Pandemic Policies and Resistance: Southern Feminist Critiques in Times of Covid-19
Llavaneras Blanco, Masaya and Damien Gock (Eds. on behalf of Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, DAWN) (2025).
Pandemic Policies and Resistance: Southern Feminist Critiques in Times of Covid-19, Co-Edited Volume with Damien Gock.
Bloomsbury Academic. Open Access.
Offering Southern feminist assessments of detailed case studies from 12 countries, this open access book provides crucial insights into the gendered repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic on macroeconomics, labour, migration and human mobilities, and care and social protection throughout the Global South. The chapters provide a comprehensive and intersectional perspective on how the pandemic affected, and continues to affect, women and girls of different ages, classes, races, ethnicities, and abilities.
Contributors across Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Pacific consistently find that the pandemic offered unique opportunities to tackle long-standing global inequalities, but they also highlight how, in reality, what often emerged were “regimes of exception” that compromised democratic practices during this global crisis. Various movements and organizations developed important new forms of resistance to such regimes and, by also bringing these to light, these chapters make important interventions into critical debates on the role of the state, the market, and civil society in addressing pandemics and their aftermaths. This ultimately challenges dominant narratives that overlook or marginalize the gendered implications of these crises, and in doing so provides an original, gender-aware analytical framework for understanding Global-South policy trends – one that offers concrete policy and practice recommendations for promoting gender equality and justice in the future.
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Corporate Capture of Development: Public-Private Partnerships, Women’s Human Rights, and Global Resistance
Rodríguez Enriquez, Corina and Masaya Llavaneras Blanco (Eds. on behalf of Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era, DAWN,) (2023) Corporate Capture of Development: Public-Private Partnerships, Women’s Human Rights, and Global Resistance, Bloomsbury Publishing, UK. Open Access.
Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) have gained renewed momentum in recent years and are viewed by governments and funders alike as a silver bullet for infrastructure development and public service provision. Critiques of the corporate capture of development are well established, yet until now the urgent question of the impacts of PPPs on women’s human rights around the world has remained under-explored.
This open access book aims to fill the gap, providing new insights from case studies across the Global South. Bringing an intersectional feminist approach, these cases enable analysis to inform advocacy and activism, challenge dominant narratives, and resist the negative impacts of PPPs on women and marginalized communities. The examples analyzed cover sectors including health, energy, and infrastructure from countries such as Ethiopia, Peru, India, and Fiji. The eBook editions are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license on Bloomsbury Collections, funded by Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN).
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