Overview

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.

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Author:   Annabel Dulhunty ,  Sharon Bessell
Publisher:   Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9789819548415

ISBN 10:   9819548411
Pages:   330
Publication Date:   07 February 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

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.

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Annabel Dulhunty is Senior Lecturer at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Canberra. She is a development studies and social policy scholar. Annabel is an Executive Committee Member of the Development Studies Association of Australia. Annabel draws on her extensive experience as an aid practitioner in the Pacific, Latin America, Africa and South Asia to guide her research on global gender equality, human rights and social justice.  Sharon Bessell is Professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Canberra. She is the Director of the Children’s Policy Centre and co-host of Policy Forum Pod. Sharon's research focuses on the gendered and generational nature of poverty. She previously co-led the Individual Deprivation Measure project, which focused on gender sensitive measurement of poverty, and is currently leading the More for Children project, which aims to understand and respond to children’s experiences of poverty. Sharon is internationally recognised as an award-winning leader in rights-based research methodologies and ethics.

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