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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS! G&D: Inequalities
The July 2015 issue of the international
journal Gender & Development will look at Inequalities.
G&D
is published for Oxfam by Routledge/Taylor and Francis, and is essential
reading for international development researchers, policymakers, and
practitioners. G&D is currently
read in over 90 countries. It is published as an online/print journal at www.tandfonline.com/gad.
Content is also available free: access online at www.genderanddevelopment.org
Currently, economic inequality is
rising rapidly in some of the fastest-growing countries of the global South.
Inequality is also increasing in countries of the global North, after a century
in which policy measures including state welfare had made inroads into the
inequality of the nineteenth century which was a source of moral outrage for
politicians and philanthropists. Poverty for a majority, with extreme wealth
for a tiny elite, is the scandal of our times, and is linked to a host of
social, political and economic ills, including gender inequality. It is
essential to narrow the gaps in society, as the limitations of development
goals focusing on national averages are become apparent. Rising inequalities
must be curbed, but this is difficult: states’ hands are tied by elite
interests and global neo-liberal policies.
Yet development policymakers,
researchers and activists are attempting to turn the tide. For feminists, a
focus on inequalities should represent a significant step forward. It should
lead to a genuinely progressive and transformational development agenda, which
responds to the multi-dimensional experience of gendered poverty, and complex
inequalities. Some policy solutions are emerging in response to economic
inequality between households – for example, conditional cash transfers,
universal health care and the minimum wage. However, the inequalities agenda
needs to respond to the realities of women and men in poverty by addressing
gender and other identity-based inequalities, which shape and perpetuate
poverty and disempowerment.
This issue hopes to explore these
and other issues in a range of articles from feminist thinkers and academics,
development and humanitarian practitioners, researchers, and policymakers who
have interesting experience to share of the gendered cost to women and men, and
wider society, of extreme inequalities in the global South and North. All
articles must be written in language which is accessible for a non-academic
readership. We will include:
· think-pieces
– considering the relationship between gender inequality and other
inequalities, and economic inequality, and putting forward feminists’ ideas of
the kind of policy agenda needed to respond holistically to the concerns of
women and girls, men and boys in poverty
· case
studies of the impact of policies intended to reduce economic inequalities, on
gender equality and women’s rights, in different countries including emerging
economies
· case
studies of ways of challenging these in development programming which addresses
complex inequalities, including campaigning and advocacy work with states, as
well as community-level development work.
Please
make your outlines as grounded as possible in examples of real experience and
activism from developing countries. The issue will support colleagues to
understand how to work in ways which respond fully to the interests and needs
of women and men, girls and boys living in poverty in the global South.
G&D has an editorial policy of
publishing in clear, jargon-free English, in order to be of use to the widest
possible readership. All articles need to be based on first-hand experience, or
research on-the-ground in particular country contexts, and have direct
relevance to development policy and practice. Don’t worry if you have not
written for a journal – we will help you with style and language!
Please send a paragraph outlining your
proposed idea for an article for this issue to csweetman@oxfam.org.uk as
soon as possible, and before the commissioning deadline: 6 October 2014. If we are able to offer space for
your contribution, we will write to you by 12 October 2014 to say so. Commissioned articles will need to be
completed for a deadline of 31 December 2014.
For full guidelines and more information on the journal visit www.genderanddevelopment.org
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