2367 - Frontiers in Feminist Development

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

This panel highlights emerging topics and issues in development theory and practice by drawing on feminist, intersectional, post-colonial, and/or indigenous perspectives. Critical questions of interest include: What are the frontiers of feminist development theory, research methodology, and practice? How can the practices of development institutions be improved by integrating insights from feminist, post-colonial, and/or indigenous approaches? The papers in this session: (1) introduce methodological and theoretical innovations in feminist research; (2) cover topics ranging from health, education, and trade to citizenship, democratization, and governance; (3) and engage findings from diverse geographic contexts. Presentations will be brief leaving time for formal discussion with panelists led by the session organizers.

Sub Unit

• Section on Sociology of Development / Frontiers of Feminist Development

Session Organizers

• Kristy Kelly, Columbia University/Drexel University

• Jennifer Keahey, Arizona State University

Individual Presentations

• Voice and Power: Feminist Governance as Transnational Justice in the Globalized Value Chain - Fauzia Erfan Ahmed, Miami University-Ohio

• Education is the Antidote: Individual- and Community-Level Effects of Maternal Education on Child Immunizations in Nigeria - Rebekah Burroway, State University of New York-Stony Brook; Andrew Hargrove, State University of New York-Stony Brook

• The "Created Biology" of Gender Stratification": From Hunter-Gatherers to Low-Education U.S. White Men - Rae Lesser Blumberg, University of Virginia

• Democratization and Women’s and Men’s Well-being: Differential Temporal Effects - Barbara Wejnert, State University of New York-Buffalo