exp ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:50

Women in water management: the need for local planning

The paper notes that in India, even when a village or household level survey is carried out for water-resource development, the usual standards of data collection are applied, and women's central importance in water use is thus not reflected. However, wom ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:55

Men's violence against women in rural Bangladesh: undermined or exacerbated by microcredit programmes?

Using data from a recent ethnographic study in rural Bangladesh to explore relationships between men's violence against women in the home, women's economic and social dependence on men, and microcredit programmes, this paper suggests that microcredit prog ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 17:58

Gender justice: the World Bank’s new approach to the poor?

Gender inequality is now widely acknowledged as an important factor in the spread and entrenchment of poverty. This article examines the World Development Report 2000/01 as the World Bank’s blueprint for addressing poverty in the twenty-first century alon ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:03

Children and development assistance: the need to re-orient priorities and programmes:

This article argues that if children were the focus of more deliberate attention on the part of donors, it could result in more effective use of the resources available for poverty reduction. Instead, development assistance neglects some of children's mos ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:06

The `sex war' and other wars: towards a feminist approach to peace-building

For more than a decade, resolutions from the UN and the European Commission have highlighted women's suffering during wars, and the unfairness of their treatment upon the return to peace. Yet the injustices and the hypocrisy continue. Women are reified as ...

Abstract - admin - 2009-09-30 18:10

Women Embracing Islam: Gender and Conversion in the West