Gender, environment and place-based globalism’

__Abstract__ Thank you for the great honour of speaking at this Conference to mark the contribution of Parto to gender research in rural regions which includes important contribution to gender and diversity in relation to human ecology, her networking and leadership in connecting gender and global issues in the work of the university

Editorial: No Economic Justice without Gender Justice

It seems incredible in these days of economic crisis that over 2,200 women (and some men) found the time and money to fly to Istanbul for a discussion on gender and economic justice at the AWID Forum 2012. Registrations closed a week before the event opened and the majority of the 800 organizations and individuals who answered the call for sessions and papers could not be accommodated

New dynamics for gender equality in a changing context

__Abstract__ 1 DCF VIENNA POLICY DIALOGUE Advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment: The role of development cooperation December 13-14, 2012 Wendy Harcourt1 Keynote Addres

Editorial: Reclaiming a continent

I recall first hearing Africa referred to as ‘The lost continent’ when I was in Tanzania listening to women who had gathered from just a fewof the 54 countries that make up Africa.They were fiercely defending their countries, the diversities of their lives, the histories and futures. They argued for authenticity of their cultures, their histories, their languages in defiance of development policy thatwas bundling theminto one big basket case.They were strong in their rejection of Africa as a requiring a special focus of development policy and strategy. They reminisced on African renaissance and freedom ^ away from the development rhetoric that at that time (inthe early1990s) depicted Africa as an economic development failure. It was a deeply troubling debate one that certainly rocked my own sense of what was the future for these women and their countries. This journal issue on ‘African Strategies for Transformation’, I am glad to say, presents a far more positive story of ‘The Continent’. The articles are reflections of many of the successes in Africa over the recent years highlighting the myriad of innovative activities forAfrican-led economic and social change

Gender Matters to Whom: Keeping the Politics in Gender and Development

Wendy Harcourt looks candidly at mainstreaming gender in development and in social movements. She explores the difficulties of bringing gender into development policy and social movements spaces, two areas where she has been actively engaged over the last two decades. The talk will be a critical look at gender 'mainstreaming', but not in the usual sense. It will look at the gender mainstreaming in the area of ‘body politics’ – the bureaucratizing of gender within population and development policy and in global social movement processes

Gender and Development: Looking Back, Looking Forward

As editor of the Development journal for 23 years, Wendy Harcourt takes a walk down memory lane in order to review the main themes that stand out for her as we consider what lies ahead. She reflects on four major themes which she argues informs development’s past and future: diversity, body politics, post-development and sustainable development

Numerical Simulation of Drifter Response to Labrador Sea Convection

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.This report describes numerical simulation of two types of idealized drifters: pure Lagrangian drifters and the isobaric drifters. A large-eddy (LES) model was used to predict the fully-turbulent non-hydrostatic evolution of the oceanic flow fields that are typical of the Labrador Sea. The LES simulation indicates that either free or forced convection may dominate, depending upon the magnitudes of the wind stress and the net surface heat fluxed out of the ocean surface. Free convection predominates in the winter regimes of the periphery of the polar seas, especially in the very deeply-convecting regions of open water adjacent to marginal ice zones. Forced convection is more dominant in the stable ice-covered regions of the polar seas experiencing strong wind-stirring and kinetic energy exchange with the ice. Forced convection may be an important precursor to free convection, and the organized cells of forced convection may help dilate the ice field to enhance heat and buoyancy exchange between the OPBL and the atmosphere

Women, Youth and the Economic Crisis in Southern Europe

__Abstract__ The paper raises questions about how the economic crisis is being played out ‘in place’ taking an embodied, generational and gender perspective. We place in a political context – examining how global realities are experienced in place and argue that we need to look at the every day realities of the crisis from a gendered and generational perspective in order to counter grand narratives of gloom and doom where women (whether old, young, migrant, heterosexual or otherwise) are particular victims. We seek to show how by contextualizing the gendered and generational realities of the crisis in southern Europe can we change the narrative of overwhelming paralyzing crisis to one of potential transformation. We focus on the rise of resistance, solidarity economies and new types of communities in the search for alternatives to neoliberal capitalism by women and youth in southern Europe. We look at how people are organizing differently as a result of the crises, creating news forms of political economic and social relations. Dominant narratives tend to exclude the stories of the unprivileged in such reshapings of political, economic and social relations, this paper is the beginnings of bringing the experience and understandings of women and youth in southern Europe to the centre of the analysis of the economic crisis in Europe