27 research outputs found
Towards framing the global in Global Development: prospects for development geography
This paper examines data in the public sphere on the global scope of geographyâs UKRI Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) projects. Building on decolonial critiques of development research, I argue that geography should frame âthe globalâ of global research as a sphere of ethical choices in research design and practice. The distribution of funded projects in the UKRI Gateway data suggests geographers succeed where they extend on the more worthy aspects of the disciplineâs Area Studies legacy. The disciplineâs engagements with Early Career Researchers, international colleagues, and the development sector, however, have potentially been reshaped by GCRF and thus need closer examination. While the UK government has brought the GCRF programme to a close, further work on these themes should inform the next iteration of global research. The ethical choices which make research global will remain fundamental to equitable design and impact in Global Development projects, thus scholars in development geography should prepare to make their projects more transparent and accountable
Gendered representations in Hawaiâiâs anti-GMO activism
The aim of this article is to analyse some of the representations of intersectional gender that materialise in activism against genetically modified organisms (GMOs). It uses the case of Hawaiâi as a key node in global transgenic seed production and hotspot for food, land and farming controversies. Based on ethnographic work conducted since 2012, the article suggests some of the ways that gender is represented within movements against GMOs by analysing activist media representations. The article shows how gender, understood intersectionally, informs possibilities for movement-identification, exploring how themes of motherhood, warrior masculinities and sexualised femininities are represented within these movements. The article suggests that some activist representations of gender invoke what could be considered as normative framings of gender similar to those seen in other environmental, food and anti-GMO movements. It is suggested that these gendered representations may influence and limit how different subjects engage with Hawai'i anti-GMO movements. At the same time, contextual, intersectional readings demonstrate the complex histories behind what appear to be gender normative activist representations. Taken together, this emphasis on relative norms of femininities and masculinities may provide anti-GMO organising with familiar social frames that counterbalance otherwise threatening campaigns against (agri)business in the settler state. Understood within these histories, the work that gender does within anti-GMO organising may offer generative examples for thinking through the relationships between gendered representations and situated, indigenous-centred, food and land-based resistances
Samting nating: Pacific waves at the margins of feminist security studies
Forum: The State of Feminist Security Studies: Continuing the Conversation. This forum comprises seven pieces conceived in response to the recent Politics & Gender Critical Perspectives section that featured contributions
from Carol Cohn, Valerie Hudson, Jennifer Lobasz, Laura
Sjoberg, Ann Tickner, Annick Wibben, and Lauren Wilcox (P&G 2011,Vol. 7, Issue 4). Throughout, we refer to this collection as âthe CP section.
Empowering Voices from the Past: The Playing Experiences of Retired Pasifika Rugby League Athletes in Australia
© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This research explores the lived experiences of 10 retired Pasifika (Pacific Islander and MÄori) rugby league players who migrated to Australia after 1969. The careers of these Pacific Islander and MÄori rugby league players were shaped by their migration experience, hopes for upward socio-economic mobility, the influence of familial motivations and journeys of personal growth amidst challenges and obstacles surrounding Pasifika cultural identity. In responding to leading Pacific scholar Epeli Hau'ofa's call for greater âPacific empowermentâ both economically and geographically, this paper asserts that there is much to be (re)learned about Australian rugby league history by giving primacy to the voices of Pasifika pioneers. This research aims to help empower past, and to a lesser extent, rethink present, Pasifika voices in sport-related labour migration, and sport career experiences in rugby league. Mapping their experiences through Pasifika methodology, âtalanoaâ (to converse or exchange ideas) and through the lens of a âcultural insiderâ, also allows better understanding of the cultural contexts of Pasifika players, their communities and their clubs. The findings from this paper are intended to fill the gap created by absent and much needed Pasifika sporting voices and perspectives in Australian sporting histories