If Women Counted: A New Feminist Economics

Budlender, Debbie; Waring, Marilyn

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“…Carrying the broom symbolically places the individual as willing to engage in manual labor inconsistent with their attire and consistent with the calls for democratic engagement in the community. The broom may also be connected to “women's work” (Waring, 1988); the juxtaposition of perceived masculine attire and feminine work tools further symbolizes the desire to present (although perhaps not live) the principles of egalitarianism. The banner in the background further serves as a visual fragment of a reminder (spectacle) of the underlying OL mission of protesting neoliberal capitalist culture, “If our protest camps are boils, your mansions are a cancer.”…”

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Leaderlessness in social movements: Advancing space, symbols, and spectacle as modes of “Leadership”

Keshtiban

Callahan

Harris

2021

Human Resource Dev Quarterly

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The emergence of the Occupy movements along with other social movements in 2011 elevated the idea of radically decentralized 'leaderless' social movement organizations. We argue that looking at such an alternative, horizontalist form of organizing presents an opportunity to reframe how we understand leadership. This paper illustrates how the coordination of the Occupy London movement was accomplished horizontally in the absence of formal organization, leadership or authority structures. Using an ethnographic approach, we show how this movement generated a 'multimodal' repertoire of protest that included: i) the politically effective occupation of urban space; ii) the ability to deploy symbols as compelling forms of aesthetic questioning; and iii) the creation of politically-charged spectacles that allowed the movement to appropriate the news agendas of established broadcast media. The findings of this paper challenge the language of leadership and contribute to understandings of feminist forms of leadership and leaderless organizing by explaining one way that 'leadership' occurs in horizontal organizational structures such as social movements. Namely, we demonstrate how the modes of space, symbols, and spectacles effectively replace the role of 'leader' in the absence of formal organizational structures.

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Leaderlessness in social movements: Advancing space, symbols, and spectacle as modes of “Leadership”

Keshtiban

Callahan

Harris

2021

Human Resource Dev Quarterly

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“…Failure to include women's care labour in development policy and planning bolstered feminist critiques of mainstream development (Benería, 2003; Tinker, 1990) and gave rise to concern about ‘women's double burden’, a critique most clearly articulated by radical feminist scholars in the Global South (G. Sen & Grown, 1988; Shiva, 1988). The patriarchal institutions of capitalism that were the subject of Marilyn Waring's pathbreaking text If Women Counted: A New Feminist Economics (1988), which showed how global accounting norms have produced sexist definitions and measurements of ‘the economy’, ‘labour’, ‘value’ and ‘growth’ in which women's care work is unrecognised and devalued. While these texts were revolutionary in their accounts of how care is rendered invisible by mainstream approaches to economic development, migration was not directly addressed as a specific dynamic shaping the gendered experience of development.…”

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Migration and development, without care? Locating transnational care practices in the migration‐development debate

Withers

Hill

2023

Population Space and Place

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Highly‐restrictive temporary labour migration schemes are commonplace throughout the Indo‐Pacific region and continue to expand amid sustained policy enthusiasm for ‘migration‐development’. Yet, the developmental benefits of guestworker schemes are routinely evaluated according to narrow economic criteria, with little consideration given to transnational family separation and the displacement of socially reproductive labour that sustains everyday life. ‘Migration’, ‘development’ and ‘care’ are deeply interlinked political economic processes, yet they have been theorised in partial isolation. We challenge this analytical disconnect, situating the developmental implications of guestworker migration in relation to the total social organisation of labour, and argue for a more holistic ‘migration‐care‐development' nexus that foregrounds unsustainable disruptions to care economies. We ground our framework in the context of Australia's Pacific Labour Scheme to illustrate the developmental consequences for Pasifika households and communities, highlighting the need for ‘decent care’ policies to address care deficits in support of sustainable and gender‐equitable development.

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“…Care work is not recognized as "productive" labor in most aggregate measures of economic activity, such as the gross domestic product. 4 As a result, when we build policies to achieve economic growth, care and the majority of women who do it are omitted from the equation (Waring 1988). Some countries have taken steps to change this.…”

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Unjust Conditions

Cookson¹

2019

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Preface romantic partner's university login information to access articles that I myself had authored! A great deal of English-language academic research is also inaccessible to academics who reside in underfunded institutions, often in the very countries in which most development studies are carried out. One consequence of all this is that the important insights generated by slow research too seldom influence policy debates in the ways that they could. This circumstance, in which development interventions are increasingly datadriven but the data is not diverse, has shaped my approach to the book at hand. This book is based on well-funded, "slow" research, and it is published in an openaccess format. My hope is that the research will enrich classroom discussions and scholarly argument, and that its influence also will extend beyond the silos of the academy to find pragmatic utility in the boardrooms of international development institutions, meeting spaces of nonprofit organizations, and dinner conversations of hopeful social entrepreneurs and tireless human rights activists.xv Acknowled gmentsThis book, and the research that informs it, was made possible by the generous and caring support of people and institutions across three continents, for which I am profoundly thankful.First and foremost, I would like acknowledge my research participants, who remain anonymous here, but to whom I am enduringly grateful for allowing me into their homes and their places of employment, and for sharing the details and their interpretations of their everyday lives.In Peru, I found support in many corners. Thank you to Lewis Taylor, for inviting me to a fiesta in his home, where, in his words, I conducted "the first two months of my research" in a little under three hours. I am indebted to Cecilia, my closest ally during field research, whose energy, sharp critique of development, and love of her country, colors every page of this book. I am thankful for my many friends in Cajamarca, including Rosi, Pepe, and Xochi, for their hospitality and conversation; Mirtha, whose critique of the "perverse" forms that development can take provoked deeper analytical work; Patrick, Heidi, and Tessa, whose Van Gogh Café was a home away from home; and Kyra, for countless conversations on dilapidated spinning bikes and, four years later, over humitas and pickled onions in Salas. I am grateful for Mark Yeung's company during the trying course of fieldwork; his professional encounters with Peru's elites also offered nuance and context that I would otherwise not have had.The intellectual contributions to this book were extensive. Words hardly capture my gratitude for the enduring guidance and generous readings provided by Sarah Radcliffe, whose commitment to the women with whom she works and to producing scholarship of integrity, is a source of inspiration. Thank you to xvi Acknowledgments Christine Oppong for mentorship during fieldwork's foggy moments, for readings of chapters, and for many, many discussions about care. During my dissertation viva,...

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If Women Counted: A New Feminist Economics

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Leaderlessness in social movements: Advancing space, symbols, and spectacle as modes of “Leadership”

Leaderlessness in social movements: Advancing space, symbols, and spectacle as modes of “Leadership”

Migration and development, without care? Locating transnational care practices in the migration‐development debate

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