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    • Notes on Contributors 

      Edstrom, Jerker; Edwards, Jenny; Lewin, Tessa; McGee, Rosie; Nazneen, Sohela; Skinner, Chloe (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02-26)
      This is the Notes on Contributors for IDS Bulletin 55.1: Understanding Gender Backlash: Southern Perspectives
    • Understanding Gender Backlash: Southern Perspectives 

      Edstrom, Jerker; Edwards, Jenny; Lewin, Tessa; McGee, Rosemary; Nazneen, Sohela; Skinner, Chloe (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02-26)
      Far from seeing continued steady progress on gender equality, we are currently witnessing significant backlash against gender and sexual rights. Limited and hard-fought gains for some are being reversed, co-opted, and ...
    • Being New Poor in Bangladesh: Coping Strategies, Constraints, and Trajectories 

      Nazneen, Sohela; Ahamed, Raihan; Aziz, Syeda Salina; Joshi, Anuradha; Loureiro, Miguel; Nampoothiri, Niranjan Jathavedan; Nur, Jahid; Sharmila, Nowshin; Ananna, Rabeena Sultana; Zaman, Shahaduz (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02-28)
      Recent studies of the Covid-19 pandemic have found that millions in Bangladesh fell into poverty during this time, and they were unable to recover to their pre-pandemic economic position. This study draws on qualitative ...
    • Introduction: Understanding Gender Backlash Across Regions 

      Edstrom, Jerker; Edwards, Jenny; Skinner, Chloe; Lewin, Tessa; Nazneen, Sohela (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02-26)
      Whilst international policy between the mid-1990s and mid-2010s gave some hope for progress on gender equality, events since then – including conflicts, climate change, the pandemic, and an increasingly insecure world – ...
    • Voice: A Useful Concept for Researching Backlash and Feminist Counter-Actions? 

      Nazneen, Sohela (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02-26)
      Voice is central to claims-making and contestations around gender equality. This article engages with a diverse set of literature, social and feminist movement theory, and gender and development scholarship, to foreground ...
    • Backlash and Counter-Backlash: Safeguarding Access to Legal Abortion in Brazil 

      Sardenberg, Cecilia; Sacchet, Teresa; Kubík Mano, Maíra; Campelo, Luire; Daltro Ferreira, Camila; Fernandes, Talita Melgaço; Bandeira, Heloisa (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02-26)
      This article addresses the backlash against reproductive rights during Jair Bolsonaro’s government, focusing on access to legal abortions. Although access to abortion is quite restricted in Brazil, under Bolsonaro it was ...
    • ‘It’s a Family Matter’: Inaction and Denial of Domestic Violence 

      Sultan, Maheen; Ahikire, Josephine (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02-26)
      This article provides a grounded example of backlash in action surrounding the implementation of the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Act 2010 in Bangladesh. While formulation and enactment of the law marked ...
    • Public University Students’ Experiences of Anti-Feminist Backlash in Dhaka, Bangladesh 

      Ahmed, Adeepto; Jahan, Ishrat; Hasan, Israr; Rashid, Sabina Faiz; Naomi, Sharin Shajahan (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02-26)
      Public university campuses in Bangladesh have been historically significant sites of negotiating with social and political orders. Based on in-depth interviews with male and female students from three public universities ...
    • The Centaur’s Kick: Backlash as Disruptive Upgrades to Patriarchal Orders 

      Edstrom, Jerker (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02-26)
      Backlash is not always pushing back against progress for women, but how is it still patriarchal? Sliced into three sections – on confluence, contestations, and cartographies – this article draws on a thesis about backlash ...
    • Disrupting Anxious Masculinity: Fraternity as Resistance 

      Das, Abhijit; Dasgupta, Jashodhara; Mukhopadhyay, Maitrayee; Contractor, Sana Qais; Singh , Satish Kumar (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02-26)
      Within the experience of our work in India, context and positionality determine what we perceive as backlash against gender justice. An important underlying cause of backlash today is the widespread crisis of masculinities, ...
    • Virulent Hindutva, Vigilante State: Situating Backlash and its Implications for Women’s Rights in India 

      Chigateri, Shraddha; Kundu, Sudarsana (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02-26)
      India is facing a period of seismic backlash against feminist and progressive politics and the pace of change, particularly over the last ten years, has been breakneck with serious consequences for women’s equality and ...
    • Gender Equality vs ‘Morality’: The Erosion of Gender Agendas in Kenya 

      Otieno, Phil Erick; Makabira, Alfred Makonjio (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02-26)
      This article seeks to interpret the recent erosion of gender equality agendas in Kenya through a lens of anti‑gender pushback, or patriarchal backlash. Since 2013, Kenyan governments have increasingly been appealing to ...
    • Unravelling and Countering Backlash: Uganda’s Sexual Offences Legislation 

      Mwiine, Amon Ashaba; Ahikire, Josephine (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02-26)
      Considerable progress has been seen in Ugandan women’s collective advocacy for their rights since independence. Notably, women activists’ efforts in the early 1990s culminated in the institutionalisation of gender equality ...
    • Queering Gender Backlash 

      Lewin, Tessa (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02-26)
      This article ‘queers’ the concept of gender backlash – troubling some of its assumptions and drawing attention to the centrality of heteronormativity to an anti-gender worldview. It argues that backlash is both episodic ...
    • Deconstructing Anti-Feminist Backlash: The Lebanese Context 

      El Rahi, Nay; Antar, Fatima (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02-26)
      The matrix of deep-rooted social, political, sectarian, and patriarchal structures in Lebanon necessitates the introduction of a nuanced understanding of ‘backlash’ that veers away from definitions of the notion that apply ...
    • Glossary - Understanding Gender Backlash: Southern Perspectives 

      Edström, Jerker; Edwards, Jenny; Lewin, Tessa; McGee, Rosie; Nazneen, Sohela; Skinner, Chloe (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02-26)
      This is the Glossary for IDS Bulletin 55.1: 'Understanding Gender Backlash: Southern Perspectives'.
    • Key Themes and Considerations: Enabling Child Development in Ealing (ECDE) - Children’s Focus Groups 

      Shaw, Janine (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02)
      In July of 2023, one focus group was held with children in each of two local primary schools in Ealing borough.Each child participant had a younger sibling due to start school in September 2023. The focus groups took the ...
    • The E-Levy and Merchant Payment Exemption in Ghana 

      Scarpini, Celeste; Santoro, Fabrizio; Abounabhan, Mary; Diouf, Awa (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02)
      In this paper we look into the increasing use of electronic payment technologies in low-income countries (LICs), with a particular focus on the use of mobile money in Ghana. Our study evaluates the effectiveness of tax ...
    • Mobile Money Taxes: Knowledge, Perceptions and Politics. The Case of Ghana 

      Abounabhan, Mary; Diouf, Awa; Santoro, Fabrizio; Sakyi-Nyarko, Carlos; Scarpini, Celeste (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02)
      This study investigates the intricate dynamics surrounding the implementation and reception of mobile money taxes, focusing on Ghana as a case study. Consumer-level mobile money taxes, particularly controversial, have ...
    • Effective Social Protection in Conflict: Findings from Sudan 

      Birch, Izzy; Carter, Becky; Satti, Hassan-Alattar (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02-21)
      This paper explores the conflict sensitivity of social protection in Sudan in its various forms since the present war started in April 2023, from locally led mutual aid to the social assistance programming of international ...